So, I have become the CEO of a cemetery in Westchester. Pay is good and so far only a day or two a week of work. Long story on how it came about.
Trying times. Dog sliced nose open. No clue how. Drove at night through heavy rain to ER. Returned home with stitched up dog, $1200 poorer. Last night dog starts throwing up. Continues all night. Just back from vet, another $700 poorer, with meds & instructions to return if upchucking continues.
December 7, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
I hear a lot these days about how American democracy is doomed and the reactionaries will win. Maybe. But the beauty of our system is that it gives us people like Doris Miller.
… this “maybe” from HCR depresses me… it’s not the first equivocal statement i have read about the outcome of the upcoming election… we cannot let them win… cannot…
It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that everywhere threaten the true, and the good, and the beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound.
–Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, p xi
December 1, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
“The storm is coming,” Last warned readers. “The world looks normal right now, but it is not. Forces are in motion that will bring us to a point of national crisis one year from now.”
December 1, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
In the Washington Post yesterday, neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan warned that “a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” and today in The Bulwark, Jonathan V. Last agreed.
Finished reading _The Greatest Invention _ by Silvia Ferrara.
So, I managed tod to get through 3 Thanksgiving feasts in 4 days without gaining a pound! And, I don’t feel deprived!
From this morning’s walk…
True or false? What do you think?
Without novelty, without the hunt for the new, we wouldn’t be human beings.
–Silvia Ferrara, The Greatest Invention
Frittatas are a great way to use up vegetables. In this case some aging green peppers and cherry tomatoes. Topped with cheddar cheese. Quick and easy to make.
From a couple of days ago…
From this morning’s walk…
From a few days ago…
There is one issue on the ballot in 2024, whether the Democratic Republic, imperfect as it may be, survives… it is way better than the alternative…
MIke Davis, one of the men under consideration for attorney general, told a podcast host in September that… “We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing–anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents,” Davis said. “We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.”
November 20, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
That I have to consider this a real possibility brings me to tears…
MIke Davis, one of the men under consideration for attorney general, told a podcast host in September that he would “unleash hell on Washington, D.C.,” getting rid of career politicians, indicting President Joe Biden “and every other scumball, sleazeball Biden,” and helping pardon those found guilty of crimes associated with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
November 20, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Even the more liberal news outlets are making the mistake of giving oxygen to the fascist fire…
Roberts points out that “both sides” are not extremists, but many Americans have no idea that the Democrats are actually trying to govern, including by reaching across the aisle. Roberts notes that the media focus on the right wing enables the right wing to define our politics. That, in turn, serves the radical right by destroying Americans' faith in our democratic government.
Made roasted squash soup last night… this color study appeared along the way…
November 14, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Republican shark tank…
Burchett was talking to NPR reporter Claudia Grisales. Clearly taken aback, Grisales tweeted: “Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill: While talking to [Burchett] after the GOP conference meeting, former [Speaker McCarthy] walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued….” Burchett was one of the eight Republican representatives who voted to oust McCarthy from the speakership.
From this morning’s walk…
From yesterday…
Our mindset… predetermines what our actions are going to be or what they’re not going to be… Whatever we think and say becomes the reality that we create out there. And how wonderful. How wonderful that we can understand that those two are actually in constant interaction with each other. What we think, what we feel, what we say, is in constant interaction with what we are co-creating out there.
–Christina Figueres
Once we get to the point where we really understand that it’s not like we are extracting from nature, which is what we used to do, or even living with nature, which is what most of us are trying to do now… we get to the point where we are living as nature… which we always were.
–Christina Figueres
November 13, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Finally, it seems, Trump’s explicit use of Nazi language, especially when coupled with his threats to establish camps, has woken up at least some headline writers. Forbes accurately headlined yesterday’s story: “Trump Compares Political Foes to ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day–Echoing Nazi Propaganda.”
November 13, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Today’s HCR is an important read…
When Ellis lamented that their election challenges had lost, Scavino allegedly answered: “‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave.” Ellis replied: “‘What do you mean?” Scavino answered: “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.” When Ellis responded “Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?” he allegedly answered: “We don’t care.”