Democracy in Action...with a small "d"

Time to get back to some serious musing.  I've come to realize that I've wasted a whole lot of time commenting on posts on Facebook that I disagreed with, often with extended posts.  Just at the end of last week (Sept 13) I became deeply frustrated with one post and that seemed to be the culmination of a whole series of confrontations with what I perceive to be non-rational posts.  Instead of posting more on Facebook, I think I will try to write short essays here to explore my own thinking about some of these topics.  Some of these posts, perhaps most of them, will be personal, perhaps painfully so.  I hope they are all genuinely reflective and introspective and, in the end, help me understand myself a bit more.  But by sharing, perhaps others may be able to add thoughtful insights to which I am blind by proximity.  I will strive for honesty, but recollections are not to be trusted any more...I've never had the capacity to remember my past in any detail, especially chronologically.

I will begin with the next posting...a meditation on my recent tears and why I shed them.