Cool and misty today. It was very foggy earlier but most of the fog has lifted. No work outside again today so instead I played with some of the squares I made up on the pin loom. I have a bunch of them and I have been experimented with how to connect them in a way that pleases me. I edged several of them with crochet to make some coasters.
So on to the reading today.
First up this piece on THE CONTRARIAN. Summary of first part: all empires end including ours and ours may be closer to the end than we think. My conclusions from the second: we spend too much time and energy on insignificant so-called news. I read opinions which justified such obsessive focus, as far as presidential candidates go, because of Trump's and Biden's ages. Everyone wondered if they would survive their terms in office. Maybe, maybe not. But one has to ask: how serious the death of a president in office might be?. Given our history probably not as much as some think or fear. The concern over the "cognitive decline" is probably just as insignificant. Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke during a large part of his second term but his wife and cabinet (possibly illegally) kept his condition secret and conducted the nations business until he recovered enough to convince hostile senators that he was alert enough to have been doing things himself.
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