I hear ya. It can get real old !

In between moments of disgust and loss of hope, I try to make life good for me and those around me.

Not easy in this world of increasing chaos ...

Even living in this liberal college town, Trumpism is indeed oppressive and I have had to restrict my intake of daily news. We all struggle to keep our spirits up in these dark times.

If you're not too tied down though, moving someplace less conservative might be good for your mental health. It's not insignificant, being out of the Bible Belt, out of Tornado Alley, etc. But even if you can't do that, there must be some threads of activities with like-minded people that you can pick up. You may have to dig for them in places like meetup.com.

But you can always vent here; we get it!

And the problem with this site is that we are mostly pretty physically distant. I feel you here. Have you considered moving?

Drove past a couple ‘trump shrines’ along the road myself today. I get it. I’m in a red-zone, too. Met an intelligent teacher a while back, thought great, a local! But too wound up in her ‘church oriented social activities’ (Zappa) to pal around with me!

Then there are the opposites, the far-lefters; we’ve a small contingent of them. No thanks, about the same thing, only in reverse.. I’ll visit a city occasionally ...begin spinning as I gawk at the tall buildings and intelligent women Problem is, I don’t want to live in a city…

For me, it’s been like my one-time earth pond; nature abhors a vacuum … thus fills them with something. In my case, it’s politics, interesting work, magnificent hikes, endless projects ..and a motorcycle When I wonder what I’m ..actually missing relationship wise, I’ll do two things: carefully observe a couple ‘my age,’ and consider the ‘been there done that’ aspect ...a smile turns to a grin.. and I move on to my next adventure ~