I feel peace in my heart when I read your lovingly selected words, Mary. Give Marz an ear scratch from me and know that your writing sustains me during these dark days. Happy Solstice and cheers for brighter days ahead.
Check out how many people turned out in Minneapolis in the frigid windy cold to march a mile and a half down a main thoroughfare populated with immigrant businesses and homes to be visible as proud and valuable residents and to support cherished neighbors and community members. There are more planned. The videos are very uplifting and powerful!
Yes, it WAS frigid cold and somehow I missed that the protest was scheduled as I drove down an adjacent street looking for a gas station (my car was on empty). All I could do, though, was smile and give thumbs up as I saw the protesters hauling their signs up to Lake Street. (And I made it to a gas station in time! :-)
For future consideration: Are Secret Service men (mostly) fighting among themselves to stay at golf clubs, doing mostly nothing? Then there're the ones who'll be assigned for life to a deranged man. The life of those who had to be with Reagans for years and years didn't have a job they trained for.
I don't know what psychologists would call the state many of us find ourselves in. Not dissonance, or maybe partly. No, there is that thing where every time we read the dirty laundry list of Twump's malfeasance and crimes, I can only think to jump ahead to when we take down the branding, the banners, the gilt shit in the WH. I erase the time between now (trauma) and then (post trauma), and you think how did we do it last time? Then I remember January 6th and I get nervous about post 2028 election. Will we elect the righteous good people who also have a steel spine to really, yes, undo the damage but also, and just as importantly, make these people pay for the harm done. Yes, public and generational shame but also JAIL time ñ
Thank you for the uplifting message today. I'll admit that I'm bone weary; it's been a hell of a December. May the New Year bring a light to brighten the darkness.
Thanks for the moonbeam. I could picture you and Marz standing in your yard looking up with hope. I really hit rock bottom with Trump over his Rob Reiner remarks and am having trouble crawling out from under my feelings of revulsion of him.
I feel peace in my heart when I read your lovingly selected words, Mary. Give Marz an ear scratch from me and know that your writing sustains me during these dark days. Happy Solstice and cheers for brighter days ahead.
Check out how many people turned out in Minneapolis in the frigid windy cold to march a mile and a half down a main thoroughfare populated with immigrant businesses and homes to be visible as proud and valuable residents and to support cherished neighbors and community members. There are more planned. The videos are very uplifting and powerful!
Yes, it WAS frigid cold and somehow I missed that the protest was scheduled as I drove down an adjacent street looking for a gas station (my car was on empty). All I could do, though, was smile and give thumbs up as I saw the protesters hauling their signs up to Lake Street. (And I made it to a gas station in time! :-)
I didn't know about it either! How are we out of the loop? I'm in the NE Metro. Cheers!
A friend of mine knew about it via https://www.womensmarchmn.com
For future consideration: Are Secret Service men (mostly) fighting among themselves to stay at golf clubs, doing mostly nothing? Then there're the ones who'll be assigned for life to a deranged man. The life of those who had to be with Reagans for years and years didn't have a job they trained for.
The closing sentences are simply wonderful and poetical. Sometimes we need to stop together and think about what we’re no longer to tolerate.
I don't know what psychologists would call the state many of us find ourselves in. Not dissonance, or maybe partly. No, there is that thing where every time we read the dirty laundry list of Twump's malfeasance and crimes, I can only think to jump ahead to when we take down the branding, the banners, the gilt shit in the WH. I erase the time between now (trauma) and then (post trauma), and you think how did we do it last time? Then I remember January 6th and I get nervous about post 2028 election. Will we elect the righteous good people who also have a steel spine to really, yes, undo the damage but also, and just as importantly, make these people pay for the harm done. Yes, public and generational shame but also JAIL time ñ
Thank you Mary for bringing a small ray of hope to a very troubled land. Wishing you and Marz peace, love and safety this holiday season.
My Dear Mr. President:
With the delay in the mandated release of the Epstein Files, I’ll bet you think you’re getting away with something.
In that thought, you are probably correct.
Trumpus operandi.
Regards,
Thank you for the uplifting message today. I'll admit that I'm bone weary; it's been a hell of a December. May the New Year bring a light to brighten the darkness.
Amen, Mary.
Thanks for the moonbeam. I could picture you and Marz standing in your yard looking up with hope. I really hit rock bottom with Trump over his Rob Reiner remarks and am having trouble crawling out from under my feelings of revulsion of him.