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If wishes came true, I’d be about 8 or 9 again, before the entire world fell apart. My grandmother would be alive, my grandfather would be alive, and my parents would not have morphed into miserable people for who I was an after thought. Gas would still be less than $.40 a gallon, the murderContinue reading “If”

OK, so NOLA is making progress in the power restoration – hearing from more and more people that power is on, or promised within hours. Most folks are going to be spending a few days cleaning out the refrigerator, and any damage that Miss Ida left behind.I am grateful there was not a high deathContinue reading “Liberty is Missing In Action”

So, yesterday there was a school shooting at a high school geographically very near me. Sounds like a retaliation or something very personal between two 15-year olds – one went in, proceeded directly to his target, and shot. He ran. The victim was rushed to the hospital, where he died. Two lives altered forever, andContinue reading “Snatching joy from the jaws of despair”

So. Things in New Orleans are still…grim. They have no end in sight to life without electricity, and in some cases without safe drinking water. If you have $1k or more, and a working vehicle, you can pick up a generator from a home improvement store. Good luck hauling that home and getting it connected.Continue reading “Meanwhile, back in the real world…”

Posted on FaceBook earlier: How can it be blazing sunshine and hot outside my windows when there’s a hurricane raging on the Gulf Coast, forest fires on the West Coast, and people being blown up in Afghanistan? This seems impossible until I realize how small we are and how little of the whole picture weContinue reading “Et tu, Ida?”

“In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above. Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure.” (Wikipedia) A strong center of lowContinue reading “Let my spirit carry me”

So. I am still watching the eagles in Juneau Alaska, and the young’un is pretty much done with the nest. It fledged over a week ago, and has been in and out and lookin’ all grown up and stuff. Perching wherever it dang well pleases, getting the landing manuever more refined, doin’ their own thangContinue reading “Birds”

Posted this on FaceBook this morning… Ya know…Afghanistan is a mess. It’s been a mess for more than 20 years. The Former Guy made a campaign plank out of “endless wars” and said we needed to get out of those. After he was elected, he reduced the troop count in Afghanistan. He wanted to inviteContinue reading “Growing pains”

I figure when the end times come, I will sleep through it all. I can usually sleep through quite a lot of conflagration, especially if I am in a moving vehicle of some type. The best sleep I’ve ever gotten was in a train, many years ago when I was a kid and we usedContinue reading “Sleeping through it all”

OK, I am now officially falling apart at the seams. Maybe not even the seams, just sort of bursting out of the usual container. Metaphorically, that is not a bad thing. Realistically, and even logistically, it’s a bit unsettling. No, it’s a bit of a pain in the ass. I’ve been dealing for the pastContinue reading “What matters?”