This will give you a good idea how I deal with a steady stream of ideas I don’t want to forget. You see most of the computer screen of my incoming emails most of which here come from my sending a random thought to myself. Some of these emails have more on the particular thought in the subject heading but not always.
On the bottom my first email on this page came a few minutes before I crawled out of bed. Its one of several Duolingo reminders I get to keep my now 1916 days of continuous participation going. Duo encourages that and gives people ways to protect their “streak” when they give Duo a rest. I don’t think I’ve skipped more than a day or two without at least one Duo exercise in all that time so my streak is pretty firm. In fact in the annual review I’m sent of my productivity for my fifth year of Duo I was in the top 1 percent such is my industry. I will add another fifteen minutes at least tonight added to the 30 I’ve put in this morning. No matter how much I want to save the world by defeating a piece of pocket lint for Congress I’ll keep it up. If I do live to be 100 which has been my goal since fifth grade I’d like to be able to write a book for a French audience and that will take another five years although AI translators might make it possible sooner.
And I’m very pleased with myself. I’ve posted a picture here the two first versions of a roughly 20 page booklet to kick off my Congressional race. Last night after watching the third from the last episode of the Crown as well the final Reacher and Fargo episodes I stayed up to add a thousand more words to my rough draft of the Reader column for two weeks from now about my Grandfather’s death. I have another 1,000 words ready in a rough draft to work on after I return from my Friday gig serving food at the Damiano Soup Kitchen this afternoon. It appears to me that I am in something of a writer’s Zone. I’m also in something of a campaign organizational zone too. It could all evaporate but I’m not too worried about that at the moment.
Make what you will of the subject headings above although here’s a hint. The Christians, or “Christians” that support Donald Trump are flawed specimens of followers of Jesus all too prone to gun ownership, wishing their detractors would die and a great threat to outsider religions making use of the First Amendment’s protections of Religious liberty while employing ministers who are wings of the Republican party which should pretty well exclude them from any protection from paying taxes.
I know their religious predecessors a quarter century ago were disgusted with Democrats who stuck by Bill Clinton after he was caught cheating on Hillary. So their elevation of the biggest sex cheating President to the rank of old testament royalty strikes me as an enormouse act of hypocrisy. Frankly, it disgusts me and when I hang around Republican circles I’ll be happy to point that out to them. Jesus would. WWJC! But as I’ve reported before when evangelical pastors read the words of Jesus about treating the poor well and acting like the Good Samaritan it upsets a lot of them because they don’t want Jesus to be a wuss. Perhaps some of them should have nails driven into their wrists? Many of them like it when other people are tortured. Yay Guantanamo! 60 years ago a lot of them defended Mai Lai too.
