Just A Thought

 We have much to be thankful for and to appreciate. 

 

 I have never before in my life seen a half gallon of ice cream that had a price of $16.49.  I buy the Great Value brand of ice cream at Walmart for $2.87 (for 1.5 QT) and it is actually my favorite ice cream.  I know other brands have become very expensive, but that is ridiculous!  

I’m off to Delaware today. Dear Heart,  Please no angina episodes on the airplane.  I would really appreciate it.

 I don’t really understand the whole situation with Israel and Gaza.  It’s hard enough to try to understand everything taking place in America, so I haven’t really followed all of the terrible situations taking place internationally.  I don’t know or understand what America’s involvement in all of it is.  I have no doubt that it is all very complicated.  I just know that I have been hearing that the Biden administration and the United States of America have been financially supporting the crimes against the people of Gaza who are being bombed, driven from their homes and having their land stolen from them.  I know I don’t comprehend the complexities of all of it, but hearing this is just so sad and unbelievable.  It just seems that politically everything about the United States of America is a total mess right now.  I’m really glad that yesterday I attended a Veteran’s Day Ceremony.  It just felt like normalcy and a confirmation that despite ...

  Thank you Veterans  for your sacrifices, dedication and all that you have done to protect and ensure our safety and freedoms. 🇺🇸🎉 99 year old WWII, Korean, & Vietnam Veteran Colonel Frank S. Plummer  11/11/24

 The younger and future people of this world will never understand the concept of there being better nights for television viewing because those were the nights when there was something that you really liked to watch being aired and there weren’t any other choices, other than what networks were airing each night. 

 Holy crap.  I had no idea that Waymo self driving, driverless taxis even existed or that they are now available in Phoenix Arizona, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  Have I been living under a rock?!!  I was aware that Tesla was working on autonomous self driving vehicles, but I did not know that there was another company who’s self driving cars were already in operation and available for use by customers.  I seriously need a ride in a driverless taxi! I read that they will be coming next to Austin, Texas.  Unfortunately I somehow lost the link and video that I saved of my husband and his friend and colleague taking a ride in a Waymo taxi.  Below is a link to a video I found online that I had also included. https://youtu.be/-hO3pALebqM?feature=shared Note: I understand that calling these cars self driving and driverless is redundant but I don’t care.  I’m just really impressed by this fact and the technology. 

Dear vice president Kamala Harris, You will always hold a very significant and important place in our country’s history whether you became our next president or not.  I join the disappointed club.  I truly wished for our country to close its chapter on Trump, and for you to be elected as our next president.  Unfortunately as we have just learned, our country as a whole is not yet ready for a real vision of a beautiful and unified United States of America where all people are valued and equally accepted and appreciated.  You are the one who should be a voice and role model to the American people and younger generations at this time. 

 Vice President Kamala Harris.  She had my vote.  What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in.

 The one upside of this year‘s presidential election is that it is no longer undecided.  All the attention and concern focused on the election can now be focused elsewhere and hopefully on more constructive endeavors.  Now I need to just stop writing about it.  Is there any chance though that Donald Trump won’t be a topic in my mind over the next four years?  Doubtful. 😲 But there are much better things to think and write about.

 A walk through absurdity.  I like that phrase.  I think it accurately describes where we are at in America political history at this time. 

 A good leader’s ambitions should be aligned with serving the best interests of the people for whom they hold a position of authority and leadership.  It is the place where a leader needs to be to truly be a leader of the people.  

 Outliving Donald Trump.  Since his political power and relevance in our country would not come to an end, that is the one positive thought that I could come up with right now.  The United States of America has future without Donald Trump.  He is already an old man and America will outlive him.  He does not have a long future ahead of him.  That sounds horrible but it is the light at the end of the tunnel that our nation and its people and others in the world are now left with.  America and the American people will outlive Donald Trump.  I preferred the idea of him being off on some tropical beach somewhere with his political relevance and chapter closed and there being a new fresh start for our country with a new commander-in-chief.

 I wonder how Trump’s maga supporters will actually fare over the next four years with Donald Trump as the president?  I would imagine that it will be the richest of the rich who will be the real beneficiaries of another Donald Trump presidency. 

Evidently America is not immune to falling victim to bad leadership.  Regardless of the outcome of election, I will never concede against my opinion that a good leader needs to be a person of good moral character.  Sadly, Mr. Trump is a man who demonstrates the opposite.  A winner of the election has not yet been called, but it has become necessary to process the reality of another Trump presidency.

 If Donald Trump wins this election, I will be very confused and very sad for America.  Then the Republicans and Trump supporters will get the America they wanted and they will have Donald Trump as the role model of the heart of America and the American ideal.  Why do people want this???  As of right now, I have idea no idea what I will think if President Harris is not to be.  I can’t even guess.  Or maybe I can.  I guess I will just still be a person who believes in an America of equality and unity and a future where this is possible.  And a person who still believes that good things are possible, even if I sometimes get things wrong. 

 President Biden made an apology to Native Americans for the more than century long practice of forcibly separating their children from their families and people to send them to assimilation boarding schools where they were subjected to terrible abuses in order to rob them of their identities and force them to become a part of the European white man’s culture.  This apology is more than deserved and overdue.  Native Americans absolutely deserve to have the wrong that was done to them by the US government validated and apologized for.  This should not be a hidden and unacknowledged part of our country’s history. It came to my attention tonight that I have been guilty of not reading about President Biden‘s apology because I was more focused on what has been taking place in regard to the upcoming presidential election which is now taking place today and tonight. I would never want to minimize the truth and reality of this unfortunate chapter of our American history or d...

 Today’s prayer.  Please let this day be not a repeat of 2016.

 Make America Giggle Again. 

We adopted Phily (formerly Derek) last June and then at the start of Labor Day weekend, Jilly showed up meowing outside of our back door. They quickly became besties.    

 Genealogy.  I should get back to that.  I’ve got other stuff that I need and want to accomplish first though.  Well, maybe I can just jot down some ideas in the meantime.  Like my ancestor Marilla’s story.  I also by good fortune have an amazing Aunt Marilla “Auntie Ril” in my life in the flesh. 😁 Marilla is a good name in my mother’s family.

 I voted yesterday. 😄 It seems like it was just 3 months until election day and now we are down to 3 days!  Thank goodness.