Sophie reached out to give me a little nudge from the other side of the world.
Yes I am still here.
Holding my breath about Minnesota: The surge is supposed to be ending, but...
The Epstein stuff is horrible.
Bondi's behavior at the congressional hearings is shocking, really.
Kudos to Senator Ted Lieu:
Khanna and Massie have been heroic. Massie posted this on twitter:
'@RepThomasMassie
I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.'
It would be interesting to know what prompted this.
Tim and I protested Saturday. The weather was in the 40s, so it was a wonderful change from the earlier weeks of single digit temperatures. There were the ubiquitous middle fingers. There was one 'You all need to get jobs' (which made us all laugh.) The small dicks with big trucks gunned their engines menacingly. But there was a lot of honking and waving and thumbs up. A LOT.
There was one great moment. A little car with roof mounted airhorns has been driving by for the past few weeks blaring his horns. We assumed he was an 'unfriendly'. This week he drove by again, blaring his horns. It was warm enough that his windows were down . His arm shot out to give us a thumbs up and he cheered us on.
The Peace Marchers made it to Washington DC and were welcomed by Rev Marianne Budde, who has her own history of speaking truth to power. I read about their meeting. This resonated: 'Peace begins where you stand.'
So it has been a week that feels different, but I am still holding my breath.
Closer to home: 3 deer come in to eat the corn we leave. Enough snow has melted that they can now nibble grass where Tim plowed.
We have a new cat showing up to eat. He comes to the porch at night when the others are gone. He looks like he could be related to our ferals. Has a black and white face, a large black mask covering 1/2 his face, white on the other. I call him 'Phantom'. Like Phantom of the Opera.
Tomorrow I have my first stained glass lesson. I have a batch of 150 year old stained glass from a demo'd church in Pittsburgh. I am looking forward to learning something new.
A warm week is forecast. I will be able to retrieve my daffodil bulbs and plant them for an early spring inside. One pot for me. One pot for my sister and one pot will go with me when I go to my son's house at the end of the month. I am so looking forward to seeing my granddaughter.
My grandson will be turning 15 this week.
My Christmas cactus is blooming for the second time, a nice surprise
I am posting this without proofreading. It has taken forever to load this post tonight.
Good night all.
Oh crap! I forgot this. Brian Bilston
That was a rather interesting exchange between Bondi and her inquisitor. In the fullness of time, maybe Trump and his cohorts will end up in gaol, as they ought to.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the free food and lodging Phantom.
I am not sure where he has lodgings. So far he just stops in for the buffet.
DeleteRemember Nixon's AG - ended up doing time. So it wouldn't be unprecedented but I'm not sure this current person has a good understanding of legal precedent.
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This will end. I keep telling myself that. I couldn't get over the fact that when she was challenged to look at the victims, her response was 'I will not get in that gutter.' What a terrible person she is.
DeleteYou can't beat Bilston for a funny poem. Nor Pam Bondi's indignation in the face of truth. The horribleness of it all winds through America as daily news but then so did the Peace March. When Buddhist monks were welcomed by so many thousands of American people as they silently walked along the roads. There is chaos but there should also be hope. Andrew Windsor is publicly humiliated in Britain but as scandal after scandal are uncovered goodness knows where it will all end.
ReplyDeleteOne of them did the walk barefooted. Through all that snow! Someone I know went to see them and was powerfully moved by the meeting. She is a trumper.
DeleteI hope you find the stained glass lessons relaxing and that you enjoy the process. Hey, perhaps you could pop over here and restore our large 150 year old stained glass window?
ReplyDeleteOnly if you want it taken apart and made into something new...
DeleteEach morning I do a few online quizzes to wake my brain up. Today one had a statement about how the government fell because the president was ***** There were multiple choices for the missing word. The answer was 'inept'.
ReplyDeleteWow. That gave me a chuckle. My morning puzzles avoid politics.
DeleteGood to hear from you Debby, and that is awesome about you and Tim's protests. Cool about the stained glass from here too. 👌
ReplyDeleteWe picked up two glass windows. They are removed from their frames, so they need to be repuposed.
DeleteMassive has let everyone know that if he meets with an unfortunate fate that it wasn’t self-inflicted.
ReplyDeleteThat part I understood, but it made me wonder about the threats and the folks making them. It is just inconceivable to me that we are living in these days.
DeleteThanks for keeping up with the protesting, it's much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteAbout the stained glass, I hope there will be pictures.
I am still hunting the perfect cream colored lurex for my moon. Disappointingly, the class was postponed for two weeks. I was a little surprised how sad I was about that. Back to my yarn hunt.
DeleteI'm having one of those days where every time I see or hear the word which is the name of the president my stomach feels worse. On the one hand I hate myself for letting him take up so much room in my head and on the other hand, I have no idea how to avoid that.
ReplyDeleteBondi may not be human.
I know. I know. I am struggling too. Nothing to do but keep on keeping on.
DeleteWhen I read this, the word that I thought of was "balance." Activism, awareness, gratitude, learning, forward-looking, love and family. Like you, I refuse to feel hopeless and helpless - it's what fascists want. They are counting on that because when they offer something that seems to be better, the tired and helpless sheep run towards it. I'm no sheep. I am a goddamn cheetah. (nod to Glennon Doyle from Untamed)
ReplyDeleteI am always one step away from losing my balance. What trying times.
DeletePam Bondi said "I won't get in that gutter"? Wow. It's literally her job to look at what these men have done to girls and women. Perhaps she is a sociopath, like trump and his other minions. On the upside, she didn't have children.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad another feral cat has found you. Keep up the good work with protests.
I'm sure you'll enjoy your glass class. I can't believe how much I enjoy clay work. It's good for my soul and my imagination.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o2z9AN5BH6U?si=-zmITFZwxvyZ3tKL
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DeleteAlways pleasing to hear of another feral finding your porch. I always knew Bondi was a depraved creature, I just had no idea of the depth to which it extended.
ReplyDeleteShe and Karoline Leavitt are cut from the same cloth,to be sure.
DeleteYou're getting there....check out Fresca's blog, I think that she said that many have gone but 1000 are left.
ReplyDeleteMarie Drantel as well..I think that she is in St Paul ..on fb. She blogs as well
I keep hoping. But I am hearing that they are setting up new digs in Minnetonka, outside Minneapolis
DeleteI could only watch parts of the Bondi show. What a despicable person. Thank you for your continued perseverance in protesting! I don't know how the persons who joined ice can live with themselves, committing such atrocities.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear about your stained glass classes. I took several years of classes prior to covid. Unfortunately our teacher did not come back and the senior center disappeared the equipment (much donated by students). It isn't all for naught, I still hang out with the "glass class girls" and we go shopping and out to lunch. Which makes me sound like the political slacker I am and feel badly about. I can't protest out in the cold and wet, I am supposed to avoid stress and my family is sitting on me. I am hoping to rejoin this summer. Unless they all drop dead (praying and hoping).
Boy. Trying to avoid stress in these days is...well...stressful. you have never struck me as a political slacker. In fact lady, you set the bar kind of high. You made me feel like the slacker for quite a while.
DeleteThanks for protesting. We have a big one coming up in March! :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard about it yet. Off to google.
DeleteEvery time I look up a name I haven’t come across before in American politics, I find them worse than the last one. Bondi the latest.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand her voice. Her fake outrage. Her blatant lies. Her voice grates as badly as trump.
DeleteThere are Females like Bondi that are Sexual Predators themselves or in Relationships with Men who are, and why they would involve themselves in the cover up, like Maxwell, who was Deep in it.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is more like there are people in this world who are so insulated from real life, by money. By power. Social position. Whatever it is, it allows them to see others as less than. Inferiors. Unimportant or even not quite human. When that happens, it is very easy to slip into a predatory mindset, regardless of sex.
DeleteI agree with Dawn above - I also think that there are some in power who seek it and will try to win and hold power by whatever means necessary. There are also some in power who gain it and others in the shadows will find their weaknesses and use those to control them - and there are some who are a mix of the two. I don't know (or care) who is in what camp - what I do think is that the upper levels of power in most countries these days are being controlled by nefarious powerbrokers or ARE nefarious powerbrokers. And I HATE having to be the sort of person who believed that.
ReplyDeleteMe too. A very jaded view. A total loss of faith.
DeleteHey Debby, nice to see a post from you. It has been a roller coaster week for sure. Some days I feel so hopeful...and then they pass the SAFE Act. Grrrr.
ReplyDeleteSo cool that you ard going to try stained glass! I used to want to so badly. Then one day when I was the evening entertainment for a craft center that included stained glass in that week's classes, I noticed that every single person had bandaid on their fingers! Decided that wasn't for me! But I have so many stunted glass pieces in my house, I kinda wish I had been braver.
Lol. Well.it will be interesting. My fingers barely survived my new RADA knife.
DeleteWorking with stained glass sounds fun and creative, something soothing to counteract the horrible things that are happening.
ReplyDeletePhantom knows where he's well off and likely to find good food.
It will be interesting to see what happens. We lost Dusty today. We are down to two ferals (from 12). It is sad but you can help a cat (or a person) as much as they will let you. I had hoped to tame him.
DeleteI love how you move from Minneapolis on edge to Minnesota snow, stained‑glass lessons, and a 150‑year‑old church’s glass ending up in your hands—it’s the kind of post that reminds me that life is messy, political, and beautiful all at once. Extra kudos for the “little horned car turns out to be on our side” moment; that’s the kind of small‑scale hope that feels like a quiet victory.
ReplyDeleteKay of Musings: I’ve just returned home… and it’s all still going on. How does Pam Bondi sleep at night knowing what she knows?
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