Do you think we need a common sense middle of the road benevolent people-centered truth-based compromising agenda for the most-good of the country type of new political party? now there’s a wish rising from a wound bubbling up from a prayer

Today, I learned that Cape Verde is an island of 500,000, off the west coast of Africa and the tiniest nation to ever play in a World Cup. Also, that grilled cheese sandwiches cook perfectly at five minutes per side. Six minutes and it’s scrape the char off, and one more thing, put salt on watermelon, and you’ll get a wonderfully zippy sweetness which is out of this world. You may think these are all unrelated, except they came together with dinner, dessert and a socce

I’ll admit a slight panic with yellow lights and even greens, their precursor, when I approach intersections but it’s the red light that’s really interesting, as I wait and . . . what? . . . daydream, check out drivers, license plates or ponder where I’m going, what needs doing? if I wait longer, I’ll tap an impatient finger on the wheel, perhaps mulling thoughts about my life, regrets about wrong turns pondering the ones not taken at some point, the wait refocuses on t