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SBDC Day at Palm Coast City Hall: The City of Palm Coast hosts “SBDC Day” at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., connecting local entrepreneurs, startups, and established business owners with free expert guidance and resources from the Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network.
Conversations in Democracy: An open, freewheeling discussion on topics here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email atlanticcoastau@gmail.com or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
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Notably: Yesterday morning I finished reading a less-known play by Eugene O’Neil, “The Personal Equation,” from his romantic-revolution period, about dock workers wanting to blow up ships and a rabble-rousing son ending up in a duel with his company-loving father, who loves his ship engines as much as he loves his son–and ends up shooting the son and reducing him to a vegetable in defense of his engines. There’s a love story wrapped in and a pretty sappy resolution that has the father and son’s pregnant lover forgiving each other for the role each played in turning the son into a vegetable (the whole scene happens at his bedside at the hospital as he stars at them emptily, after the lobotomy–what they called a “trepanning” in those days–that “saved his life,” in the doctor’s oblivious words). Nothing remarkable about any of this, except that normally my first impulse would have been to text Bob Cuff to report on the play, which would have inevitably invited a generous response about Eugene O’Neill, fathers and sons, anarchists, and one way or another, connection to one of the following: a) maga, b) the Palm Coast City Council, c) diving or sirens or d) something that happened in 1985. Instead: nothing. A phone to no end. You stare out the window and see an emptiness almost abysmal, and you know–you remember–the emptiness is here to stay.
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The association of tube socks with aging and tackiness, in favor of little ankle socks, makes not a whit of sense, given how many reasons there are for wanting to protect that lower shin area. But unless one wants to give off a Matlockian air, these days one settles for the ankle socks. (As I write, the fashion is actually reversing at last, which only points up how arbitrary it was in the first place!) Billy and me is like that. The pox against it is as unnecessary as foot binding, wax beans, and Woody Woodpecker. Yet while we have either expunged or marginalized those, the idea of Billy and me as a problem will be as eternal as death and taxes. Whether it makes sense or not, it has been beaten into Anglophones so soundly, with so many of us using the “rule” so effortlessly, that one could consider it to have become less a trembling concession than an actual rule of the language in its way.
–From John McWhorter’s Pronoun Trouble (2025).
Laurel says
I finally got it this morning.
Trump is now going after our historical landmarks, our natural, sacred lands and animals, and all that makes us the United States of America. He has gone after the Kennedy Center. He has gone after American hero, and real Republican, John McCain. He has gone after our Universities. He is now going after the Smithsonian. Have you ever been there? It is amazing! It is huge, an unbelievable amount of work and pride, and it was to put together our 250th national birthday celebration, but it didn’t wholeheartedly focused on Trump, so he squashed that celebration and put together his own party, which was a flop. It was not all about our nation’s birthday, it was all about him.
We have national monuments, like the reflecting pool he had to destroy. We have the White House and he had to destroy the East Wing, which was historically used by the First Ladies, but they are “stupid” and “piggies.” We had the Rose Garden that First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created, but he had to concrete over that. We have the Lincoln Memorial, that he has to block the sight of with his arc to himself. We have the White House, which he called “a dump” and had to fill the people’s Oval Office with gold covered trash, no longer representing the people, but a monument to himself. Everything, of ours he touches, crumbles.
His face is on passports, glaring at you with disdain. His face is blown up to huge proportions on the front of the Department of Justice. He wants his face on the $250 bill. He wants his face on Mount Rushmore. He wants his face on TV 24/7.
So, what do I understand now? He is actively destroying all that is considered American and replacing it with all that is Trump. No person with any sort of self confidence would do such things. No person with integrity, with humility, or with love for his fellow citizens would do such things. He is a broken man.
He is not your retribution, you are his, and somehow, he thinks his daddy, long passed, can see his importance. The ten year old still tying to impress a hard to impress daddy.
Joe D says
Laurel….I think you NAILED Trump’s Psychological Profile perfectly.
In my opinion (as a Master’s prepared Clinical Nurse Specialist, and 12 years as a Child/Adolescent/Family Therapist), he ACTUALLY has a very low self image, which is why he feels he has to SELF PROMOTE to the level of RIDICULOUSNESS! Truly intelligent, competent and capable leaders don’t have to PRAISE their own skills and accomplishments, and surround themselves with “YES” men and women…those talents stand out to all who surround them on their OWN MERITS alone.
I do feel sorry for him, it appears (in my opinion) that he has had a VERY SEVERE upbringing at the hands of a dictatorial Father, who appears to have rewarded only ABSOLUTELY OBEDIENCE and COMPLIANCE. The minimal mention of his Mother as part of his upbringing, is also notable ( in my opinion), I’m afraid she might have fallen under the ABSOLUTE INFLUENCE of Trump’s RIGID FATHER, and she herself was allowed little SELF DETERMINATION, and therefore wasn’t able to protect or soften the harsh ( even though luxurious) upbringing of their son.
I’m concerned that Donald Trump ( in my opinion) appears to be suffering from undiagnosed Bipolar disorder-Rapid cycling (“Manic/Depressive”)…as indicated by his GRANDIOSE ideas, temper tantrums, rapid mood swings and sometimes daily reversals of decision making, and frequent lack of sleep. That combined with (again in my opinion), with a NARCISSISTIC Personality Disorder. He see the entire world as revolving around HIM.
Many treated BIPOLAR individuals are HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL in their lives, becoming highly capable business people, highly talented actors, exceptional writers, creative people, etc.
Unfortunately, (in my opinion based on OBSERVATIONS and REPORTS), Donald Trump has not had control of his mental status for a long time, but he has the power and money to surround himself with those who can help him SHIELD IT.
I’m not sure that SHIELDING is going to be productive to him nor the people who are exposed to his ALMOST absolute PRESIDENTIAL POWER.
Again I could be incorrect, having not actually TREATED Donald Trump directly as a client, and I’m sure there are those who will disagree…but one only has to look at the diagnostic criteria for the disorders I’ve listed to see the similarities.
PS: let the HATE SPEECH begin…
Laurel says
In my opinion, I agree with your opinions!
Jack Howell says
I think Trump’s head should be emblazon on toilet paper.
Pogo says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU