After revisiting all of these brilliant observations, little wonder that I feel the urge to make Asian cabbage rolls. Something, anything, to distract from the pile-on of terrible news and looming fascism our country has endured. A new recipe is desperately needed, and not just for cabbage rolls.
The headlines reminded me of what you wrote...and the picture locked it all in...We must save our constitution and democracy. We know the writers didn't have a lack of imagination, they thought the constitution was so strong it could never happen. But now true evil is trying to tear it to shreds... our job will be to fill those holes with ironclad protections...
Thank you for combining a few of your wonderful writings in one place as to the observations and ever changing assaults and onslaught we have felt this past year.
At about midyear year in 2025 wondered how our founding fathers felt in anticipation of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to ultimately decide to draft a new U.S. Constitution. How George Washington who presided over this group of men; having James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman (who Proposed the "Great Compromise") which created the “bicameral legislature” consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate that became “Congress”. To come to a masterpiece of our Constitution. While 55 men attended, only 39 signed the final document. Three delegates remained until the end but refused to sign because the original Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights.
Because this year in 2025 was a direct assault on everything they discussed of possibilities, from tyranny, executive power over reach, to negate the equal protection of three branches of government to serve for “We the People”.
So this year have taken time to read, research and fill both mind and body as to what is so much more to fight for. What an astonishing creation these men in their day wrote and foresaw that we have allowed through these past 249 years have changed and so much let slip away. Yes that Philadelphia convention created a stronger federal government with three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) and a system of checks and balances, establishing the framework for the U.S. government we have today and it’s our responsibility to keep it, and fight for it in every way possible and to pass on to future generations. Any alternatives are not an option. - Thank you for your voice ..
After revisiting all of these brilliant observations, little wonder that I feel the urge to make Asian cabbage rolls. Something, anything, to distract from the pile-on of terrible news and looming fascism our country has endured. A new recipe is desperately needed, and not just for cabbage rolls.
True. A new recipe.
The picture perfectly captures trump’s cluelessness and self absorption.
The headlines reminded me of what you wrote...and the picture locked it all in...We must save our constitution and democracy. We know the writers didn't have a lack of imagination, they thought the constitution was so strong it could never happen. But now true evil is trying to tear it to shreds... our job will be to fill those holes with ironclad protections...
Not ready for a review of 2025, but thank you for the work that you do in support of our democracy.
Thank you for combining a few of your wonderful writings in one place as to the observations and ever changing assaults and onslaught we have felt this past year.
At about midyear year in 2025 wondered how our founding fathers felt in anticipation of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to ultimately decide to draft a new U.S. Constitution. How George Washington who presided over this group of men; having James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman (who Proposed the "Great Compromise") which created the “bicameral legislature” consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate that became “Congress”. To come to a masterpiece of our Constitution. While 55 men attended, only 39 signed the final document. Three delegates remained until the end but refused to sign because the original Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights.
Because this year in 2025 was a direct assault on everything they discussed of possibilities, from tyranny, executive power over reach, to negate the equal protection of three branches of government to serve for “We the People”.
So this year have taken time to read, research and fill both mind and body as to what is so much more to fight for. What an astonishing creation these men in their day wrote and foresaw that we have allowed through these past 249 years have changed and so much let slip away. Yes that Philadelphia convention created a stronger federal government with three branches (legislative, executive, judicial) and a system of checks and balances, establishing the framework for the U.S. government we have today and it’s our responsibility to keep it, and fight for it in every way possible and to pass on to future generations. Any alternatives are not an option. - Thank you for your voice ..