General Discussion

Wherever I go, there I am.

I fight for what I believe in, in a very Quaker pacifist way.

Wherever humans live there will be a lot of good in them and a lot of bad.

Nationalism of any sort, whenever it is blind, even something silly like picking nations I feel "friendly" towards, doesn't feel right to me.

My ancestors, going as far back as I can, tended to walk or sail away from nationalistic troubles. That's how I ended up in America's Wild West. The "opportunity" of the U.S.A. wasn't potential wealth so much as it was escape. I'm certain some of them lept off the boat and swam or ran away as fast as they could because their pasts, whatever they were, never caught up with them. Some of the branches in my family tree are outright fabrications, early and middle nineteenth century lies that would have been forever buried before the age of computers.