Previously posted on my Facebook Page.
Ah. This drama of racism! People are not just reprimanded or disciplined. They also lost their job, shamed online, and outed from here to eternity. You think we’d be able to eradicate racism via ideological purity? I work/ed with people who don’t share my skin color. Sure, I get racial snides from those who claim to be Right or Left. Both. I just shrug `em off. Be ignorant. Let it rip! I am cool as long as you don’t touch my shoulder. Then we have a problem. 🤨🧐😎
Life isn’t perfect. Cliché. Such as relationships with our adult children. I feel I am luckier. Most parent confessions that I read are grim. Daughter, addicted to meth; son, in jail. Etcetera. Me: I wish my son creates more art subjects other than naked butt. My daughters cook more seafood aside from Pinoy bizarre foods, watch other Netflix series beyond K-drama, and pursue clients other than Elons (LOL!) No prob though. They are relatively fine, peaceful, and cool. 👩🦰🧑🦰👩🦱
We hold different stories why we are anti-war or guns concern us. Yet we hush and allow healing to take its natural course. Whatever ideology I seem to imbue, it is gut ushered. Not some kickass politics that I read or heard. I lived and survived them. My past: Families that I dined with this night, dead the next day when bombs fell. I covered drug hits, countryside wars, and coup d’etats. Deaths before me. I didn’t read the news, I wrote them—because I was there. ☮️💔☮️
Memorial Day. I read peeps complaining about fireworks. Dogs get funky. Not many good words to those who died in war. In the islands, dogs get rowdy before a typhoon or earthquake. They warn us. However, I never noticed them acting weird when firecrackers got loud or thunder growled. But Arrow is scared with all sorts of “unordinary” noise. The other day when thunder rumbled, I held and reassured her it’s gonna be okay. Cyd eyed us, seemingly saying “…You two okay?”
Memorial Day. In the Philippines, we have Bataan Day. Like any other holidays, we consume the day in fun, food, and frolic. Excuse the fiesta! My family, friends, and neighbors were aware that I have always been a Leftist activist who protest/ed war and military shenanigans. But on holidays, we don’t discuss that stuff. We: Police, soldiers, bystanders, Pasckie. We spend the day crackin’ silly jokes, Led Zep on karaoke, playing chess, or watching basketball on TV. ☯️💝☮️
Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton is vilified after he wrote a letter to a Jan 6 “insurrectionist.” Whether I concur or not, not the point. Isn’t it America’s calling to inspire the world to speak its mind, regardless that words may cause discomfort to others? I was born into a different culture that taught me to hush when others are talking but not to shut it when it’s my turn to speak up. John is shamed because his words, or act, didn’t conform with the other side? 🗣👥🫂
I am OCD-structured. Family rules. And trained in/around professional rules, as a journalist. Although I am less active than years ago, I still stick to a daily regimen. When I facebook (verb), I follow my self-imposed rules, timeframe, mental energy exertion. I file 99 percent of what I post; I don’t post at random. I try not to “waste” time on silly arguments (in or out of here), aware that I’d lose time gardening, chat moments with dog and cat, and Netflix/sports TV.
The majority on my friends list are kin, friends, and the network that I built before there was internet. The rest are possible readership. If only .o1 percent read me, no prob. I am old-school Old. Then, we just wrote as we breathed. We didn’t go around town or phoned people to ask them if they read an article that we wrote yesterday. Besides, I am not a talker in a crowd. If I unfriend/block or ignore a personage in here, it is a professional gesture and a personal imperative.☎️📺⏰
Meme: “Ban guns not books.” First, if a book is banned in 3 states but not nationwide, that book is not really banned. In China or Iran? They BAN books. In case a book is deemed “dangerous” in the U.S., and of course, guns are—the issue isn’t “banning” them. Supreme Leaders can do “banning” but not the U.S. leadership. The issue that both politics and people find it hard to do: How to protect children—or America—from clear and present danger. Reason: Disunity. ?☮️💔
Meme: “I want to live in a country that loves its children more than it loves guns.” Words that miss the bloody gut of the issue. America loves its children so much so that scolding them for a wrongdoing is called child abuse. Problem: America doesn’t know how to protect children from guns that are so loved as well. Yet when Washington tosses billions$ worth of weapons to a war over negotiations for peace, think how many children are gunned down in 1 minute of war.☮️💔☮️
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