Recommend…Don’t Break Bones…And “Opportunity Economy” “When We Fight We Win” (Si Se Puede)

~ daynafinet

Finally reset my WordPress password. Long complicated getting better year.

Jeez just didn’t feel like writing, nothing, nada, during all the hospital time 2023/2024. Couldn’t even read some books I thought I cared so much about, now back home and caring coming back.

At home, looked over my old journals going back to high school. Another reset. No one should not write, if not every day, at least as many days possible. Folks, you will never regret the real time of your life you recorded, in real time. And how you’ll feel reading all your years of the person you have been through time.

Waking up with words in my head is about the best ever. Even if not serious words, just personal stuff still about the best. Just the urge to write.

And some are serious. “Opportunity Economy.” Beyond brilliant, “When We Fight We Win.” “Si Se Puede” Yes We Can. Back to it. Sanders and Warren and Piketty. Back to it.

Even with my broken knee made it to vote today, so encouraged, all generations, no nasty, all civil and generous. Midwest Nice.

It’s because of my proneness to accidents and way more hospital time than I would wish on my worst bad frenemy. Including falling into a 30-foot construction pit onto a steel pipe at my undergrad college. Threw the crutches down three stories of stairs there. My roommate wrote something like “well, that wasn’t helpful.” Falling off a typewriter case with compound fracture at maybe six or seven years old, my mother was talking on the phone when that happened. Taking my loved shepherd/collie mix on a late night snowy/icy walk getting ready for an early morning conference flight falling flat broken sternum and wrist. Airline said “don’t fly.”

But this has been a truly crazy year. I’ve been in hospital so many months. Broken spine, broken elbow, broken knee, low like really low blood pressure and buckets of blood.

I would not have the excellent heath care I ‘m lucky for but for my hero Franklin Roosevelt who got Social Security and Medicare through (despite the opposition) and, although I’m a privileged white lady (sometime Texas crude) Lyndon Johnson who made the Voting Rights bill happen so (except for some nasty places) basic voting rights don’t have to be a marathon (say Texas) (red, yup, wrote it) rather a sprint (say Illinois) (blue, yup, wrote it). Lived both places, know from experience.

And before I start streaming MSNBC (Kornacki cam, true nerd me) bow to Eleanor Roosevelt who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and for one of the very best, wisest books, “You Learn By Living” on the sane, reasonable, compassionate design for being a conscious human.