Rough night. Still hyper emotional today, and probably will be for a while. Downtown Seattle was broken and ripped apart last night by anarchist and white supremacist groups that overtook the Black Lives Matter protest. Our flagship store was broken into and looted, along with 25 or so other businesses in the retail core. It was gut wrenching to watch it happen and not be able to do anything about it.
The media is doing a good job this morning separating the destruction from the intent of the original protest, and making sure the anti-racism message isn't lost. Hopefully this will rally even more people to the cause of anti-racism, and we'll start making some progress forward.
My county is not going to Phase 2 Monday: the Stay-at-home order is expiring today and the Governor issued revised criteria for a Phase 1.5, which allows many businesses to open but with less % occupancy than in Phase 2. The County can't file for it until tomorrow and approval will come mid-week, so my Monday morning hair appointment is a no-go. Last night I cut the back off myself, I think it was a stress response to what was going on. It pretty much looks like someone hacked it with a pair of scissors, but I only care about how it feels, and getting the hair off my neck feels great.
I didn't get much of a beach walk in yesterday, when I got down there the lightning and thunder from the storm rolling in started, so I headed right back to the car. It's rainy this morning but not stormy, so after I eat breakfast I'll head down and try to walk off some of this stress.
For cute animal videos, on IG I follow quite a few sheep farms, so the past few months my feed has been full on frolicing lambs... such a happy, happy thing.