This week I am reposting a blog by a good friend who has been writing them for over 13 years now. She has decided to take a hiatus for reasons that you will discover when you read her blog. Many of her followers have left comments describing how much her blogs meant to them and how sad her leaving the blog community will make them. I will post my comments to Dr. Jane Fritz at the end of this blog. I am also sad at her leaving. Her blogs were always fun, inspirational and truthful. The late Pope Francis said that Truth, Beauty and Goodness were inseparable. Dr. Fritz managed to bring these to her readers and often with a sense of humor and perspective that left you feeling motivated and challenged to face another day in a chaotic world. Her words and ideas made the world a better place and they will be missed. Please do not skip reading the comments left by many other readers. They testify to the good that Jane brought to the world and how much her blog meant to many other people also in need of need of truth, beauty and goodness.
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I can certainly understand where you are coming from Jane. I will be 80 next September and have been blogging for over 15 years now. My blogs are nowhere near as popular as yours are and I think my blogs are usually darker than yours. I have tried (and your blogs motivate me to keep trying) for a balance between optimism and pessimism. My normal pessimism side give me five blogs a day that I want to publish excoriating the clown and evil man that is running our government today.
Of course, I recognize that he is just a puppet as are the 74 million people that voted for him. This latter fact only makes our situation worse in this country. Nevertheless, I see the value in publishing more optimistic and often more personally helpful blogs like you do. I am trying to do a balance and hope that this balance will keep me from going off the deep end. There is still much beauty in life and still so many people out there to connect with that have been helped by our blogs. You get many more comments each blog than I do and I am touched by how many people you have helped with your blogs. I get a few comments per blog but even these few comments keep me going. My mantra is that if I can touch one soul a month, than I am going to keep writing.
This long diatribe on my part sounds like a subtle plea for you to keep writing. However, I am not being subtle when I say that your blogs make a difference to thousands of people and it would be a shame to see one more beautiful and thoughtful voice eliminated from the blogosphere. That is just what D.J. Trump wants. To silence beauty, goodness and truth. So I hope you can simply take a break from your writing. Find a balance in terms of content. And pick up your pen again when you are ready. Remember the “Pen is mightier than the sword.” Your friend John
Aging Capriciously 
Oct 07, 2025 @ 17:13:49
I loved Jane Fritz’ comment and agreed with all her points bar one, America did not save the world, America saved itself. Had Japan not attacked Pearl Harbour, America would still be sitting on the sidelines. I’d go so far as to point out WW2 turned a dollar for America increasing it’s wealth and power. For which the world is suffering now.
Having said that, I’ve read Jane’s comments from time to time and found them incitive, as such she will be sorely missed.
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Oct 07, 2025 @ 18:06:28
Jon, I am sure that the war machine made plenty on the war. Remember Eisenhower’s famous line in his Farewell Speech upon leaving his office “Beware the military industrial complex.”
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Oct 08, 2025 @ 20:00:11
I had already read Jane’s post and commented there, so I will just address one thing in your post, John … and that is to let you know that I value your views, more than you will know, for I often just don’t have the time or the energy to leave a comment. I must do better! But I do find value in your blog and you almost always make me THINK … that’s an important thing in these crazy times! So, thanks for all you do, my friend!
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 18:19:40
Thanks Jill for the very kind and thoughtful comment. You really made my day. I know many of us are too busy to write comments. I am very guilty of that. I am glad I make you think. I have always valued thinking and the intellectual life. Sometimes at the expense of heart and soul. You will like my next blog because I was inspired to try to integrate these concepts. I will publish it on Monday after I do some more editing or maybe Sunday. Karen and I have adopted a desert tortoise so I have to build a house for him this weekend. It will be prefab 🙂
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 23:56:28
Awwww … thank you, John. I’m so glad my comment made your day! I’m looking forward to your post on Monday now, too! Awwww … a desert tortoise … I hear they can live very long lives! Enjoy him/her! Pictures?
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Oct 11, 2025 @ 03:44:47
Have to include him/her in our will now Jill. 🙂
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Oct 11, 2025 @ 23:54:25
But of course!
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 08:06:15
Hey, John, thanks for posting Jane’s blog, sorry to hear such a strong voice is retiring.
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 11:05:20
My pleasure Dennis. It seems as though people all over have many of the same reactions that we have here in the states to good old trump.
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 12:42:27
Hey, John, I sent the Jane Fritz blog to my sister and she wrote back saying the blog brought tears to her eyes as she read it. We all should be weeping for our country.
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Oct 09, 2025 @ 14:25:30
I agree Dennis. I think I have already dropped some tears and will probably have more to shed in the upcoming days. Anybody who has a heart should be sad these days.
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Oct 12, 2025 @ 19:02:36
Excellent.
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