To thine own self be true

That U.S. rail strike may still happen and cripple supply lines.

Here, in Edmonton, there has been no children’s Tylenol since summer and, today, one of my eye meds is unavailable till Nov. 8!

Can’t imagine how people with more serious conditions are managing when they can’t get their meds, likewise.

Food-wise, empty shelves everywhere. One has to be happy to get whatever one can get and learn to live with non-first-choice substitutions. A sign of the hard, diminished times. People have to learn to live without and with less.

Daily and significant adaptations are becoming more and more necessary as countries lurch steadily away from democracies toward autocracies all over the world.

Remember the good old days before Brexit and Trump? Before 2015. No, normal does not live here anymore and may never return.

*One feature that Canadian and local media are missing lately is a regular report on what shortages on products and services across the board are currently happening or projected to happen so that consumers are aware of these significant social changes.

Lake walk, Ellerslie, near our daughter’s home

Grandsons today.

and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in my life going back to 1967 A.D.

And, still, the answer continues to be a resounding “Yes, I remain what R.D. Laing called an ‘authentic autonomous individual’ despite myriad crazy Brave New World distractions as well as absurd societal limits and p.c. limitations”.

Japanese Lantern–photographed this morning in my daughter’s front yard; coincidentally, my mother used to like these, too.

CNN’s John Avlon’s one-word response about Trump’s response to yesterday’s January hearing. “Speak[ing] by the card” is how Hamlet put it.

Like the fossil fuel crazies glueing themselves to “The Last Supper” and pouring cans of tomato soup over van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”. Either art galleries and museums will have to have much better security or they will have to lock out the publical together to stop the current wave of vandalism destroying art masterpieces, major markers of Western civilization.

Significant jail time (no pussyfooting) should be automatic in these cases and advertised outside galleries and museums where people enter. da Vinci and van Gogh are a million times more important than the vicious, anti-social agendas of these deluded clown-vandals. Intelligent distinctions and legal choices pronto must be made between the two opposing entities. Enough already.

to repair the huge cracks on the LRT line. And how long do you think those repairs will actually last?

After yesterday’s Jan. 6 committee meeting previously unseen footage: Nancy Pelosi, who, despite death threats on her life, humorously quipped she’d punch Trump in the face if he came to the Capitol.

Also, she was leading the military counterresponse via her phone calls while Trump watched tv and watched Rome burn. Thus, fulfilling an earlier prophecy that she would become President if Trump was impeached. Interesting to speculate how things would have been different/better under her reign.

Cassidy Hutchinson is the capital H hero of the Jan. 6 investigation, though, with her fearless candid testimony despite the fierce pressures on her and threats to her life. She is now going extra miles to testify in the Georgia case against Trump’s vote tampering; her testimony will dot a lot of i’s and cross a lot of t’s as Willis, the fearless black woman prosecutor, (another hero) moves toward indictments in December.

the wind maniacally blowing leaves off the trees, the first two discs of my Bach collected works CD box. Perfect for the moment!

142 CDs of thoughtful, meditative music.