Yesterday was Civic Holiday and I honour the holidays by skipping the usual and doing something different. So, yesterday I phoned my brother Okkie and his wife, still on account of her earlier birthday. In the aft I walked over to the new ice cream store on 17th ave where I stood in line to spend my money!

As I waited there for Elisabeth to come by, I read this week’s Time magazine, which had several background articles on Trump himself and his family. When Elisabeth arrived I joined her for my second ice cream! She told me about her visit to the bird sanctuary, which is for free and passed on some comments about last Sunday’s Palliser meeting which I chaired. Gabriella spoke there on gratitude at this well attended meeting.

She based her message on Byrne’s book ‘The Magic’, supplementing is with examples from her own life experience. However the 35 minute estimate was exceeded running passed the tape length of 45 minutes. Fortunately I had heeded my intuition and brought my digital recorder, which can and did record for the full length of the presentation. So’ I’ll have to do my regular copy and past operation to the tape’s B-side.

The above report was interrupted with a call from my sister Els, which is always welcome, but moved the clock’s hands about an hour’s worth of time! This while my computer patiently waits for my further thoughts and remarks.

She had made several products using 3D-computer printing techniques and had assembled a miniature model of early steam pump for water; all quite impressive.

Last Friday afternoon I joined John to attend Annie’s workshop closing day at Sait. She had made several products using 3D-computer printing techniques and had assembled a miniature model of early steam pump for water; all quite impressive. It has a very short stroke, but a large diameter displacement cylinder and as was used in Holland for the Haarlemmer Lake reclamation ca 1840.
There were about twenty such groups presenting their different projects in this modern Sait venue giving it the ambience of a big market fair.

The mentioned article in the current Time magazine on Trump is quite wide ranging in scope taking in his family and team as well, but not much about Trump’s business activities or upbringing.

Trump calls himself intuitive, which I already had concluded for myself and he shuns conventional information, which makes for mid course adjustments in public. By using these unexpected intuitions he also puts others off guard changing the set piece plays, which he does not honour.

Trump rearranges the expected procedures by his ‘intuitive interjections’ resetting the standard references and rules. This is the field he loves to operate in, giving himself the advantage of having disoriented his opponents.

He has to operate this way, because he does not really know how to play the conventional game and knowledge is not that important to him. This way he covers up his own lack of know how by disorienting everybody else and using the resulting confusion to his advantage.

Unless the unheard are given a hearing followed by effective actions, these voices will become louder and the actions more disruptive.

This lack of sensitivity towards commonly shared values may trip him up as he discards not only political rules, but shared human values as well. Life is not about reaching one’s goals, while trampling on shared feeling values and the dignity of others. Trump’s lack of regard for others, who differ from his preset valued person profile, disqualifies him from a leadership role in today’s complex global society. However, he is fast learner and a quick adapter.

He is also valuable in being a voice expressing suppressed resentments and neglected hardships of people without such a voice, who have been long neglected by the establishment. Unless the unheard are given a hearing followed by effective actions, these voices will become louder and the actions more disruptive. Trump may say things in a disrespectful manner, but we must pay attention to the issues he raises.
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