It'll be OK

[smokingboot]

Is this the US Golden Age as the President declares?
Not sure it is.
However, no terrifying war this week, so there's a win.

It seems to me that the problem has always been defining what this war was about. At the beginning, President Trump mentioned regime change, but that didn't happen. The mad mullahs remain, battered but hydra-like. If removing their ability to create nukes was the point, he needed to say so... But how will he stop them buying nukes? The world is going to rearm, big time, and where there's a buyer there's a seller. Maybe Iran's government will sit there, defanged, waiting for the 12th mahdi. Maybe.

Anyway, the point is I don't want to die, and I don't want anyone else to die. I wish you a grand season, wherever you are and whoever you are. Here's an old poem of mine that sounds fatuous given all that's going on, but still. It may be stupid or blatantly untrue but I have decided to believe it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/smokingboot/p/itll-be-ok?r=1r9jj7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Comments

[asakiyume]

Hey there, I was wondering how you divide up what you post on Substack and what you post here.

[smokingboot]

It's almost but not quite random! Here is my home of records, substack is the extension and I am still not used to it. Stuff tends to go here as soon as it turns up. Stuff goes onto substack when it resonates with the vibe I am getting from the external world, it is about what might resonate with others in a given time. All of this is about me getting used to the work of putting stuff out there without fearing consequence, being seen and not worrying about being too seen or not seen enough.

[asakiyume]

*nodding*

So is the poem "The Wanderer" something you've posted here on Dreamwidth sometime before? What I'm pussyfooting around asking is, how would you feel about posting stuff here as well as over on Substack, if you're not already doing that? I know I'm not a very frequent commenter here, so it's really not on for me to make requests like this! But I also know that I'll never go over to Substack to read. This isn't due to any moralistic position about the platform, it's just platform exhaustion generally :-\ That, and when I clicked on the link, it was requesting me to subscribe before it would show me the post. But since I'm already on Dreamwidth, and you are too ...

So! If it's not much trouble for you to post the same thing in two places, I would love that! But I also totally understand if you'd rather **not** do that. in that case I'll happily read what shows up here ... and I'll try to comment more than once in a blue moon ;-)