Leftovers
And Reruns
It is the day after Thanksgiving 2024. The most treasured voices on Substack were silent or purposefully muted yesterday. Not me. I posted a blog about the danger of Mr. Big inserting himself into efforts to “resolve” Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s outrageous attempts to claw it back into the footprint of the New Soviet Union.
Credit for graphic: Wired
I have very few subscribers. I treasure every one of them. More, I listen to their comments. In this instance, the review I took to heart was “Jesus, Susan. Robert Hubbell posts Carl Sagan’s lovely ode to our planet and all life on it—and you refer to Neville Chamberlain and warn of WWIII?”
Well, yes, I did.
Not that I am not grateful for every breath I take and every sight of wonder and glory in the world around me—I am. Profoundly.
Not that I think my world ended when We the People selected a seriously compromised old man to a second term in office as President of the United States. Blessedly, I am not overcome with guilt or despair about the will of those who voted. I am not even interested in vacuous and self-promoting postmortems by politicians and pundits and media platforms who caused or enabled the results of Election 2024.
In this day after Thanksgiving, in houses of relative plenty able to manage a reasonable accommodation of a difference of opinion, there will be leftovers from yesterday’s celebratory meal. And reruns on television or iPhones of favorite movies or series.
In the spirit the season, and in a more positive mode, here are my favorite leftovers and reruns.
Leftovers
· The Declaration of Independence
· The Constitution of the United States
· The Bill of Rights
Reruns
· Michael Douglas’s “Democracy Is Hard” speech in The American President
· Kevin Klein’s “I Have an Idea” and “Then I Should Not Have the Job” speeches in Dave
Wishing you and yours safe shopping and traveling all along the way from Thanksgiving to New Year.
The Force is with you.
Try to accept and use it.
Keep writing. Keep living. Keep sharing your wisdom. It comes from decades of lived experiences and nobody else is you. More than 90% of subscribers and readers will never comment. Those with something useful to say will encourage you. Keep the intention on lifting people up and enlightenment. Individuals who isolate themselves in a puddle of hate will try to distract and you have settings, as a publisher, to block or turn off the narcissists.