Turn into this driveway and we're home.
Our life here has always been pretty simple.
We worked.
Then we retired.
We've contributed to society.
We've minded our business, paid taxes, voted.
We've watched the world change.
Watched our country change.
The peace we worked for seems to now be broken.
Our dollars aren't going as far as they used to. We have no say in where our tax dollars are being spent. Gerrymandering is infringing on our votes. Men wearing masks and carrying guns are roaming our streets freely while people are being disappeared. We can now legitimately be called a police state. The man sitting in our White House is not above personal revenge tactics - suing institutions, firing individuals he doesn't have legal authority to fire, ordering the shooting and killing of people in international waters for suspected crimes. Guardrail support from supposedly independent government agencies, congress, and the supreme court seem to be, basically, missing while a partisan group of people performing the will of the president rather than following laws and basic constitutional tenets. Freedoms are being willfully whittled away with spoken threats to anyone, including journalists, speaking out against current conditions and policies, in disagreement.
There's so much more. SO much more - the VP of the US doing racist podcasts (do not even get me started . . .)
There is very little integrity left within our government.
But it's all too exhausting. I have to stop right here. I invite you to read this article, it says all I'm too out of steam to say. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/opinion/trump-charlie-kirk-crackdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU8.tJI5.5dXTt1asLRMM&smid=url-share
As for me, Annabelle, and our Donnie. We are, today, happily ensconced in our little home at the edge of the wilderness. Minding our own business in our own little private world. We're even vaccinated! Because we, unlike our weird administration, believe in science. Who knew believing in science would become a political us vs. them thing. Unbelievable.
And dammit. Robert Redford died.
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