**Ishmael by Daniel Quinn ** Not exactly about religion but a turning point for me.

Ishmael is a half ton silverback gorilla. He is a student of ecology, life, freedom, and the human condition. He is also a teacher. He teaches that which all humans need to learn — must learn — if our species, and the rest of life on Earth as we know it, is to survive.

The book opens with a deceptively ordinary personals ad: “Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world.” Seeking a direction for his life, a young man answers the ad and is startled to find that the teacher is a lowland gorilla named Ishmael, a creature uniquely placed to vision anew the human story.

done this monthly since his innauguration. Its like its his menstrual cycle or something.

Female here - I thought this was hysterical & am going to offer it up to my girlfriends as a sign at the next protest.

He worked to build Home Depot and now Trump is using tariffs to pump & dump the stock market for his and his cronies gains. Business owners, who provide product, service or goods are not in on the pump & dump.

So now they are experiencing the leopard first hand.

lol, how long before the prison Nazis get tired of his shit.

I thought the tariffs would bring manufacturing jobs to America. Are there no competent advisors in this administration?

This. The tariffs will be damaging but long term loss of confidence in the US will be worse.

When we still had kids at home I had a 2-week meal plan. Just rotated thru it every 2 weeks. So much easier. After they grew up and moved out I got into more 'gourmet' cooking but now that we are retired I'm seriously thinking of going back to the 2-week meal plan. We just need to eat simpler & less.