September 13, 2020 – Sunday evening (covid raging, fires in the west raging, tempers raging … patience and tolerance flagging … 50 days until the election of our lifetime )
I am tired. Aren’t we all?
I just read a post that basically said what I’ve been thinking for a LONG time now … and it’s true. You are bombarded by so much (mentally, physically, emotionally) that you get to the exhaustion point and you stop caring about X, Y and Z.
It’s a good tactic because it works. Bombard your opponent with so much chaos that exhaustion sets in … and when exhaustion sets in one’s focus is honed to survival … water, food, shelter. Everything else is extra. And when you’re exhausted – there is no time/energy for anything extra.
I think that is the “tactic” (if they have one) of the Trump administration … bombard us with so much SHIT, on a daily basis, for months and years … that eventually we will stop caring what he and those that support and enable him do.
We are tired. But it’s time to rally. We have roughly 50 days until the election. Keep talking to your neighbors, family, friends, co-workers. We have to have everyone turn out and vote this election. Sanity, decency and our democracy are what we are voting for and what needs to be chosen this November. I BEG of you to keep on keeping on.
And, while you are doing that … I thought we could all use a little humor. And in “little” I mean a gigantic amount but I’ve got just a little here for you.
Whenever I would gift my dad (in the past), it was usually a food basket of selected goodies that I thought he’d enjoy (and not buy for himself) and a goofy t-shirt that he could wear to the gym. Yes – even on his 90th I got him a silly t-shirt. He was a chemist so I got him one that spelled out, using the periodic table of elements, “I (Iodine) Na (Sodium) P (Phosphorus) Periodically”. Ha ha. I thought it was clever. The day after his 90th, Dad passed away while taking one of his periodic afternoon naps. He was not wearing that shirt.
I’m just glad I refrained from getting him the one I was really wanting to … “My last chance of having a smoking hot body is cremation.”
Even though it would have been appropriate, I’m glad I went with the other. I’m thinking I should order that one for myself.
Anyway – I’m always, still, on the look-out for silly t-shirts with good slogans or a play on words. Here are some I saw in a catalog this week. I hope they relieve a bit of your weariness …
My body is a temple – ancient and crumbling – probably cursed or haunted
I just did a week’s worth of cardio after walking into a spider web
I’d grow my own food if I could only find bacon seeds
Drummers can’t be beat
LLamaste
The universe is made up of a lot of “ons” … protons, neutrons, electrons and morons
If history repeats itself I am SO getting a dinosaur
Zombies eat brains – you’re safe
Ambitchous – the desire to become a better bitch
I disappear into books. What’s your superpower?
So, apparently I have an attitude
A moment of SCIENCE, please!
Make lies wrong again.
Enjoy your day. Keep on keeping on …