So many emotions to process. Yesterday was sadness. Today is anger. Now I’m starting to get a terrible feeling in my gut, the beginnings of anxiety. All normal feelings, none fun. But I hope that soon I’ll be able to get past those and settle on that particular form of low, simm...
It’s one of the most beautiful and terrible facts about this sick sad world: Talent doesn’t get to choose a person, and a person doesn’t get to choose a talent. It’s a total crapshoot, a lottery that we all have to live with. Few things on Earth are as rewarding, as destruct...
Our county leadership, its Board of Supervisors and its Executive Officer, are not happy about California’s new effort to keep citizens safe during the global panedmic. One day after the governor announced the new regional approach to slowing the spread of COVID-19, one triggered when a regi...
Terrible on national security policy, though. 1956-65: Baby Busters. Grew up in the 1970s. Hit very hard by the collapse of the economy in the 1970s and the Great Inflation. Voted hard for Reagan in 1980 because he offered hope. Despise the Brat Boomers with a passion – they consider...
It doesn’t help that we have Covid and that the area I live in is covered in terrible, lingering smoke. Nothing seems to matter anymore because it feels like Armageddon. I feel guilty that I am more worried about our world than anything. 3 Emily December 2, 2020 at 5:12 pm Reply...
or the melody is too cyclical and lazy or dope or booze have meant a terrible error of judgement somewhere along the line in a song or its delivery. (I watched Harold and Maude the other night and some of Cat Stevens' songs on the sountrack are, in the cold light of a middle-aged ...