#AncientTexan

What is the message of our politicians, of the oligarchs, to us, the citizens of this country?

Are we standing behind our fences of fear, unable or unwilling to connect to other Americans?

What is keeping us from making America better?  Is believing it is the "greatest" affecting our ability to see it and improve it?  What judgments are we making about our neighbors that stop us from helping them and improving America?   Do we recognize that we share the same problems as many other nations?  Do we see our humanity?

  We buy drugs.  The drug cartels produce drugs, buy guns from America and cause violence in their home countries.  Violence and local drugs destroy families in Latin America. The destroyed families become refugees and flee to America.  Some are given asylum, most are sent back to their drug/violent ravaged countries.    Drug users here become addicts ... addicts...

How did Trumpism start? Why did it start? Who are Trumpites? Who do Trumpites dislike and why? What is Trump's game plan for his Trumpites? Do Democrats have answers for Trumpites? Do they even know the questions? #Trumpism  

What is behind the climate collapse?   or pollution?  or homelessness? or poverty? How about a lack of respect and love of life?

Imagine you are the audience sitting in a comfortable theater watching a play.   On stage, our politicians at every level, acting out a play for your enjoyment.  Like an old vaudeville there are good guys and bad guys.  Across town another play is in progress, but on this stage it is the republicans who are the good guys.   But, who writes the script, pays the actors,...

If we judge a group by their actions and believe in nonviolence, where does that leave Antifa?

You want to be seen, and see the person in front of you.  Do you want to be a witness to the people you meet in your life? What are some of the barriers that keep you from seeing and being seen? How can you build bridges that allow you and other souls to see each other?

What helps a relationship grow, what destroys a relationship?

  Love Is   Love is  And I am.  A feeling  A commitment  The border between honesty  And fantasy.  Hands linked on a porch  Tears in a funeral  Sex in the park.  Love is  And I am.  Roe   May 2019   Nobody Cries Alone   When someone cries  The grief floats into our common ether  Our hearts sync up ...

What criteria do we use to say if an economy is working?   All economic systems are created by man, they are inventions of man.   We must create an economic system that values caring for humanity and our earth that the current economic system in the States does not do.

Can the Democrats, can Americans, develop a plan for the future?  Can we prioritize the challenges facing us and come up with a plan to address those challenges?   Can we think long term, perhaps decades into the future, and commit ourselves to solving those problems?

Just a little trip down memory lane, back to 1950.   A few events that I remember when I was three.   In those days, there wasn't much time spent in sympathizing or feeling sorry for ourselves.  We simply got on with the next event, the next day.   Nearly get run over by a train, or going through a windshield, or getting attacked by the neighbor ... well we just...

A stain on America's character.

Summary of the novel California 2084. Coming to Kindle July 4th.

The 1960's.   We were full of hope and confident America had the answers.

Some of my memories from 1950 including my dad's car stalling on the train tracks.

How did the Democrats hope to change things in Washington then they will not control the Senate, and the big money interest will still wield the power?

With the elephants in the Senate, the challenges this country is facing will not be addressed in the foreseeable future. And yet, no one is talking about it. We continue along in la la land.

Democrats and Republicans don't do much these days, except for posturing.

Do you fill your life with stuff? Perhaps you fill your life with stuff to avoid the pain underneath the surface. Perhaps buying stuff is your way of numbing. Maybe you need to feel that pain, and dwell with it, so that you can find your life mission instead of killing your pain with stuff.

When we had rice and beans, it meant we could ask a friend to dinner.

Imagine what a community designed around renewable energy will look like? It's going to be amazing!!!

Do you trust your fellow Americans, who are climate scientists, to do their job to the best of their ability and with honesty? Since you are probably not a climate scientist, or even a scientist or an engineer, then you must trust someone who knows about climate science instead of pretending your opinions are the matter are worth listening to.   If you think the scientists are too biased to o...