WE HAVE GOT TO HELP THESE PEOPLE.
Time to put politics aside, there is much time for that later.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/world/americas/hurricane-maria-donate-charity.html
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So, yesterday, after busying himself all weekend with really important matters like kneeling football players; choosing to ignore the little things like: a growing certainty of nuclear war with Korea, a healthcare system that is about to collapse and the long-promised solution (7 years, long promised) nowhere in sight, he made this statement about the devastation in Puerto Rico:
“Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with”
Since 1917 Puerto Ricans have been American citizens. These people lost everything and this fat “son of a bitch”, one of his favorite terms, I thought I’d use it, is worried about his boys on Wall St.
Of all the reprehensible garbage to spew from your mouth trump, and there have been oceans of reprehensible garbage, this is the most telling. This is the example of the vacuum that exists where others have a soul
#resign
Goodbye Jake LaMotta
I never saw the movie, not once. Didn’t need to see a movie about it.
I love the sport, always have. Always will.
I had no interest in watching a movie about the sport. There have been so many movies about it. Not one ever showed me any understanding of “it”.
It was never about drama or rage.
It was about the fight. [Read more…] about Goodbye Jake LaMotta
i’m still not sure how I met Elle Michael River
My editor is a better writer than me. i am OK with that.
I am not sure, exactly, how we met, but like one or two other people I have stumbled upon during this writing journey – Shari Stauch is another – I am deeply grateful and a little in awe.
She scared me when I realized she was going to review my work. Elle gave me a better review than I deserved. It is astounding to me – how I get to work with people of this caliber.
This is an except from Elle’s blog.
FOR I HAVE SINNED
By Elle Michael River
When Jesus walked into the nuthouse, I knew things were going to get interesting. Our savior wore a gray t-shirt, ripped jeans, and a pair of orange, converse sneakers. An angry red sore oozed over his fat, brown lips, and he had the tell-tale bruising of a black eye almost healed. He was smiling. I guess he knew something we didn’t. He bounced up and down on the balls of his feet and hummed what sounded a bit like Jingle Bells.
No one else paid Jesus much attention. It was close to lunchtime, and meals were a serious business in the nuthouse. I was bringing up the caboose of unit B2’s lunch line, picking at my overgrown nails, when the singing began.
“Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almiiighty!”
Jesus’ crisp tenor pierced through discussions of Connect Four triumphs and whether there would be pie. Everyone stopped short at his sudden serenade. Silence. Here was our savior, smiling at us, his teeth a rancid, smoker’s yellow.
“Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Praise ye the Looord!”
Jesus wasn’t a very good singer.
Pete let out a bark of laughter and turned his crooked smile to Jo and me.
“Wow, this one’s even better than Crazy Katie! Someone screwed up downstairs,” he said. He rolled his eyes in that Pete way.
A stiff, brunette woman wearing nurse’s white came by with her clipboard and began to count us off by twos for lunch. A line of dark lipstick had smeared beyond the left of her smile. I couldn’t stop staring at it. She called my number – forty, the last in line – and I shuffled forward, sucking at my lips. She gave me a weird look, but I cast my gaze to the ground. I didn’t like being last. My favorite number was nine, but I wasn’t always fast enough to count eight places and wedge myself in. It was easier to be number forty.
Jesus was all but forgotten during our meal. Hunger has a way of taking over your brain until all the mashed potatoes are gone. Pete, Jo, and I always sat together at lunch. We weren’t really crazy, not like the others. The doctors couldn’t keep us for long when they had actual psychos like Katie to deal with. The three of us stuck together because it was important to have allies in the nuthouse.
Crazy’s contagious, you know?
(Please click link to continue on to Elle’s site and to read more)
It used to be huge
It used to be huge. Everything was huge. She didn’t have a party, she had events. Summer parties for a hundred of her closest friends and food and drinks for two hundred. If you were her friend you were a close friend.
The circle was huge.
There were no simple acquaintances.
Ringing the cow bell from the car, for every mile of a 200 mile bike race. And laughing. Laughing and ringing that bell for 14 hours. Every time she saw me she’d yell, “you got this bro…” Every time. [Read more…] about It used to be huge
