tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post4373339800194744071..comments2023-09-22T11:48:14.730+01:00Comments on what katie wrote next: love each otherKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18440970933962473191noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-67002850454746747842017-02-26T21:46:33.661+00:002017-02-26T21:46:33.661+00:00Thanks Tess, for such a kind comment. It means a l...Thanks Tess, for such a kind comment. It means a lot xxKatiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18440970933962473191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-38195024202258374702017-02-26T21:45:56.855+00:002017-02-26T21:45:56.855+00:00Thank you Christina for visiting and for your comm...Thank you Christina for visiting and for your comment, it is odd sometimes putting our thoughts on such significant issues into a public arena, when perhaps we wouldn't usually voice them so openly to strangers face to face. Hope and common sense seem like a good combination to me xxKatiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18440970933962473191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-7067085932960181512017-02-26T21:43:27.714+00:002017-02-26T21:43:27.714+00:00I really like that mindset Penny, both in terms of...I really like that mindset Penny, both in terms of keeping a blog as a positive place, and not getting anxious about people who are not spending their days worrying about me!! I think perhaps the comments on this post have made me realise that it is ok to keep this as a positive place, even with such negativity happening in the world, and perhaps it makes it even more crucial to save a little space that is personal, and mostly about the good things! xxKatiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18440970933962473191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-28402312899834339462017-02-26T21:39:35.494+00:002017-02-26T21:39:35.494+00:00Thanks Amy, I know exactly what you mean about the...Thanks Amy, I know exactly what you mean about the "right" thing, and particularly appreciate you commenting in that context. Hoping for hope sounds like a good thing to do. xxKatiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18440970933962473191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-73057803420416910922017-02-12T09:42:19.599+00:002017-02-12T09:42:19.599+00:00the world needs hopeful voices right now Katie, I ...the world needs hopeful voices right now Katie, I am glad you are one of them xdriftwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416170414524297337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-50688178492332678122017-02-07T20:27:17.208+00:002017-02-07T20:27:17.208+00:00Hi Katie. I am glad wrote this post but I do under...Hi Katie. I am glad wrote this post but I do understand it made you a bit anxious. I feel the same every time I move of the beaten track that is my blog and venture into politics. I am not very educated when it comes to politics, I find it confusing and common sense does not seem to prevail often. I wonder why that is actually. I can only assume that what is my measure of common sense is not an average politicians measure of common sense. I compare Donald Trump to a naughty boy with a magic wand, waving it here and there, enjoying the havoc he is causing. Immaturity and egocentricity make for a poor leader. Alas, hope is important. May hope and common sense win the upper hand. xChristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883091348839145603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-51748016982980849062017-02-07T11:08:17.921+00:002017-02-07T11:08:17.921+00:00I am still having trouble believing that Donald Tr...I am still having trouble believing that Donald Trump is president tbh. He is vile, in my opinion, untutored, impulsive, egocentric, inexperienced in politics- basically a tick list of everything a leader should not be. What troubles me more, though, is that he was voted in by the American people, a significant proportion of American people wanted him to be in power, doing all the things he is now doing. He is only doing what he said he was going to do, from that point of view he is the best president the Americans ever voted in. Like the UK voting for Brexit, it is a blow to civilisation, a blow to decency. On the subject of blogging about it, I don't think I will. My blog is all about my personal world, which I keep as pleasant and untroubled as possible. Donald Trump (and members of Isis, and paedophiles, and terrorosts, and ctiminals and rapists etc etc etc) don't spend their days in knots of anxiety about me, so I am not going to grant them the privelage of occupying my head space. That doesn't mean I don't care, but I would choose to do something (sign a petition, march (not that I have done that, yet), write to my mp) then forget it for the day and get on with my life. XPennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03174324346613155013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1632292513117494712.post-20889071484669588642017-02-07T08:30:50.658+00:002017-02-07T08:30:50.658+00:00It is so very hard to understand these things isn&...It is so very hard to understand these things isn't it, and I think especially here for us in England we are so similar in many ways to other countries and yet of course so different and we have a different political system that would not allow things that happen in other countries so we are not used to them. I am steering away from leaving comments on these subjects or writing about it on my blog for fear of saying the "right" thing whatever that may be. I am in fact doing that in this comment too!! I don't know the answer, but I know that hoping is a great thing and I guess that without hope everything else is lost isn't it, so we hope for hope.Amy at love made my homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111180584250029433noreply@blogger.com