June 12, 2025- Angela sang a mix of love songs and reflective ballads, in the corner of Gypsy’s Bakery, where I stopped for a while to enjoy a light lunch. Gypsy’s is just one of several delightful spots that are within walking distance of Home Base I, making it as easy to take a meal out as it is to prepare my own. Angela’s music was an unexpected and soothing bonus.
I had a modest mission besides: Getting a back-up medical monitoring device, as my old one may be just wearing out, after fifteen years. I feel perfectly well, and want to keep it that way. With a potential addition to our family to consider, I need to be “in fighting trim”.
There are tempests swirling around, in other parts of the country and across the globe. These could be mitigated by clear communication, but the trend, for many years, has been to play close to the vest, and to talk in riddles. Another trend has been for people to approach one another like bulls in a china shop, or cannons aimed at mosquitos. Clarity, ahead of action, is the only way to avoid the miscommunication that has led us to our two current impasses, one domestic, the other international.
Some will say that the world is too complex for clarity. Well, we see what obfuscation has brought us: 249 dead in a plane crash in India; mass destruction in Iran; increasing tendency to pre-empt dissent, by merely arresting the possible dissenter(s) ahead of time. Obfuscation comes from ambition gone sideways; as does repression; as does vengeance.
I pray for all those in Israel, Iran, India and across our country, that there is safety and that there is a return to sanity-as well as clarity.
A Sagittarian Seeker 
one place who should have had clarity was Iran. They were told in no uncertain terms, they would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and they had 60 days to accept a deal. On day 61, the hounds were released. Seems pretty clear. We need more of the same on all fronts. My favorite politician now is officially John Fetterman, my newly adopted Senator from PA. He actually is one of the few speaking with clarity and purpose. Who knew?
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Senator Fetterman is a fine public servant. He gave both extremes a chance to prove themselves and is now forging his own path-with, as you say, clarity and purpose. Iran is learning the hard way, but with my own knowledge of Israel, it seems like a no-brainer that this would have happened. The clerics made their bed and so it goes.
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Congratulations on the anticipated new addition to the family! Yes clarity is needed and not likely to come any time soon.
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The “unforeseen” crisis in western Asia will bring clarity to the fore, a lot sooner than many in the West expected.
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We are in a myopic era….
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Myopia has always been in the background.
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True, but now it is in the foreground and yet the afflicted cannot see!
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Some are starting to see: Cue Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green standing with AOC, calling for sanity in foreign policy.
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It is a strange, strange world!
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It goes to show that some principles are not bound by “the political spectrum”.
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ve always felt that you write your posts for yourself, so have refrained from responding to ‘hints,” or posts that I felt were not quite clear. There is a clear hint in this post, though, that deserves a congratulatory message. How exciting that you are expecting a first grandchild!
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Thank you, Janet! It is probably the worst kept secret, but we are very hopeful, with each sign that things are progressing.
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