• Compassion,  Politics,  Psychology of Life,  Republicans

    A Letter to members of ICE

    January 25, 2026

    Look I get it, you are probably supporting a family or otherwise taking care of folks at home.

    ICE can be a decent job, but for some there is a discouragement that goes along with the cognitive dissonance between the public face of ICE and what ICE really does.

    It’s you that I want to speak to. I want to speak to ICE agents. I want you to know that you pay a price for everything that you do in life and that your life energy sows seeds for your future. Most of all, your mind is involved in everything that you do. Don’t imagine that thinking trumps reality. What you do matters.

    Every action that you take that your self doesn’t feel comfortable with will come back to haunt you at a later moment. All of those actions that you take that you feel good about, will also affect that future.

    If what you are doing is to turn away from human empathy and compassion, you will face a double edged sword and that is this: you will suffer when you try to love again, when you try to like again, when you try to be friends again with other humans.

    Human compassion and empathy are not buttons that can be pushed on and off. If you push away your humanity and agree to do bad things to human beings, you can easily lose your humanity in the shuffle. You may face a long slow journey back to yourself.

    Let’s define “bad things to human beings”:  apprehending those who have committed no crime.

    Pushing people down and spraying them in the face with chemicals. Taking away lawful residents and cruelly jailing them away from their families with no recourse. Sending human beings to awful prisons in South America. Being the judge and jury in another human being’s life is a moral crime. These are crimes that you cannot escape from. Every door that you knock down, every body that you push to the ground, every injury you cause with chemical sprays, all are fodder for your future. You won’t escape your actions, nor your memories.

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    When you do these things, you turn away from your humanity. Perhaps you have lived a life of hate and anguish, and you wish to share that life with others. You are failing at humanity. If your purpose is to spread the hate that you had to live with, you are failing humanity badly and you will crave love for decades before you can recover.

    Make no mistake, you will have to work very hard at recovery. Some will choose not to recover and they will live in the unloved void of their own soul, screaming out for redemption that will never come. No one can love you, if you hate what you have become.

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  • Equality,  Mother,  Psychology of Life,  Speaking as a Parent,  Wise Words,  Womens Issues,  World Affairs

    For Women Everywhere, Courage

    January 13, 2026

    For women everywhere, we do get close to this thing called equality. We can see it in the eyes of the oppressors, they are not smug anymore, they are not anxious, but they are not smug. And for those women who bow down to a God that tells them that they are inferior to a man, stay away from my daughter! I don’t want her tainted with your poison.

    To all my sisters in the fight for freedom, I tell you that we come close and closer. We are no longer easily tormented as we once were.

    We have redress, though it often fails, yes, we still have redress. Living yesterday, there was no redress, there was only punishment.

    Men believed they were entitled to women. They grabbed, beat, raped and sold and gave away women as they desired. Because men are bigger and stronger, they used their muscle to reinforce their opinion, wishes and desires onto others. They beat on all of those who disagreed or otherwise made it difficult for the man to find comfort. He ruled supreme in his home, in his community and in his country.

    We make slow progress; we often have to argue with our own to make our progress. When we work hard to go forward it is often a woman who tells us to back off, or perhaps that we are in the wrong for not being gentle. Women will often be the ones to tell us the appropriate role of a woman. Because women often take on the opinion of the oppressors, women will join in the fight against equality. Again, keep these women away from your daughters so that they don’t taint our future freedoms and bring us back to an age of submission to those who are physically stronger.

    There will come a day when the beatings will stop. Physical strength will not rule homes and societies. But no strength will rule. We will find ways of living together reasonably and equitably.  We won’t have to keep others down in order to feel up. We will be comfortable with our space in the universe. That space will be full of abundance and life.

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