Don’t know about you, but I’ve learned so much that I’ve felt strangely unmoored this past month. The revelations in the Epstein files have done something quieter and more devastating than shock us.
They’ve unsettled our balance.
They’ve tipped us into a world where the ground no longer feels solid beneath our feet—where the assumption that there is, somewhere, a moral bedrock turns out to be wishful thinking.
Where is our terra firma?
Everything we thought was true about the world around us, isn’t so true. Isn’t so solid.
What’s most disturbing isn’t just the depravity exposed, but the architecture around it: the proximity to power, the evasions, the silences, the sense that accountability is selective and truth is rationed.
We’re left staring at a void where certainty used to live. Institutions we were told to trust feel porous. Justice feels negotiable.
The old idea that there is a line that cannot be crossed—that someone will step in, that consequences will follow—looks naïve today. No wonder so many of us feel untethered. When the people who shape the world appear untouched by its rules, terra firma disappears.
This is what corrodes us–
–not only the crimes, but the realization that the systems meant to protect the vulnerable can also protect the powerful instead. It leaves people dizzy, disoriented, unsure where to stand or what to believe.
Pay attention to the discomfort. The loss of equilibrium is painful, but it is also clarifying. When the ground gives way, we are forced to ask harder questions—about complicity, about accountability, about what kind of firmness we are willing to build ourselves when none is handed to us.
In a moment when there seems to be no solid ground, the challenge is whether we can still insist on truth, even while standing on shifting sand.
It’s disorienting, seeing these stark truths about what goes on behind our backs and wondering just how compromised our government officials really are.
Unmoored, adrift, untethered… These things often happen to us quietly and “within,” but there is a whole nation adrift as they pull back these curtains.
I’ve felt the same way. Even wrote about it in my journal. I had no idea such depravity, racism, and corruption lay at our core until Trump took office. Not sure what way we’re heading, but I pray it’s into the light.
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Don’t know about you, but I’ve learned so much that 
It’s disorienting, seeing these stark truths about what goes on behind our backs and wondering just how compromised our government officials really are.
That’s exactly it. And the answer is, VERY compromised. That’s so clear….
The system is 100% broken.
Shockingly so. And it really has left me unmoored.
Unmoored, adrift, untethered… These things often happen to us quietly and “within,” but there is a whole nation adrift as they pull back these curtains.
i can’t even imagine how this will resolve. or if it will in our lifetime.
Thank you for this, Carol. It is a beautiful piece on an absolutely sickening subject. xx, m
So glad to see you here, Mary!
When faith and trust are broken…
A devastating day for us all.
It’s hard to fathom how low they’ve taken us. I’m heartbroken at what’s become of the nation.
I’ve felt the same way. Even wrote about it in my journal. I had no idea such depravity, racism, and corruption lay at our core until Trump took office. Not sure what way we’re heading, but I pray it’s into the light.
I would never have believed all this even a year ago but now it is all too possible and even probable.