2025 Daily - 10/01/2025 - politically - what do I want ... and yiskor....

First .. about Yiskor --- I am not really sure how to think really positively when remembering my father (lawyer's warning), mother (whatever her issues were with men!), and sister (final digs.....I think!). SO that is tomorrow....

MOVING ON...

Action-wise Saturday morning "thing" at Jan Newmans.... 10am - noon.... What am I passionatel about? Her questions in her last email goes:

"My(her) personal goal is to grow community connection, resilience, and resistance one friend at a time.

Besides a little eating and chatting, we'll take a look at:

• the moment we're in
• the need for mass defiance
• the 'pillars' framework and our influence
• effective tactics applicable to your specific interest

We'll also have an activity and leave time for conversation. I have postcards if you'd like to take some home, too."

So - what is MY specific interest? Or interests....

LIFE ... I'm against captial punishment

Humanity -- (and see more below about what I wrote earlier)  I question the idea ... that any living being is not a human with whom I can talk and live. That goes against ideas such as: It is not Americans we hate ... it is your leaders... OR - it is not the Palestinian people... it is Hamas and such leaders and terroists... etc. etc.. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO A ARE NOT HUMAN .... ARE THE DEAD. The point is... let us not look back but let us look forward. How can we find the humanity is those who seem to be the worst possible!!!! Haman, Hitler, Hezbollah, Hamas, ???? - How can we take the "H" out those baddies and leave "H" in Human?

FAIRNESS...  An end to greed and the great multiples of money paid to CEOs etc...

I wrote earlier....

SO - to summarize and be comprehensive all people want:

peace

security

food

shelter

love

affection 

AND all people can:

hate

be hostile

have anxieties

AND ALSO:

People can be greedy and magnamouis... The point is to learn how to be good AND recognize the good AND understand the good of OTHERS.... Others are different... while we share commonalities ... we differ in what some of those commonalites look like and then there are  BIG OTHER WAYS...

MY PASSION - UNDERSTANDING AND BEING UNDERSTOOD. Find the good! And as they used to say: Give Peace A Chance!

That is also my problem ... as I sometimes do not ask questions, I sometimes forget answers, I am often misunderstood and I am too often left alone.

 With Peace would come the Peace Dividend... There would be money to feed and clothe and shelter all appropriately, fairly, rationally. Consider what could have been done with all the money spent in Afghanistan, Vietnam, the Middle East, etc, etc... Wars are great distractions from creating a good, fair, equal world.