Reflections
Woke Up With Happy Images in My Head this Morning
I awoke this morning to ephemeral images of happy people dancing in a room beneath my eyelids. The images surprised and delighted me. (Even though you wouldn’t catch me dead at a dance hall. I am the quintessential wallflower/introvert.) I kept my eyes closed and let the dancers do their things…they morphed into other…
Read MoreFirst Outing Since Corona Virus Came to Tacoma
I just took my first outing this morning to shop since the corona virus came to Tacoma a little over a week ago. I went to two places — Cash and Carry (now called Smart Service Warehouse Stores) and Cappy’s Produce because I wanted to stay out of places with lots of people in…
Read MoreKeeping Your Spirits Up During Difficult Times
With all that’s threatening so many of us with imminent extinction, I thought I’d look up some helpful hints about how to keep our spirits up during difficult times. Alas! It seems all of the articles on keeping one’s spirits up pre-date Trump, corona virus, election shenanigans of the highest order, stock market crashes,…
Read MoreOur Ill-Fated Fuhrer: from HOAX to National Emergency
Well, if this corona virus pandemic doesn’t seal the lid on the coffin of Don the Con, I don’t know what will. But, silly me… I thought the audio tape about “pussy-grabbing” and the video mocking a disabled reporter would end his candidacy when he ran for the job. I thought the…
Read MoreIt’s As If We Never Said Goodbye
I’m trembling now, you can’t know how I’ve missed you Missed the fairy tale adventure In this ever-spinning playground… – lyrics from It’s As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Amy Powers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber Whenever I dream of the two most-missed beings in my life–DeForest Kelley and…
Read MoreStill No Resolution Nailed Down on My Top Surgery
I’m getting frustrated. There is still no resolution nailed down re my top surgery, although the Insurance Commissioner’s office says the procedure cannot be denied if coded properly. (The receptionist assured me that she coded it properly, but it’s coded wrong in the letter I received from her when they wrote to ask me…
Read MoreBernie Sanders: Quixotic or Practical?
In a dream I had last night, a professor of some kind whose class I was in kept mentioning the word “quixotic” in ways that made it appear he didn’t know what the word meant. Finally I couldn’t stand it any longer, and I raised my hand. When he acknowledged me, I asked,…
Read MoreCorona Virus is Far From a Laughing Matter
Corona virus is far from a laughing matter. Here in Washington State where it apparently landed in the United States first (we’re a seaport state with a lot of Chinese commerce), the corona virus has devastated one senior care community and infected several other counties, too, including my own. It’s in Lakewood, in…
Read MoreNot Rolling Over Yet — The DEM Campaign is Far From Over
It seems that many of my moderate friends expect me to roll over, now that Joe Biden has fifty more points than Bernie Sanders in the delegate count; otherwise, I’m deemed a “spoiler” and am threatening the ability of the “presumed” 2020 standard bearer to unite everyone in time to defeat Trump on November 3rd.…
Read MoreFanaticism 101
FANATICISM 101 “The stupid is strong in this one.” At first, Trump called the corona virus a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/02/29/trump-calls-coronavirus-hysteria-the-democrats-new-hoax/23937129/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEg2SQCpOY44hyECHzb41N_eq7lOe6ktaRp44_ktqgvpFjqFQXPdDa6jco3tTGuiGleSrFoYOp2DYc2QUassCQ1Xkl9R83xI6bzTcsOexC0nimHIs4UXJh702AGZvdFE8s6dHi-dVa2anfbdu9MMNC2b5FqsrSx0BRS8HDrToB-W Next, he called it a minor threat, nothing to worry about. https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donald-trump-coronavirus-work-reaction-095155632.html Now, his fanatical base is saying it was “planted” in blue states by Democrats to discredit Trump, and…
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