I have nothing to say about politics in America – there are legions of people who get a lot of money to do that, and they are loud and ubiquitous, and if most of them they know anything worth knowing, it isn’t readily apparent to me.

But the blog is a record of my life, and life outside creeps in. Sometimes I think America is a system of systems most of us don’t really want to join, but have no choice.

We don’t like health care, but we have to take tests and give blood. Technology overwhelms us, but we need online banking, cell phones and tech support in Eurasia. We have little regard for Congress, the biggest system of them all, but we turn over the country  to them. We don’t like media, but we watch. We don’t like politics, but we better do our duty and vote.  We don’t want to be in nursing homes, but our care is so expensive and complex – and thoughtless –  that we can’t stay at home. In the corporate nation, systems everywhere. A culture that supports corrupt and vicious banks but shutters libraries.

It’s a tough line, walking between freedom and frustration that comes from being swallowed up by systems that don’t work for us, and make us angry. I can see why people feel alienated and angry, and why so many feel there are no good choices for them. I vote against anger, and for affirmation. In a way, I see the farm as a vote against that system, and the systems that have always seemed to be my worst enemy. I hope I find the strength to say no to systems that don’t work for me, and that I don’t want to join. I hope I have the courage for that.

Nuff said about politics for this year.