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HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!
On Tuesday I had a 6-month follow-up appointment with my oncologist. Everything checked out great and I was in a fantastic mood.
Then, like many, I felt like I was punched in the gut and run over by a bus when the election results came in. Funny everyone said it would take days to get results, but our fate was sealed within a few hours. I have studied Project 2025 and as someone on Medicare and Social Security, I am very concerned. Also, after losing an adult child to suicide I receive emails from different prevention groups, and the number of gay and trans people taking their lives is increasing every day. People are updating the visas, and so many people who have lived here for years working to obtain citizenship are scared about being rounded up, put into camps, and deported. Women are being treated as property with the “Your Body, My Choice” movement, let alone fearing a nationwide abortion ban, a birth control ban, and IVF being challenged. Black people are receiving racist text messages about working on a plantation picking cotton. Add to that worry over how the new administration will handle the wars in Ukraine and Israel. No candidate is perfect but I never imagined I would see “Christians” cheering for very unlike Jesus behavior and a convicted rapist and con man who has shared confidential information with our enemies and other crimes sitting behind the resolute desk. I know inflation is still a problem, the border needs more control, there is a housing shortage, and there are other things to figure out but weighing what we are going to live with or die with now did our country make the right decision? We will see.
We traveled about 3 hours away Friday night for the Cardinals Regional playoff game. The boys gave it everything they had and more but ended their season with a heartbreaking 29-28 loss. It was a fantastic season with 11 wins and just this one tough loss. There were tears shed but they have some wonderful memories from this year as do all the people who showed up every week to see them play and cheer them on. For Juniors like Kaden, the Varsity team has only lost 3 games in their high school careers and they should be just as strong next year. Kaden doesn’t play a Winter sport so he will be hitting the weight room and getting ready for Track & Field in the Spring. As you know, I am beyond proud of my Kaden.
How was your week?
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I feel the same and cannot understand how they could support such a vile man. Thinking of you.
Your summary of our disaster is just perfect: you hit all the key points. I can’t find a single bright spot in all this misery and upcoming injustice.
Sadly… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I’m so happy you had a great doctor’s report! 🙌🙌🙌
Everyone needs to rest and regroup and start fighting from the bottom up. There is hope, but we are going to have to fight for it. Hang in there. ✌
It’s wonderful to have activities to attend with kids and have your support show your pride in them; win or lose. 🤗
Wishing you a wonderful new week. ☀
I am mad, and sad. America never lives up to her promise. I do not love my country. While I’m hoping it’s not as bad as we think it will be, we are also making preparations to leave the country if it comes to that. A back up plan. Despite the fact that my family is white and therefore privileged. I just wanted to crawl out of my skin last time he was in office. I get nauseous just thinking about that demented narcissist being in power.
I went into an all out grieving mode. I am now living in Texas because I could no longer afford California. In Texas, women are dying of miscarriages!! Texas law does not allow care until women are dying and by then it is too late, they die, every two days we hear of another one. I was in shock, actually, still in anger and I want to fight, fight, fight but I am a 78 woman who have to use a walker and is poor, not poor enough for food stamps but I have find a way to fight this. I lost tough with your blogsight and so relieved to find it again.
It’s been a difficult week. I suddenly realize that the things I value (freedom, respecting others, working to make this a better world for all people, truth) are not the things others prioritize, and yesterday I had this horrible meltdown where I felt like everything I’ve done in my life has been for nothing. I’m trying to focus on how to move forward from this.
Congratulations to Kaden for a great season.