It is much easier to unfollow than unfriend on social media. You can also snooze them for thirty day as well.
When someone gets mouthy about politics, I scroll to where you can unfollow them and their posts will no longer appear on my feed, but we are still friends on Facebook… kumbaya
In fact, I did one last night and another one this morning.
I took a line from “Roads” by Edward Thomas today. Life goes on and sometimes we forget or choose not to remember, but like the metaphor of a shooting star, we too flame out quickly in the evening sky.
Our significance only lasts for a fleeting moment and during that quick second…
… I don’t give two shits about your political opinion on war and the economy.
Also, like a shooting star…
… this too shall pass.
In 1,406 days we will have elected a new leader.
The Clinton years seem like yesterday to me, but they are thirty years ago. Which means the Nixon years are fifty years ago and the Eisenhower administration was seventy years ago.
All fleeting moments.
Do you remember that clacker thing on the principals desk?
The balance pendulum with the metal silver spheres, Newton’s cradle.
American politics is just like those clanking balls. There is a shit ton of noise and movement coming from the outside balls. Similar to our extreme beliefs from the left and the right.
The middle isn’t doing much movement, staying calm and creating the forces that gets the work done.
Political movements come and go, but our government was designed to keep focused and keep America going.
It isn’t worth getting unfriended and uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner.
Keep your pie hole shut.
Celebrate Doctor King’s legacy. Bid President Biden adieu and thank him for his fifty years in politics. Wish President Trump luck in guidance during his second term as president and hunker down and root for the teams playing football tonight.
Straight F’s in Life
FOUNDATION: FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDS and College FOOTBALL.
Be astonished while you can, the moment is constantly fleeting away
