For me, and I suspect many of you, July and August have been full of images and drama about the Presidential race. I can’t make it through a whole convention anymore. I want to get to bed on time. However…
I Can’t Get Back To Sleep At Night Wondering…
if Ivanka and Melania ever showed up at the Republican Convention.
Why do I care?
Watching dysfunctional families play out their stuff in public
like the Kennedys? I never followed the Kardashians, or watched
Succession, or even Game of Thrones, other than the dragon sequences.
Ok, I watched a bit of Dynasty back in the days of big hair,
big shoulders and so much eyeliner.
I have seen Lear many times.
Such a narcissistic, patriarchic idiot.
Hard to have pity for the old man,
but Shakespeare made me feel sad.
The Trumps probably see each other in court a bunch.
Maybe some year I will have pity for Trump.
Hope I live that long. All people deserve compassion.
Gonna take a while.
Melania and Ivanka/Jared did come the last night
to stand on the stage as part a happy family.
Apparently, Barron had a prior engagement.
Can you imagine that?
Wonder if his friends call him something else?
I mean other than Baron Trump.
I hope so. Can you see introducing yourself that way?
Queen Latifah pulls it off. She earned it.
Hope they all have good therapists.
Power and money has a pull for sure.
Can’t help who you were born to.
There, I do some compassion for some of them, at least.
Everybody does deserve it.
Even myself, for not being able to feel for all,
not yet at least, maybe never.
Heather Saunders Estes 