A smoky GOOD MORNING!!! to you all! Yup, smoke because the Northwest is on fire! Hard to believe that just a few months ago we were drowning. Now, burning. Where did all that rain go!?!
Monday Musings Ed-vise today. Cause it’s MONDAY! So GET AFTER IT!
Drove down to Douglas County this weekend.
It wasn’t too smoky when I left but coming back…WOW! Lots of smoke.
Stayed the night at the Family Farm. Bit of a “funny farm” but still, it’s family and it’s MY family.
I like Douglas County. Super beautiful what with the trees and hills all around. Old logging towns, rivers for fishing, hunting if that’s your thing. Hiking like it’s nobodies business.
Only issue is, well, the politics. When you drive through those parts, you see the T-Rump signs everywhere. My family, at least there at the farm…big time T-Rumpers. Love the guy despite the fact he is the opposite of what my grandad would have wanted or believed.
Here’s the Musings was having that I think some might benefit from.
Despite their political leanings and my biases, they are STILL my family. They will ALWAYS be my family. Plain and simple.
I let them have their beliefs even if I don’t agree with them. When they ask my opinion, I do not hide my thinking. My thing is I really don’t want to engage in such discussions with them because I would prefer to just be with them and talk about life and the history of our family and friends and just enjoy the conversations.
Politics and Religion were the two subjects that many households back in the day would ban discussing at the dinner table. Why? Because it would usually end up in a fight. The last thing I want when I go down is a fight with my family. So, it’s there house. If they want to pipe off, I let them. Just like if they come to my house and I pipe off, I expect them to let me.
Some might think I should never associate with them. Ban them from my life.
I won’t.
I won’t do that anymore than I would ban a friend or family member who is LGBTQ. I would love them just the same.
It’s called “being human.”
It is called “listening” and “being curious.”
It is seeking understanding.
And if you choose to ostracize someone because they do not think like you, you end up with a very boring conversation.
So, as the political season starts to heat up, you probably already know how you will vote. Avoid getting into a fight in an effort to change the votes of your family. It’s like trying to get a pig to laugh at your jokes. It annoys the pig and wastes precious minutes of your life!
I’m just saying
That’s it for today. Be the person a stranger will do CPR on. Check in on each other and remember when slicing cheese…WITH GRATE POWER COMES GRATE RESPONSIBILITY! OOOOOOH…That’s deep!
Peace
Ed-vise 