… it’s not possible to know all the ways we impact those around us… we can only know if we behaved with honesty, integrity, and compassion… if we have done that most of the time, then our impact will be significant, even if we don’t know it…
Last night around rhe Todd Rundgren Concert there was a man from Amsterdam, or was it Copenhagen?… we chatted before concert began… he said Europeans are astonished our election is so close… i told him 50% of Americans are too…
Hoping the rumors dems are slipping in blue wall states are intended to energize the dem base…
October 21, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024)
… the line between democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age, or nationality. “Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote… “But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis,” she wrote. “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”
Night Of The Living Dead checked off our horror film watch list…
Just finished watching The Mist… wow!… that was thought provoking apocalyptic horror… Marcia Gay Harden brilliant in role of religious zealot.
I like your dress,
… says the trans woman behind the vegetables at the farmers market. I have had this knee length sweater dress for almost a year now and this is the first time anyone read it as a dress. Most people take the less discordant view that it is a tunic. It’s the small things that can make us happiest.
Cue Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
OF ALL THE chapters for this book, this one was the most difficult to write. When I talked with friends and acquaintances about self-love I was surprised to see how many of us feel troubled by the notion, as though the very idea implies too much narcissism or selfishness. We all need to rid ourselves of misguided notions about self-love. We need to stop fearfully equating it with self-centeredness and selfishness. (bell hooks, All About Love)
… self love has been a key component of my trans-feminine shift… i love my feminine self… not selfish or self-centered, but a coming home to myself…
October 13, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country…a fascist to the core.” (former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley)
… apart from those who understand and want fascism, and they are not an insignificant number, does anyone embracing Trump really understand what they will get if he is elected?…