Sooner or later, we're all linked!

Being among others of far greater import than himself, Dada learned yesterday of the gratification
to be gained simply by "inclusion" or "recognition" than the more disparaging myth "size matters."

Anyone familiar with this blog knows one thing I've demonstrated erratically with much irregularity is the love I have for the state of New Mexico. Just six or seven miles south of its border, I never intended to land in Texas. Fortunately, escape is always within close proximity.

There are many things I love about New Mexico. Previous blogs have hinted of some of those things. But there are other things that amuse me. For example, were New Mexico to declare its independence, it would immediately become the world's third largest nuclear armed nation, landing it high on the U.S. list of axis-of-evil states I suppose. Or there's its most recent distinction. New Mexico can pride itself in being the last Super Tuesday state to report its primary outcome via caucuses. (Don't hold your breath, it still hasn't.)

Maybe it's fitting that the surprise I received yesterday should come from The Land of Enchantment. That's because I was honored when I learned the online version of a fiercely independent newspaper, The Grass Roots Press published in Las Cruces, New Mexico, included a link to Dada's Dally!

Describing Dada's as "defying description," I was truly honored. (I think.) But to be listed among the links of writers I have come to enjoy and look forward to reading is a little overwhelming. People like Carolyn Baker, author of her upcoming book, The Spirituality of Collapse: Restoring Life On A Dying Planet, or James Howard Kunstler, author of The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle website. These are people whose dark views I appreciate for their sobering assessments. (I'm equating dark in this sense to "realistic," a sense desperately missing in reporting of today's state of things.)

To appear as a link alongside these analysts who dare to warn of what may lie ahead for all of us I feel very appreciative. It's a tack I share but shy from here on Dada's Dally lest I scare away my remaining six or seven regular readers.

So here's where I pay gratitude to the person responsible for wrapping me in this same package with the other, bigger, links he chose to highlight. That would be the publisher of The Grass Roots Press, Stephen Klinger.

Thanks, Steve! I like to think these are all links of pure pork, but I opted for the Fresh Turkey Sausage label for that foul that may linger among them. I encourage interested Dada readers to sample these links. They're made of real meat!