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What I am thinking about today: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the longest time, I have meditated on the question, \u201cWhat do we owe each other?\u201d This seems like a complex question, and delves to the heart of community, society, and kindness. Now, I am going to start asking, \u201cWhat do I have to do for me?\u201d Not in a selfish way, but what I do I need to do in order to hit Maslow\u2019s highest plateau of self-actualization. It would be easy to point at time in the past when I was insanely productive, in a relationship that felt effortless, or was incredibly fulfilled by work, but those things are all transitory. It\u2019s a mix of finding the best self-care, being productive on what I feel is important, and communal responsibility. This will keep my mind occupied more than it probably should. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m thinking that waking up and getting out of bed was the incorrect choice today. Not because it\u2019s a bad day, just that I am exhausted. OK, and they have put me on yet another client at the office job, but only for a few days because they under-estimated the demand for phone reps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend of someone I used to know is posting pages of books she reads with relevant passages highlighted. I think I will start doing that, as it\u2019s a cool way to spread the ideas and prose I am reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been reading articles about how American discourse has been made angrier, and they lay the blame at the feet of Trump. I will say that Trump\u2019s bully-boy, tough guy, lowest common denominator pandering to the worst of his base isn\u2019t helping, but I still say that in politics, it all goes back to the end of the Fairness Doctrine in the 80\u2019s. That ushered in an era of political talk radio that was more akin to Sports radio. This then bled into a politicized form of TV news so that other than a ridiculously few examples, cable news is just people who disagree with each other shouting and name calling. Of COURSE this would eventually become how we do politics because for over 30 years, this is how we are shown to discuss important issues about how to solve shared problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much love to friends old and new, and I hope that today, you are able to put aside some time for a single moment of bliss during your hectic day. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I am thinking about today: For the longest time, I have meditated on the question, \u201cWhat do we owe each other?\u201d This seems like a complex question, and delves to the heart of community, society, and kindness. Now, I am going to start asking, \u201cWhat do I have to do for me?\u201d Not in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}