The greatest president of all time says some stuff

Two men for the ages

Abraham Lincoln, a president almost as great, and nearly as victimized, as is Donald J. Trump, provided one of the best speech’s in American history.

It is called the Gettysburg address.

In this speech, Lincoln is memorializing fallen heroes of the great civil war. It was indeed, a great war, as great as the great country made great in just four great years by Donald J. Trump.

The most significant parts of the Gettysburg address refer to “a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

More than a century later, it is all too easy to see the flaw in “all men are created equal,” since it entirely leaves out the ladies, our overlord cats, and our soon to be overlord robots. Then there is the racism over which the civil war was fought in the first place, which was only ended by Donald J. Trump. By his own admission, he is “the least racist person” you could ever know. …

Thanks for surviving as long as you did, old man.

Aging fast

In January you got a headache listening to impeachment hearings, and some bats, upset at being skewered alive squeaked both prayers and curses at you in regard to zoonotic viral contagions. Several people were trampled to death at the funeral of a state-ordered assassination of General Soleimani in Iran, and a plane crash shortly thereafter caused a few more wrinkles in time.

By the second month, you and the whole world, were confused when Meghan Markle and Prince Harry divorced the royal family in a first ever “reverse Cinderella” move. Christina Koch, holding the world’s record for number of days in space at almost a full year, returned to Earth among murmurs of “Christina Who?” and “NASA is still a thing?” …

The good, the bad, and the really ugly. Which one are YOU?

Time for all good humans to come to the aid of their…

If you are a liberal, or progressive, chances are higher that you want to improve Earth, and enact clean policy. If you are a conservative, or right-leaning voter, chances are you want to go back to an era of clean air, clean water, clean values, and, well, clean everything.

As in most struggles against the “others,” even more chances are much higher that you see yourself as the good guy.

This is a problem.

When we see ourselves as the good guys, we are much less inclined to recognize our own power to influence the good. We become, as 2020, certainly saw, divided, blame-worthy, and polarized to the point where we truly believe if we just get rid of the _____________ (insert your favorite nefarious scapegoats here), we think we can all have better lives. …

2020 was challenging

Many of us couldn’t breathe. There was COVID 19. There was tear gas. Smoke coated the hot air out west. New tools to tackle all of it are being fashioned. A vaccine is coming. Social reforms are coming. Divestment in fossil fuels is coming.

Although much of our inability to breathe freely is disproportionate, the immensity of these challenges forcefully displays how small our spaceship Earth really is, and who keeps it running, our essential workers.

The nurses, the teachers, the clerks, but also the birds, bees, and the trees we can plant to replenish the west with breathable air; all hands-on deck are needed. …

Dangerous mythology teaches something to our kids and it’s not as generous or harmless as you might think

Crushing Magic

When I was a child, I never got the “magic” of Christmas because my sister, three years older than I was, smashed it. She, a snotty, bossy, six-year old, Karen, know -it- all, explained that “Santa Claus is not real.

“ It’s all mom and dad.”

As a toddler, I scanned the skies for reindeer. I was waiting sleeplessly in our shared room at the tender age of three and a half. Still, at this disturbing revelation, I remember being more intrigued than disappointed.

If fact, if I was disappointed, I didn’t show it or let on. Looking back, especially as a clinical psychologist, it is clear that I was in classical denial. …

Examining how innovative food trends will revolutionize our ways of eating, and help you thrive at work and home

2020 woke people up in regards to foodways

Twenty twenty provided 20/20 hindsight about some of the ways we produce, obtain, and distribute food. There are lessons to learn, but also opportunities for aligning our food habits with healthy Earth ways.

If you eat every day, you should invest a bit more time in thinking about food.

Possibly, you might consider investing your energy and time into related industries, or actual financial investments.

The world of food is our world. It is undergoing remarkable revolutions.

Food is more than our sustenance, most of our industries are in one way or another related to how your lunch is sourced, where you eat it, and the reason you work at all in order to “bring home the bacon.” Obviously, if we are to continue to eat and sustain a planet to raise plant- and animal-based foods, we will have to innovate quickly, and with tremendous determination. …

“Go to hell” is an inadequate response as they are already there.

Pretend they don’t exist?

For years now we have heard or seen stories about migration, legal and illegal, forbidden, restricted, and in some exceptional cases, allowed. We have seen images of the dead washed up on the shores of the Rio Grande, or floating in the Mediterranean sea.

We have heard of disease and despair, the constant companions of refugees, surging through camps, or crowded border towns. We’ve seen people outraged, because some people are offended by the ordeal of children in cages, or torn from their parents. Others are not concerned.

In Europe we have clamoring for Brexit. EU member states have drastically reduced trans-border crossings in 2020 due to the pandemic. The populist German AfD party calls for a zero immigration” policy, or other tough measures. In the Western hemisphere, we have fear-mongering, and mass deportations. For the incoming Biden administration, the only certainty is that there will be conflicts and struggles about walls, policy, rules, and restrictions. …