Like most people, I’ve watched the process of impeaching Donald Trump with some level of interest. However, compared to other things that have happened during the 3 years of his presidency, I haven’t paid day-to-day attention to every nuance and development. A few days ago, as things began to crescendo towards conclusion, I actually spent some time thinking about the…
Category: Politics
Hate
The world is filled with hate. I struggle with it. I fight it in myself all the time. But I have to finally admit it. I too am filled with hatred. It’s bursting from within me, it fills every fiber of my being. I struggle to contain the hatred, on a near-daily basis. I am literally triggered by it. It…
I understand. Yet I will never understand.
We make it stupidly hard for someone like him to deal with all that a deteriorating body throws at him, but we made it really easy for him to buy the gun he took his own life with. A lot easier than it was for me to have his cable TV shut off after he passed. Think about how fucked…
Morning
“It’s Morning Again in America”. I’m old enough to remember that phrase, from a storied TV commercial from Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential campaign. It was such a hopeful statement. Morning’s represent new. The dawn of a new day. I’ve never been a morning person, figuratively, or literally. My mornings for the last few years (i.e., the smartphone years)…
Present
I’ve been present, but quiet. I’ve taken a short sabbatical from writing. The impetus for creating Genuine Fake Watches was to share my thoughts in longer form and with more thoughtfulness than social media allows. I've been present, but not ready. I’ve been present, but also very conflicted. I like social media because it enables me to stay in…
Dreams
The word "dreams" can be a noun. You might say: “last night, I had a dream”. Another usage is aspirational. You might say: “I dream of being a good person” There is also an adjective usage of dreams representing something desirable: “it’s my dream that everybody just get along”. Dreams are a fascinating subject. We all have them, sometimes good,…