No matter where I am I try to make the best of it. :-)

However, I have very few things tying me down. At least compared to many people. Never married, no kids, not a lot of stuff.

But where I live now, albeit a place where many claim to love, I have heard more disparagement than friendship, more greedy talk than love. It’s wearing me out.

It’s possible I could talk myself into staying in the U.S. and moving to one of those areas in the so-called “Rust Belt” that are near desolate with people and full of abandoned homes. But even though my needs are modest, I still need some form of income to pay the bills. So I guess it’s a matter of finding an organization where I fit, and a community that is accepting and doesn’t view me as someone from on high to tell them how to fix themselves.

I think I would like to be a part of the community gardening movement, helping local folks learn more about planting their own food, using empty lots, testing the soil, selling extra food to restaurants, etc…

The biggest problem I have is I would still be a part of a system that has no problem throwing tens and hundreds of billions of dollars at wasteful and idiotic corporations that blithely ignored common sense for decades, money that seems to have just gone in the pockets of people who are already grossly overpaid. A system that has no problem promising gargantuan “assistance” donations to foreign lands, but, in essence, tells us citizens we are lazy and looking for a handout. A system that props up so many companies that prey on humanity with weaponry, war, and the like because those are “high paying” jobs involving technology.

Is this really the “land of the free and home of the brave?” Seems more like the land of cowards who are afraid and need to create an insane amount of weapons, a land that’s a police state where everyone is mistrusted.

I guess there is a larger-scheme reason for all of this. My thought is that God is just waiting for the people in power, and the people drenched in money to continue proving they do not deserve it, at least it seems most of them are that way. I’m kind of sad now, in case you haven’t guessed.

Frankly I hate hearing “our best days are ahead” when I don’t hear any effort to overcome my complaints above, or suggestions. I only see coming disasters. The blind are leading the blind and telling them “everything is going to be OK.” Lipstick on a pig, lipstick on a pitbull.

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