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The sound of the overhead fan stopped  the moment I stopped. Briefly I wondered why I could no longer hear it. And then I knew, because I was being carried along a determined tide.

My son had been holding my hand a moment ago and now I’m tumbling in a liquid current?  Just sensing it, no words in my head. My head, what a laugh!  All I have now is my awareness, which is hard to believe.  I’m just experiencing, straight to myself, who no longer exists.  Hey, wait a  minute!  Who am I?

I have nothing to laugh with, but cannot fail to see the humor  in coming back in my own progeny.

Self Critique:  *If you’re looking for a delicate way to talk about someone dying, kick the bucket isn’t the right way to do it — it’s a blunt and casual, almost joking way to say “die.” –The Guadian via Google

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NOW DOWN TO BUSINESS

Difficult to believe, but the news seems kind of boring: same-o same-o.  Even the horrendous can fade if that’s all that’s on the horizon.  Of course  Trump is distancing himself from 2025.  How many believe it?  What do you believe about 9-11?  (I recently wrote “7-11”, in print!).    For what it’s worth, giving one of the 9-11 bombers such a belated death sentence surely smells of politics.  Related to the hostage swap?  Have we been given a rationale?

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DOUBLE THE DAMAGE

While the damage caused by the multiple wildfires is horrendous, putting them in perspective by looking at the earnest effort to expand forests by planting  trees to delay the climate crisis  is truly sickening.  Now why am I writing about unfortunate things?  Maybe so I’m not seen as a chicken crying “the sky is falling!”  What’s a useful way to respond when it really is?  And why doesn’t grandfather God in heaven spank Netanyahu?

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WHY ARE WE FOR ISRAEL?