In my mind, I am 22; my thoughts aren't aging. They have no wrinkles, aches and pains, or limiting health issues. They could do a marathon and not tire or get out of breath. They are the prodigy of Peter Pan, natives of Neverland.

But then I go before my reflection to shave in the morning and I get assaulted. Some witch has cast a spell on me as I slept that night and shriveled my appearance, like going to bed that as a plum and waking up a prune. The dichotomy of my mind and physical reality is surreal. This stark contrast is bizarre beyond any understanding.

It makes me angry and I look to blame. Wh**ever ancient culture developed this heinous device called the mirror should be loathed by all societies. There should be a universal law that mirrors are only for the young and store fronts need to reduce reflections in their glass or be seriously fined.

Then I leave the bathroom and in a few moments at the computer, return to Neverland.

This is the time of year that Texas shows off it's colors.

The wildflowers have literally exploded this season and it really is something that you just have to see for yourself.

Me and the Angel left yesterday on our annual wildflower drive through the Texas hill country.

We left Comanche and drove through Brownwood to Brady and then on down to Fredericksburg.

All along the way it was as if we were subjects in a Van Gogh painting.

The bluebonnets are in full bloom and my angel couldn't be happier.

She can identify, by name, at least twenty different types of wildflowers.

But she tells me there are more than a thousand different species right here in our little neck of the woods.

Her two favorites are the bluebonnets and the Indian blankets.

As spectacular as the blooming flowers are, they don't compare to the smile and the glow on her face when she looks out across a field of dancing colors.

We drove on over to Georgetown where the red poppies are beginning to bloom.

We decided to spend the night here and continue our trek today and make it back home tonight.

So we're up and ready to hit the trail.

I'm taking a meandering route over to Brenham Texas because you can't go on a wildflower tour without driving up or down the magical "Wildflower Road".

So turn off your stupid TV.

Take off that stupid mask.

Put that stupid cell phone in silent mode.

Then get in your hoopty and come join us here in the greatest doggone chunk of dirt in this here United States of America.

Sorry, but the GOP has become a laughing stock and a disgrace in 2021 as well. But that is not all: now it has become a clear and present danger to our country's existence.

The "S****n E******n" wild and baseless claim was thoroughly embraced by many Republican Lawmakers despite overwhelming evidence it was false. The effect of Trump's attempt to stay in office, and many in the GOP's support, seriously helped to undermine a pillar of this democratic process of v****g...and it continues. And now 13 states controlled by Republicans are looking for ways in legislation to suppress the v**e by numerous means.


The Q***n crazy conspiracy theories are now openly accepted and promoted as fact by many in the GOP leadership, undermining t***h and facts.

A little off the point here but Fox News backs most of this madness and is growing nuttier by the day. Watch if you do not believe me.

You don't need to look any further about "total moron" than the likes of Cruz, Gohmert, and King for example.

And now to the article: https://news.yahoo.com/john-boehner-says-forthcoming-memoir-150257256.html

Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner said that a Republican "could be a total moron" and still be elected to Congress in the 2010 midterms in an excerpt of his forthcoming memoir that was published in Politico Magazine on Friday.

"In the 2010 midterm e******n, v**ers from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called 'a shellacking.' And oh boy, was it ever. You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name-and that year, by the way, we did pick up a fair number in that category," Boehner wrote in his book, "On The House: A Washington Memoir," which is set to be released on April 13.

Republicans' big sweep was a dream scenario for the party, but Boehner, first elected to Congress in 1991, found that he had his work cut out for him with a caucus of over 80 new GOP House lawmakers who weren't all part of the so-called establishment Republicans, but belonged to a new Tea Party insurgency.

In the excerpt, Boehner didn't hold back when assessing his new colleagues, saying that when he tried to offer the freshmen lawmakers guidance about being in Congress, his advice "went straight through the ears of most of them, especially the ones who didn't have brains that got in the way."

Boehner also assigned some blame to conservative media outlets, especially Fox News, in incentivizing flashiness and outrage over substance, which he said made it harder for him to govern his caucus effectively.

By 2013, Boehner wrote, "the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising cash."

He said that former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, for example, had "made a name for herself as a lunatic" after first being elected in 2006. And yet she demanded a seat on the prestigious and highly sought-after House Ways and Means Committee.

In the days of yore, Boehner said, the House speaker would simply brush off such an audacious request. But Bachmann had the increasingly powerful conservative media apparatus at her disposal and could use it to cause even more trouble for him.

Eventually, Boehner c*********d and gave her a seat on the House Committee on Intelligence, a still-distinguished committee assignment that would allow her to build up some foreign policy credentials to fit her p**********l aspirations.

But his troubles with Tea Party-style elected officials with national ambitions didn't end there - and weren't limited to his side of the Capitol.

"There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless asshole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz," he wrote. "He enlisted the crazy caucus of the GOP in what was a truly dumbass idea. Not that anybody asked me."