The weather is wild these days, but it is always beautiful here. I went out this morning to capture the gloomy sky, but farm life went usually. The intense heat and humidity is gone, at least for now.
But we are prepared for almost anything; the weather people seem pretty lost these days. We even had a tornado warning last week, something unheard of where we live. I’m avoiding the daily news hysteria. As I wrote a few days ago, President Biden will be gently but firmly pushed out of office. That becomes clearer by the day. His family has let him and the rest of us down.
The first polls are coming out, which is quite awful for him.
I don’t say this not as an ideologue but as a former political writer.
I don’t support either of these men, although Biden seems unusually decent for a politician. Even if he could survive the troubling debate, he can’t survive those polls.
I won’t write about politics regularly unless there is something worth saying. I don’t do hysteria. This is worth noting as the pretense of Biden hanging in there continues. It would be a suicide run for the Democratic Party.
Depending on how the Democratic leaders respond, this could be excellent news for our democracy.
Almost anyone on the rumored list of candidates would have eaten Mr. Trump alive in that debate and had a better chance of winning the election.
Biden’s family reminds me of the hospice patient families I see who keep urging their elderly parents to be tough and hang on beyond all reason.
There is a time to accept reality and move on. I feel this personally, I guess; I’m going to be 77 in a couple of weeks. I am doing well, but I could never handle the load of the Presidency.
It’s Joe Biden’s time to choose grace and think of the country. The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is neither surprising nor unexpected, but it will ensure the case against Trump does not occur during the campaign. People are asking how a sleeping Democratic Party allowed this to happen.
We got one egg today; at least one of the hens is molting.
We call this the “Bud” garden; the bulldog plant holder reminded us of him.
Fanny graving alone, one of the lovely morning sights here. The animals love to find shade in or near the solar panels.
A rare look at Maria’s vegetable garden, we already have a lot of kale.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
There are times now, when I am in disgusted awe with this political theater, and it is theater, truly. I will feel scared and unsafe for our future in one moment, and then I turn to those things for which I am grateful, and my heart feels settled and safe. There are those who warn me that I should be scared and angry, and DO something about it, yet, I don’t feel like being angry and scared will help anyone. So, the truth is, Jon, I follow your lead. You’ve got more experience in the world of politics than I do.