Here to paint my brain with poetry. Yes poetry?

Thoughts either serve

Or they fry the brain

Drugs can melt it

But then that could cause frying

So time ticks and melting and frying exists

That is motivating

When others sometimes hurl ticks

Then the path does light up

Going forward or maybe so easilly

Down.
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At the majestic road

Wedding flower open like shrouds

Her hand reaching to the sky

Lemons falling from each tree

Just symbolism or reality?
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At the majestic road

Wedding flower open like shrouds

Her hand reaching to the sky

Lemons falling from each tree

Just symbolism or reality?
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Like a death.

What was so bright and shining

Has no light now

Does not exist for mine eyes

It is now a black space

As if by God's black paint!

Now like a black hole!

Very strange!
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The star I saw last night is no longer there.

Looking out into the darkness I could not make out the nebula.
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So what states have a good reputation right now, for Jews and non Jews? Thought for 8s No state has a clean, shared “good for Jews and everyone else” reputation. The places that look best on general livability are not always the places with the strongest Jewish infrastructure, and the places with the biggest Jewish communities also log the most incidents because that is where Jews live.What the 2025 numbers actually show ADL’s audit still found incidents in all 50 states. Raw totals were highest in New York (1,160), California (817), and New Jersey (687). Those are also the largest Jewish populations. Assaults were concentrated in New York City. National totals fell from the 2024 peak but stayed far above pre-2023 levels. FBI hate-crime data still has Jews as the large majority of religion-based victims. So “low incident count” in a small state can just mean few Jews, not a better civic culture. adl.org States that currently have the better combined reputationFlorida (especially South Florida). This is the loudest “safe to be openly Jewish” brand in the U.S. right now: large community, state-level enforcement posture, and a political class that treats synagogue security and campus disruption as law-and-order, not a speech puzzle. It also ranks well on economy and is in the U.S. News top 10 overall. Tradeoff: culture-war heat, insurance/climate costs, and it still recorded hundreds of incidents (319 in 2025) because the community is huge. vinnews.com Utah and parts of the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Iowa, New Hampshire). These dominate 2026 “best states” lists for schools, fiscal stability, crime, and family metrics. Day-to-day life for a generic resident is often calmer than in NY/CA. Jewish life exists but is thinner. Reputation for Jews is “quieter and smaller,” not “a full communal ecosystem.” Boulder, Colorado is a reminder that a high-amenity state is not automatically safe: a deadly antisemitic attack happened there in 2025. usnews.com Massachusetts / Connecticut / New Jersey (outside the hottest campus and city corridors). Excellent schools and general quality-of-life scores. Large, established Jewish communities. Also high incident counts and, in Massachusetts, Jews still dominate religion-bias hate crimes. Good infrastructure, mixed street and campus climate. wallethub.com States whose reputation is damaged for both groups, in different ways New York and California still have unmatched Jewish density, jobs, and culture. They also have the worst combination of volume of incidents, visible campus failure, and “the rules depend on who you are” politics. That is why their brands are split: great if you want the community and the city; poor if you want equal enforcement and low friction.How to read this without making it only a Jewish map A state looks decent for everyone when crime is lower, schools work, and officials apply the same conduct code to every group. A state looks decent for Jews specifically when there is a real community and institutions that treat harassment as harassment even when it comes wrapped as protest. Right now those two lists overlap most in parts of Florida and in smaller, well-run states with modest Jewish populations. They overlap least in the big coastal metros that still have the most Jews.City and campus matter more than the state name. Miami-Dade is not Berkeley. Teaneck is not Manhattan. A “good reputation” state in 2026 is one where a Jewish family and a non-Jewish family can both assume the rules are the same. Few whole states clear that bar. Several regions still come closer than California and New York.