Porthole

4th of July. Ants... but not at a picnic.

I'll start out with Charlie ~ who responded to a 30DBC prompt about independence in "Invalid Entry" . If you think our medical system is the best in the world... . I responded:

Ouch. My pharmacy prefers to call my doctor directly. And they do so. But, I'm not taking any major drugs.

I know about anxiety. So... withdrawal from Paxil left me suicidal for the first time in my life. I had have debilitating anxiety, depression and trauma at times... but was never suicidal.

Next rant: we don't do July 4th here much. The baseball stadium does fireworks over the river but fire is a real danger and most folks know and respect that.

I do like fireworks over water and at a distance. Throwing anything my way is perceived as a threat and in my opinion criminal.

Loud noises trigger my traumas. As much as I love the town of Grecia in Costa Rica, I will not stay there again on New Year's Eve. An hour of incessant yelling and honking horns. I was shaking.

I went for a walk ... there was a convention of black ants...

I saw weeds eking out a living along a fence line. They are about to flower. The two-legged residents don't seem to be troubled. One can almost hear their lament "look away, look away".

Daylilies brighten up a corner where the shade isn't too deep. Sugar maples don't share the sun. They are greedy.

The rest in... "Ants" 



"They will paint all of us as socialists though. It's code for anyone who-gives-a-damn about others... and they apparently don't. The scare tactic will work until reasonable folks understand that public education is "socialist" as are libraries, rural-electrification, highways and bridges...

The rest is found in: "We R Socialists? " 



Which ties into my rant provoked by Robert Waltz who also responded to "independence" in "Unleashed" . He characterizes this as a myth... in the sense of a "foundational story". Read it. Robert will always make you think. My comment:

Yes, the foundation of the USA was interdependence, which also was how the Iroquois looked at it before those fat white asses invaded... but that's another story.

And interdependence is how the United Nations, treaties, trade agreements are supposed to ideally work. Sometimes they don't... but for hundreds of years the Norwegians and Portuguese have been trading dried fish and oranges... so sometimes they do.

I tell my uber-libertarian friends that they cannot exist without a society. They disagree as the pick up their government delivered mail, go to jobs that depend on the public education they received, drive their cars into town on government built roads to use a government built library... but... what the hell would I know?

I tried, I really really tried... . I have no idea what I'm doing right or wrong with flash fictions.

"I want to go back." Steele braced himself for his friend's response.

"To where?" Stacie looked at the sky.

"To 1981."

"Can't be done."

"Why."

Stacie sighed, "I'm not Dr. Who. I don't have a time machine. The TARDIS is merely fiction."

"But you've been there."

... continued in:

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Star-navigator [130] (298words)  (18+) Flash fiction under 300 words. Prompts: time, light, wheel. #2194859 by Kåre เลียม Enga

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