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Donald and Corona — Let’s Make Them Work for Us
It’s an exciting time — no really! Donald is challenging the Hindenburg to a more spectacular finale and Corona is flying high and unconcerned. Awful you say, but not necessarily so — the balls are all in the air and the opportunities abound. The bits of floating debris can be grabbed and shaped into new forms to better serve us all. The calamities of Donald and Corona allow us to see clearly what is broken and what needs either fixing or trashing. Spotty healthcare and education, racism, poverty, and disparity of income have become stark realities in our faces and an attempt to return to “as before” maybe impossible or a poor choice. We now have a chance at becoming happier and more productive. The unhappy duo of Donald and disease can be used to kick-off a new time — a different arrangement for us all.
Pleasure seeking can make us more productive. This is Martha Stewart fare as she is a master at transforming chore — to task — to pleasure. But the means have to be there to get this ball rolling.
First things first. We have to agree on what’s broken beyond the frame of Donald. After all, he is an easy fix — trash him come November. Poor Donald is really not the problem — he just occupies it. The problem is us — which is a blessing because by owning it we are more likely to fix it — the blame game stops. We have a common starting block…
