Saturday Open Thread - 5/30/26: Odds and Ends
Good morning, good people!
I hope you have a nice weekend planned!
I wrote about my neighbor/client/friend who spent her who 86 years of life ropin' and riden', and cattle ranching. Her published obit quoted her saying "The best seat I ever had was my saddle".
I will attend her viewing this afternoon.
But days later, another neighbor/friend/client, age 40, died by suicide. Maybe. She was thrilled about her son overcoming his drugs use and quitting school to run away, only to return home, great positive change, set to graduate 4 days prior to her suicide by hanging. The reformed son, her pride and joy, found her hanging in the closet. Oh, and her daughter's wedding is this week.
Now, if you think that is somehow "off", you start reminding me of me. It is possible her depression from separating from her second husband sent her to the dr. for SSRIs. They have a way of repairing depression by sending you to suicide.
We shall see.
I was her divorce attorney back in the day, and got her custody of her son and daughter. I would never have gone in if I thought she would ever hurt her kids. Yet another justification for me to walk away from family law, which I have this month. Her kids, especially her son, will never be able to forget this. Their lives are forever diminished, if not ruined.
As for good news, the fledgling red headed woodpecker finally figured out that in order to pick at the feeder and get a seed, peck at the holes, not the mesh wire. He is not retarded! I am so proud!
As for Cornyn and Paxton, I hate Paxton, hate Cornyn more. But, I am no fan of Talarico and think he is a nut. Under vote, come November.
From my college days: ( Missed it live...my dr. said I was to ill to risk attending Woodstock.)
So, what is up with you folks? This is an open thread, open to all info you wish to share with your friends on the site.
With that said, let 'er rip!
Comments
Good morning and Happy Saturday!
Well, folks, it is all I can do to not take blame for screwing up a kid's life after discovering his Mom's body. Everyone in town liked her. Nobody saw this coming. I wish she had hired another attorney to handle her case back in the day.
They'd be asking themselves these questions instead of me. Yet another reason to retire.
So, friends, your turn!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I've been following Platner
and often I have a very hard time telling who exactly is criticizing him this time. People don't usually have labels like far left or right on their atavar. Lots of genuine anger though, and lots of dislike.
A little digging usually reveals that I'm reading from a far right source and all the comments agreeing are also right nutters such as are commonly found online.
Mainstream Democrats also seem to dislike him but are quiet as he looks to win the Maine senate seat they need. I'm waiting for the hard left, and there is plenty there for them not to like. When asked about guns he replied he had some ARs. Not "an" not "a couple" but "some". he he. Platner also has spoken with the voice of a 4 tour infantryman, which can be a little rough around the edges.
Looking carefully at his background I don't see any there there. He does come from a family that has done well sporadically as have many New England families. That might well have filtered down to dad helping out with a mortgage or paying a years tuition at the prep school he dropped out of, but his mother sounds like a tie die wearing not very wealthy liberal, and that's where he grew up, a long way from his lawyerly dad.
I'd think "progressives" would find him distasteful but they haven't yet morphed over to more widespread hating as with Fetterman.
Interesting.
Ukraine continues along as it was, as does Russia.
Good morning...
The suicide sounds suspicious to me with graduation and wedding in the offing. Anyone have a grudge?
The world continues sitting on the fulcrum of power shifting east. The US is doing a pretty good job of alienating the majority of the world.
We're finally getting some rain, and have moved from drought to abnormally dry. Been sitting on the tractor trying to knock back the jungle. We caught rain at the festival last week as well. Decided to take and wash all the dirty clothes & sheets at the laundry mat to get it all done at once. To my surprise the fee for a single load is $10. Took three washers for all our stuff. How do poor folks get by? We were able to bring it all home and hang it outside to dry as it was the one dry day this week.
Enjoy your birds and wildlife. They know how to follow the patterns of life.
The Peace of Wild Things
by
Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives might be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Have a good weekend and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”