learn to be more interesting

Happy to see you're fully
assimilated into post-Reality

Discern what's needed, and how to
get there, to improve the experience
of being alive.


Is the point of the push for security
at the Canadian and Mexican borders
to keep Americans in?


If Ukraine joined NATO, that would not
be a threat to Russia, unless Russia
invaded Ukraine -- so the attack "to
keep Ukraine out of NATO" could not
possibly be a real reason.


Pounding, beating, hammering --
lacerated, bruised, bloody and worn
Exhausting anxiety
Never enough escape
How dare I? Unenforced by bombs
or poverty (Yet)
Desperate for foreclose regret
while options exist
That endless pervasive pain, as if
all I can do in the face of damnation,
of these we wish would be the end
of days -- a final escape from the price,
the work required, to repair, to heal


Sacrifice our planet so some
self-entitled posterior orifices
can pretend to be superior


to be more attractive, more influential,
learn to be more interesting


What kinds of lives lead to 
innovative problem solvers?


Education with the goal of bringing
better competency to thrive in the world


When we, individually and in groups,
realize there is something we want done,
we then ought to figure out how to do it,
and proceed


Transitional days of sadistic chaos
and waste


Contentious issue are but excuses;
we seem to need to find reasons to
fight, even when aspiring to be friends


Maybe part of the problem is that too
many boys are led to believe that
masculinity means being a dick


People seem to prefer to be lazy and mean,
rather than to do what is necessary for
a well-structured society


People who are serious about US
governance, self-rule, could do the work
to get Rank Choice, or STAR voting
in their states.  Candidate and policy
suggestions are encouraged to come from
any stakeholder, then advertised by those
who agree.   Candidate events arranged
by constituents who want the Q&A
to learn who these potential representatives
are, who the people want to represent them.
A major value expected -- to listen to those
represented.  And to figure out how and implement
excellent civics education 


People who seek limelight.
express with controversy.
Avoid their thrall



If you are accepting misinformation,
and therefore trying to fight against
the wrong opponents, you are much
less likely to succeed in your actual
goals

are you sending out your 

phone calls/emails/letters, etc. to DEMAND 

your reps represent your demands?

been thinking about words being co-opted 

politically so that their meaning is different f

or people based on their political/media 

persuasions.  

As a writer/reader I believe words ought to 

have commonly shared meanings that we are 

able to communicate effectively.

the Democratic Party has not lost its 

way.  It is a private organization supported by 

its members to organize elections.  The so-called 

democratic people of the United States is what 

seems to be losing its way -- having abdicated 

self rule to parties with their own agenda, and 

then complaining that said parties are not 

giving us what we want

we can all stop giving Mumps power,

stop listening to their antics,

stop believing they are in charge,

stop accepting their demands,

understand, power over you is yours to deny 

-- power to rule depends on the

 acquiescence of the people

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