angels and other Monday musing

 I am heading in to work this morning.  I am listening to the podcast of conversations between Bruce Springsteen and Barrack Obama.  Interesting and somewhat uncomfortable, as they confront racism in this country.  They each share stories of growing up, Bruce came of age in the turbulent '60's and though I an a we bit younger than he is, I remember that time   It's sad when we need to do it AGAIN, because apparently, there are a LOT of people who didn't get the memo.  The conversation is making me think as I squirm a bit, confronting what it means to be a person of color in this country.  Can I ever REALLY understand it?  well, no. But I can listen and I can learn.  

A few days ago I was in a conversation about empaths and empathy.  The people in the room agreed that all of us have some measure of being an empath ( I STRONGLY disagree, as I can think of at least ONE or two people who don't give a rat's patoot about anyone but themselves)  The conversation turned to angels and one person stated that people become angels when they die and that people are angels.  Everyone in the conversation nodded.  I just kept my mouth shut.  It is MY opinion that angels are a different kettle of fish, that people might become spirit guides, but angels?  No.  I really hate when someone posts things like  "oh heaven has another angel"  or that STUPID poem that ends "God only takes the best"  WHAT THE HECK  You do know everyone dies, right?  So what do you mean by saying God only takes the best?     It makes my head spin.  I suppose it's a way of comforting themselves, but I don't think it does any good in the long run.  Their spirits may come to us with information or comfort as needed  but they do NOT morph into angels.

It's Monday and a short work week for me, as the City has given us a furlough day on Friday.  They PERSIST in calling it an "unpaid holiday"  Nice try but if I ain't getting paid , it's NO holiday.  Friday is my regular day off so I will only work three days this week.  It's ok.  We are going into Memorial Day and I will have more thoughts on THAT next time.

Sunday morning thoughts

 Up early on a Sunday morning.  Can't sleep, so coffee and my notepad it is.  I am a list maker and I am going to see how much on my list I can get done today.  I will admit that I put things like "Lunch" and "take a shower" on the list so at the end of the day I am not staring at a long list of unfinished "chores"  My husband says I overload myself and he may be right, but there ARE things that need doing, as well as things I want done, that just don't happen by themselves.

Before Biden was elected, I would open the news on my computer, wondering if the idiot in the White House had managed to start World War III yet. It was NOT for lack of trying  ( Hey Donnie, you FAILED at that task too)  Now I look to see if he has been indicted yet,  It will happen and , please God, that the evidence be truthfully heard and considered.  He and his criminal network will get the justice they deserve, I wonder who will flip on whom.  Rats jumping off a sinking ship. Yes, I am aware there is an element in this country  who, if the Orange Oaf stabbed their mother to death in front of them would support his right to murder her.  I knew a guy who was crazy and was posting on a website we both frequented about how Biden AND Obama and maybe Nancy Pelosi would be hung in the town square.  He was following a certain group  of "Prophecy Ministers" who kept moving the goal posts as the date for their reckoning came and went.  I don't know about YOU, but if my "religion" tells me to hate someone, I think I need to change religions.  This guy was constantly wetting himself, metaphorically speaking, on a page that was meant to discuss the music of ( ironically enough) the band America.  He made outrageous bets   THEN when he lost told everyone that the bet could not stand because Biden cheated.  Huh?  The whole premise of his "Big Lie" is that Biden cheated.  No one- and I mean NO ONE has produced anything like the scale of illegal voting as they are claiming and yet, they now say we must change voting laws to keep it from happening. Why not leave it as it was, you know, if it ain't broke don't fix it; but it is the only way they can see themselves winning in the next go-around.  The idea of actually having a platform that they can point to that would appeal to disenfranchised groups never enters their head.  After all Corporations are people....

If you are not reading the wonderful blog by Heather Cox Richardson "Letters from an American"  you should be,  She talks about a lot of things and brings a sense of history to the proceedings.

Politics and other things that tangle my brain

 Up early, headed into my office.  We are still working a hybrid and I really am looking forward to going IN more often.  My "office" for the past year has been squished into a tiny corner of my kitchen, that I SUPPOSE is supposed to be a dining room, but never has been.  I have always had my computer here.  It's just harder, with paperwork from my office in a plastic rolly-thing taking up pace.  I feel cramped.  Also there is the fact that I am ALWAYS working.  Work STARES at me and I sometimes feel the need to "Catch up" even when I am not on the clock.  I should not do that.  NO ONE should do that.  It gives the impression that you don't have enough work and they can pile on more.  I have enough to do in my 9+ hour day, thankyouverymuch.

I am watching the Republican party implode.  I am no big fan of Liz Cheney, but as I posted on one of the political sites I frequent, even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Cheney believes the lie that Reagan was the best thing that ever happened to this country, going so far as to advance the well believed theory that HE defeated Soviet Communism.  I believe that was Gorbachev -and HIS epiphany came, not in the hallowed halls of our government, but in a grocery store.  He finally saw that the things he believed were not true and it moved him toward glasnost.

But politics and the BS that is being pulled out by Trumplicans- let's face it they are a truth unto themselves here- is startling.  It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.   They want so desperately to believe that they won, they can't take a step back to see why they lost.  I suppose the party that waves Lee's Battle flag cannot be expected to accept defeat.  I still see Trump as a cancer.  I do not ever say out loud a wish for evil to happen to anyone- those things have a way of rebounding- but I do wish Karma would hurry up.  Karma is, as the saying goes, not a bitch, but a sweet old lady who serves you the same tea you have been giving people for years.  She just needs to hurry up, before we are destroyed by stupidity.

Now, I hear that people think we will go to a single party, which can never be the case.  We need both sides of the political coin to be successful.  As much as I loathe to admit it, sometimes the Conservatives have a point.  My daughter and others of her generation are pushing for a third party, the Green Party has had a lot of success with the young voters.  We need young voters and people to be engaged in the process of governing this county.  We need fewer  Mitch McConnells  and MORE AOCs  This should be a time when they rise to claim their birthright in the governance of our nation.