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How could we waste life and energy on sandbox atrocities while Earth is heading for destruction,  not even seriously seeking an alternative?  Forcing women to choose between being hog-tied to home with a bundle of unwanted children and punishing trans children and their parents? It’s energy sidetracked into the trough of humanity. The unwanted youth may live to see the results of this foolishness after many of us are gone.

400 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. bills have already been considered in the U.S. this new  year alone, aiming to surpass the 510 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. bills  introduced in 2023, leading transpersons to scary and perjorative attacks.  

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INSTEAD OF OVERSAYING “No,” when my young children were engaged in an activity destined to end in an accident, I would say “Danger.”  I’m mentally hoarse from thinking “danger” to myself now, as I send you away to read elsewhere about nuclear bomb concerns.  I have to say “uncle,” and as a little (but fat) 88 year old southern-born old lady, I have to draw the line somewhere. so be aware that I’m too scared to think about it, much less write.  (Although I’m still subscribed to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).

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Science Daily

https://www.sciencedaily.com › news › space_time › s…

June 25, 2021 — Scientists have developed an innovative way to use NASA satellite data to track the movement of tiny pieces of plastic in the …   PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN DEPTHS AND IN OUR OUTER/INNER SPACE!  And of course along our roadsides. and in our refrigerators.  Is plastic going to take us out in addition to fossil fuels?  And what have  I read about air contamination from charging electric cars?  And the “C” word is the largest exporter of electric cars in the world.

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I’VE ORDERED–Oops, tried to order…Have to subscribe to Foreign Affairs first.
—Rachel Glennerster and Seema Jayachandran, How to Get More Bang for Your Climate-Change Buck,” Foreign Affairs                                                                                                                     ___________________

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS   (an oldie from my files–date?)

My mind travels its own route when I drive.

Today it was especially alive.

Like…

Two years ago the small carousel horse

vanished one day from its small graveyard source.

Still gone.

I wonder, what is the name of those trees

that stand like a fork without any leaves?

Beats me.

Like baby bottles, the gourds hang growing

along Route 7, where I am going.

Striking!

Glad to see that camera surveillance

in Cheshire is in current abeyance.

Good!

Every “no edge” sign I spot

wears a garbage bag tied in a knot.

I kid you not.

Down home words used to be the mode

like Bear Wallow Ridge and Bone Hollow Road.

I like them.

I always check on that family plot

with 3 small; crosses, forgotten not.

By the highway.

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JENNY JOSEPH SAYS  (U.K., 1932-2018)

…Maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

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