07.18.2022
"I went back to my Mother, I said I'm CRAZY Ma, help me, She said, I know how it feels son, 'cause it runs in the family"
The Who -'The Real Me'- 1974
I often wake up with lyrics from some song playing in my head. I'm questioning myself, I'm ranting, I'm sweating, I have to pee, take my meds, feed the cats, make coffee, then I turn on the news, and wait. Wait for that "feel good" story to lift me up from a sometimes hellish landscape that I hold in my head. I think about rereading "The Road" by Cormack McCarthy, a fictional novel about a man and his son in a post apocalyptic world. His sole mission is to get his son to a specific destination, obstacles be damned. I try to shake myself out of this fictional scenario, but in my head, its our potential reality. Think 'worse than Mad Max'. So I think about to whom I'm responsible. Am I prepared fo a SHTF reality? Am I over-reacting?
I take the cats outside, feed the birds & the deer & ultimately the squirrels, and wait for a sunrise, then for our granddaughters to wake up to force my smile. I see their carefree young selves, remembering my own days like that.
Am I doing all I can, as I'm sure most of you are, to assure their real chances for a world like I had, or living conditions like I enjoy? That all kids deserve? Man, I sure hope so.
"Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat, shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet, house the people, livin' in the street, oh, oh, there's a solution"
The Steve Miller Band -'Fly Like An Eagle'- 1976
I'll sign off for now, but add these final thoughts for consideration:
- Human suffrage
- Equality for all
- Unity for success
- Accept no dictators
- Embrace/talk with neighbors
- Do unto others...you know the rest. That's why this rule is golden.
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