I was fortunate to meet her, and her lovely sisters Mimi, and Pauline, and her dynamic parents in Carmel back in 1965

Such real nice people.



(Thanks, KoKo, for posting this)

I'm glad the police were nice. I've been at loads of demonstrations (gathering support for the ADA bill of rights) where the police had a frustrating time figuring out how to arrest and remove protesters in (very heavy) power chairs and such.
Always was interesting to watch officer's faces -turning from hardened "enforcement" mode to "problem solving" mode and some times to "sympathy" and "exasperation" mode! (We are all human, what ever our role)

Tell your cousin thanks!

that was for suspicion of drugs!
A classic one for me was the "Pentagon blockade" May '72 where those arrested were put on school busses because of the large numbers. On the way to where we would be processed and booked, we realized there was no officer on the bus, just the (hired) driver. We asked if he'd stop and let us out, which he did. We headed back to the protest...

Other times where not nearly so jolly. However,

I commend you for having that on your 'bucket list'
Keep us posted.

during a snow. His brother finally found him a few days later, quite frozen. He'd gotten disoriented in the blizzard...

His brother moved back to town (Sioux City) after that experience.

Nature can be unforgiving.

Glad Latta is okay.

Moore advices:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moor...

AND/OR some pie-in-the-sky wishes like:

Return to Nixon Era tax rates on the wealthy...
End Corporations and super wealthy paying no tax or hiding it off shore...
Bring back (something like) Glass-Steagall...
Return good manufacturing jobs to this country...
Allow UNIONS to rise again...
Slash the obscene Pentagon budget...
And maybe give Elizabeth Warren real power over financial reform...
And...
And...
And...

(and don't forget my pony)

Or, we can get our pitch forks and torches and storm the gated communities of the Fairfield, CTs of this country...

We had such hope that things were going to get better. How naive that now seems.

in a study published in Britain. They looked at many countries and found as income INequality increased, a whole host of social and medical problems rose. Countries where there was less disparity between rich and poor -e.g.

Japan, Sweden - had many fewer health problems.

Needless to say America was one of the worst in their study.

link to the study:
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http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/t...

of sorrow for your loss, n.o.d. Not today, not tomorrow, but sometime in the weeks ahead your memories of all that she was for you and accomplished in her life will bring a smile before the tears, I hope.

If you have photos, throw yourself into organizing them - for yourself if no one else. It may help.

My mom passed a year ago and, at least for me, it did help to spend time on organizing some aspects of her legacy for the family.

Here is an arm on your shoulder,

--F2C

thru "security" ?!?

On a Southwest flight years ago when our twins were newborns we happened to have the same crew for our return flight (after visiting new grandparents) The flight out had been a bit of a struggle for us and on the return several of the flight attendants came to our seats and quietly slipped us a bottle of champagne from first class saying " you probably could use this" We will not soon forget that little gesture of common humanity. And the fine black linen cloth they wrapped it in we've used nearly every day since...
Did we mention they are a union airline?

"This message is a thank you to Sheriff Dupnik. While I am extremely sorry for the terrible tragedy that has thrust you into media, I am grateful that you had the courage to speak plainly about why this shooting might have happened. The media is now spending time questioning your judgment around this. I say please do not be cowed by their stupidity. Keep speaking out. And thank you for again for standing up for reason and for what's right. And good luck in the difficult days ahead."


(Thanks Lint Head for the link!)

your butt off (literally) outdoors building or farming or cooking or sheep herding, and eat small amounts of fresh local FOOD (real food, not processed corn crap) in long slow meals with family or friends. THAT's what is meant by "Mediterranean Diet"

A decent book on that is: "The Mediterranean Diet" by Marissa Cloutier


And this book will change your mind on many things about fats, carbs, the food industry and the 'Western diet'

"In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan

perhaps should've been. The book by Jean-Dominique Bauby "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" seems the most amazing, that it ever got written. It makes me think of the aid to Stephen Hawking who could tell what Hawking was saying, and speak for him (before the synthesizer)

My own father wrote with a pen between his toes - he had been born without arms- and it was very difficult for most people to decipher his 'footwriting'. He spoke his graduate thesis to a fast typist to compose it. Later he used Dictaphones transcribed by secretaries for all his writing and correspondence.

It is amazing what humans - and the human spirit - are capable!

Thanks, babylonsister, for posting this.

far fewer knew it was authored by Reinhold Niebuhr (from a sermon given in the early 1940's.)

Niebuhr was my father's prof at seminary, and my father often had to correct people when they said it was by "anonymous"

Thanks again walldude.

trying to get back into jobs, and lives, with the ravages of war - missing limbs or missing spirit...

My father was one of those pioneers - an advocate for civil rights for people with disabilities - through eight presidents.

The day of the signing of the ADA was a true highlight of his life of service. He was so pleased to be a part of it.

in need of the accommodations afforded by these laws.

It really is ALL of us at some point in our lives.

We are ALL problem solvers; it's just that some have to solve more problems. Like: how to get across town to GET to the unemployment offices in the first place!

Civil rights laws benefit everyone, whether they are aware of it or not.

Glad to hear you are.

the message on mass media and the hopes were snuffed out. America had elected a grade-B movie actor! Unbelievable! But for those of us who remembered Nixon's evil years this was crushing. We knew it would be ages before we'd see anything "progressive" again. For a generation brought up on "duck and cover drills" we feared the worst for the whole world. USSR had begun to really back away from the nuke arms race, but with Nuke hawk Ronnie in the White House they had to vastly increase their Cold War preparation to try and stay up with NATO.
Of course, here at home Ronnie cut taxes for the wealth and proclaimed, thru idiots like David Stockman, that the millions given back to millionaires would "trickle down" to middle America, in the form of jobs and investments. It trickled down all right: The federal funding for a disability project I was employed by was axed; canceled to help pay for the tax cuts to Reagan wealth backers. The trickle down turned out to be a cold -yellow- rain.

Damn Reagan. Damn Republicans. They all have ruined this otherwise promising experiment in democracy called America. Fast forward a few decades to our oil-soaked present and I pretend to be optimistic with my kids about the country we are handing off to them. They may well see right thru my attempts to be cheerful.

But, fight on, move on, we must...



(I'll stop now before I blow a gasket.)