New Years Eve 2024

So tomorrow is the first day of yet another whole new year.

I wish I could say I feel…

…something.

I'm not breathless with anticipation and sweet hope for good and wonderful things in the New Year.

Nor am I depressed, angry or genuinely frightened of what 2025 might bring, mostly due to political circumstances inflated to dire disaster by propaganda and social media. We will bury a great man, and inaugurate a terrible one.  Sigh.

I think I'm just...in stasis.

Old enough and been through this enough times to settle on a "wait and see" attitude.

With confidence that there will be good, 

And there will be not-so-good.

Hopefully, more of the former and less of the latter.

To anyone still out there and reading,

Here's to the New Year. 

May it bring you joy, laughter, rest and adventure, 

Good times, and no more bad times than you can handle with grace.

On to 2025!

 

 

Jimmy Carter 1924-2024

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something.. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have, 

to try to make a difference.”

And he did.

Rest in power, Mr. President.

A job well done.

A life well lived.

A glorious rest well deserved.

Happy Holidays

 

 

 

 

A Reminder to Never Forget

I wrote this eleven years ago. Still achingly relevant:

 https://mlraminiakcomingtoterms.blogspot.com/2015/12/never-forget-newtown-december-14-2012.html

AAAnd…it appears that the only thing we never forget is how to allow this to happen over and and over again…

…and key in our inspired response:

On The Hunter Biden Pardon

 MAGAs and Dems alike are all agog over Joe Biden granting a blanket pardon to his son for all federal crimes.

MAGAs are screaming “Abuse of power!” as if Trump hasn’t already declared that HE will use that power to pardon January 6th insurrectionists, as well as any and all of his political allies. 

Democrats are wailing and wringing their hands that a left-wing politician would (finally!) rip a page out of the right-wing playbook, fly in the face of “precedent” and do something purely for the benefit of himself and his family. “Woe is us! It’s positively Trumpian! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!”

Well…

Here is what I think about THAT…