It is the thought that counts I’ve heard,
meaning I didn’t really think this through
and so I have the reaction of a thought
I have the shadow of a decision
I have the whisper of a notion.

I have the feelings in my heart and soul
that matter more than material gold.
that matter more than planning for
something not found in an empty store
and the day of days is here so soon.

So if you are the un-planning partner
and your heart is giving what the mind
could not, and your time has simply run out
just remember it is the thought that counts
and Seven-Eleven is open on Christmas day! 🤪

Do they think we are stupid?  Are we are gullible enough to believe that open speed boats are making a cross-ocean delivery of drugs across 2000 miles of ocean to deliver drugs to the USA?  That these boats which would be at sea for more than two days and have to  carry more fuel than cargo would be the way drugs are brought to our country?  Do they expect us to believe after being destroyed by a missile, two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat were going to get back in the “fight” by paddling to threaten us across 2000 miles of ocean?   So we kill them without mercy and we beat our chest and celebrate our military prowess!   Let’s give out medals!  As Trump is receiving his FIFA Peace Prize – a first ever, inaugural peace prize invented so that the FIFA world cup gets left alone in how they run their world cup in the USA.   And our so called -war on drugs apparently doesn’t include those who can buy a pardon for their crimes from Trump.   Trump claims Hernandez prosecution was a Biden set-up because he was a right-wing president of Honduras, so it’s done.  I say follow the money.

Trump is redefining our strategies.  See the National Security Strategy for 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
to hear how we are striving for times where regional hegemony is the order of the day instead of global cooperation.  Where we are encouraging the whitening of our country, and those of Europe as well.  Because migration is the great evil.   Let global powers take care of their own regions… remember how well this worked out in history?  Why not just colonize to get what we want – maybe the Panama Canal, maybe the oil and mineral fields of Venezuela, and of course, Canada would look better on the map so that we’d be all one country from the Gulf-of-America to the Arctic Ocean… which we would then need to protect, so let’s grab Greenland too.

Now I’d like to rant a bit about Science Technology Math and Research funding and Education – which is getting decimated – as we are falling behind in education we are more worried about eradicating DEI and rewriting history to show what a great Nation we always have been.

No, maybe I should talk about the lack of government attention to AI and how we will compete in a new world of productivity tools?  Because we have a congress busy not really doing any oversight.

Oh, but then there is the wholesale firings of immigration court judges by the DoJ (yes they report there, not into the independent judiciary) so that Pam Bondi can ensure a total disruption of immigrant due-process.  Then we can shackle 19 year old college students and deport them to a country they left when they were seven.

While we are there, should we go into the revenge and retribution prosecution campaigns by the DoJ and the use of resources for these performative prosecutions instead of criminals?

Or no, there is the affordability crisis that is “a total con job” that is going to get a break by reducing tariffs that are causing price increases even though tariffs aren’t a tax on consumers, it is paid by other countries… really, try to follow that contortion of logic!

But wait there’s more!  We could talk about the Supreme Court’s Samual Alito allowing Texas to continue with redistricting ordered by Trump because Trump wants 5 more republican congress members.

I haven’t even got to the Epstein mess…

And then there’s healthcare… for which there’s no answer… just more turmoil, because Trump has a plan for a plan.

Geez, they think we are stupid as they make a great mess and tell us how great it is!

I was thinking this morning about how nursery rhymes and songs of long ago stay with us, how poems well written to music resonate through time in our souls, How, music of 50 years ago is so persistent today.  How we can hear the rhythms of life in children… the same for nature.  We need to see, hear, and be connected to this life resonance…

Life Resonance

There’s a life resonance all around us
we find it in everything, feel it about us.
We never say ‘oh I’ve seen a sunrise,
I don’t need to see another again.’

We don’t say, ‘I’ve heard the ocean
waves, and the babbling brook or
the wind through the pine trees,
so I need not hear them again.’

We seek the sunset and birds singing
not for the rarity but for the clarity of
the repeating songs, the resonance
which assures us life continues on.

We listen to the rhythms of life
in those we love, their breaths,
their movements and sounds, and
we hear and love their songs of life.

We hear not a song and say,
I’ve heard this before, we need not
hear it again, but rather we sing along
or hum for then it brings us greater joy.

These poems with notes are not
alive in us because we heard them once
but because they become part of our
life-story, our life-love resonance.

So sing along, sing loud for this
is life resonance, these are the
rhythms which enrich our souls
as they flow through us.

Even a little snoring is good for the soul! 

Economic amatuer hour in the White House.

Geez.

Life flows through life
And love follows life

Life is fed by life
Love enriches life

Only through giving life
will we have more life.

Only through loving life
will we find more love

In every positive action of life
we demonstrate a life of love

And the circle continues,
life, love, love life, and repeat.

The American way is for democracy to prevail at the ballot box, not with the violence of assassination.  Yes, I have said and believe, that Trump is a threat to our democratic traditions of peaceful transitions of power.  True, his rhetoric has been too much like the fascists of history, but he must be defeated at the ballot box, not in the way this idiot attempted to end his candidacy last night.  Ironically the assassin  may well change history in an unintended way by easing Trumps path to the presidency.  I am appalled that this occurred, it is not who we aspire to be, and pray it is not who we are becoming.

Let us focus on the issues, the policies, our democratic traditions, not inflammatory rhetoric, and certainly not violence in our very critical election this November.   Thoughtful consideration is going to be needed in the coming months, as I anticipate a period of escalation of emotions and reaction and counter-reaction, but hope and pray for a period of calm resolute americanism.

Spring in Michigan! 

First day of spring is not
done right here, it’s not
frisbee’s and baseball
and flowers and such,
but rather cold and snow,
and a day off of school,
I’m sure many enjoyed.

For me a bit of childhood
nostalgic fun after
white knuckling navigation
of treacherous roads,
an experience,
nearly forgotten.

I’m sure I was the
only idiot building
a snowman, well more like
a snowchild, for its
diminutive size, but
there it is … in all it’s
short-lived glory.