Just A Thought

 I just had some thoughts about political elections.  I thought we would see sanity prevail during our last presidential election in 2024.  I don’t know what happened then, but the unthinkable happened.  Now we have the midterm elections coming up in 4 months.  I once again would like to believe that sanity will prevail, and people will know better than to keep the Republicans, a.k.a Trump’s supporters and enablers, in power.  It’s harder to believe in sanity and rationality though when you have already seen it fail.  I think waiting for this year’s midterm elections actually holds more anxiety than the last presidential election.  I can only speak for myself, but I won’t be voting for any damn Republicans.  I comprehend how serious it all is.

  I read the book “Not Without My Daughter” many years ago.  It is about an American mother who was stuck along with her daughter in the county Iran with an abusive husband.  It is her story of trying to escape to return to America.  There were a lot of things in this book that were really hard to stomach involving cleanliness (or lack thereof) and food standards and practices.  It described a culture that was very different from American culture.   I read this book in early 1991 when I was in the first trimester of pregnancy with my first child and I was suffering from all day morning sickness, because I am just brilliant like that. 🤢  I didn’t know what the descriptions of life in Iran would be like until I was reading the book.  The only things that I have ever learned or know about the country of Iran, I learned from reading this book.  Above all I learned that it was very difficult to be a woman in Iran particularly for an American woma...

 I procrastinate doing things that I’m afraid will be difficult or are unfamiliar to me and I don’t know what to expect or how exactly how to go about doing these things.  You would think that as we get older, we shouldn’t have to still learn and figure out new things, but this isn’t how life works.  And I have one other thought.  Of everyone in my family, I believe I am the one who takes everything with our government, the most seriously and worries the most.   I really don’t want to be an unduly concerned and hyper focused worry wart, but it is all quite worrisome.  And it seems like a lot of people don’t really grasp how worrisome it is.  Especially when we don’t yet know what the outcome will be or how quickly our government can recover and move forward in a more normal and positive manner.  Can the end of one man’s political career suddenly change everything and eliminate a whole crazy backward political landscape that he created and set into...

 I watched Trump’s speech and the fireworks and celebration afterward.  Trump evidently for the most part stuck to a prepared speech and was on his better behavior.  He did of course throw in his comments about the United States and the American people being better and superior to any other people or country in the world.  He also made his comments about communism and communists in obvious reference to the democrats and any and all of his political opponents.  For Trump though, his behavior was much better than I expected and he stayed grounded in the theme of celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.  There were also military veterans who were included and honored during Trump’s speech.  The fireworks display was huge and went on and on as military members sang and performed as popular song after song was played.  There was a very good turnout of people unlike the abysmal attendance at the Great American State Fair in the days leading up to the 4t...

 I am finishing watching the Abraham Lincoln documentary on Netflix today.  I don’t know why, but I have always felt a strong connection with the past.  For some reason my feeling today is positive.  Our country does not by any means have a perfect or spotless history.  It has though come through dark and troublesome periods and pushed forward as a nation of freedom, democracy and opportunity.  I believe it will do so again.  I don’t by any means wish to whitewash or fail to acknowledge all those in our countries history who have been deeply mistreated and harmed such as slaves and native Americans.  Their stories absolutely deserve acknowledgment and respect and remembrance as the true stories and history of our nation.  What I believe in is the potential of the United States of America to continue to move forward in its evolution and progress toward becoming its very best version and land of diversity, equality, respect and opportunity for ...

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 This man is the president of the United States of America.  Why are they letting a man who is not of sound mind remain in the oval office???  It is all just beyond comprehension.  I can’t even imagine what he is going to say during his two hour speech on the 4th of July.  Will it be crazy enough for there to be a national outcry that something must be done??  Would that even make a difference?   https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116848355347603843

What is going on?  It’s getting to the point where we can’t even tell how much human involvement there is in AI created content.  This Instagram profile has short AI generated educational videos.  Did a human create this profile?  Is a human being putting it together?  Is a human being taking AI generated videos and adding them to an Instagram profile that they created specifically for this purpose?  Is it possible that we could be at the point where artificial intelligence is creating its own profiles on social media?  I don’t know how to determine this.  How are we supposed to know?  Is it possible that things like social media profiles are being created entirely by artificial intelligence?  How will we know? Goddamn, I guess our human experience is undergoing more of a metamorphosis than we have even imagined.  When I take these things seriously and say these things, I feel like I’m a little nuts but I also think that we are unde...

 I don’t blame people at all for not feeling excited or enthusiastic about celebrating our countries semiquincentennial anniversary given the state and situation with our country right now.  I certainly don’t feel enthusiastic about the idea of celebrating at this time.  https://youtu.be/GM5vW472S3Q?is=P3uUE23YvnWtMEAG

  I started watching “Gorilla Story” on Netflix.  So far I love this program. 🥰 I have tears in my eyes watching this.  It made me reflect on humanity also.  All the people in the world who are devalued by many, like immigrants fleeing their own countries and trying to cross into other countries in search of better lives, aren’t nobodys or unimportant or criminals.  They too are remarkable somebodys whose lives matter.  People just don’t appreciate and know who they are. Those who wrongfully judge and devalue and look down upon others will someday understand their error.   There are much better things to watch than Trump news.  Gorilla Story was excellent. 😄👍 This is one takeaway from the documentary that I really liked.  A wise group leading silverback gorilla will allow the transfer of group leadership to a younger and more fit group leader successor when the time has come.  A wise retiring(my word) silverback leader can become a fr...

Time flies and history marches on.  If you are really paying attention though, and watching a bad chapter of it unfold, the story is painfully slow.  Donald Trump’s second term of presidency has been a complete disaster.  If you are like me and you are waiting for a resolution to this disaster, it seems as though time stands still.  Our president is completely disturbed and unfit to conduct his own life in a sane manner let alone the presidency of the United States of America.  It is all falling apart for him but not nearly fast enough.  His enablers keep it going and perpetuate the madness.  Every day it is more of the same shit show, but the shit show goes on and on.  He needs to be out of office.  By now this should be painfully clear to everyone and yet he remains in his position of power day after day after day.  Our country and the Middle East are in turmoil because of Donald Trump and his response when not commanding more chaos an...

 I had a crazy dream that I was at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, and I stuck my fingertips into the water at the edge.  I knew that I perhaps shouldn’t touch the water, but I did it anyway.  It then struck me that I might be accused of doing something seriously wrong.  I looked up to where there might be cameras and covered my mouth with my hand. 🫢 I was thinking, “I’m innocent!  I only just touched the water with my fingertips!  I thought that surely I couldn’t look guilty of doing anything really wrong.”  I guess there was a part of me that was testing the waters (no pun intended) of sticking my fingers into the reflecting pool but I really wasn’t trying to do anything harmful or wrong.

Amidst all of the struggles of life, it also holds moments of joy.  Everyone deserves them.  I was a Colorado road trip flunky, but I’m happy to see my family members enjoying their journey.  Feeling emotional at the moment. 😭🥰

 Time is a very strange creature.  When I’m home, the hours always pass by super quickly.  When I’m in a car for a 12.5 hour journey, the hours stretch on forever.  Is this a theory of relativity kind of thing?  OK, I know that cars don’t really travel fast enough to slow down time.  I guess it’s a comfort versus discomfort and boredom versus non boredom kind of thing.

 I am at the airport in Amarillo waiting to fly back home.  After not being well to start (with more than a normal headache) and then trying to push through to leave and then taking at 12.5 hour car trip to Canyon TX, I am not feeling well enough to continue on with the Colorado adventure to 2 different locations that will entail many more long hours of car travels, so back home I go.  No more very long car trips for me.  They don’t agree with me. 🙁🤕🤢

In the year 2026, the president of the United States Of America, who suffers from narcissistic mental illness, shared on his presidential social media account an image of a UFC wrestler with an American flag with the red and white stripes held across his back while his butt also clad in red and white stripes served as an extension to the American flag.  The American Flag together with a wrestlers ass.   Is this really reality?? Donald, you are indeed a case like no other and your story could fill a whole set of encyclopedias! Dear lord how were people so blind to the reality of who Donald Trump is?  He is a man not of sound mind or rationality.  Any Americans who want to be more informed about President Trump can find a wealth of information in his own writing and posts on his social media account on his TruthSocial platform. Some will come into this world when Donald Trump is a chapter from history.  And for some of us, this chapter is part of our own lives. ...

 I just had a thought that I believe is important to a sense of peace and the release of unnecessary anxieties.  It doesn’t matter what time of day it is.  It doesn’t matter if morning has slipped away and become afternoon.  It doesn’t matter if the afternoon and evening have slipped away and become night once again.  The night will slip away once again and become a new morning.  All time is equally valuable and a part of our existence.  Every time of the day is ours and an opportunity for us to experience it in a positive manner.  If we feel anxiety about time slipping away or having been wasted, then this will take away from our ability to have the most positive experience with the present time in which we exist and find ourselves.  It doesn’t matter what time of day it is.  It is all ours and every time of the day has value.  If we reach the time of the day where we need to sleep again, so what.  Sleep and rest rejuvenate us...

 I have been failing with my resolve to not look at Instagram. 🫤 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZK0EZugfyK/?igsh=MWpqd3R6bXd0dDJ6Ng==

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdwv0doxVI/?igsh=MnN0cW9ya3pnN3dr I was lucky.  Parenting is never easy, but my own two children didn’t have this kind of rivalry.  My brother and I were another story. 😯