Framing the Sound

Tag: president

  • The "Oh Well" Generation

     I know there’s a lot of folks who’re scared and worried about what might happen during the next four years. President Donald Trump and his unorthodox method of doing things is certainly a cause for fear and worry. We’ve not had (in my Baby Boomer lifetime) this type of leader in the United States before. I’m not a presidential historian, but if you were to make a comparison between President Trump and those that have came and gone before him, you’d probably not see any resemblance of what we’ve come to know as President of The United States of America. 

    I watched a video recently and this fella was discussing his take on the pardons issued by President Trump of those who had been arrested and imprisoned for the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The person in the video was concerned about there not being enough of an uproar about those pardons. He said that our attitudes about it were “oh well.” As in, oh well, what will be will be, or it is what it is, or oh well, we can’t do much about it anyway. 

    I guess I’m guilty of thinking “oh well.” Does that mean I don’t care what happens during the next four years? No, of course I care what happens. But deep down inside I know I’m just a bystander, watching from the sidelines trying to stay up to date on what’s happening. I can’t change what happens in the White House, so I guess I’ll just hang out here in my house, and mumble to myself as I watch the latest headlines: “Oh well.” 

    Planet of Political Perdition?

      

  • A New Leader

     It’s time for a new leader to take the reins. And all I can do is hope that the decisions made during the next four years will benefit all of us. The benefits  may be itty bitty for some and quite extravagant for others. Who determines the doling out of these blessings is what puzzles me. But it always has and probably always will. 

    I’m not educated enough in politics to discuss how it all works, My basic understanding is that the president, congress, and senate are all supposed to be in favor of helping everyone else outside of that rather entangled sphere of things. 

    It gets even more tangled when I see the benefits he gets compared to what we get and I try to understand how the distribution system (politics?) works. Spock said it best when he was locked down in the engineroom of the Enterprise dying from radiation poisoning: “Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh…” Kirk finishes for him, “The needs of the few.” Spock replies, “Or the one.”  

                                        

    My brother is an artist and sometimes I’ll give him a prompt and he’ll do a bunch of magic with brushes and paint and turn out something like what you see above. I have it framed on my wall directly in front of my desk. There’re so many fascinating and interesting things going on in that painting. And every time I look at it, I see something I’ve not noticed before. I don’t remember the prompt I gave, I’m just grateful he painted it for me. I think I’ll give him the Spock and Kirk exchange for a prompt and see if he has time to create another magical painting. Maybe “The Golden Age” would be a good prompt?