Normally I have dog biscuits for pooches in the village. They know I feed them and we exchange pats and tail wags. I can look like the Pied Piper with my doggie treat bag in place of a flute and four-footed, fuzzy creatures trotting after or gazing up at me.
A few months after someone loses a loved one, I send flowers with a thinking of you message or take them to lunch. This was my mother's trick. She believed grieving people have lots of attention immediately after the death of their loved one, but in a few weeks or months, their grief is ignored and that's when they need someone to be there for them.
I make sure no one is alone on Christmas.
I find joy in a blue sky and also when snow falls.
Colors make my eyes happy.
Although I enjoy alone time, friends are important. I love listening to their happy times, but try and be there for their sad. I don't want to be just a fair-weather or foul-weather friend.
My daughter and I are friends. I'm a friend to her friends. When we lived together both of us would chat with whomever was calling and after a few minutes or more pass the phone on with the words, "It's for you."
If I see someone who needs help with a bag, I will carry it.
I give money or time to good causes.
I don't usually think of myself a bad person.
Trump has turned me into a hater with what he is doing to my birth country. I hate him, ICE, his incompetent cabinet and the ignorance shown by most MAGA people who put him in power.
I saw a man in a red MAGA hat in a tiny village in the south of France. It is the only one I've ever seen. I wanted to yell at him, kick him, which would be stupid. He was well over six feet and I'm just over five.
I know Iran's leadership for decades has represented what I don't believe in. It's especially grating to my feminist instincts. But I know enough history to understand why the Iranians have animosity to the U.S.
I don't believe any country has a right to change another government's rulers. When the U.S. has tried, the new governments are equally bad or worse. I hate that the U.S. feels it can just attack anyone they feel like, because that's what they are doing.
I feel guilty that I hope that if the families of those killed and those that will be killed have parents who voted for Trump know that they had a part in their child's death. That they were too ignorant and/or stupid not to realize the lies their government has been spouting.
In Washington D.C. there's a long black 246-foot wall with over 58,000 names of soldiers who were killed in Vietnam. They never should have been there. Secretary McNamara later wrote about the mistakes and outright lies people were told. The owners of many of those names on the wall thought they were protecting their country and went to their deaths proudly for a cause, albeit a phony one. Others were drafted. Some who survived were badly damaged physically or mentally or both. I hate those responsible and the fact it is happening again only increases my hatred.
Weapons of Mass Destruction lies killed too many people from the U.S. from Iraq from Afghanistan. For nothing. Nothing. Nothing. The Taliban are back in control.
Wikipedia has a list of the wars the U.S. has participated in since before it was the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_wars_involving_the_United_States Wikipedia says
"As of the current date, the United States is involved in 8 publicly known military engagements across 6 different wars. Wars with direct U.S. involvement include War on terror (Somalia, Syria and Yemen), the war on cartels (Venezuela) and Operation Epic Fury (Iran). Wars with indirect U.S. involvement include the Russo-Ukrainian war (U.S. involvement), the Gaza war (U.S. involvement), and the Israel–Hezbollah conflict." Wikipedia
The U.S. not only has turned its back on 70,000 people killed in the Gaza genocide, and it is a genocide no matter what mealy-mouth politicians claim, but punishes those that speak out against it. It doesn't mean that I supported the October 7th attack on Israel but 1000 people against 70,000 isn't any kind of balance.
My hate list includes Trump, Netanyahu, Stephen Miller, and any congress member that backs Trump, the incompetent cabinet, the new lineup at CBS that spews Fox-like propaganda, people who didn't get educated enough to be fooled by leaders and more.
That's a lot of hate. No one I hate feels the wrath that leaves me with a knotted stomach. I fight to push it away and replace it with the beauty of life. I try not to feel guilty for hating and not being able to do anything to stop the atrocities all around me.
The most I can do is write articles like this. The people that need to be removed from power are the same ones destroying my birth country from within. They will never see my words or pay the price for the damages to Americans and to others around the world.
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