Sobered by last night and trying to practice what people call radical acceptance, not of a presidential candidate because surprising things happen. Just plainly sobered by the thought that, with other individuals to choose from, masses of people still hail Trump. He’s what they actually want in a leader. A bully. A verbally abusive, artfully and purposely divisive bully who has all but left the Republican Party unrecognizable. I don’t know. I just can’t understand it. Maybe I’ve got a mental block. But, you who are staunch Republicans, why don’t you care about your own party more than that?
Forgive me. I don’t want to be a repeat performance of my 2016 self. I don’t. I didn’t like her anymore than you did. I intend to deal differently with this. I do not intend to get obsessed. I do not intend to lose more relationships. I don’t intend to talk about this regularly.
As the Scriptures say, I want to seek peace and pursue it. I want to be a person of kindness, love and compassion.
But I’ve got to move to a place of radical acceptance. It was one thing to cast a vote for a party’s only candidate, reasoning the choice as the lesser of two evils. This is quite another thing. This is wide-open-eyed, “we WANT Trump!”
Anyway, this is where we are. We can complain all we want about our leaders but, in this government by the people, at the end of the day and the beginning of November, our candidates are mirrors of ourselves.
My grandmother was killed in a bomb bunker in Tokyo bombings. My father, by far the most physically weak of the siblings, survived because he could not enlist (and he was also in high school but many of his friends still enlisted and died). I am here, an artist, because my father, the scientist, survived and became a pioneer in pure acoustics research.
May there be a child in Gaza or Israel who will be shielded, and become a scientist, artist or whatever the gift, to reshape our future. May that child be protected improbably in the atrocities of this day. @FujimuraInst #PRAYERFORPEACE
These bills aren't about kids' mental health, religious liberty, or even spreading Christianity. They're the legislative equivalent of canine urine. It's Christian Nationalists claiming dominance in the culture by marking public schools as their territory. https://t.co/FPv93co36T
@MelissaMoore77 ‘To deal with the reality of life…’ I have been attempting to explain to a couple of friends my frustration with truisms, and how a faith engaged with reality is so good…this is it.
@brotherjones_ did not ‘bring his friends’ These kids, these families are showing up because they desperately want to be heard…he was standing with them, confronting the recklessness of this body.
GOP state Rep. Andrew Farmer, who filed a resolution to formally expel the Democrats, calls the protest a “temper tantrum” and says they “could just pass a bill”