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to all our politicians:

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging
Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

https://lithub.com/suddenly-old-suddenly-the-other-on-the-unfamiliar-world-of-aging/

Walked out my front door to spoke and this dude comes strolling up. Yes I have chickens, but no clue where this rooster came from.