In life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.
So Donald Trump, your time is up! You are on a downhill slope.
Is it just my wishful thinking, but doesn't it look now like Trump's time in
the spotlight has run its course? None of us lives forever None of us is influential
for very long. We may be remembered for a time, then are finally forgotten, as has happened with
most folks who have ever lived. Yet we all have been essential to human life and history.
Without water. there would be no oceans, no rivers, no streams. Without you and me, without
everyone who has ever lived, there would be no human beings, no history, no future.
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 from the Bible.
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Trump faces an extraordinary moment in spat with Fed chair
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Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will
ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from
the White House
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Is the Peace Corps done for now or just adapting to a changed world?
John Coyne, an author and returned Peace Corps volunteer (Ethiopia 1962–64)
featured now in Peace Corps Worldwide, explores this question in his reflective essay
Saying “Goodbye” to The Peace Corps.
In his piece, Coyne questions whether the agency is becoming history, noting the drop in
volunteer numbers from peaks in the 1960s to lower modern counts, and expressing deep
concern over shifting political priorities and the future viability of the institution. At the same
time, other commentators and community data from congressional budget justifications point
to a gradual post-pandemic rebuilding trajectory for the agency's active volunteer numbers.
The Peace Corps may recover somewhat when Trump is out of office.
Donald Trump has certainly never been supportive of the Peace Corps, nor of many other venerable
American institutions. Trump has just been a wrecking ball, perhaps chosen by the electorate to shake
things up. He certainly has been doing quite a lot of that.
But once Trump is out of office, perhaps the Peace Corps can be revived with a somewhat updated
mission. The Peace Corps has always offered American volunteers and folks in developing
countries a chance to get to know and understand each other by living and working together
daily, side by side. JFK's vision needs to continue.
My own Peace Corps service as a health volunteer in Honduras has allowed me to establish health
projects there ever since and to become an established member of several local communities. Even
though I'm getting older with my hair turning gray, it's nice to be recognized by folks there:
¡Doña Bárbara! as well by those just where I'm living right now.
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Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, is now starting a new semester.
Virginia Tech, where both my late brother and my dad taught classes at the
School of Architecture, has now just opened the fall semester there amid much celebration and
fanfare. My parents also had a house in Blacksburg that our father had designed and partially
built himself with his own hands and where our mother lived until her death. Dad had designed a number
of other buildings in town and in the vicinity. Our family has also funded a fellowship at Tech
to encourage more female architects.
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It's smaller than a house cat, but I won't say more
because my computer is acting up again,
Hope that when my daughter visits from Hawaii that she will be able to help fix these problems,
because my computer is acting up again,
Hope that when my daughter visits from Hawaii that she will be able to help fix these problems,
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I wish I could order this from my older daughter's food service in Florida, but her items never make it
here without creating a huge mess.
The offerings change every week, all homemade by my daughter herself.
kate@goodness (727) 212-4003
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