July 30, 2023 – A

Doves on a Limb 09/11/2016 Oil Paint Rendered — Scenes from My Hammock, 22-acre Woods, Indian Land, South Carolina
There are psychic/emotional factors
that have us where we are,
individually and collectively,
and we cannot "get in there"
to straighten things out
because the psychic/emotional factors at play
are beyond the reach 
of rational/logical approaches.

We are--the entire world is--a mess
we are unable to do anything about.

Fascism and democracy will never see
eye-to-eye
and honor the other's right 
to its position,
and help each other to a common ground
where we all can work together
for the true good of the whole.

We have to kill each other down to the point
where neither has a logistical/political/economic 
advantage over the other,
and muddle along as best we can.

It will always be a mess
no one controls.

It's like your relationship
with your sister-in-law,
or your father,
or your mother-in-law,
or your mother,
or your father-in-law...

We have to muddle along as best we can.

There are no solutions
beyond killing each other down
to the point of mutual impotence.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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