“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus
Ancients Observe Us
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Time Travelers
I walked past a couple in Portsmouth, N.H. They had just stepped out of a time machine. She was dressed like a 1920’s Flapper, with a billowing dress and an interesting, roundish hat fit snug, and he was dressed to the nines, with red suspenders, elegant patent leather shoes, a bow tie, and a straw Boater hat. Could have been F. Scott and Zelda themselves. They were clearly on their way to an event from another era entirely, but just walking along like everything was completely normal, as cool as a cucumber.
Portsmouth has a large complex called the Strawbery Banke, which imitates what an 18th-century colonial settlement would look like — I guess spelling has evolved quite a bit since then. You go through all these historic houses, see how the interiors looked like way back when, and witness the people inside wearing suitable attire for that period. Somehow…
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Iago in the White House
The only news here is that there is a mole in the White House (WH) pretending to be one thing when he’s really something else, while thinking that he knows better than the president. In other words, a real scumbag, like Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello — a totally dishonorable person and liar with malicious intent. And then you have the New York Times (NYT) eager to pick up his droppings so that they can smear Trump and peddle more newspapers — a new low for the NYT. None of this has anything whatsoever to do with Trump, but it reveals boatloads about the NYT and about one despicable person in the WH — whoever that might be. Bottom line: the WH has an Iago on staff — that’s the news here.
Actually, if you think at all critically about this situation, it is not particularly noteworthy that there is at least one Iago on the WH staff, as the WH staff totals 450 people assisting the president, a large number. In fact, if there were only one Iago out of the 450, that would be remarkable.
What we have here is yet another case of an unelected person working in government who thinks he has a right to assert his particular views and agenda. It seems the federal government is filled with these people, not just career civil servants but even appointees by the party in power as well — what are being called the “deep state”. Unfortunately, the concept is demonstrating some validity.
But perhaps the true takeaway from all of this should be that it is naive to assume individuals can completely divorce themselves from their own unaligned political views once they join the government — they may very well not, and so it is foolhardy to assume they always will.
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Venezuela
Rather than sanctions, the United States should consider taking the humanitarian high road and provide Venezuela, a country on the precipice of actual starvation, with food — with no strings attached. Frankly, we do humanitarian a lot better than we do military. Wouldn’t it be a nice change of pace if the rest of the world actually respected something we did abroad? And the farmers in the United States wouldn’t mind a bit if the government bought some of what they have to offer. We could simply tell the world that, while we don’t agree with the politics of the current regime in Venezuela, we refuse to see people starve in the Western Hemisphere.
Fear
Itch
In the middle of my back there is an itch.
I twist and squirm but cannot reach it — it’s a bitch!
Mind over matter, philosophers say, melts that witch,
But, try as I might, I really could use a switch.
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Greed
“Enough is enough.” Lao Tzo
Spring Fever, Bethesda Fountain, Central Park
Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard
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They Wave Their Goodbyes
Your hand is beyond all touch.
Your eyes, they will never dance again.
Oh, my soul, it does not recover,
Your soul I no longer discover.
The trees, they wave their goodbyes to the passing storm,
They wave their goodbyes to the receding dawn.
But I…I say my goodbyes to the thorns,
To the thorns, as I mourn.
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