I Discovered That I AM an Optimist! Thanks to Nancy Milam

A short video at the end.

Several years ago we began purchasing an annual streaming subscription to Great Courses Plus.  You may be familiar with this company as in the past they sold courses on audiotapes, then on DVD or downloadable. I think they still do some of this, but they have moved forcefully into the streaming world.

Since the morning of November 6, 2024, as a way of protecting my mental health from the cluster f*** that is currently happening in my once beloved country, I have stopped watching TV (again), listening to the radio, reading the news in the various formats that it comes in.  While it is impossible to prevent some news from bleeding through, I try to prevent that as much as possible.  Otherwise, I would be drunk or stoned all the time.  It simply is too difficult to watch the dissolution of something I once loved, something that was one of the few things I had faith in, my country.

However, this avoidance of the news has resulted in my Continue reading “I Discovered That I AM an Optimist! Thanks to Nancy Milam”