This is the first winter I’ll be recovered from my hernia and cardiac surgeries. I haven’t really been able to properly sled with my kids since either of them were born, and who knows how many more winters my health or winter itself will last. Carpe diem and all that, I feel quite cheerful

No one tells you that healing from trauma will make you feel like Gary “Kirk-Smushed-Him-With-A-Boulder” Mitchell. But it’s pretty amazing, and even when one comes down a little from the epiphanies, the vantage point remains significantly elevated

(a poem)

Did we break warp 10? Am I turning into a salamander now? Where’s my Tom Paris?

Still not as weird as the night they made me play “a forest” 600 times

Yay! 🩵🩵🩵

That might actually make me shiny and happy enough to dance like someone in that stupid music video

Please, I want the Ken Burns documentary where the camera slowly pans across white man learning colonization, slavery, and patriarchy bad, so the rich colonize mars and we rebuild each according to their needs? Isn’t that what the white soul redemption narrative requires now? Actual Revolution?

It’s honestly disappointing just how few older folks seem to have actually ever believed in what they were selling. It’s disorienting for those of us who saw sparks of goodness woven throughout the propaganda.

The hijacking of the natural human accountability system (law) to serve ruling class interests has long been a problem, but somewhat to its credit, it has taken the USA this long to approach proper fascism because of the effort necessary to dismantle our legal protections.

Families and civilizations without healthy and functional forms of meaningful accountability devolve into patriarchy, monarchy, systems where power is wielded disproportionately and systems meant to protect codes of human morality (law) are weaponized against those ostensibly meant for protection

Nonetheless I remain a sucker for when the delusion was still real to me, though at this point it’s mostly for the dream it represented which is one I still work toward. Utopian weirdo realm where everyone loves and takes care of each other like the big loving family you never had? Yes please!

Alas, it very much was and is not.

Either that or this track was some top notch.. prepwork.. designed to persuade generations of young vulnerable types that Athens was basically Sesame Street?

I would enjoy an elaboration on this from you sometime. I’ve got to go with overdrawn at the memory bank (ya know, aka THE MATRIX) or the day the earth froze 🩵

Still, it’s neat that you bothered. My lazy bum just uses music box samples on a keybaord these days