Sunset, sorta
We are not really seeing much of a change in the amount of light, partly because it hasn’t been very sunny. The sun is setting later but not rising earlier – yet. A couple weeks and we should see a bit more change.
A correction to yesterday’s entry! I meant first book I started in 2025!!! Not 2024. I did finish the book after work today and loved the ending. And my next book “The Humans” is in the hopper. Aliens, mathematics, and I’ll find out what else. Seems like I’m off to a good start.
I stayed away from the news today, not wanting to think too hard about the events of four years ago. (I will never forget my then boss Amazon Woman’s GASP!) I don’t understand why anyone at all was thinking there might be a repeat of that event this year. Trump won (though I will NEVER understand his appeal. Businessman? PBBBBBFT) and the current *democratic* prez and VP promised AND DELIVERED a smooth transfer. I mean the vote was certified without incident, I know the entire transfer of power has not been completed yet. But I think we have every reason to expect it will be.
This is not a democrat/republican issue. I don’t regard the J6 insurrectionists as republican. We don’t have a republican party any more. We have a Trump party and those folks were/are part of it. I have blahgged this before but one of the images burned into my brain from that day is a scruffy looking yay-hoo lounging in Nancy Pelosi’s (?) office saying something like, “Well, we’re here so I guess we should form a government.” We *have* a government and flawed that it may be, I do NOT want that particular person to be involved in creating a new one. Sorry but I don’t trust him or any of his cronies.
Fortunately the folks in office (democrats) this time are sane, reasonable, thoughtful folks who are following the rules our forefathers set out. Both our forefathers and their rules were flawed (as most things are) but I think they were thoughtful about what they were doing. Those rules can (and have) been changed. In my not-so-humble opinion, change needs to happen slowly and mindfully. Unless you are in the act of pulling someone out of a burning building.
I dunno if anything I said made sense and hope it doesn’t open up Pandora’s box. (Fun fact, I just remembered I was Pandora at the Sault High Latin banquet my third year of Latin🤣 Third-year students were gods and goddesses.)
January 7th, 2025 at 1:11 am
I do get sick of being the sane, reasonable, thoughtful people. It doesn’t seem to be working out very well for us.
January 7th, 2025 at 9:23 am
I feel like these next 2 weeks may be really significant, in retrospect. Meaning, that these are the last days of responsible national government. This morning I listened to Biden give a short but powerful speech at a service in New Orleans for the victims of that ISIS US terrorist. Biden is old, and sometimes sounds frail, and for all I know is in early stages of some dementia. BUT his words made me cry a little. He displayed human compassion, understands personal loss, and talked to the group in a way we would all want our dads to speak to us in times of great sorrow. I thought about the many opportunities trump will have in the next 4 years to make similar appearances. It will be painful. He’s a man with no sense of compassion and no ability to sooth troubled waters. We are in for tough times.