Hooray!

Yesterday we went to Rodeo Beach to see the predicted “big waves”.  There was an exhilarating breeze, but very well-behaved and gentle waves, which perhaps was a prediction of the election results which were certainly in favor of the “good guys”.  Trump didn’t listen to the protests, and he again claims the elections were rigged, but the lies are now exposed.

Robert Hubbell today:  The period from November 2024 to November 2025 has been challenging for many reasons. A difficult emotional challenge has been the constant barrage of lies about what happened in 2024. The presidential election was excruciatingly close. But for two hundred thousand votes in three states, Kamala Harris would be president. Trump did not win a majority of the popular vote. Indeed, most people who voted in 2024 voted against Trump! His narrow plurality was distorted by the “winner-take-all” rules of the Electoral College.

As Republicans unleashed an unprecedented reign of lawlessness, retribution, and mean-spirited actions motivated by bigotry, they claimed the right to do so because of Trump’s alleged “landslide victory”—a lie. They claimed Trump had a “mandate” to override the Constitution. Another lie. They claimed that “the people” supported Trump’s anti-democratic assault on democracy. The biggest lie of all.

The wind is blowing and rain is falling, and the plants where I live are clapping their roots together and rejoicing.  Me, too.  

Gentle waves at low tide at Rodeo Beach
Co-existence

Exchange as a freighter enters the Golden Gate.

Bluesky

I’ve never been on Twitter, now X, and haven’t been on Facebook for some time now but today I read about the coup stopped in South Korea, and accountability for Trump’s choices, and though the media in this country excuses Trump’s pardons and goes after Biden with one pardon for his son who was targeted as his son, it seems the people are awake and responding.

Bluesky is exploding as a social media alternative to X which is now compromised by Musk.

Bluesky focuses on users, not advertisers, and is not bought, utilized, and managed by the richest man in the world for one purpose, his own.

Reflect!

The Hearings

I watched all three hours last night. It’s inspiring to see the two parties cooperating, to see ethics and morality in action. What a contrast to the other side.

If you missed it, or want to refresh, Heather Cox Richardson reports with her usual insight and depth.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Morning Fog Moving to Clear – may the hearings continue to bring forth the same

This Morning

I knew the second January 6 committee hearings would be hard to watch, and it was, and I stayed with it.

I began this morning with this quote as support:


Think of the breath as a whole-body process. It’s not just the air coming in and out of the lungs. It’s the flow of energy throughout the body, part of which is related to the flow of the blood and to the sense of aliveness in your nerves. Try to be sensitive to the whole body as you breathe in and breathe out.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Less Is More”

I find myself still shaking at how “Team Normal” was overrun by the lies, lies, lies of “Team Crazy”.

And the sun shines through the trees –