Spanish views from a small town

So many things are happening outside, in this whirling world that is never still, in which there is no justice, and the poor always lose. Carles Puigdemont arrested in Germany, awaiting extradition; growing civil unrest in Catalunya; Cristina Cifuentes, president of the region of Madrid caught falsifying a master's degree, and the university helping in the cover-up; the March for Our Lives in Washington and across the world, in favor of decent gun control in the U.S.; the continuing massacre in Syria; the indecent shooting in the back of peaceful Palestinian protestors in Gaza; the Francisco Franco Foundation celebrating the Nationalist victory in 1939. I could go on.  My head is refusing to think about any of it, lately. There's only so much anger and indignation one can take. While that anger can be used to help change things, such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have done, to create a movement to change how gun ownership and control is regulated, sometimes there...