“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.”
—Harry Truman, 1952
@BruceCoffman12 @valleyFrank72 @maddiev_98@RBReich The timber barons made even more money off of the backs of hardworking Pacific NW loggers this way back in the early decades of 1900. There was a rural SW WA.State town called Ryderwood back then that owned the houses they rented to the loggers & the food, clothes they bought.
to be old is to see the world
through decades spanning time & space
in unfolding landscapes of lived days
so that sometimes a searched for word
can be slow to come to focus
& this may be the opposite of lack
the wide perspective of a kaleidoscopic blossoming on one long page
*takes a knee in front of kindergarteners*
there are five human senses that you all need to familiarize yourselves with. they are: sight, touch, loudness, suffering, inadequacies, lazy, jolly, cake boss…*i look them dead in the eyes*…& don’t forget futility