We had a lovely time in Greenwood Village with the’Fam’ over the week-end. My five year-old grandson, Robert, scored two goals in his Saturday soccer game. On Friday–on his home rink—he graciously allowed me to hang around with him as he politlely nudged me 9-8 in a grandfather-grandson streeet hockey game.
Hiking, exploring, looking for snakes… and just basically taking in the beauty of the Rockies took up the rest of our time. Aubrey was doing little girl things for the most part…although she did ask me to read her Little Red Riding Hood on Friday night.
It was beautiful.
I turned off my cell phone to the world. I didn’t watch any TV until the SEC college footall games started on Saturday afternoon. I never watch Fox or MSNBC—so none of that nonsense was touching my senses in any manner.
It was beautiful.
But, then of course–I finally saw the Charlie Kirk story. What a tragegy for Americans as a whole to now have to deal with the execution of a far right talk show/podcaster in front of the entire world.
Let me be clear. Charlie Kirk was never someone I took seriously or considered as a viable source of information or philosophy. Like his idol…Rush Limbaugh–I thought he was for the most part a carney barker for the far right wing of the GOP Christian movement. I in no way was or am an expert on Charlie Kirk nor an advocate of the doctrines he preached to the MAGA, Tea Party, and no tax Christian people.
But I am a human with a heart. I am an aging man with family members and others who I cherish. And right now regardless of my different views from those of Charlie Kirk…my heart goes out to his wife and their two young children.
This is not acceptable on any level in our country. This other party with pre-meditated malice basically executed another human being for political reasons, and this cannot happen in this country.
Yeah, I know, what Donald Trump did on January 6th, and it was horrific. So horrific in fact, since the gallows were constructed for Mike Pence on that fateful day…300 additional acts of domestic political terrorism have been recorded in our country to date.
On one hand, my heart as a Stage 4 cancer survivor is in the most joyous human spot one could hope for while still walking and living on this earth. On the other hand, our country is its own worst enemy and all of this is self-inflicted.
This nonsense from both the far right and the far left in our country cannot continue. As I’ve stated on this blog many times previously—you people on both extremes are killing our country one day at a time…literally.
You have to be better. As a country ‘We’ have to be better.
These type of senseless acts cannot continue.
We used to be better than this. But right now we’re broken–and broken as a singular unit. Know what I mean?
Let’s all be better together.
Love, MJ