The Tooth Fairy Full of Screws
Writer was writing and then it rained so he gave up writing and went inside to read. Photo by writer and reader, 9/22/2025.
Monday headline, NYTimes , 9/22/25--Trump Tariffs are Damaging America’s Biggest Foreign Source of Screws.
And o yes, we’re all supposed to continue living, ‘normally.’
Class acts: Trump and Putin.
I’m still wandering around my place in Wyoming, trying to get my arms around it, now that I might not have it for much longer. We’re thinking of selling the property after having it for 23 years.
It’s raining at the moment, 9 am, slightly dark grayish clouds, Oriental. I was sitting outside in the sun just moments ago, now I’ve dragged my sitting bench inside.
Another newish headline, this time in the Billings Gazette (9/21/25) ‘Mutilations Of Cattle Remain A Mystery’.
The cattle it seems are screwed!
And Yes, it’s true, I have some energy today!
I think I’ll read instead of write!
There’s so much to read, there’s much more to read about than to write, and today of all days I have some energy! I don’t know what else to do with my time here but read. I used to read forever, there was no hurry then, nowhere I had to go, I just had to be with the book I was reading at the time.
Yes, reading often presents a pretty horrible world to read about and then have to think about--Trump and Putin for instance, or Obama and Biden. (Did it ever occur to you dear reader that these four leaders each have 5 letters in their surnames. A strange coincidence? The American vice-president Vance has 5 letters in his surname as well, come to think about it which I’d rather not).
Perhaps this is a mere coincidence, though I don’t think so, I think it must mean something larger, something beyond ourselves. There’s some almost cosmic reason that all four of these men, several of them actual Presidents, have the exact same number of letters in their last names! Not that I believe in astrology, necessarily, but you might as well believe in something at least.
Belief is a tooth fairy, it used to work miracles. If you lost a tooth you were told by your parents to put the tooth under your pillow at night and that if you said your prayers before you slept you might find a reward under your pillow in the morning. This kind of thinking never failed; it was always followed by finding a crisp $1 dollar bill or even better, a shiny new silver dollar the tooth fairy tucked under your pillow while you were asleep, a surprise! Such happiness, such an unexpected reward. Then the school bell rang and you or I just had to go to school where I was expected to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, though that story is a headline I’m saving for another day…