Several years ago we were out west skiing about this time of year and University of Michigan football program was looking for a new football coach. I believe it was the time period before they hired Brady Hoke, when they let Rich Rodriguez (January 2011). There was talk of hopefully getting Jim Harbaugh, which they ended up getting the next “coaching search cycle.” We were at a bar in Vail. It was very crowded so everybody was very close and we were in a larger group . The guys started talking to the group at the table next to us and they were very passionate about who would be the next coach. All of these guys were loyal fans, no one in the department or ‘in the know’. One of the guys that our table-not a University of Michigan football fan, made a comment to me that I have long remembered, “I don’t understand how people get so passionate about something that they have no control over”….
Lots of great memories from ski trip this time of year in Vail and apres’ ski in the Bar at Pepsi’s. That’s where the discussion of the selection of the new football coach happened…
I have thought of that conversation over the last few weeks actually the last few months. The temperature continually seems to get hotter and hotter on current political issues. It’s easy to get sucked in. I will say, though that after the Charlie Kirk assassination things seem to take a different level of heat and concern. At that point, for myself I started to ask, “Are there really any good guys out there working for us?” It seemed that that situation sort of drew a line in the sand. I saw people who were fairly reasonable and clear thinking, or so I thought, on social media spout off such hateful words it was down right crazy. And then the whole investigation.; what about that? It seems as if there are very few people who actually believe that the suspect in jail was the actual killer. Every week, new details, emerge showing more and more corruption.
Filling the void with hobbies isn’t all a bad idea…
I have found myself turning off the TV and the noise, and it’s rather nice. Spending more time reading, watching more master classes and finding more time to paint and even get back to knitting. What I’ve learned over the last three months is that you can inform yourself enough so that you hope you vote for the right people, but you never know. You just never know. And getting so wrapped up in what’s going on when you have no control over so much of (like the selecting of a major college football coach) it can actually bring you down. I don’t mean any of this in an apathetic way, but there is nothing I can do besides vote for the people who I feel will do honest work for their constituents.
Things seemed to rise to a whole new level of ‘unhinged’ after the death of Charlie Kirk. Charlie seemed to be a young man with only good intentions…Paid protestors brought in to whip people up into a frenzy seems like a good idea to whom? Sad that people can be so easily influenced.
Just look at the last 48 hours of news. Word of a new level of corruption in California (surprise, surprise!), and an ICE agent kills a protester who had been ordered to get out of the car and then drives her car towards him and he shoots her and self-defense. So then investigation has not been done yet, but after seeing several angles of video, it’s hard to understand how this isn’t self-defense after this woman was warned several times to get out of her car. I see very few people making mention that this woman should have been more concerned about her children and should NOT have put herself in a dangerous situation to put her at risk. And then there’s a side of me who actually feels sorry for this woman. It sounds as if she’s had a very difficult and troubling life and maybe financial circumstances led her to be lured by the pay to protest for a cause she may or may not have been passionate about but was merely there for the paycheck. That’s a sad story in itself. It’s sad that she didn’t have wisdom or guidance of someone to suggest to her that she not get involved in such a situation.
It can all feel a bit much and again, what can someone like me do to make things better? Nothing. We may be able to see what’s going on. The distractions and debris ’thrown into the lane’ so distract from the corruption. The louder the voices get the more they whip the crowd up into a frenzy, create riots and the story is no longer the corruption in Minnesota, it shifts the focus on to the ICE agent and other just doing their job to get the criminal and illegals arrested or on their way. We can see what what’s going on. When what seems like ‘clear thinking ideas’ are being argued, like the “Maryland Dad,” a Dictator Venezuelan Thug, with a warrant out for his arrest is finally arrested, or people are defending a governor who is up to his eye balls in corruption it makes me want to put on blinders on so I don’t loose my way or compass of what is right and what is wrong. However, here is what I can do. I can stay in my lane. Maybe we have all of the information or maybe we don’t. We base what WE know on what we read or what we are told. The information we see is based on what details we are fed and are those who feed us the detail telling us everything or is it view based on their own telescope? I don’t know. So…
I’ll stay in my lane. Maybe I’ll sleep better, maybe I’ll feel less stressed, maybe I can get back to more of the hobbies I enjoy and maybe I’ll realize that it’s all in God’s hands. He has his own time table and agenda and it’s best to let his will be done…Yes, I’m already feeling better…Thinking that…It’s looking like a great day ❤️
