I looked through my old journals. In my youth I didn’t write about politicians. Those journals are filled with fun times with family and friends and some attitudes I now regret, but they show I have progressed. No more tRump in my journals.

Say what Congressman Comer

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
— Leo Tolstoy

{Walt} Whitman's only certainty was that he was living in a new kind of society, that tore itself asunder in the tragedy of the Civil War, but did not thereby abandon its original intention to be a democratic republic.
Guy Davenport

“—man, —whose advantages over his fellow creatures are all mechanical and therefore dependent on the education of each generation: meaning that an intervening generation of barbarians destroys all that has been carefully accumulated for centuries.”
Guy Davenport

Columnists articles: George Will’s 'Neither euphoric nor despairing be. Trump too shall pass'. Or Andrew Coyne’s 'Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world.' Will’s wishful thinking? Or Coyne’s the end of the world pessimism? Coyne’s is how I’m feeling.

I am growing weary of the constant unnecessary use of the F word.

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both, —— but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens.

Ready for what the future may bring

Following Vendee Globe Sailboat Race the speed of these monohulls 26 knots/hr is crazy fast. www.vendeeglobe.org/en

Wow, I can and did shut off reposts. Thank you Bluesky too many reposts were driving me crazy. Now I can still follow special people that love to repost for their posts only, nice.

I got carried away following people and had to unfollow those who repost too much

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." Samuel Johnson

Well I did it after all these years I quit/deactivated Twitter (forgot I had multiple accounts. Thanks Stephen King for the push with recent post here on Bluesky I wasn’t going to leave as long as you and Stonekettle were not here.

Trying to stay positive