GOD? At the end, when most of us either hope or want to have something to hope for…Except perhaps the hardened folks with shattered and bitter…No, I shouldn’t overstate. I suspect there are atheists and other agnostics who are able to let go entirely of consciousness and say goodbye to themselves as their lights go out. As for others, well, as you may have noticed I’m kinda fond of myself and hate to see the old girl go. In fact, I wrote the following poem back in 2015:
WISHFUL THINKING
Squabbling in
the planet’s sandbox,
howling from a fistful of the stuff
into streaming eyes,
bloodline against itself.
Domesticated life forms,
not cloned, rather
tainted with the freedom
to differ in
their cousin rivalry.
Why are the earth’s many
Gods only uncles?
Let us hear from Grandfather
who in His infinite wisdom
must surely re-unite us all.
[Or not…]
The [heart] beat goes on…
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What’s the point of the annual COP27 gathering? In short, nations still strive to reach the goals they set even if they don’t fully meet them. Rather than viewing these conferences as the final word, experts argue they are part of a process in which the world’s most powerful people recommit to fighting climate change.
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CONFESSION: I don’t like to feed depression, so I read the last few pages of novels to make sure they don’t end sadly. What a waste of time to read an entire book only to make yourself feel bad! I forgot to do that when I read Mary Gordon’s The Rest of Life, as I may have mentioned before.
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DISQUS? I’m trying to understand a safe way to join Disqus without making myself totally vulnerable to the world, as in info files in all areas of my life. . Has anyone done Disqus and how did it go? Worth the trouble? I read a stupendous article on the 3 Quarks Daily site or platform or what have you…that I’d like to refer you to. It was in an 11/14/22 posting, and appears to have been previously on Disqus. Titled We Can’t Work (It) Out by Ada Bronowski: “A comedian is a comedian the day he or she invents their own form of ideal ugliness… The slightly sickly, un-sculpted body is what enables a comedian to say the outrageous things they say and reap the laughs.” She traces the ungainly comedian way back and forward, including Socrates. Sorry, I don’t know how to recapture an earlier article on 3 Quarks, but you can probably figure it out yourself, if you’re under 80. I still had it on my read e-mail. But it’s amazing. See if you don’t think so…P.S. 3 Quarks Daily features published articles from the fields of Science, Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Literature.
NANMYKEL.COM 
Six times as many people died last year because their doctor screwed up while they were in the hospital than died of gun shot wounds… and that includes suicides. Nobody knows how many people died because they took medication that was prescribed for them. I think it’s time to give this gun baloney a rest.
Americans are, and always have been, a violent and bloodthirsty bunch. NOBODY is taking any guns away. On occasion a crazy person, or, a really pissed off person is going to get their hands on a gun and blood will flow. Deal with it, or, move to a country not quite so bloodthirsty. You simply cannot expect to send hundreds of thousands of our young people [excuse me… “Heros”] out to kill “foreigners” who stand in the way of American corporate profits AND turn us at home all into unarmed pansies who calmly discuss their differences over tea and cookies. Culture don’t work that way.
Half the people in this country have nothing left to hold on to than their guns BTG… and it is going to get worse. You have to quit worrying about getting shot. Turn the damn channel. There is too much fun to still be had before the lights go out to be wasting time worrying about nonsense that you can’t change. Nobody gets out alive and you gotta reap what ya sew… and so on and so forth.
Nice read though
Mrs. N.