Month: November 2020

I’m looking out at a beautiful warm sunny day in the woods as I write this. The time draws short before we close up Potlatch and head south for the winter. It is always a sad time but also exciting looking forward to the charms of St. Simons. Potlatch is a beehive of activity today…

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.  There’s no long commercial hype leading up to it, no pressure to decorate, and no presents necessary—just getting together and enjoying the company of friends and family. Yet Thanksgiving is a seriously meaningful holiday for all of us as we commemorate our good fortune, prosperity, and well-being. In…

I’ve enjoyed lots of wonderful Thanksgivings and lived through many presidential elections that came off reasonably well other than the 2000 Bush-Gore contest. Normally we would be putting the recent election behind us and getting ready for a festive family holiday. Not this year; bad times are here. With the pandemic raging out of control…

There’s much criticism and speculation about why Republicans in Congress have enabled the president and continued to support him after four years. This question has become more acute now since his denial of the election outcome and refusal to permit the transition to president-elect Biden.  What is even more puzzling for me, however, is why…

The last several days have have been splendid, reminding me that life is good.  Life goes on and we will blossom and prosper again despite the last four years of unprecedented abuse and nonsense at the top of our government. We only have 63 days until President-Elect Biden takes office. There won’t be any quick…

As truth goes the recent election didn’t change much other than get rid of our out-of-control president. Everything else basically stayed the course with the Democrats holding on to the House and the Republicans headed toward winning the Senate again provided they can win at least one of the two contested seats in Georgia. As…

Many of us, no doubt, are exhausted from keeping up with the recent election. Still, we are caught up in the aftermath as the president’s intransigence drags on like a bad dream. For my part, I have been seeking a respite from the uncertainty and absurdity by taking long walks in the woods with the…

This article is courtesy of a Canadian friend who sent it to me after reading yesterday’s post.  It strikes me as especially significant as it gives the view of our long time friends and closest neighbors.  Sometimes our friends elsewhere see our politics more clearly than we do. Reprint of article below from The Globe and…

As I thought about what I would write today, a flood of topics came to mind including the possibility that the president could have won reelection if he had not been himself.  If he had not acted as he has and had he stepped up to the challenge of the pandemic things might have turned…

For a long time now, well before the 2016 election, I have thought that it was time to rethink the nature and composition of our two major political parties. The last true realignment of parties was way back in 1854 when the present Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. The Republican Party was founded…