The Native Iowan

A Wednesday morn here. The RNC is starting for us on the underside of the planet. The daily news-cycle out of the USofA is not a happy one.

I have spent the last day licking my wounds, feeling sore and sorry for myself. I spent about 30 minutes under the ink on Monday. And it fucking hurt. Ive had long sessions and return for a couple days sessions, but never had I been so terribly beaten and battered…

I know, it don’t look like much but it was way over the top of my pain threshold. As you may recall, about a year ago I had this done but it did not take. It wore off. And my ink-family decided I needed to go toe to toe with Maestro-Shane, the ink-on-palm master.

So, to keep the ink from fading, wearing off, you need to go real deep. Real, real deep. Into the deep tissue. And it hurts way, way too fucking much.

The ink session was Monday. I pretty much sat and cried all day yesterday. My hand ain’t very useful. It remains wounded. It will be a long healing process. I had thought Tu was a puss when he got his hands done. He moaned and groaned heaps. Now I think he’s a rock for doing both at the same time!

I watched the RNC kick start yesterday. Wrapped in a granny-made blanket I sat and moaned both from my hand and from the new-cycle. I’m watching day two as I type this.

As I surf the news channels on cable TV, and read the net-news, I begin to think that being a centrists is getting harder and harder. The loud and obnoxious Right-Wing factions of politics are making much more sense than the modern Liberal-Looney left. I ponder a deep question herein… was it the looney left when I was a young, long haired, army jacketed protester in the 70s? I dont think so. I think we made sense. We had the Legacy of the Kennedys and MLKing. We had fine examples and smart leaders. Something has changed. Have all my old Hippy-buds turned into Marxists?

Maybe people have gotten lazy, or worse, stupid?

I dont think people read, listen or think very well, any more.

It saddens me.

It’s getting harder and harder too remain a political centrist.

Big smiles

More later