I like doubt, doubt makes sense to me right now because there are many things that I’m doubting. News reporting is high on my list of things to be sceptical about.
I’m hoping that my sense of what is possible is out of whack, but I’d like
the think that it is because I still have many things to learn and I’d still like to surprise a few folks.
I am Always Becoming, notes for the day.
I have a list of things to put here to remember, as a way to start a new day with a new idea and a better attitude, but I’ll post the list later and put one item at a time within this writing. Instead of a list, here’s a photograph from the summer camp where I worked for 20 years as the staff photographer. It’s one of the few photographs from all those years that I still like and is still around - that’s pretty obvious though. It’s not the best photograph I did while I worked for them but every time I see it it takes me back; gliding across the lake in a boat at sunset on a warm summer night, you can feel that all the worries from the day were left on shore. I think that to be Always Becoming I need to relax and let things happen.
Does this look good to eat?
The photograph is of candied fruit from the 16th century, I don’t think it lasted this long but was re-created so we can see what they ate.
when they kept lying to us about Viet Nam, why we were there and why we stayed there, how long it was going to last and who was making the money.
The big difference is that the war in Viet Nam was fought by the US military using drafted citizens and the war in Iraq is being fought by the US military, now a professional army (called a volunteer army) and private contractors paid by the US, known in the trade as mercenaries. Congress should pass a law making it illegal to pay mercenaries with public funds.
The time gets shorter, 498 days left. Is there a new friendlier reality coming from the politicians? I’m not sure that it’s not business as usual and the current administration is still on the stump, acting like they are still running for office, not being in office..
I wish they would start thinking about the future and how the country will go on and how they will be remembered, as either good or evil. A few “right hand” men have left.
I look at this castle in Conwy, Wales that was built so long ago, it was started in 1283 and is considered one of the greatest fortresses in Europe at that time. And the best part is that it’s still standing, although the inside is crumbling a visitor can still walk on the walls and look out over the sea. The guidebook said at one time it was whitewashed. Imagine how incredible that would have been - a fairyland.
I wonder what the White House and the US Capitol will look like in 725 years. Will anything that is in Washington, DC now still be standing? Will America still be here or will American be one large military industrial corporation more terrible than it is now? How will the future remember this era and these mistakes? As a time of greed? Only time will tell.