To thine own self be true

it’s likely time to disconnect from the media (including social media) in order to get a break from the chaos, violence, ubiquitous politics, and stupidity.

This is usually a good time to reconnect with yourself, Nature, and your better-angel values.

Exercise, music, meditation, books, and reading can all help, too.

Too easily, people today are caught up in the politics now found everywhere. You have to remember that in politicized situations that everyone has an angle, prejudice, agenda, or assumptions.

It is also important to remember that there is a lot that individuals cannot control and that when one sticks one’s neck out (especially on social media), there is no shortage of nasty dumb-assed trolls with too much time on their hands and no lives of their own who are automatically prepared to complain and dump on vulnerable others.

Often, mentally-distressed people turn to others or drugs for help, but it may be worth remembering that we are responsible for our own lives and we can get better over time in solving our own problems or, at least, being able to put them into perspective.

The name of this blog and the arc of my own life follows Hamlet’s “To thine own self be true”. If you wish to live an autonomous, honest life, this is the only way to go. Likewise, following Joseph Campbell’s “Follow your own bliss.” It’s funny how mental problems become greatly simplified and evaporate when you adopt these two slogans.

And if, indeed, as Sartre wrote, that hell is other people, I guess it’s rather obvious how you can simplify your life, as needed, to make it happier.

is directly related to life expectancy.

In Canada, common sense, intelligence, and respect for medical science are directly related to life expectancy.

taking their pets for long walks without water for them in the heat wave.

Early one morning,
Just as the sun was rising,
I heard a young maid sing,
In the valley below.

CHORUS:
Oh, don’t deceive me,
Oh, never leave me,
How could you use
A poor maiden so?

Remember the vows,
That you made to your Mary,
Remember the bow’r,
Where you vowed to be true,

Chorus

Oh Gay is the garland,
And fresh are the roses,
I’ve culled from the garden,
To place upon thy brow.

Chorus

Thus sang the poor maiden,
Her sorrows bewailing,
Thus sang the poor maid,
In the valley below.

Chorus

…………………….
A good olde English folk song popular since the 1700s.

It shall go down one day, possibly soon and widely.
Which will be quite disastrous and deadly in another 35ish heat wave.
Or, possibly even worse, in the dead of a -35 winter.

The nickeling and diming of the AB power grid by UCP and PCs have us all squarely headed for disaster. (Wait until more people buy ACs or begin to buy electric vehicles.)

The brownouts and blackout–once unthinkable in these parts–are much closer than we all think. And Jason Kenney won’t save or look out for any of us.

People working in important, necessary jobs not being paid adequate wages: doctors, nurse, nursing home workers. These are treated like dogs in Alberta.

Elsewhere, it’s getting hard to replace police, something especially noticeable in the States. One wonders if there’ll be enough police on Capitol Hill in August to fend off the next Trump insurrectionist wave.

Generally, restaurants are having a tough time, too, in replacing workers gone in search of regular employment and better wages. A trend, generally, too.

Kenney trying to cut back nurses’ wages. Treating women workers like dirt.

Easily our weakest/worst, most insouciant PM ever with more gaffes, mistakes, missteps, and wrong-doings than any previous PM.

His main achievement was to open up the drug trade and approve marijuana use in Canada.

Seems counterproductive to bring the economy to a halt since that economy is where they get their federal funding from.

that I wasn’t born for times like these when many people seem to be losing it, making everything political, and seeing everyone else as “The Other”.

I find it hard to identify with grievances as churches get burnt down. I find it hard to stomach our leaders: the roly-poly AB guy and his callous doll of doom who have no compassion for Covid deaths, only hospital numbers.

I find it very hard to believe that after all his major mistakes (including racist behaviors) last term that Canadians re-elected Trudeau, and will likely do it again after even more major cowpies this term. All he does is delay and dodge; he never acts and never does a morally right thing. He is totally, joyously insouciant.

He and Sajan are totally guilty and shameless in the ongoing military fiasco of the past several years, again, unconscionably throwing women under the bus; no woman in Canada should vote for him, regardless of his new election haircut. He is a fake feminist through and through and does not support women.

Even sending a few helicopters and a handful of soldiers to B.C. is pathetically shallow window dressing before the election with ‘good guy’ Sajan making the announcement. These people at the top are phonies and hypocrites. They’re useless and are incapable of morally right choices.