What would a jobs guarantee mean to Americans? No more unemployment for anyone who wants to and is able to work. For the past few years there’s been some debate over a Universal Basic Income (UBI) versus a Jobs Guarantee. This seems to be an either or debate, but I wonder if both are not needed, for different but related reasons. They should also be combined with child care, elder care, and other basic needs filled, such as some forms of basic education beyond K-12, and the ability to make a smooth transition when voluntarily changing careers.
Category: Journal
Posts that don’t fit another specific category, and updates about my personal interests and life.
A thousand disguises
We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. ~Carl Jung I always feel as if Halloween/Samhain is really the end of the year, and a new one begins in November. Maybe that’s how it was at some time or other in some civilization or another. I feel…
A ramble – random thoughts and quotes
Sometimes I escape into an ocean of ideas. New ideas feed new ideas, and so on and so forth. I’m quite sure that most creative people do a lot of reading, or of taking in others’ ideas in one form or another, through conversations, through images, even psychically. I’m sure no one can be quite…
I have just one thing to say . . .
Or is that two?
After the fires
The local birds seem to think our yard is a good place to visit while the last bits of fire and smoke die down, and they’ve come through in flocks as well as individually. At one moment this morning they seemed to be throwing a bird party in our side yard. I stepped outside and…
Butterflies
This has been a good summer for butterflies in my little corner of the world. I’ve seen a lot more variety this year than in past years, and yesterday I sighted a Western Tiger Swallowtail in a pepper tree in the yard behind ours. It surprised me, and at first glance I thought I was…
Emily’s journey home
We had to say goodbye to our little gray cat Emily today. We think she was about 20 years old, but we’re not sure, because she adopted us just over nine years ago, appearing in our back yard to steal our puppy’s food. She had a lot of problems, resulting from having nearly starved on…
Journals, past present future
Turtleheart asked in “Journaling Stuff” (link no longer active): “Do you regularly keep any kind of personal journal, online or off? What works best for you?” I started out journaling on looseleaf notebook paper, as a girl. Sometimes I bought colored paper or a spiral notebook for a change. Later I collected bound blank books…
Need and greed
I’ve been keeping an eye on my greed recently, my attachment to the material world that pulls me in and makes me desire something. We live in a world where one is considered just a little insane if one doesn’t value the material, the necessity for money that we call practicality. There are degrees of…
Coping
I think there is a certain amount of unavoidable grief in every life that we simply have to learn to find ways to live with and still function. Not every illness is treatable, some of us have to put up with pain, and we inevitably lose some people we love. The older we get the…