Mark Twain holds great say in our area. He spent many of his summers overlooking my native city, Elmira, and the Chemung River valley at Quarry Farm, where he wrote many of his best loved books. His family plot at Woodlawn Cemetery is a tourist attraction. Maybe that’s why I’ve always felt an affinity for the man and his writing.
Or maybe it was his inability to suffer fools, most notably those with great advantages and power. The current goings-on in DC, especially with the spite and greed that is accompanying the healthcare bill, have me swearing under my breath whenever I let the subject enter my mind. Keeping it out is a full-time and exhausting job.
So, today instead of venting, I thought I’d share some of my favorite Mark Twain-isms. Though some of this lines seem ornery and misanthropic, I think they reveal great compassion and empathy for the common man. I mean that in the singular sense. I like to believe that he was as leery of organizations, clubs, populist movements and, especially, those who reign over these groups as I am.
Plus they make me smile. And I need that these days, more than ever.
Thank you Gary, I needed a few words of wisdom to put this world in perspective. I’ve already posted comments to my two Republican Senators asking them to “Just say NO!”. One of them might but for the very wrong reason that he doesn’t think the bill goes far enough and the other one helped hide the bill so probably won’t listen to me. But, hell, I didn’t vote for either of them anyway…
Fortunately, my two Senators are both Dems and are heavily opposed to the bill. Hopefully, the pure nastiness of this plan to the middle and lower classes will make it toxic.We’ll see…
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Redtree Times wrote:
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