Well..... in These titles mean nothing.

Ok. I guess I’ll try to write.

I have had ideas but they are gone.

I have books.

• Joyce Carol Oates’ Middle Age which I just finished and recommend highly.

• Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir Born to Run, which I am dipping in and out of and which is of course good.

I have a song by Waylon Jennings that I like.

Weather’s nice. Winter but you expect that this time of year.

Our political scene is a mess. Electing Trump President was a mistake. I surely did not vote for him or support him in any way, but maybe I could have worked harder against him.

His election was a fluke. No one expected it. But now we have him.

I really don’t know what to do about it. There will be another congressional election in November 2018. At that time we can elect Democrats to congress and to our state legislatures. Most state governors are elected at the mid-term election too. Iowa is totally in control by the Republicans. Both our US Senators and three of our four congressional Representatives are Republicans.

So it’s hard to look for help in controlling what Trump wants to do. He does not make sense. He lies. He seems capable of anything. He doesn’t seem very smart. He doesn’t seem to see any consequences to his actions. I think it was his mother’s fault. She must not have brought him up to see that actions have results. Too bad. For all of us.

I have always been a Democrat. I will always be a Democrat. It’s hard though now to feel good about that. It feels like all the good people are in the past. All the reform and positive things are in the past. We seem to be eddying down the swampy drain.

I read things I don’t like. I find very little that I do like. There is a lot of bad news, bad feelings, just plain badness in the world. It’s here on my computer screen. It’s in my newspaper. It would be on radio and TV if I bothered to listen.

To be honest I don’t know if the protests help. I don’t know if anything helps. I don’t know if we are just on this big wide downhill slide. And there’s nothing to stop us.

I’m generally a happy person. I have a good life. I have been fortunate throughout my life that nothing really terrible has happened. I try to be good to people. I try to see the bright side. I try to be a careful person. I am usually rewarded for being a good person. I usually have what I need and a good bit of what I want. Is this going to be over too?

btw they announced at work that we will be working till June now. We are having too early calves. I’m still on my three NOs (sugar, wheat, soda). Gracie’s sore foot is all pretty much better.

Last updated January 29, 2017