Answer: Very last paragraph–
(CBS SF) — Scientists with the Marine Mammal Center said Wednesday that the gray whale that washed up on the Rodeo shoreline in unincorporated Contra Costa County last week died of severe malnutrition, but due to decomposition they’ve been unable to pinpoint its underlying cause. [Is third case]
Maybe I’m jumping the gun, but I’m concerned if there’s reincarnation there’ll be no Earth to return to! (A little dark humor–sorry).
I’ve always been a little unclear about the concept of the trauma bond, although I wrote a chapter about it. And today I just remembered a friend who told his therapist he hated him, whereupon his therapist replied, “Thank goodness, I was afraid you didn’t care.”
The cherry blossoms are blooming in Athens, Ohio! Tulip trees and bradford pears fill the landscape also. Went for a scenic ride with my daughter on the rural backroads of Meigs County and came across this scene, north of Gallipolis, Ohio:
We saw the flowers in my front yard when we got home. Don’t know what they are, but they’re lovely.
and that means I can only hold so much before I overflow. What I really feel like is a spark in Trump’s pile of leaves. If I keep gulping down gasoline I’ll burn to a frazzle. Blurbs like the following from Meriah Nichols…
Blurbs like those from Meriah Nichols are making me dangerously combustible. I scare myself when I feel so much rage. So…I’ve unplugged my tv for awhile, although if there is a future I shall have a glaring blindspot for modern history. Tears don’t work. Strokes won’t work, violence is what I’m fighting against. Ignorance everywhere except at the ballot box…maybe I can try praying.
And I just read that they’ve discovered our brain knows when we’re dead! Let me outta here! fredrik raddum trans ī re
What is it that calls forth
embarrassed uncertainty
when inside we stretch to
extend our narrow sense
of self?
A meditative leap into a state of maybe,
beaten back
into the spirit’s self constraint?
Which harbors pretense;
Wherein lies the danger?
The dream state, more permissive,
Offers refuge to those
Wandering familiars
Who beckon.
Nan Image Om Seti
by Chauncey DeVega, interviewing Constitutional Law Scholar Laurence Tribe:
What would happen if Trump refuses to step down and leave the White House if so ordered? That scenario is often discussed but rarely detailed.
I would highlight the fact that among the statutes that are triggered by the declaration of a national emergency is that the president can control the internet. He can take over the media. The president can arrest people without cause. Under a national emergency, Donald Trump can basically declare what amounts to military law and become the dictator that, in his dreams, he imagines himself to be.
That is scary. This horrible outcome does not happen overnight. The earliest invocations of the emergency powers may look a little bit innocent. But authoritarianism creeps. It doesn’t always gallop. And when authoritarianism envelops us, it may be too late to turn it back.
In this moment, what gives you the most hope? What are you most afraid of?
I am most afraid of the fact that Donald Trump may not leave office peacefully, and that there will be no real transition to a new president. I worry that we are on a downward slide that has no foreseeable end. My hope is that we have survived things that seemed at least as scary, in terms of a civil war and World War II, and that the United States has gotten better.
I am starting a research project examining that question. This is like looking into the face of Armageddon. I simply cannot tell you right now what it would look like. I do not think that Donald Trump would simply hunker down and say, “The Joint Chiefs are going to have to arrest me.” Trump would be a little more subtle than that, stupid though he is. I think Donald Trump would declare a national emergency. He would find an excuse for one. If it looked like Trump was going to lose the 2020 election, he would declare a national emergency as well. This would all be catastrophically messy….
A young woman expresses joy as she poses for a portrait.
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Dr. Rex (It is What it Is) recommended this blog and I agree:
The goal of the program is to give students the opportunity
to document their communities by giving them
the tools to create their own art.
Demagogues have always used fear for intimidation of the subordinates or enemies, and shepherding the tribe by the leaders. Fear is a very strong tool that can blur humans’ logic and change their behavior.
When ideologies manage to get hold of our fear circuitry, we often regress to illogical, tribal and aggressive human animals, becoming weapons ourselves – weapons that politicians use for their own agenda.
From a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in fear and trauma, who has some evidence-based thoughts on how fear is abused in politics: theconversation.com
The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism
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