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Teenage angst

 Judy and Me.  We discovered each other early.  We were in our mid-teens.  We knew we were way too young to get married, but agonized at the end of every day when saying goodnight meant we each went our separate ways; to our own houses; each to sleep alone.  We longed for the day when we could say goodnight and stay together. In 1966, four years later, and we were married by the way, the Beach Boys nailed it with a song.  “Wouldn’t it be nice.”  That could have been our theme song. Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long
And wouldn’t it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know its gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPN53PHDwe4 How did they know our words?  

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Migration

 Not much left for hummingbirds; just a couple a day. But the hawks! They rise in the morning about 9am. By the thousands. Mostly Swainson’s Hawks. With a few turkey vultures mixed in. This is all right from our house.  All we have to do is look up!          
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Help!

 I’d rather just send out pictures of puppies and birds, … but uninvited thoughts keep popping into my head. I think, for analysis, I can split the in the 2016 presidential election voters into three kinds.  There were people who supported Trump.  There were people who didn’t support Trump.  And there were the Trump-curious.  The curious didn’t know if they really wanted Trump, but figured it was time to try something different. I think the Trump supporters still support him.  I think the people who didn’t support him still don’t.  I don’t think anyone is still curious. 
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I’m confused

 I can’t figure out when independence is a good thing and when it’s a bad thing without a playbook, and I don’t have a playbook. Our independence; the United States of America declaring independence from the British Empire; that was a good thing.  We were a population with common interests wanting to break free from a system that didn’t work to our benefit.  We revel in our independence and celebrate it every year. Independence for the Catalonian region of Spain?  That’s different.  It’s not a good thing.  Independence for the Kurds in Iraq?  No bueno.  We declared our independence then fought a war to secure it.  These are populations trying to separate by peaceful democratic means, but both the referendums have been declared illegal in their home countries.  Do you have to fight a war to prove you really mean it? I’m sure glad it was a good idea for the U.S. to declare independence, and we did.  Separation might be inconvenient for the mother country, and I suspect it was for England when the colonies left, but I don’t understand why it is a bad idea for other states or regions to do the same thing it was a good idea for us to do.  
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I could be wrong now

  …but what this statement says to me is that the Vice President supports the First Amendment right to protest perceived injustice peacefully, as long as the people protesting do it the way he prefers. (It also says to me, he had to fly a long way to walk into a situation he knew was going to happen, so he could be offended.)