Sunday, May 9, 2021

Fix. . .

 . . . Don't hate your country.  FIX it!

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/opinion/public-school-culture-wars.html)
". . . The Christian Coalition took off during Bill Clinton’s presidency, when the religious right engaged locally because it felt shut out of national power. Clearly some conservatives think that opposition to critical race theory could be the seed of something similar. Telling parents that liberals want to make their kids hate their country and feel guilty for being white might be absurd and cynical. It also looks like it might be effective. . ."




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Saturday, May 8, 2021

Voce . . .

It makes me think of all the beautiful music I've heard.
And brings to mind a kind of paradise.
It just may be some kind of wonderland magic to me.
Still don't know how this fortune came to me.
Somehow it had to be. 

When I hear the sound of your voice,
Music fills the air and I float away.

If feels to me like warmth from sitting in front of a fire.
Light of my life you always show the way.
Gleam in your eye, a spark igniting the fire inside,
Burning so bright the way I feel for you.
It's like a dream come true.

All of my being depends upon you, 
That's for sure. 
You're my refuge in a stormy sea. 
The sun above that shines on me.
I thought that love such as this could be found
Only in movies.
Just like searching for a pot of gold, 
Follow the rainbow and do what you're told.

Just when you think it's all been said and it's been done before,
Should I explain how you're affecting me?
It's not control it's more an influence over my soul,
Covering all like colors brilliantly;
Canvas, brush, palette, three.



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Friday, May 7, 2021

Big . . .

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(from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/opinion/child-care-biden.html)
". . . Joe Biden’s American Family Plan . . . (will) deliver huge, indeed transformational benefits to millions. . . affordable child care, universal pre-K and paid leave for new parents . . . Republicans always claim that raising taxes on the rich will destroy jobs, they have never yet been right. . . employment in California boomed after Jerry Brown raised taxes on the wealthy in 2012, defying conservative declarations that the state was committing economic suicide. . . many high-tax, high-benefit countries are quite successful at creating jobs. . . taxes don’t visibly kill jobs — but lack of child care does. . . And if these plans improve life for millions of Americans, will anyone besides professional ideologues care if they’re “big government”?. . ."



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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Necessary? . . .

(from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/michael-collins-past-and-future-space-exploration-180972699/)
". . . It was a choice to go to the moon, and some would say we have a greater understanding of ourselves as a result. . . “I think a lot of people don’t want to live with a lid over their head,” (recently deceased astronaut Michael) Collins says. “They want to remove that lid. They want to look up into the sky. They want to see things that they do not understand. They want to come to know them better, perhaps even physically go there and examine them, to see, to smell, to touch, to feel—that’s, to me, the impetus for going to Mars.”. . . "



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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Exact . . .

 

Many are the  issues
That cross my mind, distract
From what I've set my mind to do,
Accomplishments, in fact.
It is, I know, inevitable,
Wielding no substantial impact.
But I concentrate wholeheartedly
To ensure I am exact.



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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Party . . .

(from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/republicans-stand-for-nothing-january-6-commission/619036/)
". . . Today’s Republicans exist only to stay in power, not least so that their elected officials can avoid what they dread most: being sent home to live among their constituents. The conservative writer George Will is right that the Republican Party in 2021 has become “something new in American history,” a “political party defined by the terror it feels for its own voters.” . . . Republican legislators should be scared. Their base is an angry white minority that cares nothing about government; its members want their elected officials to rule by hook or by crook, the Constitution and democracy itself be damned, and they don’t want any guff about namby-pamby ideas or policies. They want the elections controlled, the institutions captured, and the libs owned. The rest, to them, is just noise. . . The Republicans, facing an investigation into an insurrection provoked by their own leader, have armored up and gone into armadillo mode. They will protect their own—rather than their nation and the Constitution they swore to defend. This behavior should serve as a warning: A party that doesn’t believe in anything ends up believing only in its right to rule. And a movement that believes only in its own power is a deadly enemy of constitutional democracy. . "



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Baggage . . .

                                         

Six AM,
The buses aren't nearly as crowded
As the night before.
Someone said there was
Music and laughter 
Behind all the shutters and doors.
What was all of it for?

Who needs friends?
There's barely a minute for breathing.
Everyone here works so hard.
There's no party.
When I reach my doorstep
I struggle to pull out my key.
Where's the meaning for me?

You see but you're unaware
There's life on the other side.

But there's no bridge to cross.
I'm looking through the fog
For some way out of here.
I've baggage here to toss.

Bless my soul!
I've read about you in the paper.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
When you speak it's in volumes and volumes.
I can't hear a word that you say.
Funny it happens that way.

I've been told 
That envy's the thing I've been feeling
For your kind of work and your play.
But to tell you the truth
That it's only a wish 
For a new kind of day,
When worry and fear melt away.

Could be 
That a day will come
When you just might understand.

I’d like to go away.
And go there to stay.
But I can’t find the way.

So it goes,
But change never really comes easy.
Resistance is felt all around. 
But inevitably something happens
That makes the old ship run aground.
We all stare in awe of what’s found.

Like me you appear to be
Looking for some meaning here.



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