Jim Lunsford

I don’t watch national news, and I stay away from news on social media. Still, it’s hard not to feel what’s happening in the country right now.

It pulls me back to 2020, during the riots and protests. My job then was to protect people and property. It was a daily fight, literally. I was stabbed twice and left with lasting scars, both physical and mental. That period left me with PTSD, and no matter how hard I work through it, it never fully goes away.

I don’t want to relive that, and I don’t want this country to either.

Be careful, America.

Strength isn’t always pushing through. Sometimes it’s recognizing when a situation is quietly doing damage and deciding to move. I’m in that place right now. Not every hard thing is worth enduring. Some things don’t build you, they wear you down.

One last note before I start the day.

Comments and registration are disabled for now. I want to think through how I want to handle the security side of that first.

I think I’ve got the basics of the site setup handled.

Time to move on and start the day.

Spending the morning with coffee and a cat, getting this microblog up and running.

This is my public space.
Some days it’s thoughts. Some days it’s photos.
Nothing here is curated or finished.
This is just me, unfiltered.