So I think that it’s better to ask people: “Based on your own self-interest as you yourself define your self-interest, how do you expect this to work out? How do you expect the world to look in 2060 or 2070 or 2080? And how do you expect to shield yourself and your family from the world?”
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people’s answer to the above is, I don’t care, I’ll be dead. We have been conditioned for short term thinking over the last five decades.
I have been using Omnibear with Chrome to post posts to my micro.blog site, but I’ve recently started using Firefox on my Macbook Air and Omnibear is not available for it. Are there any Firefox extensions that people use with micro.blog?
I’ve changed the theme to this site, again, but this time to one that supports On This Day. I like the fonts used with this one.
Thought I would move books that I Finished Reading last year to a “Books Read In 2021” bookshelf and discovered that I cannot move books out of of Finished Reading to another shelf. I have an aversion to continuously scrolling web pages like the Archive page on this site, I want to see a hierarchy to simplify navigation. I have created a separate page of the books I read in 2021 using Drummer.
I’ve been thinking about changing the theme for this site and today I learned about Micro Alto that I’ve decided to try, which is why this site looks different but reverted because On This Day does not work and I didn’t link the hyperlink format on the main page.
We got our first substantial snow fall of the season over night. Nearly three inches.
Finished reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚 I started 2022 reading a new book that I finished in a day. Need to sit with what I’ve read.
I finished my last walk outdoors in 2021. Construction is progressing nicely on the new bridge on a typical Michigan gray winter day.
I learned something from every one of the books that I read last year and I really wish everyone would read See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur, but given the current times I really wish every U.S. citizen would read One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse. I’ve long been aware that there is a unique, and frankly not Christ-like, brand of Christianity in the United States that is mostly a tool of the powers and principalities of the world. For me Kruse’s book really explains how Americanized Christianity came into being.
I finish reading my last book of 2021, The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown. As I did last year, I tracked the list of what I read in an OPML file that I have published. To make it easier for me to retrieve that published version I created a forwarding URL: 2021books.frankm.info. Last year I created and published the final outline using Little Outliner but this year I used Drummer.
Little did I know then, two years ago that I might be watching the last GLi. I am really disappointed with Little Caesars.
On The Death Of Desmond Tutu
I am only aware of one country in the world that took conscious steps to address the cancer of supremacy, that country is South Africa. It’s path toward the task of overcoming supremacy was long and likely incomplete but would probably not have been taken up at all if not for Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
News of Tutu’s death makes me wonder how he saw the United States. Tutu had the wisdom to know that the antidote to supremacy is oneness, ubuntu. Supremacy cannot be shunned as it will simply continue lurking in the shadows. The only way to eliminate contempt is to see everyone as a part of me I do not yet know.
I feel as though the entire United States needs to be in a 12 step program. We cannot begin to overcome that which we don’t even acknowledge. We hide our addiction with our liberties. The amount of death that we have grown to accept, the amount of senseless loss of life we tolerate are not signs of a great nation or society.
The United States is leading the world into a third year of a pandemic that will continue to take more lives unnecessarily, and United States continues to lead the world in gun violence. All we are doing is managing to get by for just one more day. Apparently we have not yet hit bottom even after children are gun down in schools.
South Africa did not start to overcome the addiction of supremacy known as apartheid until it consciously did something about it. Any expert on addiction will tell you that no person can be made to overcome their addiction, the addict must decide for themselves they want to live. We, the citizens of the United States of America need to decide whether this republic handed down to us is something we want to keep, and that takes all of us to take a long look at ourselves and see us as we are rather than as how we keep telling ourselves.
A problem of the United States is that we really have no concept of public health. In fact the whole idea of public good is becoming more and more debatable. America, continuing to be great.
I’ve added Amit’s Stats micro.blog plugin to my site. It’s interesting to me that I posted nearly 100 more posts in 2020 than any other year. You will notice that I mostly write title-less posts, it’s how I was “raised” to do blogging.
Visitors came to see what we got for Christmas
This year we have a green, wet Christmas🎄
If you have a Google Pixel phone you probably know about its lock screen always on display. A change has occurred some time during the last week affecting always on display of my Pixel 4a at night. I am one of those people who sleeps with their phone on their bed stand, it’s basically my alarm clock. In the past, when in the dark always on display would dim but stay on enough to be seen and I woke up I could see the time. For the last several nights now the display has turned off and I don’t know why. I see that Digital Wellbeing has a bedtime mode where I can specify keep the screen dark, but I am not using that function.
The Verge: Google will launch two flagship smartwatches early next year. December 22, 2016. Of course, that didn’t happen with Wear OS 2.0, but reports are it will finally happen this coming year with Wear OS 3.0. We will see.
On September 1, 2014 I wrote about the buzz on the northside of Chicago as the Cubs were calling up some of their young players like Javier Baez. I speculated about whether Theo would sign Jon Lester. Little did I know then that just two years later the Cubs would win it all.
December 21, 2021, First Day of Winter
