Coming Sundown

The time is approaching for summer break to be over. That means I am going to have to start going to bed earlier. It is already past my school year bed time. I don't know exactly how to start going to bed earlier. You see, I think I was actually created to go to bed at about 2:00 A.M. and I do that in the summer, 10:00 being movie time on the weekend, not the time to be up trying to write something on a weekday. I am not sure how that is going to happen. My guess is that when I go back to work, I will just simply try to write earlier, but I didn't do that tonight. I have been writing every night since November 19, 2024, and have established a routine around doing that. I'm actually anxious about how that's going to work. Well, I shouldn't be. I started doing this during the school year, after all. It's interesting to me what we worry about, what we get anxious about. I think probably my favorite mayor candidate is probably anxious tonight because tomorrow is voting day--for the primary. In fact, I think he suggested something like that during one of his Facebook live programs. There are six people running for mayor right now. I guess the top two will run in the general election in November. I have never learned so much about the issues facing my city as I have learned from him. I really hope he wins, and I can't wait to vote for him. This is my home town, and since I've been an adult I have never lived here as long as I've lived here this time, since 2008. That is, of course, since I left to go to my second year of college when I was about 18. So, 17 years in one place since then is a long time. I have always gone and lived in other states. I have lived in California, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming. That is 10 states I've actually lived in. Not sure I've voted in all those states though, and, for sure, I haven't lived in any of those states for 17 years. The longest I've lived in any other state is about six years. I must have voted in one of those other states, but I'm not sure. Changing the subject now: I'm upset about the people who are accusing Israel of doing bad things to the Palestinians in Gaza, when it is Hamas that is causing all the trouble. I don't understand how people can so easily forget what Hamas did and what they are doing and that they are a terrorist organization. I think everyone is losing their minds right now. That's what I really think. I am upset with this person I hardly know in one of the states I've lived in who is against Israel. It really makes me mad. I don't know whether to even look at the message he sent me at this point. We send each other videos on Messenger that carry our point of view. I try to avoid it but there was a really good one today. I don't know why we all have to have such opposing views. I don't see how anyone could believe what the Hamas news reports. This is inconceivable to me. Hamas is so evil. There's no other word to describe them. I didn't want to use sundown as a metaphor for the ending of things, seems almost trite, but it is, in a way, inevitable. People talk about the end of their life that way, I'm thinking about it as the end of summer and the beginning of school and work. I guess there's really no need to be anxious and upset about anything, at least not here, not now. After all I am in possession of the peace that surpasses all understanding. And with that, I am signing off. Oh, I am also excited because someone wants to buy one of my paintings that I shared on social media, but that's a topic for another day. Goodnight.