"Resentment is like drinking poison..."

    mr coyote came around to ask miss mountain cottontail out for lunch

I spent a week at this spot and the rabbit (Sylvilagus nuttalli) remained in her log

 which was only 20 yards away from my campsite

she got used to the lettuce and bowl of water daily so she did not have to venture

too far from the safety of the log

the coyote suddenly appeared when a black-tailed jackrabbit ran by the campsite

and I think he caught the jackrabbit but I am not sure ....but the cottontail was safe in the 

log when I left this morning...

I have been listening to the news quite a lot to learn what the 

protesters have been doing....

I remember the protests and destruction from the 1960's and some of

the other "civil unrest" in this country....

"When truth conquers with the help of 10,000 yelling people- even supposing

that that which is victorious is a truth; with the form and manner of the victory

a far greater untruth is victorious." Soren Kierkeguard

one of the most dangerous things a person can do 

is succumb to the influence of the "phenomene d' hallucination 

collective" 

"Then does men's life become one vast disease,

when once they seek their ills by ills to cure." Sophocles

there is no defending the killing of a person

by a police officer who does so wantonly

and it has happened too many times to be

viewed as anything but a systemic failure

of policing...

however 167 police committed suicide in 2018

and several hundred thousand cops did not kill

anyone...ever...

"Trauma creates lack of empathy for another's suffering."

                           from "The Hidden Brain"

I contend that any uniformed cop who has been on

the job for a year or more suffers from PTSD

the work is unimaginably stressful and what

has evolved is a predator prey relationship

with many cops...and if you are one of the

people who is not of the same ethic make-up

as the cops you are very likely to become

involved in a self perpetuating 'bad vibe" relationship

which can quickly degenerate into an adversarial

confrontation...and they have guns...

"People are eager to tread underfoot what once they

too much feared." Lucretius

well I have a lot of notes written so I will post

more of my views later...

"Resentment is like drinking poison

and hoping it will kill your enemies"

              NELSON MANDELLA

and he had a lot to be resentful about!