TIDBITS OF LIFE

     So many things go on around us these days that it is hard to stop and think about what they mean or even if they do mean something. Let's see.
     First up is local tidbits. One of the best perks of living in CV is the shows. There used to be more and a longer season. It started earlier and ended later and there were three midweek shows. Slowly, slowly there began a shift in this schedule. We lost that third midweek show, no shows on Sunday and no midweek shows at all until the very end of December or the beginning of January. 
     So what happened? Well, the shows are costly. No doubt about it. Attendance will vary, especially as the population has changed in demographics. The performers are paid for via the ticket sales so no ticket means no income for payment. So where are they, the audience? And why are they not there in the audience and comfy seats of the theater? I cannot explain it all but timing is also an issue.
    As an example we had a most wonderful performance by Kol Esperanza last nite, with a mixed revue of operatic arias, Hebrew songs, Israeli songs, prayers, English classics, Broadway songs and the voices were WOW!!! Should have jammed the theater but did not. Well, there used to be more of a population demographic that would have filled these seats. The timing was off as due to earlier holiday times this year, many have gone north to families for them and hence were not here. However, I have never seen the disc table as jammed after a show as this was. So - they need to come back in January or even February next year and I believe that word of mouth and timing will fill that auditorium. If you missed the show last nite you missed one of the best of the season. Shame. Your loss. But either we use these shows or we stand to lose even more shows.
     We have a privilege of voting here as we do in outside elections but what happens. Supposed delegates do not show up. Resident owners are apathetic and do not insist on delegates representing the wishes of the association and  not their personal ones. So there is an ever smaller group of people involved in the administration of the Village and even that is made even smaller because the president here is a cowardly and nasty man who cannot take competition or outside thinking or ideas that do not get accredited to him and his. The crowd at the top gets ever more incestuous by the month. Not good.
     Neither is the mess we now have as the supposed administration of the country. The main point here is that we must use the laws of the country to rid ourselves of this man Trump and his minions, the ones that stick around anyway for longer than thirty seconds!
   He calls his managing style conflict run but truly it is not. It is chaos filled, chaotic to the nth degree and the revolving door of people in and out is almost broken with the traffic. The true administrator fills his surroundings with people of differing ideas and viewpoints, lets them simmer up new ideas and answers and yes, even proper questions, and then takes the best of them all and runs with it. It is to be done in a collegiate atmosphere, but instead we have a nursery school filled with brats, chief brat being Trump.
     Our country's leading officials, led by Trump, are among the most immoral and amoral people in the country. Their greed, their selfishness, their poor understanding of what their job is and should be, their cronyism, their freewheeling misuse of public funds, their lack of knowledge in their areas and their dangerous habit of cutting regulations that protected the consumers is most dangerous to the health of this country and the world in general.
     Tidbits of their misdeeds are to be found in almost countless numbers every day. Our President is an immoral philanderer with contempt for all who differ with him, who do not kowtow to him, a misogynist of the first degree, an incompetent beyond all words, an admirer of dictators and strong men of countries, anathema to the principles of this country. And plain nuts!!
     If we do not exercise our rights as citizens, if we do not use what we have to save ourselves then we will lose the country. Shows at CV, rights as citizens or residents of the country - use it or lose it. Seems almost silly to have to say that, but privileges and duties need proper acceptance of responsibilities and proper response or proactive action. In both states of body politic we are sorely lacking.
     The tidbits of life are actually quite serious. We need to look within and without, reevaluate, rank what is truly important in all aspects of life and work towards that end of insuring their survival - and our survival. The showings that Democrats have made in recent elections, the large turnouts, the success of women in these elections all bode well for November 2018 and 2020 but only - only - if we pay attention and only if we are to survive this man Trump - (and David too). Remember - tidbits can become big bites. Let us make sure the bites work for us.