Still alive

Just thought I'd drop a line.   We're still here.  Blogging has been feather light for a few reasons.  Not the least of which is because it's tough to figure out what is going on.  I've written for years that the press has lost all credibility.  I mean, I'd trust a faith healer who has a hernia, suffers from gout and is nearly deaf before I would take at face value anything coming from the modern press.  

But that's a problem.  Like many bloggers, I often key a post off of a single article or editorial or even social media page.  But before posting, I try to make sure that if I'm making a broader point, that the article in question isn't some fluke, and does represent fairly a given trend.  That is, I try to make sure it is correct and an accurate picture of what someone or some group is doing or saying.

Now it's nearly impossible.  I wrote here, somewhat half joking, that the press was going to go into full blown Venkman mode with the reelection of Donald Trump.  I only meant that somewhat to illustrate where I believed the focus would be.  That once again, with a Republican in the White House, the press would start admitting what is wrong in the country and the problems we all see, for those who actually think there might be some problems nowadays. 

But no.  They've gone into full blown bat crazy hysterics 101, with those on the Left giving up on figuring why they lost and just hunkering down into the insanity, the likes of which I've never seen in my lifetime.  And as has been the trend, more and more of those on the Left are simply blocking and banning anyone trying to point out the obvious.  Meaning it takes a lot of time now to get to the bottom of things, since almost everything reporting on them is beyond unbelievable, and attempts to clarify with those who are on that side are falling flat because of them shutting themselves out from dissenting views. 

And time, right now, is just something I don't have a lot of.  While I can't complain about things, that doesn't mean things haven't changed over the years, and there aren't more daily obligations on my part. It's not some horrible emergency, just the developments that happen in life.  And I'm happy to say, some of it is just the pleasant developments that can happen with the passing of years, and bring new things and new issues to contend with, but in a great way (grandfather observation there).

So I'm still around.  Just trying to juggle the changes in things with the changes in things on a social level to almost unbelievable levels of madness.  I'm reminded of something one of my sons said years ago.  Our big problem is we are led by a generation that believed it would save the world but came to realize it wasn't equal to the task. What we have now is what they have settled for instead, and it isn't doing anyone any good.  

But for now, it will be tough to unpack everything without falling into the trap of skirting the details or sweating the facts, times being what they are.  I still might start posting on more fun and whimsical things, but even then it's tough time-wise.  When I can put my thoughts together and perhaps take time to sort out the hurricane of wackiness, I'll post on it.  Until then, take care and God bless. 

On the bright side of all things, our obligatory and shameless granddaughter plug: 

Ten months seems so many years ago

And another thing that makes us smile.  We don't do all the total family activities that we used to for obvious reasons.  We still try on occasion, but it's usually around a million competing schedules and obligations.  Nonetheless, the boys try to get together, the four of them, at least once or twice a month just to hang out, go over to their home, go to the store and play games, or just spend time with each other.  If nothing else was there to put a silver lining around life's occasional clouds, their insistence on still doing things together will always make me happy. 

The game is called Root, a strange game to be sure