❤️ Fun stuff heard in the house that holds a live-in Gamma in its embrace: “Don’t break your grandmother!” Said to Princeling 18 who was only 4 when I came to stay. The others – Princeling 13.75 and Empress 8.8 were not yet even glimmers.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

NOT EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION FROM SOMETHING ELSE. Sometimes, it’s res ipsa loquitor: the thing is what it appears to be.

😆😆😆 Yep

🧵🔥 “‘What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.’” • Kurt Vonnegut Mother Night

#Sane_Making #Music a brilliant composition in the style of #JSBach, an annotated #fugue on the theme of Darth Vader’s Imperial March. youtu.be/6-W9ow4OL-Q?... 🎵🖤🎵 Baroque counterpoint effects my whole being, like meditation…all those alpha and theta waves put me in a state of focused relaxation.

This week Israel & USA: •Bombed & obliterated Rafi Nai Synagogue in Iran •Murdered 300+ Muslim & Christian civilians in Lebanon •Threatened the Pope, forcing him to cancel his trip to the US And claimed to do it all in the name of Christianity & Jesus. Impeach & remove Trump before he kills us all

Three people. "Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant." • Joan Didion

Well, oopsie! They forgot Lebanon. But Bibi is pleased. "The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives." • Adrienne Rich The Dream of a Common Language

Oh.👀 If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Trump’s deadline that included a threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt from Pentagon attorneys. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-pent...

Streamlining the process of conscription… Congress is still required for the institution of a draft, but we already know how willing the Congress is to rubber stamp Cadet Bonespurs Caligula and Whiskey Pete’s plans, don’t we? Pay attention to what they do while the world is focused on Iran.

Tiedrich! 🙌🏻 open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

It was from their first & only debate. 🤬 bsky.app/profile/midd...

#Sane_Making #Music #Puddles_Pity_Party For my Golden and Puddles tribe everywhere! 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/EsnU7PrTi30?...

#Sane_Making #Music Some WOW for your Wednesday! 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/vPydMJdBKIM?...

April 7, 1951 – my parents wedding date – 75 years ago today. They celebrated 56 years together when Mom died in April 2007. Dad followed 4 years later. 💞

When you live in the era of pathocratic predators and the ultra rich who bankroll and guide them, there’s always something that escapes your attention. That is normal.

I first learned about Psychopathy in medschool around 1969 & diagnosed Trump in 2015/16. Any doctor who observed him and didn't know him to be psychopathically insane is incompetent, pretending, cowardly, or villainous. Sorry to say about colleagues, but mincing of words is part of how we got here.

🚨 www.indiatoday.in/world/story/...

#Impeach the psychopathic and sadistic Predator-in-Chief. “Dark predators are extremely dangerous and should be constrained from taking what they most desire: power. Normal people don't get how these people toxify the world around them.” • Karen Mitchell, PhD

#Words_matter. Power predicts democide. #Murder_most_foul #Democide: The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. Differences between genocide and democide : www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/G...

Everything’s everywhere. It’s way too much & it’s all the time. None of us are neurologically & psychologically built for this daily “news” barrage of the march of predators, devouring & destroying in order to remake the world for themselves. Immersion in it is crazy-making. Take breaks. 🫂

74 coming in mid June. “Amidst the fleeting clouds of illusion dances the lightning flash of life.” * Shechen Gyaltsap

For the record, Trump won’t be escalating bombing tonite, it’s just part of his reality show hype & market manipulation scam. They botched some sort of military raid & rescuing pilots was cover. He wants to cut & run and move on to Cuba but needs some toxic bravado to save face.

Two Critical Subtypes of Malignant Narcissism Not all Malignant Narcissists operate the same way. There are two broad patterns: Ideological authoritarianism (Hitler, Stalin) versus Narcissistic authoritarianism (Trump, Mussolini) open.substack.com/pub/frankgeo...

In the political kabuki theater of the absurd we’re all rhinoceros waiting for a Godot. 🎭 “The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives." Adrienne Rich

This rejects perfection. Goodness isn’t the point anymore It slowly transforms pain into a declaration of purpose, to write, to ‘make my body a poem with beautiful clothes’ By the end poetry becomes survival, endurance, turning experience into language #Poetry #Poemoftheday #Nationalpoetrymonth

#Sane-Making #Music “When it's time to take the measure of our days The ones that shine will hold hands with the ones that fade I think we're getting closer to it every day It goes without saying, but say it anyway…” • Mary Chapin Carpenter 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/rQY_69wVu4g?...

The operation seems to have been a cover story for a bigger operation on a nuclear facility near Isfahan The area they were 'Searching' & where they said he was found was 200km away from the downed plane & he would've had to climb a 2km tall mountain before walking there... injured

“… they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.” • Mary Oliver “Of the Empire”

This record-breaking distance brouhaha is making me nuts. The difference between how far the trip from Earth for Apollo 13 & Artemis II is 4102 miles. In the big picture, not much. Apollo 13 (1970): 248,655 miles Artemis II (2026): 252,757 miles But, by golly, people MUST have record breakers. 🙄

“Not FANS of the war?” 😞 Is it any wonder that the contemporary dominant culture is in such a state of chaos. War fandom is a ‘reality tv show. It’s not about the actual lives and deaths of human beings to be glibly and monosyllabically discounted by the pathological Predator-in-Chief.

🐙🖤🐙 “…scientists found that octopuses have a similar set of genes to those found in humans, that make up a neural network in their brains, … We also share a large brain, closed circulatory system, and eyes with an iris, retina, and lens.” octopus.org.nz/content/dna-...

#Sane_Making #Music #Joni_Mitchell 🎵🎻🖤🥁🎵 youtu.be/uxaVmmTiZwc?...

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?

T’was a simpler time… Sandi & Sally on The Lawrence Welk Show, putting a little #hippity in your #hoppity this morning. You’ll thank me later. 😊 💖🐇💖🐇💖 youtu.be/l6Fls6QykDU?...

Whole thing here.

In 2023 our family became Monarch whisperers: eggs to larvae to pupae to chrysalises to flutterbies. ‘T’was a cosmic doing. “Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.” Alice Hoffman

-#Sane_Making #Music #Bruce_Cockburn “…pointing a finger at eternity…” 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/JY__agG_eXc?...

#Sane_Making #Music and #sleep. A favorite modern lullaby. 🎵😴🎵 “You can sleep now, Go to sleep, Daytime’s dying And the nighttime’s so deep. I’m standing by to sing a lullaby,… another lullaby.” Art sings a Jimmy Webb song — 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/B2Fel6x7j5w?...

#Sane_Making #poetry #Jane_Goodall #The_Old_Wisdom

“… while her record of selective enforcement, aggressive loyalty tests, pedophile cover-ups, and enthusiastic reinterpretations of legal norms was historically unprecedented, it still lacked the “relentless, visionary cruelty” President Trump had hoped to see.” Bill Barr ranks a close second.

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Apply as needed. And goodness knows it’s effing sorely needed. “Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.” • Gregory Bateson “…there is no time for bad metaphors now...” • Nora Bateson

Last night’s soporific soliloquy was a masterclass in market manipulation, the pattern holds; insiders place ‘bets’ on oil futures, tank markets at end of week (today is last day of trading) fly down to Mar-a-Lago cook up some posts for Monday, rinse, repeat. Trump is a criminal.

“What’s striking about today’s brand of anti-intellectualism is that it infuses the American knowledge elite; it stems from the bedrock conviction among tech oligarchs that they have mastered everything and have nothing left to learn.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Hamilton understood. “…when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity— to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind…”

1/ I’m having a Hebbian moment reading this. The movie “Silent Running” comes instantly to mind — Bruce Dern, forest keeper in orbit and 3 robots, Huey, Dewey, and Louie … open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Dad worked on 1 of the early Mercury capsule drogue chute systems. My childhood was full of astronaut dreams. On July1969 Neil & Buzz stepped onto the moon a month after turning 17. The ketamine rocketman & the other 2 predators w/giant metal phalluses have ruined space flight for me. I hate them.