6.4.2022 – reality for all

reality for all
the collective appetite
to be entertained

Based on the amalgamation of words in the article, Hillary Clinton is right: the age of the showman leader has damaged politics, by Will Hutton in the Guardian on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

Mr. Hutton, in a commentary on politics in the United States, uses combinations of multi-syllable words and sentence construction makes me take my hat off and yell, SALUTE!

The paragraphs of the article in questions read thusly:

Political leadership in the 2020s needs to be recast, but old truths will out. Alternative reality may have allowed performative politics to trump content for a period, but for all the collective appetite to be entertained, citizens also want to be governed well. That means a firm grasp of what does and doesn’t work and how matters can be improved.

That in turn requires a viable political philosophy backed by evidence and turned into a programme that can be consistently applied across government, taking on power, privilege and vested interest where it is plainly necessary.

It’s palpably not what we have, but it’s obviously what we need and the wheels are already spinning to deliver it

And, readers of this blog will know that from time to time I struggle with the weight of effort of producing a daily Haiku and any thoughts I may have about the words and time that went in the Haiku that day.

This daily schedule of missing a day can bring on a personal mental paralysis wherein writing these entries becomes impossible.

I learned to deal with this by not dealing with it and let it go.

Then when I look at my register of entries and see blank days with no post, I will grab a topic or book or poem for a source and produce a series of Haiku to fill in those blank dates.

This is one of the great benefits of this effort being my blog and my blog, my rules.

It IS cricket because I say it is.

It is ‘according to Hoyle’ because I say it is.

Thus I have this series of haiku based on this article and the Mr. Hutton’s word choices.

I should also mention that this ‘lack of output’ coincided with a trip up to see our son and being away from a computer keyboard for a long weekend and I am playing catch-up.

Other haiku from this passage include:

  • avalanche of hype
  • that means a firm grasp
  • require viable
  • taking on power
  • reality for all
  • but old truths will out

    • 6.3.2022 – taking on power

    taking on power,
    privilege, vested interest
    plainly necessary

    Based on the amalgamation of words in the article, Hillary Clinton is right: the age of the showman leader has damaged politics, by Will Hutton in the Guardian on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

    Mr. Hutton, in a commentary on politics in the United States, uses combinations of multi-syllable words and sentence construction makes me take my hat off and yell, SALUTE!

    The paragraphs of the article in questions read thusly:

    Political leadership in the 2020s needs to be recast, but old truths will out. Alternative reality may have allowed performative politics to trump content for a period, but for all the collective appetite to be entertained, citizens also want to be governed well. That means a firm grasp of what does and doesn’t work and how matters can be improved.

    That in turn requires a viable political philosophy backed by evidence and turned into a programme that can be consistently applied across government, taking on power, privilege and vested interest where it is plainly necessary.

    It’s palpably not what we have, but it’s obviously what we need and the wheels are already spinning to deliver it

    And, readers of this blog will know that from time to time I struggle with the weight of effort of producing a daily Haiku and any thoughts I may have about the words and time that went in the Haiku that day.

    This daily schedule of missing a day can bring on a personal mental paralysis wherein writing these entries becomes impossible.

    I learned to deal with this by not dealing with it and let it go.

    Then when I look at my register of entries and see blank days with no post, I will grab a topic or book or poem for a source and produce a series of Haiku to fill in those blank dates.

    This is one of the great benefits of this effort being my blog and my blog, my rules.

    It IS cricket because I say it is.

    It is ‘according to Hoyle’ because I say it is.

    Thus I have this series of haiku based on this article and the Mr. Hutton’s word choices.

    I should also mention that this ‘lack of output’ coincided with a trip up to see our son and being away from a computer keyboard for a long weekend and I am playing catch-up.

    Other haiku from this passage include:

  • avalanche of hype
  • that means a firm grasp
  • require viable
  • taking on power
  • reality for all
  • but old truths will out

    • 6.2.2022 – require viable

    require viable
    political philosophy
    It’s not what we have

    Based on the amalgamation of words in the article, Hillary Clinton is right: the age of the showman leader has damaged politics, by Will Hutton in the Guardian on Sunday, June 5, 2022.

    Mr. Hutton, in a commentary on politics in the United States, uses combinations of multi-syllable words and sentence construction makes me take my hat off and yell, SALUTE!

    The paragraphs of the article in questions read thusly:

    Political leadership in the 2020s needs to be recast, but old truths will out. Alternative reality may have allowed performative politics to trump content for a period, but for all the collective appetite to be entertained, citizens also want to be governed well. That means a firm grasp of what does and doesn’t work and how matters can be improved.

    That in turn requires a viable political philosophy backed by evidence and turned into a programme that can be consistently applied across government, taking on power, privilege and vested interest where it is plainly necessary.

    It’s palpably not what we have, but it’s obviously what we need and the wheels are already spinning to deliver it

    And, readers of this blog will know that from time to time I struggle with the weight of effort of producing a daily Haiku and any thoughts I may have about the words and time that went in the Haiku that day.

    This daily schedule of missing a day can bring on a personal mental paralysis wherein writing these entries becomes impossible.

    I learned to deal with this by not dealing with it and let it go.

    Then when I look at my register of entries and see blank days with no post, I will grab a topic or book or poem for a source and produce a series of Haiku to fill in those blank dates.

    This is one of the great benefits of this effort being my blog and my blog, my rules.

    It IS cricket because I say it is.

    It is ‘according to Hoyle’ because I say it is.

    Thus I have this series of haiku based on this article and the Mr. Hutton’s word choices.

    I should also mention that this ‘lack of output’ coincided with a trip up to see our son and being away from a computer keyboard for a long weekend and I am playing catch-up.

    Other haiku from this passage include:

  • avalanche of hype
  • that means a firm grasp
  • require viable
  • taking on power
  • reality for all
  • but old truths will out

    • 6.1.2021 – insecurity

    insecurity
    flatlining pay are every
    day reality

    From the paragraph:

    In fact, for millions of people in Britain, 2022’s growing sense of disaster is another chapter in a story that goes back at least 10 years – to rules and regulations that turned the welfare state into a mess of trapdoors and tripwires, to the hacking back of benefits, to the dire treatment of disabled people and to a new world of work where chronic insecurity and flatlining pay are an everyday reality.

    In the article, The decade that broke Britain: the disastrous decisions that left millions in a cost of living crisis by John Harris.

    What struck me is the thought that I have been focused on the Covid years of late and all the issues it has caused.

    This article (based in Britain but a lot of applies here) made me realize how long, going back to the the Housing Market crash of 2009 and the first time I got fired by the same company.

    Talk about insecurity.

    Back in 2009 the company I was working for called me into the office on a Tuesday and I was told my job had been eliminated and that my last day would be Friday.

    In the next sentence, I was told that the company was creating a new corporate department and that I was wanted to be on that team and I was offered the same job I was doing but if I wanted it, I would be doing that same job in Atlanta.

    So off to Atlanta we dragged all the kids and that chapter of our life started.

    Then in 2020, I got call to be in a meeting on a Tuesday and once again I was told that my job had been eliminated and my last day would again be Friday.

    The first time it happened, I felt it was the current economic climate.

    The 2nd time it was pure spite and meanness and people who I worked with turning out to pretty small people.

    If you read this blog, you will know this turned out okay for me but do I have trust in my job, any job?

    Do I jump any time I get a note to be in a meeting?

    Is my insecurity part of my every day reality?

    BOY HOWDY!

    5.31.2022 – as mysterious

    as mysterious
    as great the perpetual
    rhythm of the tides

    In “Notes for a Preface“, an essay written by Carl Sandburg for the the book “Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg“, Mr. Sandburg wrote, “The Spanish poet Lorca saw one plain apple infinite as the sea. “The life of an apple when it is a delicate flower to the moment when, golden russet, it drops from the tree into the grass is as mysterious and as great as the perpetual rhythm of the tides . . .“

    According to Wikipedia: Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

    García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of ’27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He was murdered by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His remains have never been found.

    In the poem, Ballad of the Water of the Sea, Lorca writes:

    The sea
    smiles from far off.
    Teeth of foam,
    lips of sky.

    Folly Field Beach at high tide – Hilton Head Island May 30, 2022

    Murdered by the nationalistic or Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War, those types of fellers have always had it for the poets and artists and such.

    The smart people I guess.

    I am reminded of the story of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.

    When they took over Cambodia they knew they had to cut off opposition and the best way to do that was get rid of the smart people, the people who could think, the people who would ask questions and start other people asking questions.

    And so they did.

    They soldiers of Pol Pot went from town to town and executed all the smart people.

    They knew who to get.

    They started with anyone wearing glasses.