selfie otd, gratitudes, tearing down the people's house, family in denial, a transwoman's breasts, my photography, the fiio m21...
today's selfie...
i love the pink lipstick i am wearing... my wife gave it to me... she didn't like the way it looked on her... look how well it matches the pink in the necklace...
yesterday i was grateful for a lazy day with Holly and dinner at the wild...
today i am looking forward to lunch at cafe mutton...
“It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”
Yesterday, former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton cut to the heart of President Donald J. Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
and...
Murphy answered: “[T]here’s a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing, and it was just destroyed without any conversation in the American public, without any consent of Congress. It was absolutely illegal…. [T]hat visual is powerful because you are essentially watching the destruction of the rule of law happen as those walls come down. It is just a symbol about how cavalier he is, about every single day acting in new and illegal ways.
and...
“We are not living in a functional democracy any longer. It’s not too late to save it, but it is just important to acknowledge that we aren’t on the precipice of losing our democracy. We are losing it every single day. We are not a functional nation with a rule of law any longer, and those toppled walls in the East Wing are a pretty stark reminder of that.”
that last paragraph hit home... we are loosing it every day... too many of us are being complacent... to many of us are in denial... even as 7 million of us get out and protest... it is said that protest turnout needs to reach 3.5% of the population to turn back authoritarian rule... 7 million is 2% of 340 million, the population of the united states... we are more than half way there...
i have two family members who appear to be in denial about what is happening... angry when you confront them or infuriating... i won't talk to these family members about politics because i want to remain in relationship with them... maybe they will be able to free themselves of their delusional thinking... right now one of them is doubling down and the other doesn't begin to see it...
another family member has skipped the first two no kings march... despite being against 47 and knowing what is happening... there is always an excuse related to family activities... there is a difficult family dynamic going on... so... forgiveness... i hope they can attend the next one... we need to get to 3.55...
yesterday i encountered a trans woman barista at my favorite coffee shop... masculine body type... masculine voice... otherwise feminine... she had breasts moving freely under her sweatshirt... i was jealous... i would love to have more for breasts than i do... still, i have decided to make the best of what i do have... my advanced male body age has put me in the range of a flat chested woman... i have some outfits that play that up... i even have a slightly padded bra, which at the moment i can't find... anyway... i love being feminine... i love doing it the way i am doing it...
i take pictures everyday... a photo meditation practice... i am working on a catalog of the images from the past year... here is one i got yesterday that i particularly like...
i have worked out most of the issues i was having setting up my new fiio m21 music player... not all of the issues were the player itself, which works very well and plays music with outstanding audio quality... all kinds of app difficulties, which turned out to be related to the device being set to beijing time zone... once i corrected that i was on my way with the apps... still trying to figure out how to play my music on our sonos speakers at home, but i believe i will get that conquered eventually... i plan to write a "review" of my experience with the device in the future...