Originally, this blog was meant to touch on memories…
times long past and moments of joy … or sadness. Or, whatever came to mind… As usual, last one won out...
As it often happens, when I come face to
face with the computer all plans go out the window. Usually taking with
them all the words and thoughts I had … oh, so ready… they all seem to fly out
the virtual window in the back corner of my mind… as I watch, totally
powerless, and see them disappear into the vastness of nothingness…
Oh My! … What should we write about? … Notice as
the royal “We” gently rolls out of my fingertips while these deftly play the
letter keys of this non-musical piano-like board on the computer…
So, which way to go? Should I fall gently into the
past and dig a bit deeper around those repressed memories that still abound? Or
go boldly into the future and create memories to be? … Perhaps these last can
be a bit sweeter and warmer than some of the ones life has actually created…
but then, they wouldn’t have much weight to them… Oh well!!
I look around at what is going on in the world
today and marvel at the sheer blind foolishness of mankind … I won’t go into the
shallow idealism of “Why can’t we all get together?" cry of the late 60’s, when we
lived an era that was shaped by an “in your living room, full color war”
being played out courtesy of the evening newscasts, in the meanwhile consuming vast
amounts of mind altering drugs, gyrating to the rhythm of some fool banging
away on a tambourine, creating arrhythmic sounds… or maybe it was just noise
which to our addled senses sounded like manna from heaven (or is it Manna from
Mexico?)…
/// Here we are, several days later and not much the
wiser…
The political landscape is as muddled as always; we
are two and one half years away from the next presidential elections but the midterm
elections this year are being called “stage setting” elections; do or die… on the
one side, people are less happy with the current president’s results and
directions than was expected by their own pundits and even the huge government
marketing machinery can’t hide this. On the other side, however, potential
contenders can’t shake the negative labels imposed on them by a mainstream media
that insists on supporting the “liberal” government… do or die. It looks to be,
in the political arena, a continuing war zone for the next two years.
And as these folk try to solve their own issues we,
the people, pay more and more the consequences of all the created interests
that come into play. But then … you knew that, didn’t you?
Our president keeps crying “foul” at the Russian president
on the Ukraine issue and the other guy looks at him (and us) and basically says…
Up Yours!! … What are you gonna do ‘bout it??? … He knows, we know, he knows
we know and ... yes ... we know he knows we know the answer to that is … nothing.
As we see this crisis and others unfold on the
international stage, we have to sadly accept that this presidency has managed
to, in a few years of bumbling inefficiency, totally destroy the image of “friendly
protector to our allies” our country had built over years and years of
sacrifice and work…
I am readying myself for a constant mainstream media
barrage of announced government “achievements” over the next few months,
building up to the November elections; there is much negative groundswell that
has to be quelled somehow. My only hope is that the average voter can see this
for what it is… a basic “whitewash” of the real issues that are pressing more
and more each day: inflation, real job issues; real exorbitant cost of the
vaunted “Obamacare” structure, lack of budget control; foreign crisis that go
unanswered or are mishandled… loss of faith, face and trust on the part of our
heretofore staunch allies… and so on…
We will see…
Be
Well … Be Back!!!
Final Notes:
- Pray for those who are
fighting an illness which may take them away from their loved ones… Every
request is heard, and counts!!
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