I’m in a pretty good mood these days; I have discovered that One America News Network has an app on iHeart Radio which works great. Their broadcasts are nice and clean and sound very NPR-like, except without all the liberal slants. Now the rest of the media thinks that OANN is a far-right news organization. I personally love them, but they are far from being “far-right.” Instead, the actual definition for their political perspective is interpreted by communists. Everything to their right is considered “far-right.” So keep it in perspective. But to the point, it’s hard to watch OANN right now, and many people want to know how to watch them. With this iHeart app, you can listen to them anywhere, which I have been doing. It would be my recommendation that you get the app and keep them on all the time, in your car, in your offices, in your homes, everywhere. They are doing great work, they are getting more potent as a new media platform, and they are a great alternative to the disappointments of Fox News and others who have not defended President Trump. Trump, after all, has been right; he was mocked for correctly pointing out that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan lab in China. And he is being proven right again with election fraud which only OANN has been covering accurately. So enjoy! You have a choice!
We Will Have Our Revenge, and it will Taste Delicious
Many have been worried we are losing our country to a cabal of international criminals working through China to run our government with many forms of influence. They miss President Trump and have been wondering when he will return to the public scene. But as I said at the beginning of this massive election fraud case that we witnessed in 2020, Trump can still be our president. He was our pick, and we do not have to give him up just because our government bent the rules to power their kind of representative. It has been good to let Biden screw up to show the trouble with communism because that is what Democrats are after. They are making their move because they think they irreversibly have control of our government. However, Trump is planning his comeback starting with his old plane, the incredible 757 so well known in 2016. Trump’s plane is getting an excellent new paint job and an update to all its components and will be done by the end of 2021. The renovations will reflect not the real estate mogul with the supermodel wife and gold palace at the top of Trump Tower, but a guy who had been President of the United States and will be again. So, there is hope, don’t get lost in the panic and sorrow. We will have our day of revenge, and it will taste delicious.
There is a lot of discussion now about how and why corporate cultures have gone so Woke and are no longer opportunities for jobs and product development, but are drivers of communism in our culture in America. As I’ve pointed out before, college is not how you achieve success in life; those sentiments were given to us from Europe and the early American sensibilities that they were the gateway to aristocracy. To this day, parents who want good things for their children are convinced that a college degree will give their offspring an entry point into aristocratic society, which is how the game is designed. The genuinely successful usually find that to develop an idea independently, college gets in their way. But to serve someone who is doing all the risk-taking, college can help them get a job working with those people. It all depends on what you want out of life. However, communists have infiltrated that education process, and they did so early on. With everyone learning the same kind of communist garbage in college, it’s no wonder many students find they spend the rest of their lives deprogramming themselves from what they learned. And it is through that method, the communist dog whistles work when China plans some passive-aggressive attack on our culture, and we find ourselves defenseless to take a stand, as explained in the video below.
Thinking deeply about these new cicadas that have been coming out of the ground for this latest 17-year cycle in May has given me reflection on the nature of life in general and the ways that governments seek to control us. I like these cicadas, they are beautiful little creatures, and it almost seems tragic that their life is so short for all the hoopla they embark on to arrive over such a long gestation period. But here they are, they climb out of their shells after so long burrowed in the ground only to almost immediately begin their mating rituals followed by death days or weeks later. It reminds me in a cosmic way of the human lifespan and why we have the kinds of anxieties that we do about things. I would also offer that by developing our intellects, we can step away from the lifecycles that the cicadas are stuck on. But one major impediment that we must overcome is how governments use our natural struggle with lifecycles to keep us under control, as explained in the video below.
It came to my attention recently from one of my editors that I produced over 12 million words from the first week of April until the date of this posting. That’s quite a lot. For instance, The Holy Bible has over 783 thousand words. There are around 677 thousand words in Atlas Shrugged. War and Peace have 587 thousand words. So you get the idea. Since early April of 2021, I have written enough to fill more than 18 books of similar length, so smoke is coming off my fingertips. Also, we have some changes in the marketplace; people love my podcasts much more than reading articles, so I’m going to take a bit of a break and finish up some projects that need time. I will still be posting daily for my readers, but it will be the podcasts for a while as I get recalibrated until about July 4th of 2021. I hope everyone enjoys the results starting with this statement above. Even if aliens are revealed in a full disclosure event, the American Constitution is still our guiding document. Just because our government reveals aliens, it’s still America First!
I’m sure Rochelle Walensk is a nice lady who would be a friendly backyard barbecue host in Georgetown. She might even be quite good at picking brackets for March Madness. She looks like the kind of gal who knows something about college sports. But when it comes to the role she plays as Director of the CDC, she has become quite a villain when covering for her buddy, Dr. Fauci, and his funding of “gain of function” research in the now-famous Wuhan lab in China. It is pretty clear Covid-19 was tampered with at the Wuhan lab, and much of that has been blamed on the Chinese government. But now that the smoke is clearing, we see what direct role Dr. Fauci played in unleashing that virus to the world. And why he has become the leading voice promoting the pandemic status to the world, which has ended up costing us all trillions and trillions of dollars and has killed many people. While Fauci has been posing for a picture beside his pool, becoming an international celebrity, it’s pretty known now that Covid would never have happened if not for Fauci’s tampering, to begin with. And, of course, Rochelle Walensk knows about it all and covers the government-industry that unleashed Covid-19 in such a destructive way.
One question that comes up with all this, if China is so rich, why aren’t they funding their own Wuhan lab. Why is Bill Gates so involved? And why is Fauci funneling taxpayer money into a Chinese lab to produce a super virus that spreads so quickly? Who came up with the story that someone ate a bat, and that’s how the virus got out? I mean, the whole thing was telegraphed in November of 2019 at Event 201. Rochelle Walensk knew about that event and what the pre-planning pandemic outbreak was simulating. Bill Gates was trying to cover up his bad sexual deeds in his marriage to keep Malinda happy and quiet about his Jeffery Epstein adventures with little kids. Nothing like saving the world from a made-up Wuhan virus to shut everyone up. Fighting climate change was an excellent way to keep the escapades of failing marriage off the front pages and using Dr. Fauci’s gain of function virus to do so. It’s all coming together. We can see the puzzle pattern because we’ve found the edges. And like a nice lady, Rochelle Walensk at the CDC ran a cover story for the entire crime by attempting to backtrack everything now that the case is all falling apart.
She must really, Walensk at the CDC sees the writing on the wall. States all over America are stopping their compliance with the government mandates. I started to see this trend over the winter as I traveled from one end of the country to another. People were taking off their masks, ignoring the social distancing guidelines, and they were getting back to life as usual. I noticed it when we went to the movies to see Godzilla vs. Kong (a pretty good film, by the way), and people were sick and tired of this stupid Covid crap. I saw it as the zoo when we visited recently. Even the zoo filled with liberal employees was tired of masks and social distancing. I talked a bit to the girl who ran the train at the zoo and asked her how she felt about cleaning the seats after every train ride. She was expressing readiness for disobedience. Those stories are everywhere. Now the government is losing its ability to control the population with fear, so Walensk has no choice but to reverse the mask policy, cover for Dr. Fauci and cooperate to get the country back open again. The gig is up, and the CDC either gets with it, or the world will see that they have lost control of the population and will have lost it forever. Yielding now gives the government types hope that all is not yet lost.
But I would say for them that they blew it. Any trust we had in the CDC or government in general over a possibility of a pandemic is gone. We were fooled once, and it won’t happen again. We suspended our Constitutional limits on government for over a year, and that was devastating. The government abused its power, and we all suffered for it. And worse yet, we allowed this Covid virus to tamper with our elections. If the government hadn’t gotten involved, we would have likely had very different election results up and down the tickets. We do not have the proper representation in our government as a result. The government used Covid to tamper with our elections, which is a crime on a massive scale. Without question, the CDC Director knows all about it; she knows that Fauci was involved with the Wuhan lab that unleased this disaster of a virus. She knows that he is lying about it all on the news every night, using chaos to divert attention away from his crimes. She knows that the government used CDC guidelines to steal an election. To crippling the economy. To kill people in nursing homes so that the government could point to actual deaths.
All serious stuff, and now the story is breaking, so what is she supposed to do? States are opening regardless of what the CDC has to say about it. Florida opening all the way put a nail in the coffin of Covid. After that, other states followed. Even Ohio, where many of the lockdowns started under Mike DeWine, is opening again on June 2nd. If they somehow fail to do so, the state legislature will do it for him on June 23rd. The emergency powers that the Governor has have been taken from him. The same story could be said to be happening in many other states as well.
That leaves the CDC in the precarious position of backtracking for their survival. The parade of mistakes and maliciousness that led to this moment can’t be taken back, and nobody can afford to dig the hole even deeper. Wisely, Rochelle Walensk knows that it’s time to fold. Possibly to even win back some support by playing along. But one thing is relatively straightforward, people, voters, are done with Covid-19. The government abused the trust that most people have in government. Too many people see the crimes that were committed in the process. And now it’s time to pay. Dr. Fauci played with fire, and he got burnt. The CDC overplayed its hand to help cover crimes, and now it’s coming back on them. This is the reason for all the confusion, where the CDC said so much about wearing the masks to fight a virus, which is about as unscientific as anybody could get, to now saying take the masks off, and have a good life. Forget anything that happened. Sorry. Well, that’s not going to fly; people will be talking about this case for decades. It will still be written about 100 years from now regarding what not to do. And all the names that are contained in that story will live on in history as some of the biggest buffoons ever to roam the earth. And Rochelle Walensk knows now that her name will be on that list.
I’m having a little fun with this whole Covid thing because I called this one a long time ago, as readers here know. Now that states are opening, masks are coming off, and life is going back to normal whether or not the government agrees, there is a panic from the politicians to maintain what they think is control. Specifically, my governor in Ohio, Mike DeWine, whom I often call “dummy DeWine is being forced to walk back all his Covid restrictions now, and he hates it. It’s essential to keep in mind that Mike DeWine started much of the Covid mess, he was one of the first to force mandated shutdowns of our economy, and he is only giving up those powers on June 2nd because the Ohio Senate and House are forcing him to. He has no choice. DeWine abused his emergency powers grossly from March of 2020 until the present, and he has made many enemies. And to take the edge off the way people feel about him, he wants to give away 1 million dollars a week for the next five weeks to get the Covid vaccination. Right now, the vaccination rate in Ohio is at 43%. DeWine is looking to increase that percentage by 10% to 20% more before a full Ohio open on June 2nd. There is a whole lot wrong with this plan, but more than anything, it’s another fine example of a dumb politician spending other people’s money to cover problems they created for themselves.
There is no compelling evidence that anything we did as a society to combat Covid did any good. The case counts are dropping now because, as I said many, many months ago, sunlight kills the virus in minutes. The worst thing anybody could do is walk around with a stupid mask all day, day after day, saturated with snot, bodily water droplets, and shading the mouth and nose from direct sunlight while staying indoors way too much. Most of everything that the CDC came up with was stupid, unscientific, and in many ways could be said to be outright terrorism. I love President Trump, but if he wants to argue with me about it, I’ll be happy to tell him how stupid everything was from day one and that America should have never done any of the things we did. I know he was talked into it by the “experts.” The experts were wrong and even malicious in what they did and then seeking to use Covid protocols to hide their many, many crimes. The first of those crimes was acting against constitutional limits on the government over our society, knowingly. Mike DeWine was one of the worst of all the governors of America because many followed him into what became a nightmare for us.
Cases are dropping now because it’s spring, the sun is out longer, and people are getting outside. Covid-19, after all statistically, wasn’t much different than an average virus as far as its debilitating effects. The cost of our protocols is in the trillions, and everyone who supported the actions knowingly or unknowingly gave China a head start in economic activity, which was a crime all its own. I am happy to argue any stat anybody wants to come up with, death counts, case counts, spread mechanisms, anything. The bottom line is the government got it wrong then sought to cover up what they didn’t know. They gave us even more dumb rules hoping to bury the mistakes under CDC protocols, that the teacher’s unions were writing for them so their lazy employees could sit home and eat potato chips all day. And climate change advocates are upset about cows producing too much methane. Take a methane measure outside the house of some obese public-school teacher sitting home getting paid during Covid. The cow is doing far less damage. The whole event would have been comical if it hadn’t been confirmed.
People were slow to ask these kinds of questions and eventually got the courage to ignore the government rules, which they should have done during the first week. But now, the government has lost the trust of most of the people. The situation is so bad that Governor DeWine feels he needs to give people a million dollars to get the vaccination rates up over 50%. This is what happens when a politician like DeWine listens to the phony suppression polls. Actual voters tell the real story. Otherwise, people won’t get the vaccine, which is not about solving coronavirus; as I explained in the video above, it’s about telling the government that you believe what they say about the virus. Notice how there hasn’t been any mention about people who have had Covid who shouldn’t get it again? Now it’s all about getting the vaccine because that is a measure that the government can use to say, “see, they still listen to us.” But people aren’t listening to them. People are going about their lives and showing great courage in pushing back now, which is essential. These overreaching governors need to feel the sting of what they did to us. The lives they destroyed by tampering with our lives. The money they took from us. The sheer misery of their stupidity. It’s one thing to watch a politician on television and talk about how dumb they are. It’s quite another when they chain their stupidity to our lives as they did with Covid and sink us all with their dumb actions.
Getting the vaccination says to all those idiots that we forgive them, and that we believe that their intentions were good, that we still trust what they say. And roughly 60% of all Ohioans who haven’t yet taken the vaccine tell everything about this matter. Even with DeWine’s million-dollar give-a-ways, there aren’t precisely lines around the block to get the vaccine. Getting the vaccine is to trust that the government knows what it is doing, and more people like me are willing to say no. I wouldn’t take a government vaccine at this point if they paid me a trillion dollars. I’m certainly not against medicine, but in this current time, which is more like a Mad Max movie than a civil enterprise of a tomorrow reaching government, I have lost trust in all those elected people. They are either too stupid to function where they need to in a hostile world, or they are part of what makes the world hostile. Until we fix that basic premise, I’m not taking their vaccine. And any bullying they try to employ to do so is unconstitutional in a court of law and would be a worthless gesture. They burnt us once; we gave them the benefit of the doubt. But we’ve learned, and the next time won’t be so easy.
Mike DeWine hopes not to get primaried next year where the GOP is already positioning candidates to knock him out of the governor seat after one term. Through Covid, he showed himself to be a Liz Cheney type of Republican—much more of a Democrat than anything. DeWine’s biggest mistake was in listening to his girlfriend Amy Acton, a pro-abortion Obamanite he put in charge of the Health Department. Then he listened to her without question, which pretty much destroyed Ohio for the last 14 months. The money wasted in opportunity cost is in the trillions. If Ohio was already an unfriendly environment for business, it is even more so after one short term under DeWine. I will vote for a dog before I ever vote for Mike DeWine again for anything. Yet the politician in DeWine wants desperately to run again. He hopes that this million-dollar taxpayer giveaway will let him do it without the embarrassment of a complete social rejection in the aftermath of Covid-19.
I can understand why Mike Lindell went on Jimmy Kimmel to face an obvious hit piece against him. I’ve been there myself on a more local issue, but I can certainly relate to the danger of doing so. Mike has had a rough life, mainly because of his actions. He has an addictive personality which he filled with crack and cocaine abuse. I was turned off by Lindell for a long time and resisted buying any of his MyPillow products because of it. But because of all the excellent work he has done with and for President Trump, I have let him in, and I now have lots of MyPillow products in my home and RV. They are excellent products, they do make me sleep great, and I want to keep supporting Mike Lindell in his efforts because what he has done with his new wealth is some great good. He has been one of the leading advocates of election fraud that has cost him a lot. Most of the box stores have removed MyPillow products from their inventory which is a standard action that liberals all have. They mean to destroy any company that does not agree with them, and that was what culminated in Jimmy Kimmel inviting Lindell on his show to attempt to make a fool of the MyPillow inventor. Mike Lindell did the one thing he could have done to deal with such a challenge. He went on the show and attacked the problem rather than let the problem attack him. I think he did such a great job that I’m going to buy a few more pillows from the former drug addict, the now-born again Christian, and leading voice of redemption for the 2024 Trump presidential campaign.
Watching the interview with Kimmel, which Lindell features on the front page of his new Frank Speech.com social media site, is the standard to make friends with the guest so that you can lower their defenses yet attack and make fun of them as some extreme personality. Kimmel meant entirely to shame Lindell into some admission that he’s a freak with a fried brain that couldn’t be believed of anything regarding allegations of election fraud. But Kimmel is part of a larger story, the corporate story of an attempted coup where they took over our election process and put a puppet in place that they moved the mouth and expected us not to notice. Kimmel’s job, which is why he has a late-night show anyway, is to establish cultural norms through comedy to build social consensus. Lindell has been funding the efforts to root out election fraud, and now things are getting hot, particularly in Michigan and Arizona. The plan was to be well past all this by now. Because of the wealth of Mike Lindell, he has the financial resources to have these investigations. Since the government won’t audit themselves, Lindell has used his new power and influence to get the message out on his own through his funding and launch of the latest social media site to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Now that he has, many millions of people are now seeing what they suspected was always there, fire under the smoke of election fraud.
So it was Kimmel’s job as a member of that corporate media to bring Mike on his show and ridicule him into hiding. You would be surprised how common all this is. It’s not the kind of thing that gets discussed in everyday conversations, but most of us are well aware of its presence in our lives. It’s one of those over-the-shoulder things that haunts most people in everything they do. Kimmel, during the interview, went well out of his way to paint Lindell as a person still affected by crack addiction which is why he couldn’t accept the election results of the 2020 presidential coup. There isn’t any other way to talk about it. The election was an attack that should insult all of us. It certainly wasn’t a fair and honest election. But much to his credit, Mike Lindell was slick and very optimistic, and he was able to overcome all the opposition against him on that remarkable show. I’d advise anybody concerned with these kinds of things to study how Lindell handled himself with great humor and humility. I’ve been in that exact kind of spot before, as I referred to earlier. I’m not a very humble person and never plan to be. I don’t do drugs, I have never done drugs, and I work my ass off every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, before the sun is up and well after it goes down. I don’t have room in my life for losers like Jimmy Kimmel, and if put in the same situation would have had a confrontation with the comedy host. However, due to his past, Lindell is very humble, and it was just the right formula to turn the tables on Kimmel and keep the interview very positive. Mike won supporters, which wasn’t the plan of the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
The Proof is Clear on Election Fraud
Over the past week, Lindell continued to do well for the cause by hosting a rally at Mitchell, South Dakota, in the famous Corn Palace. It was a great event with thousands of people who showed up to support the launch of the Frank Speech social media site, which is coming on after a lot of trouble launching. The media reviews of the event were horrendous; they are worried that Lindell will disrupt their plans, nothing seems to be stopping this born-again religious Christian, and I am having fun watching it. They can’t seem to find anything to take away from him. Usually, with these kinds of big-time business owners, they (meaning the villains of election fraud) find some weakness, something you care about and exploit it socially to keep you from doing more of what you do that makes them worry. But what can you take from a guy who puts 100% of his trust in God and feels that the money he has made from MyPillow is a tool to bring justice to the world? What can they take from Mike Lindell when only a few years ago, he was looking for crack crystals in the carpet of his apartment for one more hit that he was desperately craving because he had lost it all? He knows what losing everything means, and he’s not in fear of it now. Mike Lindell isn’t about the opulent lifestyle his new wealth could give him; he’s about justice, which has these evil people in the government and the media very worried. There may be only 1 Mike Lindell out of millions of people, but that’s the truth of all these things. It only takes one to bring it all down. It only takes one sperm to conceive a baby. It only takes one person to give birth to a revolution, local, national, or globally. From my position, I see Mike Lindell as one of the most critical people on the face of the planet. The least anybody could do is to buy a MyPillow product from the guy and keep this new revolution of justice going because it is the future wave of freedom and liberty.
As I said in the video above, the value of President Trump’s harsh rhetoric at times and aggressive demeanor can be seen in the gas prices at the pumps. Never while Trump was in office were there troubles such as this pipeline hacking that occurred in on the largest oil supply route in southern North America as what has already happened to Jo Biden. It’s a throwback to the days of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, even going back to the days of Bill Clinton where every little bird landing on the bow of a boat was cause for an increase in the price of oil. It has always been a massive scam that politicians played for their own gain at the expense of the rest of us. Now that Biden has weakened American oil supply domestically it has put the power back into all the crazy antics of the world’s villains at our expense and shows clearly just a few months into 2021 exactly why President Trump was so good and why being aggressive and bullish is a good trait to have in a president. I could list many hundreds of other good traits, but most people can relate to problems at the gas pumps. Politicians like Biden might come across as a nice guy as the pundits keep saying. But they also are radicals selling socialism to us intending to destroy markets like oil to support their desires to control industry and of course they have a smile on their faces when doing it. Many of us have been trained since birth to fear aggressive leadership because the hostile actors in the world want to have an easy time to get away with bad intentions, which is precisely why President Trump was so good and continues to be great for the Republican Party.
This all came up last week before the problem with the southern oil pipeline hacking that supposedly sent a spike in the oil supply prices. I was speaking to a very good politician who happens to be a woman and wanted other options as presidential hopefuls to run in 2024, great personalities like Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. This nice politician represented quite a few people who wish that politics was nicer, that we could talk to other people from the other parties without all the hateful banter and that we could have civility in politics. The argument was that both of those names, and there are others out there, are able to govern logically and without a lot of division. Of course, my thoughts on the matter are that those names have been great, but that they are not the front runners and are therefore not targets of the opposition forces which in America is the Democrat Party. Once DeSantis or Noem were to be the leading presidential candidates, they would be ripped to pieces like any other candidate, man, woman, or child. That is what the political left does and they won’t start changing their behavior anytime soon. They are what they are and so long as there are people like them in politics, there will be fights and those fights will be vicious.
Unlike a lot of people in my position, socially, I don’t take offense to what people think. I am very comfortable with my own thoughts and can deal easily with contrary opinions. When people get mad at people who don’t think the way they do, it is because they are insecure with their own thoughts. So I can speak to people who have very different opinions than mine and get along just fine. But I am also known to blow my stack often when people mistake that good nature with changing what I do which are driven by my own thoughts on matters. I have wanted a person in politics like Donald Trump for a long time, someone who can play the game the way the game is going. Wishing for the game to be something else just isn’t dealing with the problem. The idea that members of the GOP should lead by example as good Christian soldiers only leaves us on the losing side in an aggressive and hostile world. Jesus might say to us to forgive our enemies. Society might say that it takes two to tangle and that someone should be the bigger person in a conflict. But when enemies want to destroy you just for being you, surrendering to them only fuels their aggression which has given us this political world that is full of so many villains. The fuel prices is just one aspect of that villainy. When it is wondered why there is so much evil in the world, the answer is that there just aren’t enough people willing to confront it.
My conversation with this very nice and sweet person was sparked by what should happen to Liz Chaney who is losing her leadership seat within the GOP because of her hatred of President Trump. Chaney is one of those old Republicans like John Boehner and Mitt Romney who just don’t get what the fight is all about and why they are wrong to not play that game. While they are trying to work with the other side, the other side is literally trying to cut their necks. Democrats have no intention on making peace, or operating fairly. They have always been out to destroy us all and change us into something they want, political socialists covered in tattoos and addicted to drugs. Democrats are weak below the line thinkers and will never be redeemed. Their basic philosophies prevent such fair behavior, so making peace with them only fuels their ambitions. As I said, I can deal with such people civilly. The reason is that I don’t seek their approval and could care less what they intend. In my dealings in the end, they will do what I need them to do or they will be destroyed. So why be mean? But if they get in your way, they have to go, and that was how Trump handled the Executive Branch and it was obviously effective. We see now the contrast and why former Republicans were picked on so intensely.
I would like to see a world where Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem could be president. But so long as Democrats and radical communists and socialists are bringing hostilities to everything they do, playing with them with white gloves isn’t going to cut it. That party will have to be destroyed before there is ever civility in politics. There is no peace with them, and I know that hurts a lot of people who are averse to conflict. Naturally nice people like this politician I mentioned are capable of conducting politics the way they desire. But the other politicians out there aren’t and yes it takes two to tango. That presents the ultimate problem, if you are nice to them but they aren’t nice in return, what do you do about that? Most Republicans would say that we should pray for them. That we shouldn’t take and eye for an eye but to give up our own assets and happiness if it brings peace to the world. But in practice, Jesus didn’t make it very far in life with this attitude. Evil reigned in his day just as it does today because we have yielded to evil and fed it with our timid souls. And because we allow evil to persist, we have been getting a lot more of it in the world. That is why Trump is the only pick for the top of the GOP and why others need to come to terms with that battle against evil. Because it’s a very real thing and if defeated, would truly bring about peace in the way that the most loving and nurturing among us truly desire.
It was strange recently getting yet another notification from the Ohio courts of Butler County that I’ve been selected for jury duty because my name ends up in the hat so often due to my voting patterns. I noticed while filling out the form which included my wife and kids that none of them have what you might call—“traditional” jobs. My wife is a happy housewife, my oldest daughter a professional photographer who is very highly sought after and my youngest is an illustrator. As I write this she, (my youngest) is doing a commission piece on the Batman villain The Joker shown below. But none of the ladies in my family have a “traditional” job where they go to work, punch in and sell away their day for cash. I know that’s the typical way that we measure economic success, but I’ve always been a big supporter of that type of freedom—especially for women because they tend to invest more into children, households and the emotional nurturing of a family as a whole. When people are free of that primary concern of having to sell away their time for money, it allows them to invest in less tangible aspects of family building, so it makes me proud to see that among the women closest to me, they are all on that type of path. They don’t have a “boss” out there they must yield to, and that is something I think is very important to family development, because it makes them the authority figures of their own lives which is why that question is asked on a jury selection form. Attorneys obviously want to know that the people in their pool are “normal” people miserable like everyone else—so the way I answered that question likely will knock me out of the selection process.
My photographer daughter has really impressed me; she is taking her business to a new level as seen in these included videos. She’s doing something called the 52 Weeks Project where each week she is picking a subject to photograph then she shows how she comes up with the shots and how the editing process goes on arriving at the final product. She’s a full-time mom, but on both of these efforts she was up at dawn before her little boy woke up wanting breakfast and conducted these pictures for her project squeezing in a lot of creativity into an already packed day. She’s been busy with booked appearances for several weeks now and coming up shortly after this publication she has a photo shoot in Chicago. So what you see here is a very developed photographer who is expecting herself to be one of the great ones. What she does is out of pure passion which I liken back to having the ability to be free of having a “boss” in her life who governs her away from home while on a time clock. That freedom has allowed her to expand her personal life in ways that I think are quite extraordinary—and necessary to achieve the level of art that she is shooting for.
Even her subjects are unique in the scheme of the photographic community. Her first entry into the 52 weeks project was “A Call to Adventure” which I thought she managed to squeeze a lot out of while working in a very limited area within Cincinnati. For those who don’t understand why a “Call to Adventure” is important it’s a classic motif most appropriately defined by Joseph Campbell in the telling of mythologies. Usually after the first act of a movie or the introductory phase of a novel the main character is faced with a jumping off point from the static patterns of their normal life and into the promise of adventure provoked by some dynamic force. For some people the “Call to Adventure” might be as simple as a stranger approaching you from the back of a cab at a stop light while you’re walking to work in New York and asks you to help them get to the airport. You must then decide to help or not because if you do, the static patterns of your day will be disrupted and that could have unpleasant consequences. Then for others it might be an opportunity to fly to Cambodia to do sex traffic rescue work in some steamy jungle nightmare, but while there you make a new archaeological discovery that changes the world perspective on our knowledge of history. The “Call to Adventure” is often how you can dramatically enrich your life for the better with vast experience, but to do so you must step away from your static patterns and allow dynamic forces into your life.
For instance, a friend of mine who worked on the Trump campaign in 2016 called me on a very busy day last week and asked me if I could appear on CNN the next day. I had scheduled a lot of events and I really didn’t have the time. After all I had an oversea meeting planned at the very same moment I was supposed to be on with Anderson Cooper. So did I answer the call and go on CNN which was likely just going to do a hit piece. As it turned out the CNN people were very gracious and were not the kind of gotcha people who Rush Limbaugh surmised when he talked about the event on his show. I did the CNN segment along with some other peers and it got people talking and was fun to do. I still managed to get all my work done—although it was different from my usual day and I could point to many times in my life where answering the “Call to Adventure” directly led to some very unusual experiences which ultimately enhanced my life.
I have learned over time to never get too rigid about things. The “Call of Adventure” is something I consider so important that I often go out of my way to find it with a very laissez-faire approach to living and personal management. I may start the day with all kinds of planned activities but by the end of it, I end up doing things I never thought I would at the start and that comes from saying yes to the “Call of Adventure.” So it made me particularly proud to see my photographer daughter out there capturing not only dramatic photos but articulating that difficult concept artistically. She, standing at the entrance of a forest goes back to some of the great Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages where the knights would all enter the forest of their various adventures at different points basically to establish that no two paths of adventure were the same for other people. People must pick their own paths in life to be living truly authentic lives so here was my kid showing this rather difficult concept to explain with a simple photograph. But as you can see from the editing process, it’s not so simple.
This brings me back to the importance of my girls not being encumbered with a traditional job—especially while raising their children. If they put their children in daycare, there would be many fewer opportunities for the kids to experience the wonder of a life lived authentically, because the static schedules of daily living prohibit it—and true intellectual learning is often crippled in children as a result. But for a mother who is there ready to answer that “Call to Adventure” at the slightest provocation a simple trip to the grocery store on a sunny summer in July might lead to a lifetime of discoveries that stay with young people forever because if the schedule of acquiring food is relaxed there may be opportunities for adventure that come up along the way—someone might need help changing a flat tire or a snake may be caught under a car in the grocery store parking lot and need help getting over to the cool grass before somebody runs it over. You just never know—but there is tremendous value in following the “Call to Adventure” and it makes me feel very good to see that my daughter has matured to a point where she can understand it well enough to photograph. That takes talent!
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