Loosening one's grip

Tinycat siblings Fleur & Griffin

Foggy morning. Accuweather says we’ve got three days of 0% precipitation and another with only 2%, and temps in the low 60s F. Chilly overnights and mornings—we’ve got our fire going for now. Breakfast for me is oatmeal, peanut butter, and molasses. The latter sparked a bit in the microwave when I was trying to soften up the tail end of what was in the bottle. Magnesium? Last night I learned that there is a U.S. House committee that changes its name everytime the party majority switches: Education and Labor for the Ds; Education and Workforce for the Rs, which it is at present, of course. Rs explain their side here. I was using Grok to sort out the 2025 Budget process. Very interesting. Kind of like baseball—lots of players and rules and history and stuff. Yesterday also I was thinking about continuity in baseball, like overlapping careers, institutional history. You can trace overlapping player-manager-team timelines all the way back to 1876 and before. Of course you can go back another 87 years before that with Congress. This is all obvious if you think about it for a second, but I find it fascinating. There are soon going to be (if not already) some big gaps or complete evaporations in the institutional memories of a bunch of federal agencies. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, considering we’ve got well over 400 of the suckers. I’m personally a fan of D.O.G.E…. and I agree to disagree. It’s not a good time for status quo. Terrible, in fact. Huge box-shaking going on right now. We’ll see how things shake out! Wild cards are being dealt every day. Loosening one’s grip might not be a bad thing. Just sayin’. One can yell and rail and protest, yes. But one can also lighten up and take it as it comes, be light on one’s feet, rolling with the punches, seeing the positives in the chaos. We’re heading through massive “unprecedented” territory, and that might not be all bad. A sense of humor and humility could be advantageous on the individual level. That’s my take.