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Monday, September 29, 2025

Northern Lights

A friend of mine who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba was treated to Northern Lights on his way to work this morning and it cut through the low spirits of living in a world in crisis. Facebook notoriously uses its peculiar algorithms to feed what it thinks people want to look at. I have the impression that many who look there to 'keep up' with goings-on get a skewed vision towards their own hopes and fears. I think we also tend to do this to ourselves. While many seem only to see the gathering gloom,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The coming American Resolution

What we are living now, what we are seeing is the ugly underbelly that has always been part of the American Empire. Now it is fully exposed, now it cannot be denied or ignored; our next choice is whether to fight for the better and best of America, or let the ugly win. If that happens, that's the whole story told, the karma, the consequences of letting all the underlying sewage fester until it exploded and covered the landscape. But if we don't swallow it and die of it, then we have the best... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

What's taking so long...?

This current misadministration must be undone through American values & standards--for instance: *The Rule of Law,* countering the corrupting of the judicial process; active legal resistance to every violation of law by the thugs currently claiming power. *The Vote:* maintaining election integrity to express the actual will of the People through true representation. *The Constitution* understood, defended and protected as required by the oaths of every single member of the government.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

America is being retired.

The world is clearly moving away from connection with the US as DT is making it harder and harder to do business with it or be allied to it. No one in the playground wants to play with the bully. In so many ways, the US offers less and less to the rest of the world, and many countries are better equipped with systems of education and social programs and alliances so they don't need a country that won't play nice. So, what will retirement look like for a past-prime superpower? A lot rests on how... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 1, 2025

September 1st

I've sometimes thought that we should celebrate the New Year on this day instead of in January. My new year began with a new school grade, a new class, new teacher... The new notebook was the thing most significant: all that potential, as yet uncommitted. Brown paper bags made into protective covers for schoolbooks, before they are irresistibly decorated with doodles... Summer was over and now it was my chance to get things right, to find redemption for all the mistakes of last year, back when... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

A strategy for resistance and balance

I think we should all do what we can to bring the world around to a place of well-being and balance, but we can't be blaming and shaming ourselves for not doing more than we can, for not taking on more than we are capable of, more than we can bear. Just speaking out is something but so is recognizing that there is much that has to be left to others in positions to do them. So for our own personal balance, sometimes we have to turn away and leave it to the qualified and capable. We can support... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 18, 2025

Voting for or voting against...

It's never actually 'either/or.' When we vote against what we don't like, we are voting for the other candidate. Those who voted against Biden's VP, against the woman, against the not-white candidate, voted for Trump. Those who chose to abstain voted for Trump. He was no mystery, he held no secrets or surprises: We could all see what he was, and we knew he lied with his mouth even when he acted out his intentions for the future of the US. And sometimes he did state outright what he'd do in a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Waiting for the camel...

News out of trumpland flattens my feelings as straws keep being loaded onto the proverbial camel, and while it's collapse is inevitable, why is it taking so long? Of course DT is not the biggest problem, just the head of a deeper infection in the body-politic. It's a pretty big camel, which might be the reason it has not already dropped to its knees; when the fall comes, it is going to make quite a mess! No matter what comes next, it will bring great changes to the very fabric of this country. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

here we go again...

Today, Aug 9, we are asked to forego support of any corporate interests in the US: a general strike against working, shopping, using Facebook, streaming Netflix and Amazon Prime... Who's asking? That would be the organized resistance against the absurdities and atrocities being perpetrated in the name of the American people by the current misadministration. Since They've been manipulating the ballot boxes, gerrymandering voting districts, disenfranchising legitimate voters, rejecting mail-in... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Times of Change

As this American life gets more chaotic and absurd by the day, one of my daughters, the one in Seattle whose British husband got his US citizenship only a couple of months ago, and their two young daughters are moving to the UK this month. The girls are already enrolled in a school that's just down the road from Hampton Court Palace, so they'll be finding digs in that area. The plus side has that they be out of reach of conditions in this country with all their absurdities. His work is... Sign in to see full entry.

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