Sure there's plenty to be horrified about just reading the news every day, wondering how you are the only person in your neighborhood who thinks it's bad to put children in cages and sexually assault them and sicken and starve them to death. But, lucky us! For the low low price of our national moral center we have gotten not only cruelty, but incompetence! I realize this is quite simplistic. The more I learn about our country and its founding the more I realize that our moral center has always been...wobbly, to say the least. But on the subject of incompetence, I am currently reading "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis, a book my brother-in-law sent to me because he is also disgusted and afraid for our country's future. It is quite eye-opening about the areas where we are in terrible danger that are largely invisible to the public. It is interesting and frustrating, and you will come away with admiration for the women and men who serve our country in low-profile and important ways, whose primary goal is the well-being of our country and its citizens. It's a short read, too.
Will we survive this presidency? I don't know. Certainly not without deep wounds, and the rot that was already inside us will spread to the new wounds, and we're almost definitely going to die of sepsis. The outlook isn't great, my friends. But we've got to find a way to heal or remove what pockets of disease we can reach, even if it's hopeless. Our choices matter, even the futile ones.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
if you're gonna tell them everything, don't leave out the good part
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Labels: activism, government, politics, the motherland
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
even in novels written by women we cannot escape the male gaze
What's to be said, really? Our world and specifically our nation fill me with disgust every day. I am incredibly lucky to have a safe, comfortable life surrounded mostly by people of good character, and therefore I feel guilty all the time. I am trying to figure out how to turn my guilt into something productive, and am looking for a path where my efforts can either help stop monsters, or help stop monsters being made.
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Labels: books, entertainment, government, movies, society, television
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
crustacean from the monophyletic suborder oniscidea
My son has been gone for eight weeks, and it's been mostly fine. The first few days were very sad and hard, and now that he's in another country I think it will get sad and hard again. I miss him a lot.
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