DO AIN'T DONE

    I came across that statement or adage in a book written by Silvis, a new favorite author. I thought it was great and wished that I had use of it while the kids were growing up, but never you mind. It is still relevant to other situations, carrying the same import.
     How many times do we say that we will do something. We will clean out the closet. We will reorder the basement, the garage. We will see that doctor or start a new exercise regimen. All things we will "do". But do ain't done, goes the saying. I will do whatever, means nothing until it is done. Then we can say we did it. Until then, do ain't done.   
     Think how much life would be improved if we all took this to heart. We will do what we have to do in order to dethrone Trump. Fine, but do ain't done. Standing there and talking isn't action and until actions are taken, well, repeat the above saying. Repeat many times and in many circumstances, until do is done.
      Talks with antagonistic countries. Repairs of the traditional Western alliances. Reregulating the environment so that our children will be able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to carry on with normal lives. Fix the education mess we have here in the USA. Fix immigration and run mandatory classes for reeducating our ICE and BP people in humane treatment of refugees. Reunite the country. Get rid of Trump. Get rid of Trump. Get rid of Trump. There, I said it three times so isn't that the formula for causing something to happen? Make believe those three wishes were the equivalent of Dorothy and the ruby red slippers. LOL
      But all this, in the meantime, falls in the category of "do ain't done". We might have made strides in some areas, but have gone majorly backwards in other areas, much to our detriment now and in the foreseeable future. We have settled into either a manic attitude and attached ourselves to Trump and his twisted philosophies and actions or fallen into a state of apathy, given up. But there are people coming together with that goal in mind and I point out the unified and united statements from all the candidates - that Trump must go.
     Do ain't done, not by a long shot, but just as we can remind our teen kids that the room is not cleaned up miraculously with the statement "I will do it", that "do ain't done", we can apply that to every important and even not so important events and plans in our lives.
     "Do ain't done" in so many ways in so many spheres of our lives and the global lives of our planet. From 1969 till now we have wasted the progress we had made in space, not truly built upon it, and the latest statement from that idiot is not that we need to seek and explore, that we need to actually reach out to other beings if they exist, that we need to study and plan, that we not ruin new planets with old problems dragged there by people of earth. But do ain't done in all this and in fact, the only plan I hear now is the idiot's plan for a Space Force, so Startroopers here we come!!
     In the meanwhile, all the "do's" that we have ignored are coming to bite us in the back or wherever it will hurt the most. Tiny countries are challenging us, demeaning us and why not, as we have accepted a crazed man as the leader, no different than in so many other countries, less developed countries. We have our citizens being held hostage, imprisoned, banned from exiting a country, all the better to blackmail us, demean us, disrespect us. Oh, and yes, we have a VP who now claims that several months ago a champion horse bit him on the arm and he was so brave about it! Really? Another bunch of hooey from the administration so well versed in it. Or maybe the horse hated his plastered down hair, the same hair that gives me the willies. What is it with the hairdos in this administration!
     We do not "do" the right thing, so the do's that are done actually add to the problems. It was not enough, apparently, to have one sexual pervert on the Court, so we implanted another, and yet another new story has come out about Kavanaugh's behavior and sexual harassment of others as a teen, but there he will sit. These 'do's' will never be done for we have forfeited the right and the opportunity to do what needs to be done.
     We are cutting back on safety regulations even as more information comes out, pointing out that we need more, rather than less. The mothers of over a dozen children now have kids with autism and other health issues, of varying degrees, as they used the sperm of the same lying donor!! Do ain't done here at all, for otherwise we would not have these situations, these changed lives, all because do was not done, due diligene was not done, and all we do now is make excuses. And more excuses. All to no avail or positive outcome.
     We have a president now who looks to the past, always backwards, always in the worst way. Never mind the positive benefits of bad situations. Yes, the coal miners are losing their jobs, but we are improving the air quality all over the country, and what we need to do now is build in training for other jobs, jobs with futures, just as their wives are doing. Show the kids that women can achieve and contribute, to families and the country, as they step out into the world, train for jobs, as nurses, med techs, therapists, whatever, as they earn and support families. But no, not with this dude and his backward supporters. It is exciting to see a joust reproduced in movies, or read a vivid description of it, but it certainly is not the way to go in modern times. The same thing with so many industries. Forget the dirty power of coal. How about training the miners as environmental specialists, or wind tower installers, or med personnel, or as teachers, technicians, as long as it is productive. But we do not, not with this guy.
     Do ain't done today in America. Do ain't done in so many countries around the world because we have abdicated our responsibilities. We have lost the pride in being the leader, and have fallen back into the tail of the world. 
     We fail to recognize that until we "do" what needs to be "done", inserting training and resources into the roots of the problems, the problems that cause mass world wide immigraton problems, then nothing will be "done". Period. No amount of blowing hot air all over it, sending up erroneous signals, telling lies, wishful thinking, will turn this around. If we do not follow and understand why "do ain't done' is what we have to remember, then just go home,wring your hands, hang your heads, and give up on the future.
     Do ain't done is such a great guiding principle for us. Simple, yet powerful and so enabling of a better future and a better planet. Let us remember to do so it is indeed done.