It's Saturday - what a relief! It's cold, and there's already snow in the northern part of the state. We're about a week ahead of time for leaves and weather, which really doesn't make me super happy - winter is my least favorite season here in the Frozen Northlands. It has its' own beauty, but I'm not a fan. The one nice thing about this time of the year is I can start wearing my long-sleeved T-shirts again, and I love my selection of long-sleeved T's. I also get to wear my sweatshirts and sweaters again, and I have several of those that I really like too. So ... good and bad - that's how so many things in life are.
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One of my favorite long-sleeved T-shirts is the skeleton of this guy - the Short Faced Cave Bear, standing erect. It's a beautiful shirt that I bought from the Field Museum in Chicago many years ago. I wear it often and will hate it when it finally gets too old and worn to wear. |
Yesterday President Trump and Melania were diagnosed with COVID-19. By the end of the afternoon, the President had been moved to his suite at Walter Reed Hospital, to work from there under more controlled conditions while he recovers. I don't like the man - have never liked him, but I don't want anyone to get sick and suffer from this damned disease, not even the mini-tyrant in the White House.
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I'm not a fan of the President. I didn't vote for him and I don't support his policies. I think he was a huge mistake, and I'm hoping he gets defeated in the November election. But, that said, I don't wish death and harm on anyone, so I'm sorry he caught COVID. It's a bit of poetic justice in a way, I admit. |
I visited FaceBook yesterday to catch up with some friends and the vitriolic posts being slung back and forth between my friends and acquaintances frankly made me a bit sick. One dear friend of many years was openly wishing death and torment to Trump. I did post a couple of time in various boards that we should all be above the hatred, that we shouldn't fall to those depths, but the poison was horrific. So I'm putting this out here now, and if you hate me for it, so be it.
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Nobody deserves death. Without doubt there are evil people in this world who probably push that a bit, but very few people are evil. Most are walking a wide space between angelic and demonic. |
I don't wish death and destruction upon ANYONE. I'm not sorry that Trump is getting a taste of the terror others have been feeling over the past few months, but I'm not wishing death on him either, because that's not in my hands, and I wouldn't want it to be. I have a hard enough time killing the occasional spider who won't leave, or a mosquito that's trying to bite me. I can go after flies with gusto, but a person? No. Absolutely not. I'm not going to sully my own karma by wishing death to another human being, no matter how heinous that person might be.
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I want us to be able to return to the days when we could hug a child without fear of infection. I want love, not hate to be the standard for the day and our lives. I dream of peace, brotherhood (or sisterhood) and understanding I am TOTALLY a child of the 1960's |
So I hope EVERYONE with this horrible disease is well cared for and will recover because I don't want ANY more deaths from COVID in this nation or in the world. I hope that we can all meet our friends and relatives without social distancing, that we can enjoy hugging a child or a sister, brother, father or mother without worry. I hope that love triumphs over hate. But the posts I was seeing yesterday were hateful and reminded me how very far away that goal seems right now. Have a good weekend, be kind, and please be safe. I'll be back on Monday.
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