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The day looks to be at least party sunny so I think that I will be able to get out some.  Walks around the block and down by the park do improve my mood.

When I get stuck inside, either by inclement weather or inclement attitude does tend to send me toward grumpiness and a view of the world that borders on the cynical, and that my friends, is exhausting.

Right now, I struggle to remember that it is an election year and the antics performed in the media are not reality, but an engineered narrative describing the reality.  There are portions that touch upon the truth, but the narratives do not follow the reality, they parallel it, touching on portions that support the narrative and pulling away from reality when the facts on the ground are inconvenient.

Every truth is a half-truth.  Folks seem to hate it when I point that out.  But even the truths that I espouse are half-truths.  I sometimes want to raise that number when it comes to my writings here, but this is just my personal arrogance trying to take control again, and a careful review of my life makes me realize that batting 500 is pretty good, that I had better take it.

We live in an extraordinarily complex world with 8,000,000,000 different points of view.  Currently, there are complexes of opinions that are desperately attempting to impose a common set of half truths in order to get everyone pulling in the same direction.  Political power resides in the persuasiveness of the different factions selling their particular half-truth and the number of people whose interests are advanced with the half-truths emphasized in their platform.

There are too many days between now and January next.  There are a lot of promises and threats that will be made.  Take care and spend a little time to ponder your interests and study the narratives.  Figure out what concerns you personally and what it is that is just you sticking your nose in other peoples business.