Growing up? To be president?

 What Do You want To Be?

When.you grow up?  

Well… I’ll let you know when I get ther! 

Okay in the Seeking Peace and Joy Universe this has several different angles to explore.  Inf fact it has an infinite number of them and thus this whole discussion becomes a circle as a circle results as you draw a regular polygon with  an infinite number of sides.  Which reminds us of the old  math joke… what did the acorn say when it grew up?  Geometry…

Okay enough.

One thing  that never appealed to me was the idea of being president.  And since today is President’s Day the blog and podcast hits upon that, a little government, and on growing up.  Now we will revisit the selection of “what” and “being” a bit more  in the next couple entries.  For now let’s start with presidents and then go from there.   

Does anyone think presidents should still have to dress in short pants and wear  wigs?  Okay I know some folks think our more recent candidates have powder. In their heads not on them….but oh well.  

Below there is a link sharing some nice truths about the U.S. Chief Executive Officer.  Here are some things that amused and amazed me about some of the earliest to hold the office.  First, George Washington ran unopposed.  Employers today complain about how hard it is to fill positions.  Well when you can’t even get a second  good applicant  for a job….what’s a nation to do?  You might  argue that the guy had just won a revolution and all, however, James Madison’s wife Dolly hadn’t even invented those little cakes yet and he ran unchallenged.  Now we have fevered debates on tastes great vs. less filling….when we used to use the “not it” method to pick the country’s boss?  

Oh and what of some the other  early heads of state.  John Adam’s and Tommy boy Jefferson…well they weren’t exactly choir boys.  While Washington used rhino and human teeth from others and owned the largest distillery in America when he passed, John and Tom were documented vandals  of the highest order.  They snatched a piece of a chair  once owned by Billy Shakespeare.  Oh and Jimmy Monroe used to skinny-dip  in the Potomac each morning.  Let’s see what social media  would do if a modern  president pulled some of this crap.  

So does.anyone want too “grow up” to do this?  Well some people spend a lot of time and money going  just for that post, yet, I’m still not convinced  it would have been a better career path for me than say the next Roy Rodgers  or Batman.  

Maybe in Seeking Peace and  Joy land it’s more important to ponder who you are becoming and why you want to be rather than what fills the “job title” section on your business card.  

A Surrender

Okay lets go ahead. And honor or celebrate  some of the presidents by closing  the place where we see their faces most often —you know like federal buildings and the bank.  Of course if any of us were president we’d want a distillery  and might want to go jump in the lake when the divided public  tossed whims this way and that (leaving our clothes on I’d hope).  

As Stated here’s a link to give readers a look at some presidential quirks.  Maybe this will remind us that these men were/are just humans like us…. Forgive them and pray for the best.  Now  go  do something  so great that some folks in South Dakota  get to carvin’ your face in a big rock.  

More tomorrow

https://www.kqed.org/pop/20516/weird-facts-you-never-knew-about-the-u-s-presidents