SO, IN BRIEF, ....

  Again, my apologies, as I massively overslept, thru the whole night - imagine! Cannot remember another such night, even the ones where I slept late.  Glorious!!!

Anyway, to be brief -as if - the Duke of Verona had it right, or Shakespeare did, tired as he was of the Civil War, the War of the White and Red Roses in England. It was a war that lasted close to 100 years and even when supposedly ended, after Bosworth, the killings went on as Henry VII and Henry VIII killed off the descendants of the Plantagenet line. Mind you, Henry VII and his unbelievably ambitious mother, Margaret, were incorrect, but that is for another time. In any case, the Duke wished upon both feuding houses the same 'blessing' - a pox on both unless the bloodshed, the feuding ended - NOW. The totally tragic, needless bloodletting served no purpose at all.  

And that my friends is what I am wishing upon all the peoples of the world. Time to stop. Time to heed the biblical prediction - or deepest dream of mankind - to turn swords into plowshares and we will know war no more. What a dream. Imagine a world where our resources, physical and mental, were used to advance, to save the world, so battered and torn by both Man and Nature. Think what we could do, what gifts we can give to ourselves, for eternity. A future we gift to our descendants, all of them.

So, a pox on both houses here in America. Trump has divided this country so badly that only an almost total no return policy must take effect. Trumpians living in a benighted fantastical world must come to understand and accept how misguided they were, how they fell prey to predators whose only goals were to amass power and wealth and take over a country, cancel its democracy, to plunge us all into a world of nacht und nebel. Like it or not, there must be a cleansing of hate purveyors, openly demented, twisted by that hate. There is no room for them at any inn of this nation.

The opposing house, mine, must do better, must reach out with hands of warmth and welcome, presenting a picture of a rosier future, of a united nation able to forge a better world. One where the benefits of unity are displayed in glorious color and understanding and allegiance. Where we unite to fix, to repair, to salvage, to tear down the walls wrongly built to encourage hate of 'the other', those kept outside the walls. 

We must write off, discount and disempower those unredeemable, so deeply immersed in the devilish swamp that there is no hope of return.  Kindly but firmly, we must be able to silence the appeal of fake siren calls of bad intent. Ending if the figurative and literal bloodshed is a major goal, and we must strive to achieve it. Furthermore, in pursuit of that goal we must rid ourselves of our own poison, of the hatemongers among us, so truly unwelcome as they spout words of encouragement of hate and violence.  

We must together, try to recall a time, not so long ago, of us as a nation, Americans, all, no matter point of origin of ancestors, legal or illegal, for all are important to the building and maintenance of a viable nation. All of us were immigrants at one time or another so why do we deny this positive accrual to our nation's work force, to its future, to the fulfillment and vitality of the American dream.  

Once we strode the world, yes, a bit aggressively, arrogantly, with upright posture, exuding a can- do attitude and sense of confidence. However, we began to fight, selfishly, foolishly, dangerously, amongst ourselves, gradually beating down that proud erect posture. We lost our way, lost all sense of direction and sought aid from too many false and treacherous prophets, not the least of which is Trump, followed not far behind, the rest of that motley crew of GOP hopefuls, so inimical to a repair and return of an America as should be, as once was. They prefer fascism.    

We have brought this upon ourselves, lost in a nightmare of selfishness and forgetfulness, of a turning our backs on what America meant to our first family members here, and stomped on all that was right as we embraced the wrong and the negative, that separateness over unity. We forgot   that humans are far more similar than different. Much to our detriment. We lost our sense of reality    as we strode with huge giant steps ever further into an existential mess.

We succumb to the wishful rather than the real. We ignore warnings about the growing threats of an end to human habitation on Earth. We chose to ignore all, even further it. We forgot the lessons we learned with our first Superman comics. Krypton exploded, enabled to do so by ignoring facts. We learned that no one escapes other than the ever-lonely crusader against evil, an eternal ever losing war with small victories along the way.  Is that what we envision for ourselves and our kids? 

Well, my apologies - brief this certainly was not. All I can say right now is to remember   togetherness, for without it, well, follow the string. The strength of being together, in combat for the good, for positive unity, for nationhood good for all - the only way. The only way.

Together, always together.

Together, united for good.

Together.

Together.

We can heal the nation.

HEAL THE WORLD.

HEAL YITZY!

Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah

May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu. 

 AMEN. AMEN