Lost relationship
Jan. 15th, 2026 09:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertThere was a time when Dana's son and I were pretty close. He worked with me putting together the company we ran and in trade I gave him space and money to restart his life. We joked about the failings of the various religions and the questionable morality of the people who harassed and excluded minorities. He was (and is) probably smarter than me and in many ways more studious. He reads history to the extent that he could have majored in it.
He has done well with building his life and is successful by nearly every standard but has drifted philosophically, religiously, and politically to the far right. He is now a full fledged right wing religious Trumpist. I wouldn't know that but for a few comments when we were together. As with most people I don't engage and he's smart enough to not poke the bear. He did comment on how renewable energy was not a valid system and did not work and, by implication, should not be funded. His reasoning had some good logical points but much like Swift's "Modest Proposal" it was the sum that was was impractical and self defeating and socially faulty. Of course he saw no problem with it and I did not engage. His mother is on FB. She commented favorably on a post that had some pretty accurate parallels between what Hitler did for Germany and what Trump is doing to the U.S. His wail of unfair and untrue spoke more to the validity of the comparison than to any successfully fact based defense of the current president. She had stomped on what is obviously a nerve. Methinks he does protest too much.
He and I will connect once or twice more as Dana gets older but have no reason to be close again. The way of the world.
I've got one more day, I think, to say I'm clear of any traveling virus. My mind keeps jumping to 'I'm getting sick' whenever I feel anything different in my throat. But so far all those anomalies are just that.
After a week of doing as close to nothing as one can get while still being vertical I played pickleball yesterday. It went OK but I'm amazed at how much I was feeling the pain during play and even more when I got home and continuing today. The answer is to never stop playing again. My body will slide downhill faster than a skiier on Everest. I'm playing again today and again tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll work it out. I've got a PB friend whose wife gave him a ball machine for Christmas so he's ready to do some drills with the machine. Doing so does much better with two or three people who are on the same page. Always nice to have one of the players shagging balls and refilling the hopper. I'm hoping to get on a schedule with him. More is better.
He has done well with building his life and is successful by nearly every standard but has drifted philosophically, religiously, and politically to the far right. He is now a full fledged right wing religious Trumpist. I wouldn't know that but for a few comments when we were together. As with most people I don't engage and he's smart enough to not poke the bear. He did comment on how renewable energy was not a valid system and did not work and, by implication, should not be funded. His reasoning had some good logical points but much like Swift's "Modest Proposal" it was the sum that was was impractical and self defeating and socially faulty. Of course he saw no problem with it and I did not engage. His mother is on FB. She commented favorably on a post that had some pretty accurate parallels between what Hitler did for Germany and what Trump is doing to the U.S. His wail of unfair and untrue spoke more to the validity of the comparison than to any successfully fact based defense of the current president. She had stomped on what is obviously a nerve. Methinks he does protest too much.
He and I will connect once or twice more as Dana gets older but have no reason to be close again. The way of the world.
I've got one more day, I think, to say I'm clear of any traveling virus. My mind keeps jumping to 'I'm getting sick' whenever I feel anything different in my throat. But so far all those anomalies are just that.
After a week of doing as close to nothing as one can get while still being vertical I played pickleball yesterday. It went OK but I'm amazed at how much I was feeling the pain during play and even more when I got home and continuing today. The answer is to never stop playing again. My body will slide downhill faster than a skiier on Everest. I'm playing again today and again tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll work it out. I've got a PB friend whose wife gave him a ball machine for Christmas so he's ready to do some drills with the machine. Doing so does much better with two or three people who are on the same page. Always nice to have one of the players shagging balls and refilling the hopper. I'm hoping to get on a schedule with him. More is better.
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Date: 2026-01-15 18:24 (UTC)Geez.. I had to go back and look. I did it the same as usual. Clicked on your entry, hit Reply, and posted. It looks the same on my end.
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