During this pandemic, I can honestly say, that I have learned so much more about............myself............then I could ever imagine. Along with learning new things of interest, I have learned that I, as a person need companionship. I found that I need an extraordinary amount of socializing.
CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN
Yesterday, my wife found a cockroach in the kitchen. She immediately began to scrub down everything in sight. Opened up and emptied out all the cabinets and draws. Vacuumed and washed the total inside of them all, replaced everything after wiping the stuff down. Sanitized the total counter area, moved the refrigerator and stove along with the dishwasher and totally cleaned underneath them. Got down on her hands and knees and used cleaning vinegar and water to scrub the floors. After six hours the kitchen was totally sanitized and sparkling...............................tomorrow I'm going to put the cockroach in the bathroom !!!!!!!!!!!!
A BRAND NEW FEELING
I'm going to jump back a little to the memorial Day weekend. We decided to have a barbecue at our daughters house and the whole family was invited to attend. We finally get to see our 25-year-old grandkids in person rather than over zoom, this alone was worth every moment and was cherished, just to be able to see them hug them and give them a good pat on the back meant so much to me. We were able to just sit back have some good food and talk about the things that have transpired over this very hard pandemic time. The highlight of the evening was actually being able to say in June I will be 85 let's have a party at our house and the reaction was absolutely fantastic. We made all the arrangements to be held at Grandma and Grandpa's house June 20th and we will combine Grandpa's 85th birthday and Dad and Grandpa's Father's Day the plans were very explicit. That day has now happened and once again the feeling was enormously close to my heart like they would say in Italian la Familia e molto buona.
NO LONGER A WORLD THAT I RECOGNIZE.
When I first decided to write this blog, the main purpose was to build a log of memories, for not only my children to look back over, but more important, my grandchildren. Since then so many changes have taken place, changes not necessarily for the better but more radical. Looking back, I tried to remember when this actually started to change and this is the confusing part. The biggest recognizable changes started to happen at the start of the covid pandemic at the beginning of 2020. Searching my mind though, I actually feel that it began slightly earlier with the introduction of the 2016 presidential election. My intention here is not to make this political, but, in all honesty I began to see these uninvited changes occurring with the administration of that period of time.(2016-2020) People began to fight each other and ideas were not something we could discuss but were used to break us apart. Disrespect between races, people and groups happened more readily than normal. Hate started to find a way into our lives. The masses were beginning to fall and non caring for the interest of one another was beginning to take effect. We no longer invited people to join with us but we began to turn them away, a trait that I have never experienced. We were always an welcoming country to those less fortunate, but now we were shutting our doors to them. When the doorbell rang, we would open the door and speak to people with respect, now we look through a peep-hole to even see if we dare open the door. The government no longer seems to work to make the whole country better, but rather a select group.
I am becoming more and more frustrated as each day passes, with those that seem to be unable to think on their own. Those that tend to know they are doing wrong, but refuse to change to benefit anyone but themselves. Those that tend to make the liars and cheaters the good and the logical and meaningful the criminal. Those that are unable to accept truth but only hide behind THEIR so called understanding of what they believe to be fact. Prior to the election and still after the election by 2 years we have heard of fraud and bad election results, even though none have been proven and continue to be debunked even legally. Now it's even starting about how the next election will be fixed.................unless the conservative party wins, of course. What if they win, would the election have been fixed, should the other side cry fraud...............more WILL the other side cry fraud. Is this how we teach not only ourselves but our children how to act??? Will the looser ALWAYS declare themselves the winners? Will sports be played only by winners? This my friends, is not the country I was born into. Not the country I was raised in and certainly not the country I served for. We no longer have to strive to prove our capabilities to win, we can now just lie about it.
Sorry to have to go on and on about this, just so disappointed in what we are becoming, a nation of big overgrown cry babies, trying to rely on the constitution that many do not even know what it says or how to read it, they only know how to lie about what it actually says to their benefit. I personally call them useless, worthless, know nothings.
I know one thing, I will not leave this country the same way it was when I entered it. A country I know longer recognize made-up of people that cared for one in other but rather for what they can get out of it. People avoiding the law, people constantly trying to overthrow peacefulness.
Will we ever get back.................the original America
Vito
