I think that by the time you reach thirty, you’ve pretty much disabused the idea of everyday being a clean slate. You and the world both bring too much history to the slugfest for those types of illusions. Each day may have the unknown, but it also has some quotidian rhythm to it. Get up. Got to work. Wash dishes and do the laundry. Can’t find your favorite headset, but you did find all the dust bunnies in the world hidden behind the bureau.
But once in a while, hopefully not more often, a sort of caustic random irregularity swoops in. Hurricane, Floods. Earthquake or fires. These things make you yearn for the normal, boring, and placid routine that has been knocked off its hinges.
It’s why societies have created organizations like the Red Cross and government agencies like FEMA. They don’t restore your former life like a fairy godmother waving a wand. But they do provide immediate care, and assistance in your efforts to establish a new normal.
Like many, I am concerned with the current wrongheaded concern among governmental idiots who failed to renew the contracts of people answering emergency phones at FEMA. Also, about cockamamie ideas of eliminating the institution. It’s of interest that many of the recent needs for FEMA services have come from states that voted red and Republican in the last election. I am sure that many in those areas are muttering, “I didn’t vote for that!”
But organizations like FEMA are not red or blue. They were designed to serve the country where needed without consideration of partisanship, impartially. Tomorrow, it could be me in Massachusetts who needs FEMA.
At the very beginning of our country, Benjamin Franklin is said to have mentioned to Thomas Jefferson that, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” That is just as true today as it was then.
We can’t afford, literally, the experiment in disunity that the government is foistin on us. We will literally all hang separately if it continues.
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What annoys me as a European at the moment is the way our governments are all all their knees to the guy in charge of your country, more or less begging for lower tax on imports and all that jazz. Can we really not do it alone. I might be a democrat at heart, was always a socialist in Britain. Switzerland no problem, we have our political parties, but small country, smaller ideas I suppose.
But the Prime Minister stopped Trump and corrected him! I cheered when I read that. Don’t let him get away with his constant lies and nonsense.
I think that leaders of other nations should stand up to the bully. Thats the only language bully’s understand.
I think so, too. When I read about his meetings abroad I wonder, “Why does anyone listen to this wank tard?” I know that they want bidness with the US but seriously? They need to say, “No. Not happening, wank tard.” (thanks for the grid, btw I like it a lot.)
….thought you might like it!
I love it and it’s fun to use!!!
I keep a hurricane kit in my storage, it’s so scary I just pray for it to pass quick.
You are among the wise ones!
I think about this at least once a day. The couple who come to my house looking for work and/or a handout? Well, I have helped them and I may again, but basically I really cannot help them. One little lady in the midst of a society that voted against helping people like them? Behind all of this I see the MF “Doctrine of the Elect.” “If God loved you, you’d be prosperous,” more or less. The wealthy dirt waffles next door consume conspicuously. They are two old people with five cars, two trailers, a four-wheeler and all meticulously maintained. They put in 50+ US flags on every holiday and one in lights at Xmas time. I’m judging, yeah, I am. Taxes that put money into social welfare programs are the ONLY equalizers we have to assure that people who find themselves in trouble have help. To me my vote now boils down to “What do you want your taxes to pay for, Martha?”
I’ve worked for people like your neighbors. They didn’t ever get it that others might prefer another sort of life. Do judge, and then move on because they are not worth the aggravation.
They definitely don’t get that, but it’s OK. They’re good neighbors to me and neighbors are not necessarily close friends — just another relationship that’s important in its way. Here’s a funny example. The husband cleared my front walk — He has a plow on his 4 wheeler. I thanked him. A person with a tiny bit of grace would have said, “You’re welcome.” He said, “I cleared the whole block.” You gotta’ laugh.