Some thoughts after a nice Saturday and half bottle of wine....

[NRaleighLiberal]

Funny how we can jump from the outrage of political discourse (after a few hours on DU, TPM, other sites) into our everyday lives - today was a pretty typical day....after a nice cup of coffee, took a trip to the Farmer's Market then Trader Joe with my daughter, then watered my garden...then to Lowe's to look at home improvement stuff with my wife, then watched the Red Sox beat LA....then dinner with the wine.

So, pretty ordinary - but extraordinary in that we got to do real things. Garden, get hands dirty, rub elbows with all sorts of cool people at the market....

NOTHING like the sort of life that those who "govern us" (:sarcasm: )live. Do they realize how ludicrous they appear to those of us who are busy living every day life? Do they realize how crazy their waste, greed, hypocrisy and lies drive those of us to just try to do the right thing for our loved ones and our friends and the environment and the world? Can a group of people so incredibly detached from the very people they govern do the right thing and make the right decisions for us? I think not.

I am thankful that we, as people, can turn off the horrendous politics that our 24 hour news cycle and endless internet access provide, and jump back into whichever world we live in. And I realize that I am very fortunate - to have a wonderful wife of 30 years, great hobbies, and all the "things" that should never be taken for granted, and that so many in the world don't have - a house, food - the basics. I am fortunate that places like DU exist, that people that inhabit places like DU exist. If I couldn't turn off the politics - what is going on with the endless, senseless wars, the environmental tragedy in the Gulf, to name just a few issues - would make being able to slip into my "normal" life impossible.

I guess I wish for something different - different than greed tinged capitalism, from a country where a few have so much, and do many have so little. My daughter, quite wise, with several stints in the Peace Corps in her pocket, and I talk about this sort of thing often. Neither of us has the answer, but what is the present is clearly not working.

Well, have a wonderful Saturday evening, everyone....time to walk the dogs! (whoops....had talk! though we can talk to them....they get some of what we say, but being chocolate labs, it is mostly about walks and food!)

[blue neen]

1. It sound like you had the same kind of enjoyable Saturday that we did.

It was nice to turn off the news...the right-wing spin machine.

Happy Father's Day! :toast:

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Thanks! You too!

Should have a nice breakfast courtesy of my wife, then dinner and dessert by my two girls (25 and 29). I am a lucky dad indeed!

[Booster]

3. Have a good Father's Day and kiss your daughter for her work

with the Peace Corps. Sounds like you and your wife did all the right things. I almost think it should be required that young people do some kind of work outside their own country to get a perspective on things. :hug:

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Thanks. We are proud of her. She is off to Madagascar again for another 6 months -

the lack of good jobs/economy has frustrated her, and being a bleeding heart (like me), what is going on in the world is taking an emotional toll on her.

[Booster]

6. How old is she? I wish I owned a big ol' mega-company cause

I'd hire her in a New York minute. She must be a wonderful person no matter how old she is. Bless her heart.

[sabrina 1]

5. What I wonder about those who are addicted to money and power

to the point of not caring about the deaths of other people, troops, Iraqis etc. or the destruction of environments, don't they care about their own families? Even if they don't care about anyone else, don't they realize that the world they are creating will be the one their grand-children will have to live in.

They may have money, but they are not rich, they are poor. You sound like a person who is far richer than they are.

Happy Father's Day, you sound like you have a lovely family :-)