All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.
Jerome K. Jerome
What a splendiferous day. Camera Girl, working on her early food preliminaries, busy as a bee and supremely skilled. Me, lazier than a lion in the noonday sun, puttering around, anticipating the feeding frenzy to come. I research anything that comes into my head. I find solutions to problems that I’ve put off solving for years. I’m profoundly contented.
I finally made a walkaround outside a little while ago. That good, late afternoon sun, every photographer’s friend as it transmutes everything it touches into gold, gives me some subjects for my camera. A frost-burned rosebud, a dying stalk of millet, some seared oak leaves on a branch. Quite unspectacular subjects but with an obvious relevance to the season. The walk was invigorating. The fresh air did me good.
Tomorrow will be a full day of family. I won’t spend much, if any, time on-line. Which is all to the good. The site daily content is all pre-loaded. Hopefully the world will have the good grace not to explode until after I’ve enjoyed my holiday. So, everyone will be so good as to amuse themselves tomorrow while I give thanks for all the wonderful people and things with which God has seen fit to populate his universe.
If something important or amusing strikes me and I decide to throw it onto the site tomorrow I hope most of you will be too busy or too groggy with food to notice. There will be plenty of time on Friday or Saturday to catch up with my pearls of wisdom(?).
I’ll have to say the results of the elections have made me unexpectedly upbeat for the future. I feel like the future is up to me to create and that greatly energizes me. No more waiting for saviors or depending on luck. I feel like the world is for those who seize the moment and wrest the future they want out of the indifferent present that we see around us. The American dream was shown to be just that. The fellowship with our American “brothers” on the Left has been revealed to be a lie. But this revelation is liberating. An open enemy is so much less dangerous than a false friend. None of the Bushes or McConnells or Bidens or Obamas can surprise us anymore. We know just how evil they are and we can anticipate most of their attacks at this point. So, there’s no reason to think of them at all on a day of thanksgiving. I’ll think about all the good people that I’ve heard about or met in the last year and I’ll be thankful for blessings that I know I’ve enjoyed.
I hope everyone out there eats and drinks way too much of some delicious things. I hope that you have a chance to talk to some folks that mean something to you. I hope everyone has time to think about this life and the good things that we should be thankful for. And I hope you have a chance to enjoy yourself and relax. I intend to stay up late tomorrow after everybody goes home and watch some old movies and get up late and then eat a lot of leftovers.
God bless you all.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome
I’m glad he started his holiday weekend with an up-beat holiday post. It strikes the right note. Save the doom and gloom for another day.
Having aligned myself with those who are looking for something beside the “red wave” to save me I’ve been considering what that something could be.
With ballot harvesting and other forms of electoral fraud rendering the Republicans incapable of capturing power in Washington I turn to the question of whether any of the Red States will attempt to organize amongst themselves to achieve some of their objectives.
What I would be looking for is whether states like Florida and Texas and several other of the safely conservative states start to plan together on policies that would amplify the results they can obtain individually. For instance, let’s look at immigration. At the least significant level we are already seeing Florida imitate Texas in bussing illegal immigrants to Blue States. Currently this is more of a gesture than a policy but look at the publicity it has garnered and look at the morale boost it provides.
But imagine if much more effective actions were planned and coordinated. Suppose these states began to combine their clout to coerce corporations into behaving as good citizens. Imagine if they cracked down on companies employing illegals. Imagine if they coordinated their policies with respect to buying school books only from book publishers who provided a clearly conservative option. What if they formed a syndicate and empowered it to dictate terms with tech companies? And how about if they pooled their law enforcement assets and went after some of the things that the feds have given up on; illegal aliens, drug cartels, inner city gangs, sex trafficking? They might achieve substantial results.
Let’s face it. The feds are employing selective enforcement of the law to punish the Red States. The ZMan discusses this policy of anarcho-tyranny. As an example the feds ignore things like a mob burning down a city and instead punish the guy trying to protect his life and property from the mob with a gun It’s up to the areas of the country still under control of normal people to protect themselves and come up with effective countermeasures to neutralize the sabotage that Biden’s criminal enterprise perpetrates against the American people every single day.
As I say, I am looking for signs that the states will begin to act both single-handedly and in concert with each other to make a stand against the damage Washington is doing. I am hopeful that there will be some action along these lines and others that I haven’t thought of.
But I am also aware that the federal government will fight against any actions like these tooth and nail. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Justice Department threaten states and individuals like governors and legislators personally with lawsuits and even criminal prosecutions. Any effective actions by the states on these issues will powerfully undercut the damage caused by the selective enforcement of federal laws and policies. Biden, Obama and their cronies are aware that if the states get the upper hand, it won’t be long before resistance against many of these evil policies will take hold across the length and breadth of this country.
Imagine if states began ignoring Washington’s insane dictates on the environment, energy, law enforcement, education and all the ways the feds have harmfully interfered in the way people live their lives.
Why before you know it, it might start feeling like a free country again. Who knows, we might start being happy again.
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.
Jerome K. Jerome