Happy to wake up and say, "Thank you, God, for giving me another day!" I just woke up way, way to early with an aching arm- pulled bicep three months ago and it still is cramping. But, I slathered on some trusty Arnica Montana Gel, put some little Arnica pills under my tongue, and the pain was basted away. If it works on Race Horses, it's a good little herb. Thank you Great Spirit!
Gearing up for a Mini Rant:
The Ocean: Thank you God for the Beauty of the Earth, given by your Grace to offset the Terrible Thunder Lizards we still have running around disguised as Human Beings.
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I can't knit. The hands and thumbs are hurt and needing rest. But I certainly can toss flotsam and jetsam.
The Book:
I'm reading the most depressing part. There is nothing new in it, just the level of detail given. This level sets the stage better for the "Massive Egos Faceoff" that cost lives, American included, in the run up and demise of the "American Century". I've known this all along, but not to the extent that I now know it - deep and wide. Annie Jacobsen just tells a straight up story, historically correct, and you can't ask for a more complete chronicle than that.
For most of us who think about it, Americans' happy and prosperous lives are unwittingly at the cost of a lot of innocent other people's lives. I'm almost finished with Area 51, still would recommend it highly as something to read for your soul. But, the next few years I'll spend reading books about people who really made a difference, like Rachel Carson and the average Joes who have never fallen for their Basal Brain's guttural little whitterings.
I think that now I'll spend time reading a few book about pets, and especially dogs,so that I can be back amongst people whose minds are focused on the Earth and the OTHER Earthlings, and not on Hubristic Greed with a Huge Dash of Arrogant Bastard on top, to be blunt. As is said, knowing the truth sometimes hurts. This hurts.
Did I say I was thankful for authors who lay it on the line to write the way that Annie Jacobsen has. Well, I am. Thank you, Annie!
A necessary rant! Well done
ReplyDeleteThank you. Sometimes you just have to vent.
DeleteI hope that others will be encouraged to read this book even though the subject so hard to deal with. I don't really know how to change what's happening, but I am beginning to believe that someone wants to be Emperor over all the Earth, with all the attendant royalty spread out like a carpet of Evil below him. And it will be a man. The rest of us will be Serfs.
I'm putting this book in my wish list, although I may not read it after all. Although I am interested in a great many books of this kind I do tend to find the experience of reading them rage inducing.
ReplyDeleteI tried very diligently to put aside rage and read objectively, and because the book itself is very objective it's possible to read it this way. Good luck if you do read it. I still haven't finished it, but am close. It makes me want to HURT some of these people in ways like an Angel of Death would do. But, of course, that's illogical. *Thinks of the Hydra.*
DeleteDo you ever read Anne Lamott? I go there sometimes when I need to remember who I'm trying to be. Just saying. Sometimes there's too much.
ReplyDeleteI will look into Anne Lamott.
DeleteI'm finding it all too much. I think this is why Abbie Hoffman committed Suicide after the Exon Valdez Oil spill. But, I'm not that depressed. What I am is very angry. I think of this Cabal of Insane Beasts who are laughing at all the rest of the human beings as they think of us as nothing more than cash cows and cannon fodder. It's depressing to know that such a level of depravity is getting rewarded every day!