Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 08, 2024

If by some horrific twist of fate the worst happens in November, yes… there will be liberal tears. And liberal rage. And liberal despair. But there will also be liberal resistance to autocracy, fascism, monarchy, and oppression, from now until the end of time, until those evil things are put down and democracy, decency, and fairness reign supreme.

Those who are “woke,” who are sensitive to injustices, who can hear the pain of the world weeping in the quiet of the night, will never give up, no matter how hard the fascist right tries to oppress us, to suppress us, and to silence us. Never give up, never surrender.

…I know you’re sad…

…but perhaps there will be a third season of Star Trek Prodigy…

…I’ve learned it is best for me to embrace grief…

…to accept it…

…heck…

…heck…

…to be truthful…

…to somewhat enjoy it…

…to even wallow in it…

…what are the other options?…

…to try to drown it?…

…forgo it?…

…deny it?…

…to grieve is to admit you felt for something…

…that you miss it…

…miss the opportunity for a do over…

…or a do again…

…eventually…

…you’ll realize there was a moment you forgot your grief…

…maybe a beautiful sunrise or sunset…

…laughter…

…and in that moment…

…place that grief…

…into every other beautiful sunrise and sunset…

…and that’s the true beauty…

Here is yet another poor soul in the final stage of denial against the post-Modern philosophy of ‘Resistentialism’! (Things Are Out To Get Us.)

Coping with change is failure to adapt. To transcend the situation, one must understand and accept it. Learn it, and use it to one’s advantage as is possible.

All change is bad.

(and all generalizations are false*)

* Including this one

it’s mourning in America (and nearly everywhere else.)

So here I am too. Well done Teresa!

Which leads to the question: “Teresa. Did you draw the character first and then do the printing, or did you do the printing first and then draw the character?”

When you finally get to acceptance it can be a relief.

I’m a Scorpio! Of course, I hate change. Now help me rearrange the dámn furniture!

If you roll with the tide too often, it’ll rip you out …!

( did you hear the one about a Jew, a Muslim, a Catholic, a Protestant, a Hindu, a Sikh, a Mormon, and an Atheist walk into a bar…? Me either! )

stage 2 coming up

From the classic collection, “The Human Condition,” plate no. 604.

A file that big? . . . It might be very useful . . . But now it is gone.

You seek a Web site . . . It cannot be located . . . Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within . . . Stop, reflect, and reboot . . . Order shall return.

Aborted effort . . . Close all that you have worked on . . . You ask way too much.

Yesterday it worked . . . Today it is not working . . . Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence . . . This thousand dollar screen dies . . . So beautifully.

With searching comes loss . . . The presence of absence . . . “JuneSales.doc” not found.

The Tao that is seen . . . Is not the true Tao . . . Until you bring fresh toner.

Windows NT crashed . . . The Blue Screen of Death . . . No one hears your screams.

Stay the patient course . . . Of little worth is your ire . . . The network is down.

A crash reduces . . . Your expensive computer . . . To a simple stone.

Three things are certain . . . Death, taxes, and lost data . . . Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream . . . But the water has moved on . . . Page not found.

Out of memory . . . We wish to hold the whole sky, . . . But we never will.

Having been erased, . . . The documents you are seeking . . . Must now be retyped.

What is this about?

First step is to realize that things almost never make sense and often when they seem to it’s not true. The good thing is that the universe doesn’t care and the likelihood of your being singled out is infinitesimal.

Can you spare some change?

The free thirty day trial of Dismal Plus seemed like a good deal, at first.

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Hugs!