Sunday Morning Coming Down

The title is a clue from this morning's Mini Crossword in the New York Times. And in a lot of ways the idea isn't that attractive even though leaving the workforce to spend more time with your family, friends, hobbies is attractive. One of the more problematic issues of aging is health and, in many ways, it is like dealing with the old car you might have.  It still runs but it needs more maintenance after the odometer has rolled over.  You might not like it but health related visits to the doctor are the check-in, conversation starter with the close friends I lunch with, ran with, worked with and socialized.  Even during the pandemic phone calls were health related check ins. Recently, I have been to a few meetings at my church where being elderly was discussed and this morning, I read an article about how the latest pandemic has messed with our sense of time. I reminded of the Chambers Brothers and the extended version of their hit: "Time Has Come Today". I wondered ...

"  In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics. Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders." This is from the NYT. I've heard this song and dance many times before.  And the upshot of it they would do something about it. Now in spite of the existence of tapes regarding these conversations for the most part with very few exceptions Republicans voted against any investigation by Congress of the who, what, when, why and where the riot came from and what would be gained by pushing the lies and legally dismissed allegations of fraud. Greene, Gaetz, Brooks, Boebert, Cawthorn and several others who seem to have little interested in govern...