It's a Faux Religion-In-Chief Thing

Dear America,

just a note to self and continuing on a theme from last week...

not only were we asked not to pay any attention to it, but if we tried to talk about it (you know, in public), we were immediately labeled and ridiculed as being a bunch of right wing loons, fundamental extremists, and even...racists, if in the moment it fit.

The mainstream media all but ignored it; while even if they gave it a minute of their time or priceless print space, it was clearly, decidedly, dismissed as being a point of interest as if there was nothing to see here, move along dot org.

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, who?
Black Liberation Theology, what?

We couldn't talk about any of it.

Even the words coming out of his own mouth had to make us wonder -- you know, in the months, if not years, preparing him... molding him... attaching the strings on and the like... I mean, leading the charge of support for the totally vetted, overly qualified, highly educated, super smart,  future president of the United States of America..... roars of thunder goes the crowd....

From his book, Dreams FROM My Father:

"I ceased to advertise 

my mother's race by the age of 12 or 13, 

when I began to suspect 

that by doing so 

I was ingratiating myself to whites."

"I never emulate white men 

and brown men 

whose fates didn't speak to my own. 

It was into my father's image,  

the black man, son of Africa, 

that I'd packed all my attributes 

that I sought in myself: 

the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, 

DuBois and Mandela."

From the Audacity of Hope:

"I will stand 

with the Muslims 

should the political winds shift 

in an ugly direction."

Oh and there's more...GO HERE and even more HERE


Nope.  We were not even allowed to question it...

We were asked to take him at his word, at face value; we were told to ignore the signs, the questionable associations, the sketchy details of a life trying it's darnedest to look homogenous with the whole of America.

Context is everything; the books cited above, written by a President -In-Waiting, could seamlessly morph into case studies of How To Reach a Target Audience and Win...(for it was circa a life time ago, during a time mainly focused on winning the future in Chicago and subsequently the state of Illinois)  He needed "his people" to come out in droves and vote; and they did.

Nope. But here we are, now 2011, now with three years under his belt, and we still can't touch him (you know, when it comes to understanding the man behind the teleprompter).  We have no idea who he really is.

Of course, it doesn't help him to further his no-need-for-concern-cause with all the video streaming and circulating in free market abandon...




I think that for most people, we can pretty much agree on something -- we just want to know the truth..

Addressing the 2012 Nominees for the next POTUS:

• We want to know how you think, specifically, with regard to your beliefs, your religion, your faith -- because naturally, this gives us an immediate gauge of understanding and, in an instant, we are able to glean a sense of who you really are on the inside..  
• We want to know what it is you stand for --  especially when up against unrelenting political winds, unimaginable tests of spirit, being the nation's chief caretaker and community leader, peacekeeper and Commander-In-Chief, at home and abroad. 
• We want to know what grounds you (and to the Atheists out there, even if that which grounds you is only your big, bad, Self) -- because the nation's trust is in your hands; while the position, itself, comes with it's own lightning rod, with the inherent power to create feats of cataclysmic change through electrifying, scorching, fundamental transformation.

Our overall disconcerting mood -- as an electorate -- is the direct result of the mainstream media protecting President Barack Hussein Obama from being properly vetted, be it his beliefs, his Muslim ties, his twenty year history attending the church of his mentor, Rev..Dr. Jeremiah Wright, his free spirited associations -- and basically, masking his very all and everything that attributes to the core of his being --  his mind, his thoughts, his true ideology, his emotional baggage, his insecurities, his narcissism, all the things that together define the character of a man; a man whom we clearly DO NOT KNOW. Can you say run on, girl, with that big bad run-on sentence?  holy toledo, thank God it's just a blog.

I think that our interest in the religion factor of a certain Rick Perry, or the Mormon in Mitt Romney, conveys a deeper meaning and motive; we've been burned by Obama.   Whether it be wrestling with what on earth we thought he stood for or what in heaven's name is his God be true, we have no idea who he is, or on what faith he stands.

And more than that, we believe that even Obama is dazed and confused.  Because by all evidence over the last three years, his words, his actions -- and especially his in-action's -- show a president who seems to be at the mercy of some kind of nor'easter coming through; God only knows which way and why, nor when or where, come rain or shine.

"A tyrant must

put on the appearance 

of uncommon devotion to religion.  

Subjects are less apprehensive 

of illegal treatment 

from a ruler 

whom they consider God-fearing and pious."

Aristotle

Which leaves me thinking this: just maybe the Obama we know is all for show.

And just where is the unbridled and unbiased balanced journalism recording his every flaw?  just where is the groundswell of uncommon outrage after being hoodwinked and bedazzled by a total fraud?

let's just say they, --his shepherds and followers and fishers of (wo)men-- are experiencing a few technical difficulties.  And if you still got it in you, read this for more on that.

over and out,
and better still...

Make it a Good Day, G

a great song is just a click away on "It's a Faux Religion-In-Chief Thing."

Dear America,

"Is there any doubt that the handwriting 

is on the wall for where we are heading...

look around...

manners have been corrupted, 

morality has sunk into depravity, 

indulgence is out of control and, 

above all, faith has been discredited and unbelief has become fashionable. 

When a culture reaches this point, 

it becomes so out of touch with truth 

that masses of people deny outright the existence of God.  

God's will for the nation has been abandoned 

and man has been made God."

that was said hundreds of years ago by William Wilberforce, and via the miracle of paraphrase, furnished to us through a captivating revised edition of a classic, written by Bob Beltz, we are able to tap into the same mindset, only with a modern view.

"...these are the things 

that keep you from having a proper sense 

of priority for the things of God.  

You will be tempted to settle for cultural Christianity 

and will not willing to pay the price for the real thing.  

The former fits your ambition better.  

Your faith will not be authentic faith at all....

You will think of yourself as a Christian 

because everyone who lives in the country is a Christian.  

You will bear no signs of transformation, 

either in your thinking or behavior...

If you are willing to listen to this warning 

and not settle for a cultural Christianity 

but desire to know  and possess authentic faith, 

it is time for you to step away from the crowd.  

God is at work in your life.  

Get away to a place where no one is around 

and get down on your knees and pray.  

Ask God to take away your spiritual indifference 

and insensitivity and enable you to draw close to Him...

ask the Holy Spirit to begin to work in you 

from the inside out, 

to make you the man and woman 

God designed you to be...

Embrace grace."

One man's Christianity "stirred the conscience of a nation"  -- redirecting every thought, word, and deed surrounding the cruel depravity of an entire group of people -- and ultimately, raising the level of compassion and truth and justice high enough -- to bring about the end of slavery.  As the story goes, "three days before he died, [Wilberforce] learned that Parliament would pass the legislation abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire."

The Wilberforce connections made --  God and Country, Truth and Values, Faith and Foundation -- directly linked for all the world; and to this day stand instrumental, fundamental, and essential in the creation of a civil, vibrant, productive society.  Naturally, these ideas became the cornerstone for the making of a new world, in America.

Our founding fathers, townships and settlements, future universities and curriculum, poets and countrymen, literary giants like Emerson and Thoreau, and the whole of government itself, carried with them the Wilberforce thread; and likewise, America created the very conditions to set in motion over two hundred years of our Judeo-Christian heritage in action, paving the way for freedom, liberty, and justice for all.

Was it perfect?  I think we can all agree -- it was not.

But what is?

Who is?

Are you  perfect in every way?  Am I?
Speaking only for myself, that would be a no.

Have some people acted out of character, shall we say, and done the nation wrong?  Indeed.

That is the beauty and the beast of free will; we are each accountable, individually, for our own actions, our own deeds -- whether they be good or bad;  we are each responsible for our own words -- whether they are respectable or dispiriting; we are each beholden to our own beliefs, our own religion, our own thoughts, our own God (or not), respective of our own mind, our own free will,  in equal portion.

What we do individually -- how each and every one of us responds to our inherent duty and delight of being our own person  -- when it is applied in the macro, the collective is made and fostered.

In other words, if we stop being good people, the entire nation suffers.

As a white girl, I can easily become unglued thinking back to the days following the Civil War and how southerners responded (not all, but who are we kidding, what does it matter -- as a whole, the south stood for so much reprehensible damage that, to this day, we will never forget).  As a white girl, I could reach a level of lividness unknown to man when contemplating the depravity of blacks throughout our history -- segregation, the horrid acts of the KKK, past administrations (like Wilson's) returning us to the dark ages with racial bigotry and separatism.   It makes me ill; and, being grounded in merely my little reality, left only to imagine how a black person must feel.

I can't take it back, you know, history.
I am powerless to take any of it back.
There is nothing I can say to make it better, to take the pain away.
absolutely nothing.
as a mom, there is no place to kiss to make it all better.
the damage is done.

But here's the thing -- and it's a big but and I cannot lie -- am I responsible for it?

Having been a child of the sixties, having grown outside of the south my entire life, having been educated in integrated schools all my life, having friends, coworkers, fellow congregants of color, right there along side me ALL THE DAYS of my life, and now, having entered into an era welcoming the first African-American president, when a black woman has become pretty much the most noteworthy, influential American that has ever lived -- and super rich on top of it, when all walks of livelihoods, interests, political views, activities no longer gravitate by color, how can we continue to break each other, and jeopardize our future, using the very injustices of our past to hold us back?

It wasn't me.  And more than likely, it wasn't you either.

What one person, and with others conspired, to take from another -- be it life, liberty or happiness -- will remain forever wrong.  No question.  And the only way it will serve us, is to move forward, never forgetting AND letting it go.
 
Is it too naive for me to think we are all brand new?

I cannot be held responsible for another man's wrongdoings; it is just not fair.

I can care;
I can respond with compassion;
I can teach my own child to live without bigotry and hatred for another;
I can love and accept those who I come in contact of another race, unconditionally;
I can embrace ideas that foster unification, rather than division;
I can become educated in the history that has allowed untruths and false perceptions to shape us;
I can respect a president of color, even if I wholeheartedly disagree with his policy;
I can become awestruck at the celebrity of a woman who has changed America from the inside out for the better -- left with a wish to meet her one day;
I can enjoy the talents of all Americans, no matter the color of their skin, but the content of their character;
I can do my best to be kind to all people, even if showing a simple courtesy, like saying a please or a thank you, opening a door or giving someone my seat -- I can do that, with great joy;
I can be the best I can be, finding strength, courage, conviction, and love from a faith dating back thousands of years; all these things I can do moving forward.

I think I can, I think I can...
...slowly...
...but surely...
I believe, individually and collectively, we can make the grade.

Did you know they built the railroad tracks over the great heights of the Alps before they even had a locomotive engine with enough horsepower to take it?

We must have what we want in mind; first intention must be made clear and certain. Do we want to get along, or not?  IF the answer is yes, than what we do from here on out becomes elementary.  We set in motion the very thoughts and things and ideas to unite us, not divide us.  We take steps forward, not back.  We move in the direction our new found glory takes us, and with every step forward, we build momentum, setting forth the very conditions from which a new civil society can be made -- and fostered.  we continue to elevate everyone's freedom and liberties; we do not take from one just to give, lend, beg, steal, borrow to another..

Wilberforce set in motion --going back to the eighteenth century -- the power of authentic faith; it shaped a brand new world, it healed a country and centuries of oppression, and gave us, individually and collectively, ideas we can use to move forward with honor, all of us.

Our president is with the families of 9/11 today, marking the death of an international terrorist as a symbolic close in the history books; does it change anything?  will it take away the catastrophic loss of life and security of the last decade?  no.

nothing will really change from that which has already lived and died.  every measure of destruction is still gone.  what is left with us is the memory, and what we take with us moving forward is the lesson, the gift that only comes with grace of God, along with the inherent ability to raise our spirits to the Most High (if we so choose to accept it).

think about it; if we held tight to the things that did us harm all our lives, how broken would we be?  if we led our lives according to all the horrors done to others, whether last week or long ago, how heavy would our hearts remain? if we carried these burdens all the days of our lives, what capacity is left to wrap our arms around the good just waiting for us? 

I believe God wants us to live in joy with one another.  God wants us to learn to love one another.  God works in mysterious ways through the good, the bad and the ugly all over the world, every day.

There are powerful, wonderful, forces afoot; this is a day to give thanks to the glory of God. Spirit works, bringing life lessons and generous blessings, whether we are rich, or poor, or somewhere in-between; it makes no difference.  My connection to God is the same, but different, as Oprah's; prayers have no skin color; prayers are an equal opportunity for all people; prayers work in the same way for you as they do for me and so on and so on.  and if you don't want to pray at all, that's an option, too.

AMERICA has been founded, fostered, and prospered by a natural, deep connection to Spirit and all that is Divine and Good.  IT is a fact that will live on in a well documented history; it is a fact that our future, explicitly and undeniably, relies.

Perhaps you can take the Christian out of the country, but you can't take the Christianity out of a nation.

The president reminded us on Sunday night, we are "One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."  All faiths revel and take liberties Under God; this beautiful, spiritual connection is what unites us as a people, and powerful enough to bring the end of slavery, oppression, and inequities large and small. 

AMEN to that.

Let us live it, breathe it, worship it on this day, and from this day forward, with joy and thanksgiving.

Of course, some will argue with the president indeed; some people might just say, there is no God, what about me, what about my rights;  while other people might say they were for It before they were against It but now they're for It again -- maybe -- but not quite sure; and then, some people might not even care if we do anything about It at all; and some people might just go wee wee wee all the way home; but history tells us, and our hearts show us, THIS nation, THIS foundation, THIS country built upon the Rock of Ages, indivisible -- THIS IS WHO WE ARE.

and much like history has repeatedly tested us, much like the days of Wilberforce -- rumor has it -- tomorrow is, once again, up for grabs.

Not if my prayers have anything to do with it; can I get an amen?

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America, an open letter to The Donald:

"For where two or more are gathered in my name, 

there am I with them." 

Matthew 18:20

There is something very deja vu going on; it's like, whoa dude, have we been down this road before?  The flashback of a presidential campaign a couple years removed; bearing witness to a stage of Romanesque proportions, columns of Grecian dominance, setting in motion the pulpit from which just a man would woo us into believing something so incredibly out of this world, that as it turned out, it actually was. 

A recent horoscope I read noted a twist of one of my favorite verses in the Bible, and basically, brazenly usurped the power of the Almighty and claimed, 'anywhere two or more are gathered, there is politics.'  and that's where my open letter to The Donald begins...

I would very much like to believe -- now that we have seen the light -- America is no longer a congregation of blind worshipers and gullible followers of anything remotely inauthentic; we seek the real thing in all matters, whether it be our religion, a soul mate, a doctor, a voice, or a president.

Please, let not our current condition fool you, Mr. Trump -- America is not a pawn, and her exploitation is hardly up for discussion; contrary to popular opinion and the growing cultural tide, the bid, for the office of the presidency of the United States of America, is made in America to attract one thing, and one thing only: civil servants of virtue.

In the beginning, the government, by design, constructed the rule of law and the rules of engagement for the highest job in the land, not according to a ruler or a king, nor propping up one church over another, but through a process of meticulous selection from the bottom up; the primary consideration over all, to find the true statesmen -- giving back to country, selflessly, authentically, looking after her as if his life, and each life thereafter, depended upon it.  And this is where we have the first issue...

As you well know, given you created it and all, your ego enters the room long before we take a look into your eyes; and sir, if I may be so bold, we're not all that impressed with that side of you who likes to impress, if not expressly for the press.  We have seen a Presidency-by-I-am and are not smitten.  Initially, as you have presented yourself -- simply toying around with the idea of taking on the leader of the free world -- so far, your reputation keeps preceding you (and that, isn't a good thing).

We are just not that sure about you.  The trust factor is one of your greatest liabilities.  Are you just in it to win it?  Or, is this just the making of another reality show in our midst, and in six months time, we'll be catching all the behind the scenes footage (with ad-lib's and off mic remarks included)?  Or, are we simply locked into some kind of twisted derivation of the Trump Bucket List, soon to be presented on YouTube, with the culmination of your swearing in to be filmed while you are jumping out of a plane?

Well, in a word that you might understand -- fuggetaboutit.   We got no stinkin' interest in that, yo?  You dig me?  (I'm trying to channel my newyarkar) What we want, we the people, is a little respect; and that goes from you, too, now that you think you have all the right stuff. 

Newsflash:  It is now open season; welcome to the show; buckle up and enjoy the ride.

What we want, is a return to the way we were; a country with checks and balances and politics revolving around the rule of law and our constitution.  What we hunger for, are the conditions to restore our faith in all the right things again; a vision once held in high esteem, carrying with it our duty and responsibility bestowed upon us by our founders, dating back 5000 years of time, virtue, history and truth.  Not such an easy task, no doubt.

What we want, is a true free market Thinker (and by all evidence, your resume should tell us that you know a thing or two about this) -- but even then, your history shows a few missteps... perhaps it's just a misguided appreciation to a policy running counter-intuitive to the forces of the real free market... maybe simply a case of not knowing then, what you know now...an ideological evolution, if you will...but all benefit of the doubt easily gets tossed under the microscope when we see where your donations have gone over the years, when we see you haven't taken the time to vote in a primary for 21 years; and this evidence is just beginning to shine through.

We don't need another prophet promising to fix everything, piping through loud speakers and twittering he would be different, while boldly claiming world peace and cake for everyone would finally rule the day; we don't need that.  To be perfectly clear, what we need is a whole lot of humility.

What we need, is someone with the courage to stand up and admit we are doing this all wrong and backwards -- which to date, I'm gathering after some sincere consideration, you have come to the not-so-humble-conclusion, a realization that who better to recognize and understand than YOU;  there is no doubt in my mind, you have no doubt.  But do you recognize the underlying foundation from which all desire for reformation comes?  Do you really, really know what the fire in the belly of America really represents?  hint, hint: this is another essential element to the making of our next president.

Sure, in all honesty, we are amateurs, all of us, there is that (some of us just seem to be better at it than others).  Whether born in the USA or Kenya, we wear our self-reliance on our back.  To meet success in our daily lives, we must do the work, yielding to the law of compensation, recognizing the values of supply and demand, striving to educate, prepare, and make something of ourselves.  If you will allow a return on a theme, America IS the quintessential Amazing Race -- be it in our skills, conditions, paths, diversity of color, creed, and character; we are one big pot melting into one big race over and over and over again.

What we need is really a president who not only understands who we are, where we have been, and the foundation from which all bounty comes, but one who respects it through and through.  In order to move forward with any sense of brilliance, we must go backwards, retracing our steps, in order to arrive at a place where we went wrong and start over.

Are you prepared to cut the budget drastically, and return to living within our means?

Are you prepared to defund the latest entitlement program, Obamacare, and allow the business of health care to return to the free market -- and put in new regulations to operated even better than it did before?

Are you prepared to close our border until order is restored and sustained?

Are you prepared to cut entire departments of government who have long overstayed their welcome?

Are you prepared to secure the debt limit at the current ceiling, with a real plan to reduce the national debt?

Are you prepared to cease the Global Warming fanaticism reinventing CO2 as a harmful pollutant?

Are you prepared to command respect of America again, without acting like an arrogant S.O.B.?

Are you prepared to return our children to an education teaching lessons of good character, the joys of living in a free market, the lessons of reaping what we sow, the bounty that all good things come to those who wait, if not, work really, really hard...Are you prepared to gather enough nerve to battle the neanderthals who have taken away designated time for prayer and personal reflection, fair debate and conclusion, of all facets of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, left - right - and center? Promoting all things  INDEPENDENT, not dependent.

Are you prepared to return the power back to regional locals, in order to serve communities large and small equally and in proportion to their individual needs?

Are you prepared to grow a nation's independence -- drilling for oil here at home; tapping into our own natural gas, safely and securely; allowing the open market, supply and demand, private risk and investment and benefits, to grow the green market, expand the hybrid industry, increase the solar power, and capture the magnificence in the wind?  Are you prepared to continue the investment of our nuclear energy infrastructure even in the face of the Japanese natural disaster?

Are you prepared to wake up the apathetic?  Are you prepared to enliven the authenticity of America's heritage and divine providence, for you do recognize that She has been corrupted, abused, and left for dead?

Are you prepared to be a statesman looking out for our best interests?  Modeling our best behavior?  Acting selflessly, reverently, respectfully in the highest office of the land?

You're a businessman -- could your business survive running deficits in the trillions of dollars for any length of time? (right.  we do know the answer to that, huh...my bad)  But honestly, is there any chance you could live to see just one day beyond ninety days passed due?  seriously?

That is just how absurd this whole debt debate has been; in the real world, this corporate model does not work.  ever.   Are you prepared to return legitimacy (that is, if they ever had it) to the Federal Reserve? Are you prepared with any kind of a plan to run against a world wide mission to destroy the dollar? bring down America? and basically end the greatest republic that ever lived?  Because, as someone who runs in a pretty elite crowd, you should realize that we are on the chopping block; the entire world wants to tell America, 'you're fired'  -- and just how do you plan to combat that? seriously.  how?

The bottom line, Mr. Trump, America doesn't seem to trust you any farther than we can throw you -- into the Hudson, without a paddle, swimming upstream, on a Tuesday (that would be tomorrow). And I'm someone who kinda likes you.... But this little presidential run you seem to be banking on isn't a game of Monopoly or Apprentice or Let's Make a Deal.  you get me, playa?  And, speaking on behalf of only myself and my dog, think you have potential, at best; but you, sir, have a lot to prove. The Trump Tower has no power over us.

And, just so you know, there isn't a whole lot you can say to change our minds; consider yourself under the latest Palin Doctrine, following the Laws of Attraction --  people either love you or they don't.  And yet, if you are in this for real, if you wish to gain our trust, the race ...starts ....now.

the gun has been fired....

why aren't you moving....

You may think your intermittent fifteen minutes of fame, coming at us on a seasonal basis, is enough to carry the burden; and then you better think again.

we, the little people, have done our homework over the last several years...  we are not the same people who swooned to a young, hip, up and comer, politico dynamo -- who masterminded the most skillful campaign, quarantined every skeleton in the closet, and otherwise, manipulated, cajoled and disguised the real truth from the whole truth from not a shred of honesty  -- who swallowed it up anyway. been there, done that.

oooh which reminds me, that corny interview you did with Meghan McCain for The Daily Beast, of the read this, skip that generation, forces me to enlighten you of another political faux pas becoming all too often conveniently commingled with reality -- progressives are not good for America (whether left or right).  And if you don't get that, you might as well hang your boots up right now.  Stealing a portion of a sales pitch from Stanley Steamer, know the stain, my friend.  Know the stain.


All in all, your heart may be in the right place, time will tell.

I want to like you -- I mean, my gosh, I have had you standing loud and clear in my margin, along side Chris Christie as the other half of your dynamic duo, for months now; at first glance, what America needs is the business of taking care of business all the way around.  We need to get back to work.  We need to get back to basics, the original intent.  We need to stop worrying about the rest of the world's issues and focus on our own -- our own fiscal mess, our own dysfunctional families, our own kids, our own schools, our own in-law's, our own neighborhoods, and on and on and on. Our preoccupation with the goings on everywhere else but here has been a welcome distraction, a cause to take away from our responsibility at home.

At the same time, we certainly don't want the business aspect to dominate over us, to take away our soul.

Perception is everything -- especially at the start of a campaign; I am just hoping that you have not only done your homework, but that you are prepared for the test about to be sprung on you from every corner of the world, every back road and alley way, every mom and pop and corner store from sea to shining sea.  This is real for all of us little people; some might say, this election is a turning point; if we are to put all of our eggs into one basket, we better make darn sure we know who is suspending us into thin air for another four years and counting. capeesh?

A local neuro-scientist, V.S. Ramachandran, of UCSD, was recently designated to be one of TIME's top 100 most influential people -- yes, right there with Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Nicolas Sarkozy -- even Natalie Portman (?) as noted in an article from our San Diego Union Tribune on Saturday.  He was added to the list because of his natural, God-given ability to Think!  Isn't that wonderful.  He has made a career, by the sound of it anyway, of thinking outside the neuro-scientist box and has been quite successful at it.

As the UT explains, he is "best known for developing a therapy for phantom-limb pain in which a mirror is used to reflect the intact limb, creating the illusion that the missing one is still there. That persuades the brain that all is well, and the pain subsides."  Our imagination can do funny things with reality, no? (and boy, does this sound like America's issues, or what?)

The thing is, we could probably do a bang up job imagining someone like you, Mr. Trump,  to be just what the doctor ordered for curing the symptoms of an ailing economy, the bleak road ahead, along with a host of unintended consequences along the way...and then go back asleep.

But the truth is, only when we realize that the disease has been long in the making, will we have a snowball's chance in H-E-double toothpicks to know the real cure...

...that once we come to realize the proven path, the one centuries old in the making, the path we thought we could travel with our eyes closed, and yet, over time, not accounting for a lick of duty, not contributing to a hill of beans worth of hard work, common sense and responsibility -- that the same path would take a turn -- that one day, in one fell swoop, we could be totally overrun and overtaken of our own demise, false gods, greed, corruption, and the making of total, fiscal insanity -- because we each imagined multiple realities going on around us for so long, nobody was really paying attention to where we were headed --

...that even, if a certain someone does run, for all the right reasons of course -- the real question remains, are WE PREPARED to fully, actively, selflessly, honestly, virtuously, courageously back you up?  Or do we look in the mirror and think everything is fine, without realizing we have lost life and limb to atrocities that might very well could have been avoided, settling back into complacency and total disconnect?  We may no longer feel the pain, but somehow we must still figure out how to walk.

we could get along just fine if a little self-reliance kicks in right about here.


getting a second wind comes in handy, too.


sometimes, just getting back up on the horse does the trick; funny thing, works the same way when we get bucked off.


sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset.

even with all the right stuff, the real truth is, a trump can only do so much -- the rest is still up to us; and on that note, hard to tell where our personal commitment starts and stops sometimes.

in the meantime, you sir, the trumpster, the trumpinator, the trump van-dango-a-go-go, the master of your own enterprise, the creator of the next really big thing (maybe) -- you, sir, have your work cut out for you.  I'll close the door and give you some time to think.

Make it a Good Day, G