Urinating with Skunks

Decades before today’s cancel culture gave birth to “woke, woker, and wokest,” attentiveness to racial and social justice facts and issues my mother repeatedly advised, “don’t get into pissing contests with skunks.” I was in elementary school 70 years ago plus or minus when I first heard her say it. Considering she’s been gone 10 years and lived to within 4-months of being 100, she had many, many years to articulate it. And, yes, she did so a LOT, especially, in her 80s and 90s. I can’t imagine how often she’d be saying it today with all the skunk balm being sprayed on TV and everywhere else. As a lifelong member of the party of Lincoln, my mother was living in a retirement complex the last few years of her life where essentially everyone else was on the other side of the aisle. Thus, the skunks reference came up often in the privacy of her apartment. And as you might imagine, she had very few lengthy conversations — philosophical or political — in the hallway.

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