Thank you! I know we can do it if we keep people focused and encouraged!
I just caught the typo on the title and found out you can’t fix typos on titles on videos uploaded as articles. 🤦♀️
I have not been “all here” for awhile. Really low blood pressure, weakness and just icky. And today is my first time to volunteer at the food pantry, so I won’t call in sick.
I'm sorry to hear that you're still not back to rights Lisa — would you get checked-out please? (And maybe, no more shifts til you feel a bit better? Sorry to be like an old mother hen.)
PS. Weirdly, me too. This is the first day this week that I feel a bit better.
Bless you for saying what needs to be said. You are Strong and fierce, loving, caring, and brave. Texas would be a better, safer place, if it had someone like you as its governor.
Oh wow Joyce. That is a very humbling thing to say. I was telling my oldest I am angry enough I would run for office if I were healthy (representative of some sort).
We can find the right people. We just need to get money out of politics and realize that to get real accountability we have to do more than just vote.
Very well articulated and critically thought out,Lisa, as it bugs me too when the federal government prioritizes tax breaks for Corporate Welfare Queens instead of health and safety of its citizens.
Having read both Chris Hedges’s 2006 New York Times bestseller AMERICAN 🇺🇸 FASCISTS & former Oklahoman Anne Nelson’s 2019 thought provoking book SHADOW NETWORK back to back , I would agree with you wholeheartedly, Lisa as even Bernie Sanders said something similar on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
I would have to look at my Kindle and book shelf to give you books that formed the opinions. And who knows how many articles over the years.
We can’t sustain what is going on. Tech bros want fiefdoms where they are absolute rulers. I don’t want to trust someone with that level of narcissism with a blank check for my future.
An accountant friend of mine recommended both of these books for me to read from the spring/ summer of 2022. Chris Hedges used to be a journalist for the New York Times back in the 70’s-90’s, a foreign war correspondent for Times and other publications for nearly two decades.He was also part of a group of journalists who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize 🏆 Award for an article on global terrorism. He’s now a pastor at his local Presbyterian church and also helps with a prison outreach program in New Jersey where former inmates can get job training skills for when they’re ready to move into the outside world. Pastor Chris Hedges also has a fifteen minute YouTube video titled American 🇺🇸 Psychosis. Check it out, Lisa.
How are we, as a country, going to become less rascist? Less misogynistic? If you look at the population of that area of Texas, it just nay be mostly Latino. Not a favorite of the Governor, like the families in Uvalde. Remember them?
How do we become less racist? Hard question. I was naive when I believed Obama’s election meant that we had grown as a nation. There is still a lot to do. I honestly believe Trump and the rising whites supremacy is, in part, a reaction by whites who are afraid of everyone who isn’t.
BUT - my experience has been that people exposed to other cultures (especially when younger) seem less racist than those who are isolated. So part of this is being willing to get to know people who aren’t like you.
In the meantime, those of us who believe in justice for all keep advocating for it with all our hearts, because until all of us have equal protection, none of us are really safe.
Blessed be. I am not religious but truly believe we have to love ourselves so we are able to love one another. It breaks my poor old heart about those little girls in Texas. And seeing the brave guys from Mexico coming to a dangerous place to help, has brought some healing.
I think this is so important. So often we do not see to infrastructure because its either boring, or it doesn't align with right now priorities. Its our money though. It supposed to be paid to take care of all of our citizens. These safety and infrastructure projects should be a priority, and ensuring that we elect people who reflect that and make the right choices is crucial.
Right here with you for the marathon, Lisa.
Thank you! I know we can do it if we keep people focused and encouraged!
I just caught the typo on the title and found out you can’t fix typos on titles on videos uploaded as articles. 🤦♀️
I have not been “all here” for awhile. Really low blood pressure, weakness and just icky. And today is my first time to volunteer at the food pantry, so I won’t call in sick.
I haven't even noticed the typo.
I'm sorry to hear that you're still not back to rights Lisa — would you get checked-out please? (And maybe, no more shifts til you feel a bit better? Sorry to be like an old mother hen.)
PS. Weirdly, me too. This is the first day this week that I feel a bit better.
Well. Tomorrow is the appointment and he writes for new blood work. Maybe it will show something.
Glad that’s happening tomorrow. Hopefully you’ll get some solid answers, soon.
Bless you for saying what needs to be said. You are Strong and fierce, loving, caring, and brave. Texas would be a better, safer place, if it had someone like you as its governor.
Oh wow Joyce. That is a very humbling thing to say. I was telling my oldest I am angry enough I would run for office if I were healthy (representative of some sort).
We can find the right people. We just need to get money out of politics and realize that to get real accountability we have to do more than just vote.
We need infrastructure renewal all over the USA. 🇺🇸
Definitely!
Very well articulated and critically thought out,Lisa, as it bugs me too when the federal government prioritizes tax breaks for Corporate Welfare Queens instead of health and safety of its citizens.
If we had left the tax code where it was preReagan, even, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Having read both Chris Hedges’s 2006 New York Times bestseller AMERICAN 🇺🇸 FASCISTS & former Oklahoman Anne Nelson’s 2019 thought provoking book SHADOW NETWORK back to back , I would agree with you wholeheartedly, Lisa as even Bernie Sanders said something similar on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
I would have to look at my Kindle and book shelf to give you books that formed the opinions. And who knows how many articles over the years.
We can’t sustain what is going on. Tech bros want fiefdoms where they are absolute rulers. I don’t want to trust someone with that level of narcissism with a blank check for my future.
An accountant friend of mine recommended both of these books for me to read from the spring/ summer of 2022. Chris Hedges used to be a journalist for the New York Times back in the 70’s-90’s, a foreign war correspondent for Times and other publications for nearly two decades.He was also part of a group of journalists who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize 🏆 Award for an article on global terrorism. He’s now a pastor at his local Presbyterian church and also helps with a prison outreach program in New Jersey where former inmates can get job training skills for when they’re ready to move into the outside world. Pastor Chris Hedges also has a fifteen minute YouTube video titled American 🇺🇸 Psychosis. Check it out, Lisa.
How are we, as a country, going to become less rascist? Less misogynistic? If you look at the population of that area of Texas, it just nay be mostly Latino. Not a favorite of the Governor, like the families in Uvalde. Remember them?
How do we become less racist? Hard question. I was naive when I believed Obama’s election meant that we had grown as a nation. There is still a lot to do. I honestly believe Trump and the rising whites supremacy is, in part, a reaction by whites who are afraid of everyone who isn’t.
BUT - my experience has been that people exposed to other cultures (especially when younger) seem less racist than those who are isolated. So part of this is being willing to get to know people who aren’t like you.
In the meantime, those of us who believe in justice for all keep advocating for it with all our hearts, because until all of us have equal protection, none of us are really safe.
Blessed be. I am not religious but truly believe we have to love ourselves so we are able to love one another. It breaks my poor old heart about those little girls in Texas. And seeing the brave guys from Mexico coming to a dangerous place to help, has brought some healing.
I think this is so important. So often we do not see to infrastructure because its either boring, or it doesn't align with right now priorities. Its our money though. It supposed to be paid to take care of all of our citizens. These safety and infrastructure projects should be a priority, and ensuring that we elect people who reflect that and make the right choices is crucial.