“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
After my heart almost gave out, I decided to pull together and complete as much preparation for my death as is feasible. I am doing this to make sure that Patti is not left with such details to figure out in her grief, and so as to leave less of a mess behind for others to clean up, my mother’s maxim. In keeping with that maxim, I’m compiling a book […]
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There was never any pain, just waves of heat in my chest, a dimming and then clarifying of consciousness and the understanding that this time, something seriously wrong was going on. I fought it driving home from work, stopping twice to see if the symptoms would pass, then driving on for another 2 miles or so before pulling into another parking lot. I bought almonds and chocolate milk at a […]
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An ongoing crisis has been created by the collapse of the Republican Party into factions poisonous to reason, comity. compromise and discourse. The Party now combines Christian Nationalists, an OK-Fascist amalgamation of “clowns with flamethrowers,” * Anti-Semites, militia creeps, opportunist politicians – always the gutless ambitious, incels, Putin apologists and lovers, the always present white supremacists and Tech-Boy Ayn Rand fans, a vast assortment of those looking to park their […]
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I was going to open this with a litany of the most recent travesties committed by the revolving cast of the most awful people in the world, but if you read this, you also read the papers and thus do not need, on this blue-sky day, another reminder of what such monsters did yesterday or last night. This post is about laying hold of life in spite of them and […]
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