when intensely felt

Going through the motions
that carry me along
as if this is my life


Clearly, it is the Israelis
who are the antisemites
Are they being punished for hate crimes?


Luxuriate in simple pleasures
Feed on what feeds your blossoming


I don't want my mind
corrupted by AI slop


AOC and Pete Buttigieg --
a ticket I could go all out for
because of their obvious intelligence
and call to public service


I prefer to be free of outside
responsibilities, that I may focus
on my projects.
That is what I prefer.
I do what I can between my
preferences and my needs


All these absurdly stupid wastes of
time, resources, lives, while we ignore
the vital work to keep our people
alive, or even learn to thrive


Wisdom's voice
Those who seek to listen
Talk of connection
Talk of empathy
Talk of all those we's
that make our world


Nothing can be done
So, it's fine to do nothing
Ignore those morons doing
everything we can.
See!  Nothing has become as we
imagined as what should be.
To believe, and so act, is futility.
Let's just go on as we always do,
occasionally complaining.
I remember Biden (not THAT
long ago) being bitterly criticized
for not lifting the Covid restrictions
border rules.  Now I keep hearing:
"Biden's open border" as if that were
a real thing.


All people suck, but not all the time
(and some much more than others).
Some people do truly heinous,
horrific actions; and they need to be
condemned, even removed from those
they would harm.  But people are
complicated.  Even the worst may
create something beautiful.  Why 
condemn the good they may bring,
despite evil.  Acknowledging, even
enjoying the good in no way approves
of the bad.


Life is very hard
on what could have been
the best of us, kicks the
kindness out of us by
overwhelming
though we may rise, and rise again


These are the fires that burn
though our screams, through our
nightmares
More likely today to burn whole
lives away.
Fires of Hell, unleashed by
wealth seeking War lords
How is life different from nightmares
we may hope to awake from?

the hate, disparagement, games of 
gotcha, underlying war of all against 
all -- this is not the human world I 
(or most of us) signed up for



We could be having the benefits of 
self-rule, of by for The People, if the 
people would take the reigns, 
demand our power acknowledged, 
stop abdicating to 
Parties, Media, Disinformation, Them



8/9-21/26

within our abilities

 
Expressing to your reps that 
they NEED to impeach/convict/remove 
is far from a waste of the very little time 
it takes!  In fact, this is something we all 
can easily do while also doing whatever 
else seems useful and within our abilities.  
The point is that we have a common, Loud, 
unrelenting demand that will bring us more 
together as a people while insisting to our 
reps that we in fact are a People
 insisting on our power.

when we actually take our actions from 
a win/win/win perspective, everybody wins



did you know that the theory/myth of 
human races was created and promoted 
as scientific by  European men who needed 
a “rational” excuse for kidnapping and 
enslaving other people?

These people are DEAD --
gone forever.
Their work will not be brought
to full conclusion. Their families
will not be complete.  Not due
to some disease or accident,
nor climate change disaster, but
rather our national tragedy
of escalating vicious murders
under Trump's authority.



These worldclass mad men,
obsessed with power -- so caught 
 up in their deranged game
We who trying to live out simple lives
destroyed as collateral damage

Lack  of awareness of 
my existence
frustrates, slowly enrages

November '26 - VOTE, yes!
But people need to be voting TODAY
in primaries, special elections, with 
our daily actions, demands
We need to make our will heard
NOW, in every way we can

We are made to feel the need
to be normal -- whatever that
may mean, without honoring
who we may deeply know or
want ourselves to be.
We, consciously or more likely not,
feel cheated, bereaved, unfairly
treated.
Then, those show up in our
world (OUR world), blatantly
different.  How dare they!
They must be made to see how
WRONG they are.  We must
punish, castigate these errors in
being other than what we have
been made to believe is right.

You speak of the Dems as big tent
positive in terms of diversity, and
in contrast to GOP restrictiveness.
You don't, though, seem to
understand the implications.
While the people you tend to
talk with agree we believe A,
and you think, of course the Dems
should be making A happen,
most of the constituents these reps
talk with may instead believe B
-- not just funders, but regular
voters who make their voices heard.
Not as simple a situation as you
may think.

MAGAns are Leviathans (Supernatural
big bad led by a nasty Dick)

We think of Citizens United big
money in politics corrupting our
elections.  But look at the big
money involved in the business
of politics. The overarching emphasis
on profits tends to undermine the
purpose of democracy.




Love the people in your life
for exactly who they are
It's love, for you to feel.

My great hoarded wealth 
of experiences, and
all they do is burn

7/13-8/9/26

get out the #VOTE!

what do we know about getting out the vote?

I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier – 
child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and 
what they might need to bring

information about where/how to register, and help to do that
https://vote.gov/register
Voter registration deadlines vary by state and territory. 
Once you register, you can vote in national, state, and local elections.
CHECK YOU ARE REGISTERED REGULARLY, 
THEN EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC DUTY AND ACTUALLY VOTE!

make it fun with get out the #vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, 
community parties (“political parties” but the fun kind)
what else?

t seems to generally be the nonvoters that are the bulk of the electorate – 
abdication of democracy
perhaps because we don’t emphasize: voting is not a privilege, or merely a right;
voting is our basic duty as citizens in a democratic republic
Find out what keeps people from voting; do all we can to make it easier for them