It’s a sunny one, though everything now, even if it’s in perfect order, feels like it’s in disarray. Outside forces, inside forces, who’s to say?
Largely outside forces.
It’s one of those mornings where I assign tasks to myself, in my head, aloud, anywhere but on a to-do list, starting with “at some point today.”
At some point today I need to figure out why the pedal on my stationary bike felt odd. (Probably need to tighten a bolt.)
At some point today I need to put in a grocery order.
At some point today, I need to fold laundry.
At some point today, I’ve got to shred half the cheese that needs to go in the freezer.
At some point today I need to figure out how to stop this snowballing landslide into fascism and fully-fledged dystopia.
You know how it goes.
And then I play a match three for ten minutes to clear my brain so I can run through it all again. Can you have a fully aware fugue state?
I think the moment that was my undoing this morning was seeing Gov. Pritzker asking ICE nicely to let children enjoy Halloween. I can’t tell you how much I wish that was satire or hyperbole, but he literally had to ask, and we all know how it will turn out.
Or at least those of us familiar with bullies and narcissists and narcissistic bullies know.
They will make sure to make it the most horrific, most terrible, most traumatizing experience ever.
And thus the mind loops, circling that thought, not quite able to hide it entirely away.
Given Kristi Noem is best known for killing her puppy, which she wrote about herself as a virtue in her own book, I doubt she’ll cooperate. I always contended that she wrote that as an example of how she has no empathy for the small and vulnerable, and the puppy was a symbol.
These are the people with power right now. May the universe have mercy on us all.
Except for them, of course. May the universe mete out whatever justice they deserve.
Anyway, that’s it for me, because at some point today, I have to wrap it up.
Have a great Thursday.
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