If you remember when I first started “The Back Porch” I referred  to it as a place to come to to clear your mind…a light exercise in thinking about something other than the day’s problems. The word I used to set the mood was to ponder about most anything you wanted to. A good ponder doesn’t require a great deal of knowledge about the subject, there are no rules and it does not require a solution. The following sorta breaks the rule but there are always going to be exceptions. This evening let’s ponder Compassion :

“Compassion involves “feeling for another” and is a precursor to empathy, the “feeling as another” capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the “feeling towards another”). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another’s suffering.”

Remember the old Laurel and Hardy movies, they were the Dean Martian and Jerry Lewis comedy team of the mid-twenties. They meant well but just couldn’t get it right… “another fine mess we are in Ollie” That is in a sense where we are as a country today…July 9, 2024, we are in a fine mess.There was a saying back in the day that the problem was “you couldn’t see the forest for the trees.” That may well be the problem today. Every pundit, talking head and media elite think they know it all… but they don’t know. I will not waste time making lists of what is wrong or how to fix it. Joe Biden is not physically or mentally able to serve another four years leading anything…most especially the USA. So…here is the ponder for this day. Do I want the good of this nation to be in the hands of those who have demonstrated such careless regard and disrespect for another person as have they for one Joe Biden. They have put their own selfish quest for power ahead of any reasonable care for a person who it is painfully apparent…struggles each day to meet the ordinary challenges of life itself.

My Goldwater Pin will most likely melt…and if he could, Ronald Reagan would choke on this one. I’m an American, Joe Biden is our President……God bless you Mr. President… May the goodness and grace of our Lord and savior be upon you.