Randy Rainbow is back with a new Video:
THAT DON! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbonwwFG-c
That was one of the best Randy Rainbow videos of all. I love them all, but this was fantastic.
Thank You!
I thought the recent skit on SNL was so funny. Alan Dershowitz Argues for Trump Cold Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5neBXQwf8
A book was recommended to me by Cash Peters: "a little book about believing: The Transformative Healing Power of Faith, Love, and Surrender" So far it's really engaging!
This is to sadness, loss, and unspeakable grief:
when you have no words for the wounds.
When your body is as hollowed out and dark as a jack-o-lantern in November.
Gathering Light
for winter
-Jeanette Encinias
When you have no words for the wounds.
When your body is as hollowed out and dark
as a jack-o-lantern
in November.
When you have lost your north, your south,
your east and your west
stay still.
Words for the pain are forming
beneath the skin of your patience.
Your body is gathering light for winter.
Your compass is emerging through water.
Sometimes dying is the only way to live again.
It may take all your stories away.
It may hunt and kill your pride
so you are left with nothing
but questions and space
howling into the night
What next? What now? What for?
This is when grace
pours her warm milk
into your wounds
and advises you to rest.
To steal the secrets of sorrow
and learn her heavy song
so that you can become an instrument
of resilience, turning ever forward
with more than you were born with.
For isn't holding hands with sorrow
a bridge?
Dying while you are still alive
birthing your next self
and courageously
beginning anew.
From Dan Rather today:
How do you balance normalcy against the backdrop of what is taking place in Washington? How do you pack your kids’ lunches, make Super Bowl plans, check the air on your car’s tires when the Senate has rubber stamped the very type of actions our founding fathers feared could threaten our republic?
These are not only questions for our times. In moments of crisis there is always a struggle between life going on and responding to the import of the moment. Do you fight for what is right, organize, mobilize, and pledge an all-out effort at the ballot box? Or do you gather for a neighborhood barbeque, head to the church social, take a walk through the woods with your partner? I believe this cannot be considered a binary option. You do all of these things.
Even during World War II, there still was a World Series. Even during Vietnam there were school plays. Even after 9/11 there was time for coffee with a friend.
Many see today an assault on our democracy, and our humanity. To push back against those forces means not giving up on either front. To be sure fear is a potent tool for autocrats, but so is cynicism. Those who seek to divide us can be held accountable in elections but they can also be defeated through affirmative acts of kindness.
I look out at this great nation and see much that is broken. But I know that every day millions upon millions of my fellow citizens set out to lead purposeful lives, to help others, to be empathetic members of their communities.
One thing I have seen about this country over my life is that change happens, and it can be dramatic. Most of that change has been for the positive. Step out of the bubble, turn off the TV, put your phone in the drawer, and take a deep breath. Focus on what is around you. And focus on what needs to be done for the future.
Another thing I have seen over my life is no president is bigger than the country. Some have forgotten that. And the American people have invariably reminded them.
Another thing I have seen over my life is no president is bigger than the country. Some have forgotten that. And the American people have invariably reminded them. -- Dan Rather via Laura F.
Love this. Thank you for posting.