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What a long strange trip it’s been… and growing stranger by the minute. The air feels muted and in a state of suspended animation, but it’s winter time and the trees stand diminished in their vulnerable nakedness, painting stark lines against a gray sky. Nobody’s saying much, though, which brings a room down in a hurry. And it’s cold out, that’ll do it for sure. This is a strange time in history that we hoped never to see… but we instinctively knew that if it ever did arrive, it would look a lot like this.
So kids, if the voting stats are true we’re faced with the knowledge that a third to half the nation is opposed, often violently, to the values held by the other half. What do we even do with a sobering statistic like that? The next four years, and who knows how many more, lie before us. Days, weeks, months, and years when we won’t know which half of the people we encounter hate us and all we stand for, which half would prefer that we exist elsewhere or not at all. It is, to say the least, unsettling.
The nation that has represented freedom to the rest of the world is now scheming to rid the country of “undesirables,” by force and all other means necessary. It’s incomprehensible.
And there’s this, which we knew would be coming at us eventually:
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Playing for Time 
Dec 09, 2024 @ 13:00:03
Thankfully. I do not depend on the government for peace!
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Dec 09, 2024 @ 12:57:58
It is so hard right now, but we have to get re-energized to do the work for midterms. Getting a majority in the House and Senate will be our best chance of thwarting his most dangerous urges.
Thank you for posting your blog. It gives me a smile and at other times hope that everything will be ok.
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Dec 09, 2024 @ 14:10:58
Thx, I try not to leave us stranded in the swamp when I run out of words. All we have to do is live through it, right?
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