"You value life most intensely when you are living with the threat of its end, and you fight every step, moment by moment, to find meaning."
How To Stand Up To A Dictator, Maria Ressa
This is where I am at.
My brain has been percolating every single day in 2025, bubbling and burning with what ifs, and what should I do, and how will I survive? Meanwhile Death stands by impatiently tapping a foot.
Job #2 pushed me over the edge. Now that it is gone and I survived it, I am fiercely determined to do the right thing for my life and Carol's. The next decision is critical.
The torture I went through for those 2 and 1/2 months almost destroyed me, but, having survived it, I am keenly aware of the time I have available to me and the potential disaster of wasting it.
"When that happened, it destroyed the old checks and balances on power and transformed our world. We elected incompetent populists who stoked our fears, dividing us and turning us against one another, fueling and feeding off our fear, anger, and hate. They appointed officials like themselves; their goal was not good governance, but power."
How To Stand Up To A Dictator, Maria Ressa
Maria is talking about the Philippines under Duterte. She might as well be talking about the United States of America.
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