Merrily We Roll Along . . .
with ancient wisdom
Sunday is the second day of the week on which I post here. Therefore, I am not going to change my schedule just because this feels as though it is the last day of sanity here in the United States. And my heading is from the traditional song I’m learning in my beginner’s piano book.
Tomorrow is a federal holiday to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., so that is what I intend to spend my time thinking about. My daily calendars have the weekends all one page so I have two quotes on the Page-A-Day from Workman Publishing here on my dining table. Extremely apropos, since yesterday’s was “Nil Desperandum” (Never Despair) credited to Homer; and today’s quote is a famous one from Albert Einstein, “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
So that covers the history, both ancient and more modern. We are definitely in this together, and I want to credit so many other authors here for keeping me informed. Just this morning I learned from HCR about the financial drama unfolding, and I find out that my Capital One accounts (which I began back when it was ING) are part of a lawsuit. It’s so hard to keep up these days.
But technology allowed me to catch up and watch the Senate Committee interviewing Scott Bessent for Treasury, and I was pleased in one sense to learn that he had a husband rather than a wife. In researching him further I find that he is sort of a flip-flopper though. [By the way, I personally think it’s close to abuse to require anyone under voting age to sit through that interminable political theater. Talk about trophy kids.]
The other sad news I wish I could unsee is that of Snoop Dog kissing the ring. What does his friend Martha think of that, I wonder? I realize that money is a big factor in life, and of course it has always been so. But I swear by all that I hold dear you couldn’t give me enough money to sell my soul. Please give some thought today about what you would do for cash. I’m sad as I write this that too many people have been willing to join the parade—even though they already have way more money than they need.
My final thought about why the inauguration was moved indoors—major shrinkage!
RESIST ALWAYS
TTFN
Thank you for keeping up with me, Laina. I truly appreciate your support. Peace and love is winging its way across the country to you. We’re good at handling messes, my dear.
I won’t even turn on my phone tomorrow let alone the television. I can control what to see and hear better that way. I feel so badly for those people who are so afraid right now and there are many. I feel that sexual harassment in the workplace is going to return with a vengeance because no court will prosecute and corporations feel no compunction to follow the law. I would not shake that bastards hand for any price. I despise him and the whole ilk of Elon Musks. They are evil and wear it for everyone to see. I moved to Europe to escape the toxicity of America in 2022 and I daily feel so happy to have gotten out of there before this criminal gang comes in and operates with impunity. It is a very sad day in America and I just hope that the idiots running the place will screw over the magas to make them finally see that they’ve been used as stooges for over ten years, but I’m not counting on it. God help all Americans who do not want to see their country destroyed.