Where did we end off? Right - with hope, with that hope for a good future pushing me and others to work hard, to put so much of our lives into fighting PD. And along the way a funny thing is happening. Suddenly, at my stage in life, with all the issues, I am now curling my arms and admiring my growing muscles!!
Yup! There they are, and what's more, so are the muscles in my legs now present. I can power up, lift that kettle weight or ball, whatever the name is! I can even begin to snap those heavy ropes, something I always saw people do in gyms but I could not. Hey, now I can!!
But here are the two best things ever with this regimen. Women, you will appreciate this - the wings are slowly disappearing!! Guess the arm muscles are taking up the slack, right? And here is the second, my 'one pack' is growing tighter, tauter, harder and can I, dare I, will I, think of the possibility of working for the two pack and all the way to the six pack??? I actually am giggling at even getting close to it. And my giggles even have more power behind them as I work on swallowing, voice projection and breathing with a lovely and wonderful speech therapist. Yes, this PD takes over, all over, but it can be fought and will allow for some silver streaks, not total linings, but streaks within its clouds.
So let's segue to life in general. Sometimes we get not lemons, but the whole damn orchard. This can happen in every aspect of that life but we can prepare for consequences and fight those lemons with all we've got. Right now we have the biggest lemon of all sitting in the Oval Office. He appoints incompetents, rapacious administrators, and now we hear of a 24 year old with a false resume who was appointed to head a drug office. Yet another liar in a liar's administration. Shock!!
What are we to do? Simple. Wipe out the liar's influence on our lives. True, that is difficult, given his position, but if we reject those lies, not give them space, they might actually die a quick death and finally the truth will be forced out of his and his buddies lying mouths.
Now Trump says that oh yes, he welcomes the chance to speak and under oath too!! Sure, and we can believe that the same way he was going to release his taxes, undergo a proper and transparent complete health exam, feel compassion for the Dreamers, and make this country great. HA!!!!
What we have had instead is a country sinking into the morass of its own self destruction at the hands of Trump and his appointees. What we have is a country driven by a chaotic and dangerously childish President and legislative bodies. What we have is a Supreme Court that is so politicized that the outcome of cases before them need not even waste time with hearings, just announce the expected decision.
We have a President who is willing to engage in slavery again, call it by any name you wish. Sell the Dreamers to a country that needs them for 25 billion dollars for his paranoid and useless and needless wall. Back up candidates who speak longingly of the days of slavery. Support and take support from those bigots and hater who would empty this country of all but those who resemble them in face, color, political and religious belief.
And the world? Our 'great' country has lost its respect, lost its position. Thanks to the man's filthy mouth, the countries are planning a walkout at the Davos conference when Trump speaks. France and other European countries, Asian powers, are stepping into the void and none of it bodes well for the future of America. The man places tariffs on solar panels, not thinking that these panels go into frames and on bases made right here in our country so guess what - he has now laid off workers!!! Great indeed!!
We have allowed and perhaps even solicited aid and interference with Russia during the election and now they are running yet another media blitz over another pair of invisible clothing, a supposed memo over 'spying' by the FBI. Never before has a country denigrated its main and chief law enforcement entity as we have, thanks to Trump, his misdeeds and the actions, solicited or not, by Russia.
So what six pack are we working for here? What hope are we allowing here? Now we even stop buses looking for 'terrible' people, like a grandmother back from seeing her granddaughter for the first time and her visa expired, so off she was taken and our country is safe again!!!! Are we truly doing that which all authoritarian countries do - stop and ask people for papers??!! Papieren, bitte!!! And what if an "American" does not have "papers" with him or her. How many times have I gone out with nothing, just walking, or just some money to quickly buy some minor item. Does that make me an alien, a dangerous one at that? Will I be deported? Hmmm, silver lining or streak - a vacation trip?
The point is that life has different pathways. We need to choose carefully. We need to be open to realizing that we will often meet up with unexpected stops and starts, events, pitfalls, and barriers, but there is always hope, there are always chances to grow those muscles, to work for that six pack - or at least the two pack.
Our choice. Your choice. My choice.
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