Do any of you ever listen to the music of your generation and ache for all that you longed and believed you could bring to the world and found that the world was resistant to your beauty and change? I do.

Yup

The pretense is gone. The only thing gilded is the oval office & the ballroom plans. 💙 @thecaffeinator.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @stephen5150.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @jules1212.bsky.social @seizeday.bsky.social @chaserbaybe.bsky.social @boldsea.bsky.social

What gives me hope today is the earth itself. It was a beach day for me. Gorgeous fall day, butterflies everywhere, sea birds living their lives, the sweet stillness in the midst of it all. Happy girl.

Two things are tormenting me tonight. 1. The east wing. This is grieving me more than is even sensible. 2. Who the heck is actually making decisions in the White House? The president is clearly clueless. I’m going to have a martini, ponder these things, and pray that tomorrow is a better day.

Best quote of the day: “it’s ok to oppose violence with farce.”

I agreed with Charlie Kirk on nothing, except his right to live his life fully. He thought some gun violence deaths were acceptable. I do not. Not his, not the the 3 students critically injured in Co today nor the 125 on average people killed by guns everyday in this country. I am at a loss.

A fully depreciated woman for $22,500. Good Lord. I’m sick to my stomach. These people are pond scum and never held accountable.

Time for the sweet wildness, y’all!

Be careful out there, y’all.

Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

I love this quote. The ancient sages knew everything, didn’t they? Everything important anyway.

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

After a hard day, my husband& I are watching the old movie All the President’s Men, about Watergate.Wow. Does anybody remember when we thought that was as far as we could fall? Seems quaint these days.Still scary, but also quaint. I almost aspire to corruption that simple. Wow.What have we become?

I just weep sometimes when I see Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.

Just watching Good Night and Good Luck. I ask you, were are our Edward R Murrows? Heck, where is our Cronkite, Huntley Brinkley? Do they still teach ethics in journalism school these days?Is courageous reporting a relic of Woodward &Bernstein? No. I know they are out there and will not bow the knee.

Another day in the USA, 4 dead, gunman on the run. Officials don’t even bother with thoughts &prayers anymore. Until those prayers come with sane policy, they are meaningless.This from someone who actually prays, not to change God, but for God to change me & give my prayers feet. Sick of this evil.

Gird up your loins y’all. It’s tough. We may be scared and not even know how or where to step, or even where to put our oar in the water first. Years ago I was afraid of flying. One day a friend said, “Just do it scared.” Yup. “Just do it scared if you have to.

Yes!

I just melted down over everything and being fed up completely with men who do heinous things not being held accountable.My husband, the soul of wisdom, said, “We need to watch Nine to Five and drink martinis.”The man is a saint. Tomorrow I start again. Tonight I string up Dabney Coleman.

Here is what I have to say: if people had listened to women in the first place we would not be where we are today with POTUS or SCOTUS. I am so SICK of men not being held accountable unless they are brown or black and did nothing to begin with! I am incandescent with rage tonight.

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

All are welcome and safe with me.

As I cope with the daily excruciating trauma of watching our country embody values I find repugnant.I am thinking of it like the transition phase of a laboring mom.It is the most painful time, like dying almost but is the final stage before birth.Perhaps we are birthing a new and longed for America?

I love this!

Lately I’ve been watching romantic comedies from the 30’s and 40’s. I see why people flocked to them during the depression and war. Sometimes the hope of a feathered gown, gardenias and a happy ending is just what you need to face the fight tomorrow.

I am wondering, in a small but peaceful moment, if resistance is not to be our primary focus but a tool to get to our primary focus which is reimagining. Would it change anything if we led from a place of reimagining our country with the ideals of our founders but not their prejudice &blind spots?

My poor dog! She is cowering in the back of the closet shaking. Now that I think about it, that’s not a bad idea.

I love this! I strive to be this!

No comment needed except to say that this is a moral moment and too many do not see it as such and therefore fail.

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

Wisdom

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Ok. I know I am old. I know that there is so much do deal with in these difficult days.Still, let me say that Patrick Swayze when he was dancing..oh my goodness. Watching him makes me feel young again. Wow.

#Pinks #ProudBlue 💫⭐️❤️💛💚⭐️💫

🤣Me every morning!

Think on this.

I am pensive,sad as I try to process the MN assassinations. As the victim of political violence myself (my dad was the victim of an assassination attempt with a car bomb)who picked up pieces of my father out of the driveway while tasting the explosive, why has killing her dog been my breaking point?

We will not forget this!

Some days it is hard, but yes. Me too. I still believe.

Daddy. I miss him every day.

Even in Mobile Alabama it was the largest protest ever. The organizer himself was in tears over the unexpectedly large turn out. My reddest of red district. Take that in!

I love this so much. I feel it so much.

True.

We need this wild spirit today!

If Kamala were president, we'd be talking about her efforts to help Canada with their wildfires right now, as a way of paying it forward with how Canada helped LA with the fires there in January. I wish we lived in that world of neighborly love, instead of the scenes we see in LA today.