Bi Polar People

     Desire how refreshing the scent Never ending and can't be spent Loathsome to all who repent Life giving without regret                CM/25 "But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift our enormous rubbish heaps for our tiny pearls? Such are the questions which the critics might lawfully put to their companions at table, the novelists and poets."  Virginia Woolf

Bonsai garden   Duck family Neighborhood This is why people pay home owner's surrance, flood insurance and any kind of expense to protect a bank's investment   You don't need a drone to enjoy it   The view from a back yard  is usually worthwhile? Flood

 If nudity offends you please leave this page  You may also want to avoid taking a college level art class The wall is a mechanism to protect US citizens from excessive population growth especially from those emigrants without a means of support  Our country was founded by people looking for a better life  My grandfather had seven children, started a grocery store (mainly for Italian and Spanish people) and two of his boys became dentist, two of the girls worked in the grocery business, or started their own business His name is among those who passed through Ellis  Island  Indiscriminate deportation is a crime " Ellis Island served as a major immigration station in the United States from 1892 to 1954 , processing over  twelve million immigrants  during that time. It became a symbol of America's welcoming spirit, reflecting the country's complex relationship with immigration, which evolved from openness to restriction. Today, many Americans can tra...

The ceasefire was brokered by Trump through talks with Israeli  Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu Opinion:  It's unlikely that a cease fire will hold -  Nice try Donald, at least you did something                     When there is total anihilation a cease fire will usually follow   

 The foolishness of our republican president's time in office with too many years to follow makes me grieve for all the young men who died fighting the cause of slavery The twenty first century has pushed our nation back one hundred and sixty years   We have become slaves to technology, to the whims and power of politicians and ruthless rulers of other countries   We are no more free and secure than those we have freed to be slaughtered by the dictates of unscrupulous oligarchs  The situation is so dire and without any meaningful outcome that the sitting president should change his name by executive order to DICK as in Richard " Dick " M. Nixon  T he 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974  God have mercy on our souls Dick  

 “ Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost.  Because it’s not what the world takes away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what you have left.” B

   " Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated “freedom cities”". In a 2019 paper titled Left Behind: Future Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth, the communication scholars Sarah T Roberts and Mél Hogan described the longing for a secular Rapture: “In the accelerationist imaginary, the future is not about harm reduction, limits or restoration; rather it is a politics driving toward an endgame.”  

Apologies to all who have been hurt by someone who obviously doesn't understand economics on a local or global scale  

Not another political statement  Just a cute picture of two animals who are different and don't want to  kill each other - something we could learn from The puppy even played with the eagles young  Source: internet  

  Did I remember to forget To play the game of life with wit To know man is but a gift He bears our strife and our guilt Good or bad I know not which Upon his soul my name is built Take not my child's humanity Vanquish none just to see What life offers you and me Cruel death unites eternally

  Fighting when there is nothing left to fight for - a horrible thought in our lifetime   Who wishes to rule a wasteland

“I don’t really mind the government’s new death ray, because it hasn’t hit me yet.” Source: The New Yorker  

 

I met a girl who was so young Funny and fun but not the one For friends make lousy lovers And lovers' unreliable friends  

   Named not for air quality, it's actually quite good here  I wrote a poem sixty years ago while in the Air Force The picture and the name are appealing  The poem is below Drone shot blogger Yellow hues of crisp green lightening  crackling past the moon Life is not a storm nor wonder but an instant doomed

    The first 100 days of his second term have been among the most destabilizing in American history, a blitz of power grabs, strategic shifts, and direct attacks that have left opponents, global counterparts, and even many supporters stunned. Trump has launched a battery of orders and memoranda that have hobbled entire government agencies and departments. He has threatened to take Greenland by force, seize control of the Panama Canal, and annex Canada. Weaponizing his control of the Justice Department, he has ordered investigations of political enemies. He has  gutted much of the civil service , removing more than a hundred thousand federal workers. He has gone to war with institutions across American life:  universities , media outlets, law firms, museums. He  pardoned or gave a commutation to every single defendant  charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attacks, including those convicted of violent acts and seditious conspiracy. Seeking to remake the glo...

  "Millions of people around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis According to the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church died on Easter Monday at the age of 88" German Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz : "The death of Pope Francis fills me with great sadness. Francis will be remembered for his tireless commitment to the weakest members of society, for justice and reconciliation." www.bluewin.ch/

  King for a day         Nay I say Just point the way What will happen may  Neither do they know for sure  if there is a cure and can endure  the direction which will take them  to the same place    

  Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Today’s rightwing leaders and their rich allies are not just taking advantage of catastrophes, shock-doctrine and disaster-capitalism style, but simultaneously provoking and planning for them. But you don’t need to be a biblical literalist, or even religious, to be an end times fascist. Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated “freedom cities”. In a 2019 paper titled Left Behind: Future Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth, the communication scholars Sarah T Roberts and Mél Hogan described the longing for a secular Rapture: “In the accelerationist imaginary, the future is not about harm reduction, limits or restoration; rather it is a politics driving toward an endgame.” As fascism always does...

Berlin Perils  

  Take a look at  Ningbo China  the place where this two  dollar hummingbird feeder was made.    

 Thirty five percent of us have not found jobs Stuck multidimensionally Every layer has some new hurdle to overcome You're saving the country money because it's being taken away from us Is this any way to lower corporate tax or did you have something else in mind People feel cheated by someone who promised so much then took it away Everything you do hurts some, the many can't change anything Are they trying

 Before the world became hard.. Graphic   Blogger   

  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74kg3e2m08o.amp Link BBC

  D etermined O n G orging E verything Picture by blogger Credit MSNBC Alone by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1875)    From childhood's hour I have not been As others were -- I have not seen As others saw -- I could not bring My passions from a common spring -- From the same source I have not taken My sorrow -- I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone -- And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone -- Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn Of a most stormy life -- was drawn From ev'ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still -- From the torrent, or the fountain -- From the red cliff of the mountain -- From the sun that 'round me roll'd In its autumn tint of gold -- From the lightning in the sky As it pass'd me flying by -- From the thunder, and the storm -- And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view -- This isn't disrespectful, it's just harsh as one would expect retribution to be

 Luke 6:38 "Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.” Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Giving

Painting of child Museum of Art Chicago Irony - a child playing in the back yard broke this statue  There is a child at this table between her parents   Her face is covered with a computer screen She wears headphones and is engaged Another family outing to remember Young couple - faces in a crowd Grandson's Birthday 40's Chicago Picnic My uncle became and archeteque and built a house on this property That's me in the foreground, my mother behind me

You guys are costing us a lot of money      We are defending ourselves against an aggressive attack from a ruthless maniac I know Putin and I can assure you he is just like us  He is only looking out for his people's best interest I speak for the president and the people of the United States when I say you are overreacting just as we had anticipated You seem to like the war and are looking for handouts that will continue your country's lifestyle I am not saying this  because of poor information or the inability to retain it, just a reminder that we are asking you to give up your country's mineral rights in appreciation for the generous support we respectfully gave your people for three years   Blogger: Mr. Zelenskyy, humble apologies for our elected American official's behavior