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Almost the last week of July and finally an end to the endless torrential rain.\u00a0 Today a beautiful day, almost a June day with temperature in the high sixties and blue sky and bright sun.\u00a0 Camera Girl\u2019s vegetable garden looks like all the life was washed right out of the plants by the flux of water dissolving the nutrients out of the soil.\u00a0 The leaves of the squash plants are pale and yellowish.\u00a0 I\u2019ve told her I\u2019ll try to save them with some fertilizer later today.\u00a0 But all in all, the fields look good.\u00a0 The grass is very green for the end of July and the monarch butterflies and their caterpillars have begun appearing on the milkweed.\u00a0 In actuality the butterflies must have been there a while ago without being seen because the caterpillars are almost full grown.<\/p>\n

I guess today I\u2019m feeling less pessimistic than usual.\u00a0 After all, there are still something like one hundred million Americans out there who still believe \u00a0lot of the things I believe in.\u00a0 And even if we\u2019re outnumbered and dispossessed of our rights and persecuted by the bugmen we\u2019re still here.\u00a0 And now that we\u2019ve recognized our status as the enemy of the woke we have a natural tendency to band together for protection, to accomplish goals and for fellowship.<\/p>\n

We can seek each other out and make common cause with others of our kind whenever we need to diverge from what the official policy would force us to do.\u00a0 And that goes for cultural activities too.\u00a0 They\u2019ve destroyed all the fraternal organizations and now they\u2019ve even destroyed the children\u2019s activities like the Boy Scouts but they can\u2019t do much about a fishing trip or a baseball game.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re going to need to figure out how to recognize each other.\u00a0 Secret handshakes and lapel pins probably won\u2019t cut it.\u00a0 John Locke said, \u201cI have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.\u201d\u00a0 So maybe our actions will have to be the signs that announce our principles.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thinking for a while that maybe the churches we attend will be part of this sorting process.\u00a0 Recently I\u2019ve read that one or two of the denominations are splitting apart based on whether or not the local congregation adheres to biblical teachings about homosexuality and ordaining women.\u00a0 This splitting up of churches into orthodox and deviant congregations sounds like a very good idea.\u00a0 Freedom of religion is a very difficult right to subvert even in the new America and can be a valuable force in allowing normal people to retain many healthy social practices.\u00a0 I\u2019ve sometimes thought that being a clergyman might be my fate.\u00a0 Who knows, one day \u201cSaint photog the Venerable\u201d could end up on a stained-glass window as the patron saint of blue check twits.\u00a0 At least it\u2019s possible.\u00a0 I wonder if Elon Musk has an on-line ordination that includes a pay-pal button for Sunday donations?\u00a0 I\u2019ll suggest it to him.\u00a0 He needs the cash too.<\/p>\n

But yes.\u00a0 I\u2019m a lot more optimistic today that life in the American archipelago isn\u2019t as bleak as I sometimes feel.\u00a0 Sure, the Deep State is in charge and the Uni-Party is as corrupt and evil as anything Stalin perpetrated.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a lot of good people around still.\u00a0 Just by our presence we prevent that much more bad from infiltrating into the space around us.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s say today I feel like the glass is 0.0001% full instead of 99.9999% empty.\u00a0 For today, that\u2019s good enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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