Politics Plus

Thanks to everyone who is helping to lift me up through your comments.  Just now I am trying to push myself, not too hard, but just to do one or two small things each day which make a visible change in the house.  Just something i can look at and tell myself I made that happen.  So far it seems tp be hrelping.  Rome wasn’t built in a day either.

One of the Substack columns I read is that written by Robert Hubbell, a Democratic lawyer in (I believe) the Los Angeles area who was recommended by my cousin. Yesterday, his newsletter was all over “life isn’t fair” – which of course is true,, and which is why Democrats had to be invented –  and why being a Democrat can be a thankless job indeed.

Hubbell writes:

“Still, it is unfair that Democrats must win in a disinformation environment where the media has lost its collective mind—despite the flashing red lights. Jonathan V. Last of The Bulwark addresses this phenomenon in a tongue-in-cheek article (that will leave you feeling good), Dear Democrats: Here Are the Facts of Life. Last writes,

I regret to inform you that America is relying on you to win a presidential election less than 12 months from now. In order for you to accomplish this objective, you will have to do many things. Some of these things may seem unfair. Many of them will be hard. A few of them are probably impossible.

Hubbell quotes quite a bit from the Bulwark, but I have linked tp it anyway.  I hope it leaves you feeling a bit better.

-Here’s an old cartoon (even more up to date now than when originally published by TC) just to help keep us on track.

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My cousin – my second cousin, Nancy, who recommended Hubbell to me – is four or five years older than I, which makes her two or three years older than Joe.  She wrote recently that she is considering, when Joe’s age comes up, saying, “I’m older than he is, and I still pack a punch” – and then proving it. With a demonstration.  (I think she was joking.)

Dearest Rosalynn, rest in peace eternal.  Few deserve that rest as much as you do. You will be deely mourned and greatly missed. And that mourning will not be for your fate, but for our own loss. Don’t begrudge it to us.

I am not up to a real tribute yet, although I am slowly but steadily improving.  But I suspect by the time everyone has seen this, the comments will be filled wwith tributes, including some to Jimmy, whi is now, at least for a while, alone.

Personal:

I woke up this morning without my usual back pain – oddly, the same thing happened when I was in the hospital – after I moved to rehab, I continued to wake up pin free untill the final 3 or 4 days I was there.  It appears my body craves a change of bed every couple of weeks or so.  Well, sorry, body, that’s not going to happen.   But thanks for the respite.

From now, I’ll try to keep posting at least every other day, though it’s likely to be short  It isn’t just me – I need to get things done around the house to make it safer, some of which I should have already done, and that takes time.  So the house has to heal was well as me.  I do have one contractor coming tomorrow.  But Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day, and neither will this be.  Stay tuned for updates.