Open Thread
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Open Thread
The world and our politics, whether global or domestic, all seem hopelessly cocked up and abysmal—not to put too fine a point on it. It’s the negativity bias speaking. It turns the daily news into ominous noise automatically.
When I venture into daily politics—which I’ll do out of old habit from time to time—I usually regret it. I used to cheerlead enthusiastically (for the partisan R team), but the enjoyment of that dried up and blew away in about 2015.
The Universe goes on without a concern as to what I think of it.
Oh, well. Knowing that is solace in so many ways. It leads to the realization that following current events is a fruitless waste of energy for the most part. Knowing that frees up so much time to delve into other things. Those other things may or may not be fruitless, but they are at least mainly less frustrating.
What’s underway in your world? What’s on your mind?
Good morning. I've been out for a walk before the excessive heat arrives. I observed two cats and a few rabbits. One of the cats was an orange one that Daughter D is taking care of this week,. I'm about to go wake her up and tell her the orange cat is ready for breakfast.
I also plan to clean the stove today.
Been in Kansas City for the last three days with my son and grandson to see our Pirates lose twice to the hapless Royals. Eaten a lot of barbecue, visited the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame, the American Jazz Museum, and the World War I museum. Off today (after visiting a couple of used bookstores) to north-central Kansas, a tiny town where my Mom was born and raised. We will connect with long-lost second cousins (whom I don’t know) and visit the cemetery where my grandparents (whom I never met) are buried.
From what I can tell, my wife seems, depressingly, to be living a full and rich life back home in Rochester, NY without me.