(Picture on the right: One Frittella, equal to 1/3rd size of your average golfball. Picture on the left: Averaged sized Tuscans preparing to make Frittelle). While people back in the States are hiding from ICE, and not taking any chances by arguing about anything with the Current Landslide Winning President – here in Tuscany, people are celebrating Frittelle Day, where the men gather around a huge olive oil filled fry pan and make little sweet Rice Balls which they have been giving out to their girlfriends for over a hundred years. I’ll bet DOGE could get rid of that foolishness in a wink and a nod.
Here is the thing: No matter how hard you try; you can’t keep up. You get up in the morning, you read the headlines to two newspapers and three on-line magazines…and you have fallen at least four major events behind. You are not on a treadmill, you are tied to a hacked Pelaton that is going in reverse at full speed and you can’t get off.
- I am tired of it all when I go to bed. No problem falling asleep. But then I have nightmares…people chasing people….waves of water coming at me. Somebody trying to take control of the car and I don’t know who it is…I am lost on a dark road…and then I wake up and I read the news and it is worse than my dreams were and I want to go back to sleep and find that road that I was lost on…and so it goes.
- A Bromide revisited: It has been said “Our Problems are the result of our solutions to our previous problems.” I think – today – our problems are the result of our solutions to our present problems. (i.e., The current Administration, Unelected persons chainsawing Government Institutions, etc., etc.
- Another Bromide revisited: It has been said: “Nothing is as bad as it seems, and nothing is as good as it seems.” Wrong! Things are a lot worse than they seem. …And the first sign of Spring was better than I expected.
- A Penny For Your Thoughts: I have read – and I have heard the U.S.A. is the richest country in the history of the world. At least we were a few months ago. For argument’s sake let’s agree with: We are pretty rich. If this is so, why is everybody asking for money? For examples: Congress people (make that All politicians) people working in Union and non-Union jobs, Doctors, Lawyers…all the online newsfeeds at the end of every posting asking for ‘Paid Subscribers’, Corporations (which are “People, too”), Charities, Political Action Committees, Musk, Bezos, Churches, State & Federal taxing authorities, members of your own family, Girl Scouts, beggars in every city and subway stop, Kids (for school lunch), the Military, It seems everybody in America wants, or needs, more money than they have, or more than there is. Imagine what it it would be like if you were not living in the richest country in the history of the world.
A quote”
- “I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.” -Steve Martin
- “I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.” -Ivanka Trump…years ago
And a fond Goodnight to Belle, wherever you are.
