November 06, 2024 – A

1) The meaningful things are meaningful
through all times and places.
The laughter of children.
The loyalty of pets.
The colors of fall.
The warmth a fire upon the hearth.
The odor of oatmeal cranberry cookies
fresh from the oven.
The music that makes our little heart sing
and our little toes to dance...

You have your own list.
Remember it well,
cherish it in all times and places.
Honor it's sacredness with reverence
and joy.
Tend it with indestructible allegiance, ,
liege loyalty,
and filial devotion,
no matter what,
throughout the time left for living.

Fealty to what is meaningful
is fealty to life!

2) The United States and the world
have been reduced to the Wailing Wall.
There is no consolation,
nor will there be for the rest of time.

Native Americans and the children of slaves
know what I'm talking about.
And the people who are rejoicing now
will outlive their joy
when the truth becomes undeniable,
yet always were foreseeable, 
in their lifetime.

Those who don't know what they are doing
always fall back on
"If we had only known."

They don't know because they are in denial
and don't want to know,
but this will be beyond denial
in very short order.

And the fallout will be forever.

That leaves the rest of us 
to our grief and mourning,
and our affiliation with 
Native Americans, slaves and children of slaves.
They have lost everything,
never had anything,
and they are still upright,
intact, and making the best
of a thoroughly rotten situation.

They are our comfort and our consolation.
We are their apprentices,
their neophytes, their initiates
for as long as time lasts.

3) Say this out loud and mean it!

I will handle everything that comes my way
in a manner appropriate to the occasion,
and do what needs to be done with it,
when, where and how it needs to be done,
in each situation as it arises,
all my life long!