If you slide out of the birth canal in 1950 and you are female, you are constantly barraged by life showing up where you have very few options for affecting change. Your first kiss and what might have been your first husband, is blown out of the sky over Viet Nam (or was it really Cambodia?) and from there life is a series of challenges …
If you slide out of the birth canal in 1950 and you are female, you are constantly barraged by life showing up where you have very few options for affecting change. Your first kiss and what might have been your first husband, is blown out of the sky over Viet Nam (or was it really Cambodia?) and from there life is a series of challenges when you can do little to affect change. It appears to me that currently, retaining the filibuster is more important than finding a remedy for minority rule. Retaining the filibuster is more important than finding a path to restore voting rights for all people. Retaining gerrymandering means that Republicans will “govern” from the standpoint of being a minority. The Supremes were hijacked by Mitch McConnell which means they will finally get total control over women’s bodies. How is it that McConnell is not called out for court packing? Why can’t the Democrats add three progressive thinking Judges to the court? My life is all about the inability to affect change, yet I somehow cannot stop trying.
"My life is all about the inability to affect change, yet I somehow cannot stop trying." I'm almost 70 and am thinking about what my life would be if, back then in the '70s - two young girls, hardly any money, and a fling (with birth control) that sent me to a Manhattan abortion clinic. No-one shamed me; just kindness; no judgement. Thank g-d for Roe vs. Wade.
Carla, your final sentence brought Dylan Thomas' words to me: "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light." We have to rage against the dying of our democracy.
To some extent at least, one can choose to rage or to be frustrated, probably partly depending on one's circumstances. I hope you can turn that frustration into rage, or something more productive.
If you slide out of the birth canal in 1950 and you are female, you are constantly barraged by life showing up where you have very few options for affecting change. Your first kiss and what might have been your first husband, is blown out of the sky over Viet Nam (or was it really Cambodia?) and from there life is a series of challenges when you can do little to affect change. It appears to me that currently, retaining the filibuster is more important than finding a remedy for minority rule. Retaining the filibuster is more important than finding a path to restore voting rights for all people. Retaining gerrymandering means that Republicans will “govern” from the standpoint of being a minority. The Supremes were hijacked by Mitch McConnell which means they will finally get total control over women’s bodies. How is it that McConnell is not called out for court packing? Why can’t the Democrats add three progressive thinking Judges to the court? My life is all about the inability to affect change, yet I somehow cannot stop trying.
"My life is all about the inability to affect change, yet I somehow cannot stop trying." I'm almost 70 and am thinking about what my life would be if, back then in the '70s - two young girls, hardly any money, and a fling (with birth control) that sent me to a Manhattan abortion clinic. No-one shamed me; just kindness; no judgement. Thank g-d for Roe vs. Wade.
Carla, your final sentence brought Dylan Thomas' words to me: "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light." We have to rage against the dying of our democracy.
Well said. Thank you for that. I'm not surprised to learn you're a pastor.
That sounds defeatist. Surely you will join the cause of " raging against the dying of the light."
To some extent at least, one can choose to rage or to be frustrated, probably partly depending on one's circumstances. I hope you can turn that frustration into rage, or something more productive.