It's a Start...
...but there are miles to go. š«
One month ago to the day, I was blindsided by an unexpected and quite serious family medical emergency. As it involves someone other than myself, I wonāt be saying more about it in here for now. The situation appears to be resolving itself as we speak š.
My point is that from the perspective of what I do in here, I was suddenly derailed from not only my writing projects on Substack, but all of my social-media contacts and my usual informal outside pastimes and visitations as well. I was forced into a frantic new world of immediate personal crisis. I found myself wearily slogging (sometimes literally) up steps and down elevators day-by-day as best I could. I spent entire days in a state of hovering anxious gloom. That is not a conducive environment for either careful contemplation or for artful writing.
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Iām now at a moment where Iām trying to locate my familiar rhythms and return to what I do best, but Iām finding it hard to do. Trump, the Epstein filesā¦well, all of the accumulated detritus of our current febrile list of national current-events comediesā¦seemsā¦silly. Everyday life-and-death matters awaiting each of us all the time have a way of concentrating the mind upon the essentials.
Donāt take me the wrong way: I comprehend the dangers our society faces today as well as I ever did. Itās just that Iām not sure what I (meā¦personally!) can further do about them. This will be the 58th Substack piece Iāve written. No less than 33 of these have related directly to what we can loosely call the āā¦Trump/MAGA problemā. Many of these have implied fairly stern measures of resistance. I stand behind every one of them today (They are all on record in my Substack profile. I would encourage you to read them if you havenāt already done so š).
But I can see no profit (to me or to anyone else) to continue simply regurgitating the same arguments and insults over-and-over. The issue here is as plain as can be, and there is no merit to relitigating it every day. Barring overwhelming new developments (I donāt rule that out) Iāve made such points on that as I know how to make. Life is (literally!) too short and there are other important things to think about and to do. I was reminded of this only yesterday at the funeral service for a lifetime friend. Some of these important things are in areas where I might have a chance to make a small but substantive difference. Some of these are in areas that are simply fun and/or interesting and require no further justification.
I plan to continue my structured support of the anti-Trump movement as best I can at intervals, as called-upon to do so. I will otherwise be in a search to chart a new course and updated priorities for what time I have left.
Stay tuned. š