Ahsamed of my own people...

It's hard to look around and see the people who can and should be doing something doing absolutely nothing and then claiming their hands are tied. It's like they secretly (clearly not so secretly) want all of this. What happened to all of the checks and balances they claimed? The safeguards?!

I feel like everything has gone completely off the rails. Like there is no way in any dimension of logic that the people in power are handling any of this in the ways they should.  And why aren't the people who could get out there and physically represent - why aren't they openly and actively revolting?  Like not typing angrily on the internet but out there actually doing something? 

"I hit the walls so I don't hit you,"

I saw this post on a page I follow, and I fell down a rabbit hole of memories and regrets. Basically, in the post, the woman is thinking back to a time in her youth when she was briefly touched by a weird sort of violence that is all but ignored by most of society.

Goalposts.

 

I'ts been some time but for the most part, my life is settled. I'm over the issues from last post though it's kinda bittersweet - strangers with memories, or maybe just somebody that I used to know? I wish her well. 

Once and Again: So Long to an Old Friend.

    

 "Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I still want to see you eat, just not at my table."   ~Tupac Shakur

Please bear with me as this is very, very long, and it's been a very long time coming. ..

This song that I sing for you..

 

Summer was made for poetry... ($10 cost for the entire stack at my local book thrift - actual value: priceless)

A Brand New Day...

 

I meant to make this post yesterday, on the proper Solstice, but things happened and I kinda got waylaid.  Here's the total recall: 

[archived] Do NOT bother with Tangerine Bank...

Tangerine bank would't activate my account because the name needs to match exact on my tax return as on my photo ID but my photo ID has my middle name and my tax return only has my middle initial so they said I need to get the government to use the same exact name spelling for everything or they absolutely will not activate the account.