This may seem like a strange recollection for the dark days of December. However, my favorite astrological day of the year is coming soon – Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year.  It is all brightness and renewal after this, just like the Jonquils that thrive in the elements and are not beat down by the winter. The 21st, followed by the 25th, gives this old soul hope.

Over the years, I have eschewed (love that word) offering best wishes at holidays. Maybe this year is different.  

Graffiti depresses me and sends a signal to me that there are people who have little regard for the looks of our country. Graffiti is not beautiful and adds to the general malaise in our country.

I measure secular quality of life at the bottom of the “food chain,” focusing on highly desired products – tissue – that require just a small income.

The new tyranny is not out in the open, but it affects nearly all of us. It is perpetrated in cubicles, offices and meetings involving people invisible to us. Yet, if you have an email address, it reaches you.  

Honesty is the most valuable coin of the realm. In both giving and receiving communications and actions with others, treat it with respect.

As this election season comes to an end, I want to thank the publisher and especially you, the readers, for encouraging me as I have expressed my opinions.

I believe it was back in the Obama Administration that they started talking about denser housing in the cities. I have done a tiny amount of research on this and discovered that it appears to have started with the concept of the “15-Minute City.”

Right now, there seems to be a bevy of incumbent senators and a vice president wanting to be president lying about their past records in order to persuade you to vote for them.  

Nearly a third of the people in this country (citizens and illegal immigrants) receive handouts from the government. This is not democracy; this is socialism.

I doubt that an election decision will be resolved anytime on Nov. 5, 6, or perhaps even Nov. 7. And should the election be dragged out in the courts, bitterness and division will only get worse than it is already.

What we don’t know is if Harris is saying the things she is saying today just to get elected and if she will follow through with them if elected. As vice president, she seems to have ignored the office and the mandates President Biden has given her.

Vacuity, thy name is Kamala Harris. Her objective seems to be one of the cool kids, not offer the voters anything of substance to ponder.

There have been all sorts of excuses and denials by FEMA, Biden and Harris concerning the devastation wrought by Helene on Sept. 26-27.

We have reached a point where the people suffering the pain (taxpayers) are being ignored for the benefit of all others. Time to swing the pendulum back the other way. We can’t take it any  longer.