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Portland and Gresham, Oregon. (May 2026)
And if I'm meant to be alone, please take away my desire to be loved.
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Fast Food For Thought...(31 May 2026)
I knew from a young age that whatever foundations my childhood were based on needed to be changed.
I was too young to really affect any change to that foundation, but I still knew enough that the foundation of my childhood needed to be fixed, repaired, or possibly destroyed.
I chose destruction. Why? I got tired of being a fearful person. I didn't want to be a person that was afraid of other people anymore. I wanted to have control of my life, doing the things that I wanted to do, around people that I wanted to be around, in a place where I wanted to be.
Those changes took years. I had to live life first. From my childhood, teen years, and into my adult years I knew that I needed to do things that would lead to change. By the time I was a young adult, I knew that my assumptions and premonitions I had in my childhood were mostly correct.
I knew I could be so much more than what almost everyone around me thought I could be.
The changes I chose to put myself through were tough to go through. There were a lot of hard lessons learned. There were many times I felt utterly humiliated.
But I persisted.
I finally destroyed that warped and flawed foundation from my childhood and built myself an amazing neew foundation on which I have built much of my adult life. It was hard work but I'm proud of that work.
Would I do it again? Heck no. The experiences I went through are the ones where it's a priceless memory, but no amount of money would make me go through them ever again.
I learned what I needed to learn, and that's the most important thing.
White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.
--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963
“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”
— Ernest Hemingway
you cannot heal in the same place that keeps asking you to bleed
That's why you have to leave that physical place that is making you bleed.
You can't grow and improve when you are around people that constantly remind you of your past failures and humiliations.
It's hard to heal when you are around people that are constantly cutting you open.
“Your peace is more important than driving yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did. Let it go.”
— Mandy Hale
Here is the entire original Aug. 17, 1990 Barbara Walters ABC 20/20 interview of Donald Trump :
Barbara Walters Interviews Donald Trump on ABC's 20/20 - August 17, 1990 | Roll Call Factbase Videos
How anyone could see this interview and not realize that Trump was a sleazy businessman and human being is beyond me.
Barbara Walters doesn't let Trump get away with anything! Too bad contemporary journalists are too afraid to interview him the way Walters did. (Still, Trump wasn't a vengeful president back then. )
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT* (Starting at 03:04 on the full 20/20 video) Note. Not captured in the transcript is the two of them often talking over each other.
WALTERS: While the new book is entitled "Surviving at the Top," there are many people who would say, "failing at the top." TRUMP: Well, I think what the press has done is taken a situation where they see something and blown it to kingdom come. I've never seen anything like it. Whether it's a marriage, by the way, or whether it's financial, I've never seen press reporting as I have with regard to me. I hope the general public understands how inherently dishonest the press in this country is. WALTERS: As a member of the press, let me try to clear up some of the things which you say are untrue. You write in your book, “My bankers and I worked out a terrific deal that allows me to come out stronger than ever. I see the deal as a great victory and eventually the rest of the world will too.” WALTERS: Being on the verge of bankruptcy? Being bailed out by the banks'— [Trump tries to cut in] TRUMP: Well, you don’t have to…— [Walters makes a hand “stop” gesture 🖐️and goes on.] WALTERS: —support? Skating on thin ice and almost drowning? That is a… That's a businessman to be admired? TRUMP: You say on the verge of bankruptcy, Barbara, and you talk on the verge, and you listen to what people are saying— WALTERS: I talked to your bankers.
See more of the transcript of Walter's impressive interview with Trump under the cut, including excerpts on:
Trump's Debts and Assets (ST 04:53 on the 20/20 video)
How Trump Thinks Others Perceive Him (ST 09:12 on the 20/20 video)
Trump's Copy of Hitler’s Speeches (ST 09:35 on the 20/20 video)
Infidelity, Marital Problems & Parenting (ST 12:11 on the 20/20 video)
Fast Food For Thought...(17 May 2026)
I didn't know what I wanted to be.
But I knew who I didn't want to be. And sometimes that's all the reason you need to change your life and leave a place.
I left that place because the people made me feel like I didn't belong, they made me feel like I shouldn't have existed.
They made me feel like I shouldn't exist. What a terrible feeling.
As extreme as a decision it was, joining the military to get away from those people was the best decision I have made in my life so far. I didn't have to deal with them constantly bringing up embarassing events from my past so they could boost their own ego in front of their friends.
I could forge a new path in my life. A clean path.
It was tough, but it has worked out well for the most part.
By now, I'm most certainly a blurry memory, if not already completely forgotten to them by now. They are all now a blurry memory in my head as well.
I keep that memory in my mind for an important reason: I know I can be better than what they thought I could be.
I knew I could be better than I thought I could be.
I was right, and my current life is evidence to that fact.
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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970 – directed by Terence Dixon
“What are you doing? Nothing you and me don’t want.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”
— Eric Thomas
“Never judge people by their past. People learn. People change. People move on.”
— Unknown