You may have heard by now: another school shooting, in Iowa….And some honcho in the NRA has been arrested…and China has been following spy planes…And in ATHENS, OHIO Jan. 1, the BYOB day (Bring Your own Bag) dawned, some grocery store shoppers griped, and  the state of Ohio says Athens’ plastic BAG Ban is Unconstitutional, which is no surprise since Ohio is republican.  But I have an idea!  It would be a win for them if Walmart or/and Kroger and maybe Aldi and/or Seaman’s came out and supported Climate Change and stuck with the no-plastic bags decision on their own.  That would certainly affect where I continue to shop.

But did you hear and/or see on CBC the great strides Canada is taking with housing/homelessness?  Amazing, absolutely amazing.  And I really do enjoy a couple of their cute, youngish and affable male anchors,  so much more enjoyable than some of the new anchors here and there.   I’m not just talking about looks; personality is involved, too. One male anchor even has curls, and does not appear to be trans.  Not that there’s anything wrong with being trans, you understand…Sorry if in the new year I have sunk into humanity with all its foibles…Speaking of trans, I just stumbled across an apparently new news source called Trans Nation.  I hate to be behind the times, but apparently it’s old news that Ottawa is offering  visas to people in Gaza with ties to Canada.

Lovely?:  Who said “I am your retribution.”  Does that make you feel all warm and cuddly?  Go figure.

Last year it was revealed that all countries have shrinking populations.  Making space for more immigrants?  Well, no, because we have to “save our own civilization.”  I wondered with all the discussion about shrinking populations why I hadn’t read anything about impaired sperm production until the current The Week magazine.  A  study of Swiss military recruits ages 18 to 22 found that those who used their mobile phones more than 20 times a day had a 21 percent higher risk of a low overall sperm count and a 30 percent increased risk for low sperm concentration, compared with those who used them five or fewer times a day.

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THINKING

Well, maybe not thinking

but tussling with ideas and

trying to recall dreams.

And now, pencil in hand

I write and remember the trees

all green, but not the fork trees,

bare and stripped of life among

their green brothers, standing,

forks aloft…or are they the

devil’s trident, poor souls.