tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79389134640446021272024-03-12T19:14:56.488-07:00Peace Out LoudThis is my personal blog, which is focused on creating peace. Come on in and kick off your shoes! I appreciate feedback and would love your thoughts and comments. Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-57625646473823535832023-09-10T15:12:00.003-07:002023-09-10T15:26:31.110-07:00Father's Day<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I spent this last Father’s Day in silent, burning rage at my dad, and it’s taken me three months to sort it out enough to write.</span></span></p><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a name='more'></a></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-bcecbdff-7fff-4738-6da0-30b8a138c177"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Some people are practically saints, and for some it can be hard to find a single redeeming virtue, but most of us fall somewhere in between. My dad was smart and witty, friendly and generous. He took me fishing and taught me to whittle. He worked very hard to support our family, and we never went without. I loved him very deeply, and he was respected in our community.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was also a violent alcoholic, who could put on a calm, jovial face in public, while terrorizing his family behind doors. He could be in the middle of mercilessly beating one of us, then calmly pick up the ringing phone and answer with a smile in his voice. I loved him and hated his guts.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">For some reason, I was spared most of the violence. Maybe it was because I was so much younger than the other kids, but he doted on me. But being spared wasn’t a blessing; it was terrible. I used to wish he would beat me because I felt tremendously guilty. It was like being handed a banquet of food in a room full of starving people. I also became the “dad whisperer” and learned very young how to talk him down and get him to stop beating my mom and siblings. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After I got a little older and the rest of the kids left home, I became the target of his rage. It was almost a relief.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the meantime, he focused his rage and violence on everyone else, but especially my brother Dal. Maybe it was because he was the only boy, and that he looked so much like my dad, who was filled with self loathing. Maybe it was because Dal was so brilliant and talented and he was jealous. Maybe it was because Dal wasn’t as interested in fishing and outdoor things, but preferred intellectual pursuits, such as chess and music. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Whatever it was, he bullied him relentlessly, following him around and picking at him as he did his chores, spoiling for a fight, looking for excuses to shove or hit him. And sweet Dal just tried to do better and make him happy, even as he was beaten on a regular basis. I watched him try to placate him with patience and logic, but none of that worked on our drunken, angry dad. I have images burned into my brain that will never go away, the sounds of screams, things I will never forget. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One of my earliest memories was at the age of five, waking up late at night to the sound of fighting, and realizing my dad was beating my brother in the hallway outside my bedroom. I could hear scuffling, and my brother’s screams. I flew out of bed in my pajamas, and into the hall, where I grabbed a boot, climbed up my dad’s back, and beat him over the head to get him to stop. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To my surprise, it worked. That night changed my life because I felt a sense of responsibility from that point on to make him stop hurting people, and it’s colored the rest of my life. I also became fiercely protective of my brother for the rest of his life, even though he was seven years older. More than any other person other than my children, I would fly into a white hot rage if anyone said or did anything unkind to him. In school, he was cheerful and popular, a well-liked leader. Nobody realized what he was going through at home. In spite of his own suffering, he was always looking out for me. He was the bravest and kindest person I knew and that only made me love him more. I vowed that nobody would ever hurt my brother again, or I would make them sorry.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I was 19, my dad had a minor traffic accident and was arrested for driving drunk. The embarrassment of that incident motivated him to stop drinking. After he sobered up, I was able to experience a relationship with him I had never had, and we began to heal. However, a lifetime of heavy drinking and smoking caught up with him, and in ten years, he was dead. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was devastated to have him ripped away when we had begun to heal together and I finally had the dad I always knew was there. He was sorry for all the pain he had caused and we had many long talks and were very close. I had forgiven him, but I still had a lifetime of pain as a result of what we all went through. After he died, I wrote a six page letter to him, which nobody ever read, and tucked it into his ashes on the day we buried them. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Years later, I learned a lot about trauma and why I still was suffering, even though I had forgiven him. My gentle brother was the most forgiving person I ever met. I still struggled with my memories of watching him being hurt. We often talked about who had it worse growing up. I had the images of him being abused seared into my head, and I said he had it the worst of everyone in the family. He insisted I had it worse because I had to watch it. Either way, it had a lifetime effect on both of us. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dal used alcohol to deal with what he had been through, and never said an unkind word about my dad. Unlike Dad, he didn’t have a violent bone in his body, and was a jovial, fun drunk, which may have prevented him from getting help for years. He wasn’t causing problems for anyone but himself, as it affected his health. But he was a fun guy.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Many years ago, I learned about childhood trauma and its effect on adults. A very famous study called the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) clearly outlined that kids who grew up in households with addiction, abuse, and trauma typically had a much higher risk of unhealthy behaviors, chronic physical and mental health problems, and addiction. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Worst of all, people with high ACES scores tend to live much shorter lives than their less traumatized counterparts, upwards of 20 years less.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dal and I talked about this; I knew he had depression and anxiety which he preferred to ignore, and that alcohol is a depressant drug which only masks these things while making everything worse. We talked about his drinking and we talked about the mental health issues that arise when you grow up in constant abuse and trauma. I tried to normalize the conversation about self-care for mental health, and how mental and physical health are intertwined. I think he preferred to just forget about it; the problem is, our bodies and our brains remember. It doesn’t work to cover it up and it doesn’t go away if you try to “forget about it.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The more I learned about trauma and ACES, the more I understood every member of my family, and it gave me great empathy for all of us, including my parents. There was no ACES, or understanding of trauma, during my parents’ lives. They were just muddling through life as broken people, and we all paid the price. I’m certain my dad had his own trauma, and never wanted to become an abusive parent and damage his children, but he didn’t have the resources and skills to do it differently. He spent his older years full of remorse and regret.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Dal got sober this year and I was so proud of him. He was regaining his health and actually dealing with the demons that were handed to him by the past. But the damage was done. Dal died on May 6th of a heart attack, which was an utter shock as it looked like he was getting healthier.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe Dal was the victim of childhood toxic stress and trauma and was coping the only ways that were available to him at the time: denial and alcohol. He minimized how bad things were because that was how he coped, and drank to forget. I never minimized any of it when we talked because I was hoping we could move beyond that. It wasn’t disloyal to our dad to be honest about it.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most people had no idea that my funny, quirky, sweet brother had grown up in hell. He was good at hiding it. He could have become bitter and angry. Instead, in defiance of our dad and all of the abuse, he chose to be a positive, loving person who CHOSE kindness and goodness. He will always be my hero. But he paid a steep price for pretending he was okay. Nobody really knew that he wasn’t raised to be a good person; he was a good person in spite of how he was treated.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe that, had it not been for the abuse that he suffered daily, growing up, Dal would still be alive. I believe he would have been a healthier person, and lived a longer life. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I believe my dad took my brother away from me before his time. It was the final abuse I got to witness, and I can’t forgive him right now.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That may be unfair, but it’s honest. On Father’s Day this year, all the grief and rage I thought I had processed came back full force, as I grieved the loss of my brother a month before. I hated my dad with a fiery passion I hadn’t felt in many years. I thought I had forgiven him, and I thought I had moved on, but apparently, I still have a lot of work to do. Processing trauma can take a lifetime.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I owe it to Dal to be honest, even when it means writing this. It means being honest with myself about my feelings, and knowing it’s okay to be mad at my dad on Father’s Day. To take responsibility for my own trauma and understand that grief is a trauma trigger. To reaffirm my commitment to healing myself and making sure I don’t pass that trauma along to others, any more than I may already have. To continue to strive to be a better person, and forgive myself for not knowing what I didn’t know. Part of that is writing this, and laying down this heavy load of grief and rage and guilt.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are dealing with trauma, it’s okay to name it and take care of yourself. You don’t have to put on a happy face. And even if you’ve had traumatic experiences that have shaped your life, that doesn’t mean you are doomed to a short, unhealthy life. You can heal through building resilience. Making connections with people, acknowledging the trauma and talking about it, writing about it, doing art, whatever helps you to heal. It’s not your fault, and it’s not a character flaw. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Studies show that even one supportive, caring adult can build resilience in a child who is experiencing trauma. In adults, it’s important to build caring relationships and trust, friendships where it’s safe to be our true selves.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobody needs to be ashamed. I’m trying to live my best life in Dal’s honor, knowing that he struggled harder than anyone I ever met to be such an incredible soul. Healing is possible. If you want to learn more about the ACES Study, here is a link.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://stopabusecampaign.org/take-your-ace/what-does-your-ace-score-mean/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://stopabusecampaign.org/take-your-ace/what-does-your-ace-score-mean/</span></span></a></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One caution: Reading about high ACES scores can create anxiety and stress. Please don’t be discouraged if you have a high ACES score; it’s never too late to address your pain and get the support that you need. You are not doomed! A big step in healing is to recognize that it’s not that something is “wrong with you.” It’s about what happened to you. And it helps to know that stress, anxiety, and depression are a NORMAL response to trauma. You CAN heal.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here’s more information about resilience and how to build hope:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://stopabusecampaign.org/2021/11/22/how-to-heal-from-aces-and-childhood-trauma/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://stopabusecampaign.org/2021/11/22/how-to-heal-from-aces-and-childhood-trauma/</span></span></a></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /></span>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-75377766827954064032022-07-10T22:53:00.005-07:002022-07-10T22:57:24.171-07:00Roe v Wade<p>I am really sick and tired of the woman shaming I am seeing over abortion.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a>I have read the saddest and most heartbreaking stories shared by women who never had choices, and even stories of horrific child abuse by people who were unwanted and wish their mothers would have had the choice to abort them. Women who feel that they have to hide their trauma to avoid being judged by sanctimonious people. Lives completely ruined.<p>If you've had an abortion, I know you did what you felt was best at that time in your life. I don't care why you did it. A crisis pregnancy is devastating.</p><p>The body of every woman is a sacred vessel and IT IS HER OWN. I don't see any men being shamed over unwanted pregnancies. Anyone notice how women getting pregnant is never about the man's role? It's all about shaming the woman.</p><p>Ever hear of reproductive coercion? Google it. It's common in domestic violence as a means of control. Sabotaged birth control, forced births, and yes, even forced abortions. In all cases, the woman treated as an object to be controlled and not a human. </p><p>It's extremely common for domestic violence to start during pregnancy. Don't believe me? Look it up. Things look different behind closed doors. I've heard many stories of women whose abortion was part of their escape from someone who was going to kill them, their unborn child, and their other children. Is it "pro-life" to make her have that baby? You know full well it isn't. </p><p>Each of us has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that includes pregnant women. If you are celebrating the SCOTUS decision about Roe v Wade, just know that you are celebrating the assault and debasement of women and children, sexual abuse, child abuse, medical neglect, and death. All for the sake of an embryo you'll stop caring about the moment it's born. </p><p>Your politics is someone else's life or death.</p><p>Unwanted pregnancy does NOT= irresponsibility, and to assume so is smug and ignorant. You don't know someone else's story and frankly, it's none of your business. If it's really that important to you, then I can assume that you are adopting children and volunteering with abused and traumatized children, right? And you're making sure that no woman with an unwanted pregnancy is shamed and you're showing unconditional support, right? And you're helping single mothers with diapers and formula and childcare, right? Because, you know, pro-life.</p><p>Oh, you aren't? Then sit the hell down.</p>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-88063718052472732792022-05-31T19:40:00.004-07:002022-05-31T19:44:50.387-07:00Mental Health vs Terrorism<p><span style="font-size: large;">Today is the final day of Mental Health Awareness Month, and I have a lot on my mind. I had already written a blog about mental illness, which I wasn’t able to post because of a technical issue; the following day, 19 children and their teachers were murdered and several others wounded. Suddenly everyone was blaming “mental illness” and I knew there was more to say.</span></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">MENTAL ILLNESS DID NOT CAUSE THIS SHOOTING. EVIL caused this shooting. A hateful, entitled mindset caused this shooting. We MUST stop blaming mental health issues for our society’s addiction to violence or the bad guys will win.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Every single country on Earth has mentally ill people. Only ONE country has repeated and constant mass shootings by civilians, and it is us. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that in other countries we’d hear about “mentally ill” people committing mass murder at this rate using, say, knives or hammers or other weapons? Yet we don’t. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Something is different in the U.S., and the sooner we get that through our collective heads, the better. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Since the Uvalde shooting one week ago today, there have been SEVENTEEN mass shootings! Don’t believe me? Google it. They’re barely making the news anymore. Here’s a chart with a list, but it hasn’t been updated since 7:00 this morning, so I’m sure by the time you read this, there will be more:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNf4rtjAo83rl-RgYUrr0u__bjlIKJ4j5_qA9w5HY9r_K00_bIlEOznCzckI20RpFN7hAhh_z2nCcPSSYi5qPmD2QnFCwAt_hRg4mk2o4sl_Vtop2VnHjzneYJ7SyRDVpl4J8Y5E6jEJueYMi5wsKx2NpiSvXqXB6icmy868z44Our7TTPbG3BN7XD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1020" height="677" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNf4rtjAo83rl-RgYUrr0u__bjlIKJ4j5_qA9w5HY9r_K00_bIlEOznCzckI20RpFN7hAhh_z2nCcPSSYi5qPmD2QnFCwAt_hRg4mk2o4sl_Vtop2VnHjzneYJ7SyRDVpl4J8Y5E6jEJueYMi5wsKx2NpiSvXqXB6icmy868z44Our7TTPbG3BN7XD=w577-h677" width="577" /></span></a></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">In what other country do civilians routinely massacre one another and would we refer to such a country as “civilized?”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even in countries that have more access to guns, there is not the level of mass civilian shootings that we have here. Also, most other countries don’t allow civilians to own high powered AR-15s or other weapons of war. There is no reason for a civilian to have such a weapon. As a culture we must demand sensible gun laws.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While our extremely liberal gun laws are clearly getting people killed, the access to these weapons by immature, angry people, even children, indicates a society that has spiraled out of control. Irresponsible gun ownership, glorification of weapons and violence, and hateful political rhetoric all play a role, and we must act. Not by vilifying people with mental illness, but by removing these dangerous weapons from the hands of people who would use them to commit bloody massacres. Where is the screening, vetting, or training? In an average year, according to Everytown.org, 544 Oregonians die by guns. This is preventable.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So let’s talk about mental illness. Based on statistics, only 3-5% of violent acts can be attributed to people with a serious mental illness. In fact, they are over ten times more likely to be VICTIMS of violence, partly because their illness makes them more vulnerable and less likely to be believed. Psychosis does not equal violence. The problem is NOT mental illness; it is our society’s worship of violence, and the easy means to commit it. </span></p><div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By focusing the blame for shootings on people with mental illness, we conveniently overlook the fact that many of these massacres are premeditated and very organized; they have told people what they were going to do, bought the weapons, and planned ahead meticulously. Does this sound like the actions of an “out of control” mentally ill person? No, they are TERRORISTS. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The shooter in Uvalde, Texas spent the eight days after his 18th birthday amassing his murder weapons and over 1600 rounds of ammunition. Nobody raised an eyebrow at this. He announced his plans to people in Facebook Messenger and nothing was done. Why is it that he is too young to drink a beer, barely old enough to be trusted with a vote or a military uniform, but he’s old enough to stockpile war weapons with no training, no background check, nothing? He wasn’t mentally ill; he was immature and angry and wanted others to suffer. So they did. Terrorist.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people in a grocery store in Buffalo, NY posted a manifesto online that was not reported. Many other shooters have as well. These are pre-meditated murders by hateful people who have bought into extremist ideology. Terrorists.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">By scapegoating mentally ill people and ignoring the domestic terrorism, we perpetuate MORE killings. We must take a hard look at how our culture fosters hatred and justifies violence. And it’s past time we remove access to weapons of war to people who are not military or police. Police officers in Uvalde were outgunned by one guy with a weapon that no citizen needs to have. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">If someone has mental health issues, it’s already hard to ask for help. Imagine how much harder it is if you think people might perceive you as violent or dangerous because of your condition? How many people are ashamed, or worried about how they will be perceived by their boss, their family, their friends, their community? How many people are not safe admitting to depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues because people will think they are violent or unstable? HOW MANY PEOPLE TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES because they are too afraid of this sort of stigma to get the help they need in time? </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We must talk about mental health. We must separate it from the violence in our culture. If we’re serious about saving lives, we have to be honest with ourselves. If we characterize people with mental illness as the monsters killing our children, that leaves the real monsters free to roam with impunity. It leaves more of our children vulnerable, not just to shooters, but to self-harm due to untreated mental health conditions. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">It's much more comfortable to imagine that nobody you know would ever do that, but all it takes is a quick online search for “school shooting threats” to see that it’s everywhere and it’s out of control. You hear about the deaths, but do you hear about the injuries and the threats that almost happened? Go look, I’ll wait here... <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-1&type=uspr_9302_CHW_US_tid561cosagpd&p=school%20shooting%20threats&param1=JO580npOkw3wFbNliM4Y4w%3D%3D&param2=9dUI1n2R0BLDxNuWfiP4aUlUyknlRzJZqvu60Hg2wxDskPaGSHEIoHrpit6dhNH6L%2FUgxsW5NUCaO3VgLGeEFOIxPXPdIFblAOWpvx%2BU2pGU6egmi0ZlHy3z5z0y85CZfk%2FbiCQh1Vw7AKhOiprdSI%2BiH%2FG4bMribFEfMSRv7xBoWKSPAje1kwmuY1IypxAhbHDBzgokZxaEzeS7WkzMVp3CP1fNtaEGxbwbf%2BeO%2F%2BBpMCH1%2Fe6%2FJyv50YGW8zm30%2FaX2zacO%2FT88oWc%2FgPpUgDwDaPZ%2BDAPjwIUv35AmtOlu0NSsPpmISdD3QAy%2Fqyu4U2wQQ0qFaCr%2FQL%2FPP%2FbFA%3D%3D&param3=NwVEMR%2FzKcG52XsVBYEh20CXm1wXp6anLmD4mFg%2BfsGian1KFXg%2B1%2Bj6VjN9I59ZkAK8%2Bi1cdNH2Wl%2FN7fgXk%2B2YD5xpFGAPQoPo0xkf%2B5j36yztwiAEptNAuApBGbj%2BkNNgN1FsdY9ZCvXNUmDqvH%2BiijkNYChnz0lu1OtHCHtRwizh84G7LdY7ZmYmgds7cNLqmfzcq33OM2cBU8bAy22L%2BFGd%2BpMR8fxRTaL7HhJcJ13qLa3Mi8sftlJPVx7RmUW1766L7XCgd91fFtIuGwSCLoy5z7XqGPRTYmh6HgyBBsAEU9flc6ENWzr5ekQ%2FSqVgBW%2F6ms%2FJT3ESPbBjAO95CtMFoAAUUX3ly9gR7EhHKxYHCBssv2iNP4AGLsdXRjHWjh8Wi8Quby%2FQiFibWi0Jo6o6DEdpYACqSaUNcTkA9Opaif0tEJ%2B8nMeFOoC3vOkdZqM6FyodFW2Ve15lQacAFa2Lql08Yny2sHvF2LzxVE36YNdpUwjd6aCKO1E%2Bf8ZBqLzpHNPCfwW%2BeWAaqg%3D%3D&param4=DpNy0KCrwjmWaxZPamNsjnfvDr2J6eL%2FuJ5b%2FRB2exo%3D" target="_blank">search for School Shooting Threats</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">You might be in for a surprise, and if you think it can’t happen here, you’re dead wrong. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">There was no “good guy with a gun” for those children in Texas. And no matter how brave our local police are, how many ALICE drills the school holds, or how many teachers have a gun, in a high-speed, high-pressure situation, kids will still die. How many kids are too many, and what are we willing to do to prevent this? Are we going to perpetuate a lie against people who are struggling with mental health issues, or are we willing to decrease access to murder weapons and address the mindset of hate and violence that got us here? Weapons manufacturers want you to believe this lie because they only care about their bottom line, not us. Do we fall for lies or do we confront them?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Your loved ones, your choice.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-42180690604437794262022-03-20T20:47:00.008-07:002022-03-21T09:18:13.574-07:00Thank You Teachers!<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW49488070 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW49488070 BCX0" paraeid="{34145641-31d7-4e7f-9fa6-767a88eaa159}{161}" paraid="738692707" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; 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They care about their students and they worry about those kids who are struggling. They know better than anyone that many of their students have very challenging home lives. It’s no secret that Tillamook County has a high rate of addiction and domestic violence. Often school is a safe refuge for kids. </span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It's a fact that child abuse reporting rates dropped sharply during the pandemic. Teachers were often the main reporters, and were that safety net for students who were in danger at home. 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My 30-something kids grew up in Tillamook schools. Now I have two more students in Tillamook schools, and guess what? Our Tillamook County teachers are great!</span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; 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They are ALWAYS respectful and responsive, and go the extra mile without my even having to ask. My kids feel safe in their classrooms, they feel cared about, and they are learning! 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Some of these kids are being encouraged by “adults” to be disrespectful, obnoxious, and disruptive. 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If they are getting bullied, teachers support them. Regardless of your political or religious beliefs, teachers are on your child’s side. Those parents who encourage their kids to act out in school are only hurting and confusing their own children, pitting one set of adults against another. They are taking their political frustrations out on people who have done nothing wrong, while discounting the very real value those people have in their own child’s life.</span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAYAAABXAvmHAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAACM9JREFUaEPtmAlQ1OcZxn/L3ruw3MjhAShHxPFONWprVdRWrfeRxqhjajyqo2kiGk2MNprUSMSJktQ0HiFerdZzLEZt0GikWBUVFUVFBPHgEFgXF/bufOtCFbUyAyid8Z3Zgfkf3/95vu89nveV8MDcgWhgAOABrALyXPca9R+JC/CHwDS5TCrAY7HavgRmNGrkLnCCwGDgb727tlPFvT2KlUm72HfkZAUwCEhp7CQEgY1B/j5jv1+zhJYtgkn+8QRTF66kpMxw3kUitzGTEAR2tokMHbojcQHBAb6YzBY+Wf1XEtZttwLfAX8A7jVWEoLAKm+d+4wfkpYSGdbUifN+RSXTPlrFjoPHKoHPgQWNmUBPYP+UMQOUy+ZOQurm5sRaUFzKuLhlpJ25hN3hmA0kAqbGRkScgDewXqWUD1736XuSwX26OjE6HA5Onr/C9EWJZGbnCRd6H1jX2EgIAuLXTwRzRGiI38b4OcREtKgmceFKLsNnLOZW4d0y4B0gqTGdggBfZX8E5g3r202+Yv5U/Lx11TfOZeUwYe7nXMm9JU4mDvgKMDYGIg8TUAIJCrls8sQR/WSL35mARiUugd3uIDX9AnPi15KRlVMOLHcFt/j/hdrDBAQQP7G7cpls5NjBvSTL501GKZdXu9O1G3cYPyees5euiUK3CZgK2F4kg5oEBJaWApxKqegS97uRzJwwFLVSUY3xdlEJUz9ayeF/Z2Cz2fcKCQLcFHH/Iog8iYDAEQOs1rlreswaP5RZE4aieojE9ZsFLEr4lu0paTaHw/GDK0OdbkwEBJZIYK1Kqejx+oCeiBpRFRPi5tlj6Wz4xxHW7j9qt9hs+a6TSH7eJJ52AlU4XhG5Xy6TdZk0qr9k/tTX8dCoKS/RcyMrB1Olid1pZ1h/4Bhl5cb7wF+AzcB1oPh5kHkWgaqYiFfIZYNnjRkoHdunK3eLSrhVXMqdUj237+rZe/wsl28WVOG1AAdcbiUEYYPaswgIXdEaeAuYrNOotK2bB3O7RE+F2YzJYsPHy4OYyFBn8YsKa0pqeiZrtn1vB7a5spQogA1mTyMgrovuTIi4ziqlQurloUXnrnECbRcd7vy1f6Ul/j6ej4Gb9MEKtiYfsdkdjonAhgZD75IRT1pfaIlzzYL8PWJf60DHmFa0jQ6jdcvmqF3FrdpfTGYMJXpUWg0andZ5OSe/gDfe/RPnLl8X6TUWuNRQJB4+gQAgFMgSu6+QyzZ/MPW3TH/zN4+kUAHEZrNRfldPaWEJFYZyLCYzKq2asLZRyJUK7HY767cfZF7COowVJlErRgFCmte7VYm5Pq6jDgQyxSbq3DUDv1w4g2F9u1V/1GSspOR2EeYKE1pvHR7eHihUSixmK0V5t1F7aPAJ8nc+b7hfwaiZS/jp1AWhZH8PbBGqpL4ZCAJCtX2jVatGjx8Wy95Dx7lxuwg/b082xMfx885tqr95r7gMm9WKzs8bqUz6CBYhvx12O27S/15Pz7zK4CkLKTPcPwqMBu40BAGhf7aENPGNPbf3a7btTiEuYT1arZptqz6kfXQ4NqsNc6UJtVbzQHzX0hwOSFi/nYUrN4j2VEw+Pqvlq7V+TMBRuRaesTF+jlv36HDmxq/l+NVcktcsoUVwAPqiUmwWKz7BD9xDmNVscfq68HmJ5Oms7hSVMGbmJ5y6mC0KXSdXjNUa4LMerPqyaCu3/qxtVMDX709m654UNh854STQPNCfaxlZhESGotKonKAzs3LYn3KcHtHhtOncBq2nmIs92cwmM6u/3cmSddsxmswioMfW55CgioDQzFs8PbQjlk4fi764lD8n/+gk4KNSUXTjljPDCEtPy2D2F0mczc5j9vD+jB/el+CI5ri5eumaNIT7ZZ2+yLRl33DqSq7BpZmE3KgX9frw2feSSCQpEwf2JCrQn8S9h9mzehEeDgf3ywyEt4vGaLjP+HeXcr2wGJPJgo+nO4kzxxPVKQalRnji4yYI3LiYzckzl5iWuJEKk/kQ8EZ9BXTNjiy/W+tWfuN6d2Xu+h3OGjCoazvcDEaCWzZD66Vj04Y9eGrVFJbd47Ot+1g8YRixPV8l2NVH16RgMVvIycjCqC8n6WAqa/YftTocjjnAimf5d23u14y+XYHenkMWjRtCZu5Np9K0SyT0ahPJyF+8SqCvlzMbOYPYZiduzVYiQpowZeAvCW3dEt9gUQsfNVGlr53NcqbYwjIDC5J2ciHvVinQFhAyvE5Wk8B04FOVQq6bNqgXXaPCOHrhilNtmixW+rRvTf+OMeiNFZzLyedQxiUMFZUsfWskEU0DCQwLwauJL1KpVMySqCw3kpeZ7azUwgpK7/HRd7uqCIhpeGGd0D9BC6mBEcAsuVTauXtMKybEdsff050Tl6+Tdimb/OJSNEoFTf19CPH1Iv1KLm5uEmYOjSXE1xulVo1CqcBqtToJ2G0Piq/FauOL3f9k97/OmFwutLKu4MX7T0rgQkILSTHfTSKZ7O/pIZ8z6ld0iQ4XaRBjpRmZTOokIZdJKSzVs3zHQYr1Bt4b3o+Y0JDHcAl3W518mL8fPeWw2mzbhTQHhBvV2f5XXRWd/BQhqXUatf+it0fTq1t7lColEocDu8mCudyIyVhBZYWJr/YeIjXzKkNe60CvtlG4q1XIpG6UV5rYlJLGztTTArzom98ELtYZuWuBZwkDmculVgT5+wSFNwty7r63TouPl47gAB8Cde4EqNX4KOSkX83lQHomBaV6vN21aNVK7pToycjJt9rsdtEvCzlxrr7AP82Faq4vXOrXgEh9IkbEtEv0Czo3N4lEo1bhrlLi56Glf6cYOkW0YN/J8+xOPc09o1NBiwmemHCL4XBRfYKvLYGnfTMI6AAIGSLkuHB+X0BUdTHsugucBD4Gjtc38Kr1nuVCtf2uKMMdgd5AhEuw/QSkAQ9yaANZfRGogidiRriYGD3We/PypD2obwINtM9PX/Ylgee+5TU++PIEXp5AHXfgpQvVcQPr/Pr//Qn8B7fxI14FniLbAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 3 0, auto; 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The teachers don’t choose the curriculum; they just do their jobs and teach it, so making their lives more difficult is pointless and misguided. Some of these folks don’t even have kids who attend our schools!</span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; 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We condemn the harassment. We recognize negative attention-seeking when we see it, and we are the majority. 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This community stands with you and has your back. We KNOW how great you are. Thank you for hanging in there and I hope you enjoy every moment of your well-earned Spring Break.</span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; 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Please let them know they are appreciated. Sometimes we take them for granted, but they are under tremendous pressure and could really use a little encouragement.</span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; 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That’s what communities do! We the People of Tillamook County look out for each other. </span><span class="EOP SCXW49488070 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; cursor: url("data:image/png;base64,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") 3 0, auto; line-height: 19.425px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-36773232561711960232022-01-23T20:13:00.008-08:002022-01-24T08:43:14.362-08:00Tillamook School District board<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s hard to find anything that everyone can agree on these days, but I think we can all agree that we love our kids and want them to be safe in school and get a good education. I’m certain that our newly elected Tillamook School District Board members care about their kids as well, but they are making some deeply concerning decisions that every taxpayer and parent should be aware of.<span><a name='more'></a></span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the parent of two Tillamook School District kids, it is important to me that our schools follow all COVID precautions without question. Unfortunately, I’m no longer certain that precautions are being taken seriously by the school district. At their December work session, the school board unveiled a plan to draft a resolution for “local control” over COVID precautions. This resolution, once voted on by the school board, would be a request for the state to give our district local control over these decisions.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E54" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E54" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E55" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E55" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the surface, this sounds great. Most of us can agree that not every decision made by Salem makes sense in Tillamook. We all like the idea of local control. However, the intent of this resolution is to get permission to revoke the mask mandate in our public schools.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E56" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E56" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E57" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E57" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a time when COVID cases are at an </span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E59" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E59" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all time</span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E61" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E61" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> high, this is an extremely reckless risk to take with our children, district staff, and families.</span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E56" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E56" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even if the state chooses to grant Tillamook School District “local control,” that does not give the School Board permission to revoke the mask mandate. Only the state can do that.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E62" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E62" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" is="qowt-word-run" named-flow="FLOW-12" qowt-eid="E66" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mandate is a STATE LAW: Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR)</span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E-47" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E-47" style="display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E67" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E67" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">333-019-1015, which requires masks in all Oregon K-12 schools. </span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-1" id="E62" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E62" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E67" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any violation of this law by our school board would invoke fines of $5000 per day from the district’s General Fund, plus $500 per day, per violation fines. Additionally, the members of the Tillamook School District board can be held legally liable for this decision in the event that someone becomes ill or dies as a result.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E70" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E70" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E71" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E71" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">How many of us believe that Tillamook School District can afford thousands of dollars per day in fines? Is this a good use of taxpayer dollars?</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E72" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E72" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E73" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E73" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to the financial considerations, there are incredibly serious health considerations. How many kids getting sick is too many? How many teachers deserve to be exposed in their workplace? Speaking of workforce impact, how many teachers can we afford to lose to this? A kid who gets sick at school will take the illness home and expose their family, and those families are our workforce. How many more employees do employers want to lose?</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E74" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E74" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E75" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">How many more community members deserve to get sick and die just because a vocal minority is pressuring the school board due to their own inability to endure wearing a piece of cloth on their face?</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E74" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E74" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another concern is the January board meeting conversation about equity.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E74" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E74" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E75" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span about="" also="" am="" board="" concerned="" equity.="" little="" members="" of="" school="" some="" span="" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;" that="" the="" understand="" very=""><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E79" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E79" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Every</span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E81" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E81" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Student Belongs" is state policy. Schools are to use this policy as a guideline, in conjunction with existing policy, to ensure they are meeting standards set by the state.</span></span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E82" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E82" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E83" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E83" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the January meeting, the board was planning to heavily edit this policy, due to an apparent dislike for the term “equity.” One board member admitted that he doesn’t understand what “diversity” means, or what an “achievement gap” is. It's alarming that a school board member doesn’t understand these basic terms. The board claims the policy is optional and want to eliminate it; it is not "optional." A staff member at the Oregon Department of Education explained to me that t</span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E87" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E87" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">he Every</span><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" face="Arial, "Arial Unicode MS", Arimo, "Microsoft Sans serif", sans-serif !important" id="E89" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E89" style="display: inline; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Student Belongs policy is tied to Division 22, which is a state requirement for the district to report back on how they are doing in providing an equitable education. </span></span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E82" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E82" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E89" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Failure to meet these requirements can result in financial consequences for our school district.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E90" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E90" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E91" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E91" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">This policy protects many children who would fall through the cracks: for instance, children with disabilities. It ensures that we reach out to every child who is at risk of failing due to circumstances beyond their control and lift them up. This is the policy they wish to scrap.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E93" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E93" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E94" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last but certainly not least, the board intends to arm teachers. At the January meeting they had announced their intention to get firearms training for teachers and allow those teachers to carry a concealed weapon in the classroom. Dozens of things can go wrong in a crowded classroom with over 30 students and one armed teacher that will result in tragedy. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E93" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E93" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E94" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">For years, I've worried about school shootings but I never dreamed that I'd have to be concerned that the gun might inadvertently be brought into the school by the teacher. This is a terrible decision, and at the very least, this controversial idea deserves much more community input and discussion.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" id="E96" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, the school board members had already approached the sheriff and firearms trainers before reaching out to legal counsel, other districts, or the state Department of Education to find out the possible liabilities or ramifications of this idea. This shows a lack of understanding about process or forethought about the impact of decisions. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have yet to speak to a single parent who wants their kids’ teachers carrying a gun in class. Yet these things are being planned and would have been voted into place at the January meeting had one of the board members not been absent. It's ironic that the school board considers guns in the classroom less of a threat than a little piece of cloth. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">While well intentioned, their priorities are backwards. T</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">hese decisions are ill-informed, violate common sense, and show a disregard for child safety in favor of politics. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">When each board member took their oath, they vowed to follow all federal and state laws. Yet three of them at the November meeting, and two of them at the January meeting, were not wearing a face mask at the school board meeting, on Tillamook School District property. This is a violation of both their oath and of state law. It is also a violation of Oregon state public meeting laws. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">School board meetings are open to the public and are accessible via Zoom. Anyone can attend; I prefer Zoom so I will lessen my risk of exposure to COVID. At the last meeting, someone who was there in person was coughing while making public comment; she apologized and said she is getting over COVID. She wasn't wearing a mask. </span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don't have to speak, or even be on camera if you want to attend. But if you are a Tillamook School District parent, I highly recommend that you become aware of what is happening in our tiny town right now as it will affect our children and community.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bottom line is that not one of these decisions does anything to improve the quality of our children's education. Nothing.</span></p><p class="qowt-stl-Normal x-scope qowt-word-para-2" id="E95" is="qowt-word-para" qowt-eid="E95" qowt-entry="undefined" qowt-format="{"siz":14}" qowt-lvl="undefined" style="line-height: 1.295; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8pt;"><span class="qowt-font4-Arial" is="qowt-word-run" qowt-eid="E96" style="display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need to all be concerned about decisions made without talking to legal counsel or following other due diligence. Willful resistance to following common sense rules and guidelines will give Tillamook a bad name and endanger children. Our kids deserve better than that.</span></p></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-16765032612928121092021-09-12T14:12:00.002-07:002021-09-12T14:16:00.586-07:00To Your Health<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2aw5ASm65o/YT5tQ0sjGJI/AAAAAAAAYWk/UMqwkz5dWsMmOt2LdGGQO_obddbsz1NagCNcBGAsYHQ/s386/Screenshot_20210912-140941_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="386" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z2aw5ASm65o/YT5tQ0sjGJI/AAAAAAAAYWk/UMqwkz5dWsMmOt2LdGGQO_obddbsz1NagCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screenshot_20210912-140941_Chrome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />My Facebook feed is full of grief right now. Grief is permeating the very air right now. Many people I know are dealing with severe illness and/or death of a loved one due to COVID.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><p></p><strike></strike>
<p dir="ltr">I'm seeing prayer requests, GoFundMe links, tributes, and families torn apart. In a town this size, we are all devastated. Many people I know will never be the same. It didn't have to be like this.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The vast majority of it is avoidable. 100% of the deaths in Tillamook County thus far have been unvaccinated people. 100%.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Those people would have still been with us.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes, there are breakthrough cases, but nearly 90% of the local COVID cases are unvaccinated. Very few vaccinated breakthrough cases end up hospitalized.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What if there were something you could do that could save your loved ones immeasurable grief, something free. Something that could prevent you from being bankrupted by medical bills or having lifelong chronic health issues. There is.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Put aside mandates for a moment. This isn't political, it's about your health. Think about how you have an opportunity to take charge of your health and prevent the unthinkable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don't want anyone else to die like this. COVID is a horrible, isolating way to die. I don't want it to happen to you. I don't want anyone else to have their life destroyed because they lost you. I don't want you to have to live with the horror of knowing you infected someone who later died. It's bad enough losing someone you care about without being the reason. It's a heavy load and you don't deserve it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My wish for you: good health, peace of mind, stability, and the opportunity to grow old and make a lifetime of memories.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you are considering getting vaccinated, just give it some thought and I'm here to support you. Let's make it happen. <br />
💝<br />
</p></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-71397287787273389652021-08-18T20:55:00.006-07:002021-08-19T00:28:15.698-07:00Happiness<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IxwG6kBl2WU/YR3YasSeoMI/AAAAAAAAXvo/338lIkWvKrIjXU0EinBArIs7wjykUwHngCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20200815_114408_425.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2031" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IxwG6kBl2WU/YR3YasSeoMI/AAAAAAAAXvo/338lIkWvKrIjXU0EinBArIs7wjykUwHngCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20200815_114408_425.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote>“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln</blockquote><p>
I was a big fan of biographies as a kid, and I liked this Abe Lincoln quote. I used it to motivate myself to take charge of my situation. But what happens when it no longer works?
<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span><br /></span><div><span>I became interested many years ago in the concept of positive psychology and the science of happiness, at a time when I was constantly “stressed out,” not realizing that I had an anxiety disorder. I just thought I was defective and bad at life. I’d made up my mind to be happy, but I still wasn’t!
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I embarked on a quest to find ways to be happy. I have done gratitude journals, yoga, meditation, medication, social media breaks, hot baths, herbal teas, addressed diet and exercise, and therapy. At the end of the day, anxiety and depression remain medical conditions that I manage. I have great tools to deal with them, and I continue to use them all.
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However, I’m not always as happy as Abe Lincoln might expect me to be. I once saw happiness as my responsibility and unhappiness as unacceptable. I have worked hard to be happy, then “failed,” on many occasions. When I learned that anxiety and depression are legitimate illnesses, I came to realize that the Abraham Lincoln quote is a lie.
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I can “make up my mind” to be happy, and do all the right things, yet still crawl in bed that night and be completely distraught, sad, and anxious. I listen to a YouTube meditation video and lie there, wondering how to get to sleep, and dreading my dreams.
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This past year was fraught with trauma. Some have called 2020 the year from hell and I agree. 2021 continues to be challenging, with a pandemic, political unrest, and disasters and climate change that threaten the existence of the human collective. </p><p>
It’s okay to feel sad and anxious, and you don’t have to pretend that everything’s okay when it isn’t. I believe it’s even okay to wallow a little bit. I want to normalize not saying “fine” when someone asks how I’m doing. I might say, “I’m feeling really down,” or “this week sucks,” and hopefully they will not be alarmed. How can we honestly be happy all the time? Why put on a show?
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While we can and should seek joy and gratitude, being happy feels contrived. I can be totally happy in one area of my life and incredibly unhappy in another area. So, what does “happy” mean anyway? How productive might it be to let go of “happy” as an overall expectation?
</p><p>Also, what if it makes me “happy” to demean other people or steal things? Do I have the right to seek happiness? As part of a society, we interact with others within certain expectations, and one of those expectations is to not steal things. Happiness seems almost hedonistic, while gratitude implies some deep reflection. I like gratitude a lot better.</p><p>
Let’s be honest with ourselves. I’ll start since I am trying to get more comfortable with this: 2020 stunk and 2021 hasn’t been much better. I’ve been anxious and depressed. I’ve tried to make the next right choice while watching for that light at the end of the tunnel, even as the tunnel seems to get longer. This is a really challenging time in history and I will make the best of it, while recognizing that it demands self-introspection. I could really use a hug, but I’m not hugging anyone until COVID goes away. I crave fun times with friends, while at the same time, I kind of wish to be a hermit and not talk to anyone. I feel sad and frustrated about many things. I get depressed but I make myself keep going because I am stubborn. I feel better when I write and when I connect with people, especially when I can be a helper. </p><p>
I’ve laughed and smiled today. I’ve found pockets of joy. But the beauty of this life is that I can be all these things. We humans are complex beings capable of a great range of emotion. I watch for bright spots and try to focus on them. But I’m done pretending the dark doesn’t exist in the hopes it will go away. I am releasing the shame that comes from not being able to “make up my mind” to be happy, whatever that is. Life is beautiful, and part of that beauty is that mixed among the bright colors are splashes of deep jaded tones and somber grays. That’s okay. That’s life and I’ll take it. </p><p>
I don’t want to be cheered up and I don’t need fixed. I welcome hearing about how others cope with grief and stress and angst, but I no longer reject those feelings as somehow faulty and unnatural. It’s far less pressure to allow sadness than to feel guilty about what I don’t feel.
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If you aren’t currently okay, that’s human. If you allow yourself to feel down instead of jollying yourself out of it prematurely, you’ll find deep insights into how to understand your feelings. Sit with it, and know you aren’t alone. You are part of a larger collective of people who are hurting, even if they don’t talk about it. </p><p>
Let’s normalize the conversation about anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Let’s start to talk about it. <strong> And of course, if you are having thoughts of suicide, or hurting yourself, or feel that your feelings are becoming too dark to handle on your own, PLEASE don’t hesitate to seek professional support.</strong>
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There is a well within my heart
</em></p><p><em>A deep green place to rest my head
</em></p><p><em>A quiet place I sit apart
</em></p><p><em>To touch the stillness, softly tread
</em></p><p><em>A lingering breath, the shutters drawn
</em></p><p><em>Held fast by trembling hands of clay
</em></p><p><em>A softened smile, the night flows on
</em></p><p><em>My eyes, reluctant, face the day </em></p><p><em>
Romy Carver, 2021</em></p><p></p></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-2792419930241140662021-08-09T20:54:00.003-07:002021-08-09T21:01:54.568-07:00One Hundred Thousand<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IX81uZ3-B38/YRH52OZvWvI/AAAAAAAAXuI/HYOLslh53cQi5XeyAeY8ixGwwvqGJpdUQCNcBGAsYHQ/s274/100000.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="274" height="154" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IX81uZ3-B38/YRH52OZvWvI/AAAAAAAAXuI/HYOLslh53cQi5XeyAeY8ixGwwvqGJpdUQCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/100000.jpeg" width="274" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />This morning my blog, Peace Out Loud, reached 100,000 views.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since my first post about Veteran’s Day on November 10, 2012, I’ve written 56 posts about many things. There’s a poem or two and a letter to the President of the United States. Some blogs were about global issues, some about national issues, some were about my own little hometown, and some were deeply personal about my family. Well, they’ve all been deeply personal to me, as I only write about things I care deeply about.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My theme is peace, as I believe in creating peace within and spreading it beyond ourselves to the world around us. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I never dreamed that my blog would be reaching this landmark, or that my posts would be read all over the world, but somehow this happened! My posts have been read by people in Israel, Hong Kong, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia, Germany, France, China, Sweden, Bulgaria, Brazil, Turkey, India, Canada, Poland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and of course my own home, the United States, as well as a few other places. I am humbled that I’ve somehow connected with people I will never know, from around the globe, by the simple act of writing from the heart.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I’ve been working on some personal lessons lately, around asking for help and being willing to receive it. I have spent my life trying not to be vulnerable; now I’m trying to change that. I want to connect with others from a place of honesty and vulnerability, but at times I haven’t been honest with myself about how much I’ve needed others. My blog has been a place where I’ve opened that door a tiny crack. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was talking with a friend today who said something important. She said that as much as our society values individuality, we will struggle as long as we don’t realize that we are part of a larger collective, the human collective, and the collective of life on this planet. People often fail to see the larger impact of their decisions on others, and sometimes don’t care. We are doomed until we realize that we belong to each other. This logic can apply to COVID precautions, climate change, stopping racial and other injustices, ending hunger, poverty, abuse, or any other suffering. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We are all affected by these things, and many of us know it. Things are shifting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I feel that writing is how I fit into that collective, and how I can live my best, most meaningful life. Writing helps me to peel back the layers, but more importantly, I feel much more connected to others. I plan to write more, and I hope to be an ambassador for kindness and justice. That’s my tiny role. What’s yours?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I want to thank everyone who’s taken the time to read my ramblings. Maybe you’ve related on some level. Hopefully you’ve felt a little less alone, a little more understood, and cared about. I’m sure you’ll find things you disagree with, and that’s great too. We don’t all have to be in lockstep philosophically or politically to acknowledge and celebrate our humanness or to have compassion and empathy for one another.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I am just very grateful to celebrate this milestone in my life, and to share it with you.</span></p>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-79547030178197903662021-07-28T20:30:00.008-07:002021-07-29T10:33:28.526-07:00But for the Grace of God<p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The first time my mom attempted suicide, I was eight years old and my dad was at work. My older brother and sister and I were home with her, when she announced that she had just taken “a whole bunch of pills.” I remember the ambulance being called and my teenage brother getting her to drink mustard water to try to get her to vomit. She was driven away in an ambulance to have her stomach pumped. I've written about my mom before in a prior post a few years back, but something happened recently that has her fresh on my mind.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kBZS7yPwjwQ/YQIiePNssVI/AAAAAAAAXtY/Pg36959Jr0I7SGjg0mLf1H7XdwGd-wM4gCNcBGAsYHQ/s720/Mom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="538" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kBZS7yPwjwQ/YQIiePNssVI/AAAAAAAAXtY/Pg36959Jr0I7SGjg0mLf1H7XdwGd-wM4gCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Mom.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span></span><p></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She was in and out of the Oregon State Hospital over the years from the time I was five, and had shock treatments. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed in that hospital and they didn’t have to modify the settings much to make it dismal and horrifying. I visited her there and the vivid memories haunt me nearly fifty years later.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My mom was very delusional and paranoid, believing my dad had bugged the house and the phone, and many other things. I learned young that you can’t argue logic with someone who is psychotic. If they say the sky is green there is no amount of proof that will convince them otherwise, because their malfunctioning brain is literally misinterpreting signals. It IS green to them. Don’t tell them there’s no voice talking to them; ask them what the voice is saying and how you can help.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In my teen years, Mom started having extreme manic episodes. What started out as a schizophrenia diagnosis became a bipolar/schizo-affective disorder diagnosis. For my mom, this meant that when she was in a manic episode, she would become delusional and her behaviors would manifest as schizophrenia. This also meant that she had been misdiagnosed and on the wrong treatments for many years, doing untold damage to a once brilliant mind.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Before her illness, she was a gifted writer, artist, and a self-taught piano player. She was a scout leader, devoted mother, and involved in theater and civic activities. I never saw much of this side of her, but I could see how much people loved her. She was mostly difficult and incorrigible with Dad and us kids. Others knew her as kind and funny, generous, and witty. And oh, was she smart!</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When I was 30, my mom attempted suicide again, and she barely survived. It was a few months after my dad had died, and she had been staying with some friends. I had called them to check on her and they said they had dropped her off at her house for a bit. I don’t know how, but I KNEW what she had done. I lived across the state, so I insisted they drop everything immediately and go check on her. They thought I was being silly, but they found her unconscious, draped halfway off the sofa, with bottles of pills around her.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">She lived for another six years, but her mental health continued to deteriorate; to be honest, it was hard to separate her behaviors at times from her illness. Our relationship was strained, and I was exhausted.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There is a state of psychosis referred to as anosognosia, which is a lack of awareness of one’s psychosis. In my mom’s case, when we tried to get her help, we were the “crazy” ones and we were persecuting her. When she got back on her meds, she was sad and humiliated by this.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In one of her “better” moments, she talked to me about how awful it was to be mentally ill. She never wanted to be mentally ill. She was self-aware and didn’t want to do embarrassing things and have people mock or fear her. And despite an aggressive campaign of angry letters to the local newspaper and calling the sheriff’s office 16 times in one day during a manic episode, she was not a danger to others. Mental illness is cruel. But underneath that illness is a human being, who is sick and can’t help it, and would give anything to be “normal” again. </span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">People with psychosis are far less likely to hurt you than the movies and media would have you believe. They are, however, very vulnerable to being assaulted because people fear them; they are often not believed when they report abuse, due to their mental state. They can look scary. That person walking down the street violently flailing his arms might seem dangerous, but likely he is talking to someone else that you and I can’t see and is in distress.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I’m writing about this because of two things that happened here recently which I feel are related. One is a rash of recent suicides, and a grieving community wondering what we can do about it. The other is a recent post in social media by a man who had a transient woman show up on his porch uninvited and declare it “her island.” </span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The man who posted about the woman didn’t know the woman and reached out to police. She has apparently been wandering into houses. People took great relish in suggesting all sorts of ways to “deal with” her. Some of the ideas included blasting an air horn at her, spraying her with a garden hose, “a nice dinner at the jetty,” attack dogs, etc. One person referred to her as a “thing,” and suggested that she was “unsafe for society and should be put down like a sick dog.”</span></p><p></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My gut sank and tears filled my eyes as I read the horrible comments. I shared a story about my mom in the post, about the time my mom had a psychotic episode and ended up on the neighbors’ balcony at 5:30am. She was making a commotion and acting “crazy.” Thank God these folks didn’t attack her as described above. They called my dad, who had been asleep and unaware. Had they not known her, they would have called the police to get her some help. I imagined how the loved ones of that transient woman would feel to see the things people were saying about her, and honestly, it broke my heart.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am seriously ashamed and disgusted by some of the people in my community, who masquerade as decent people, while bragging about ways to commit violence against a mentally unwell person. I was deeply disappointed that especially at a time when our community is reeling from recent suicides, folks would think this is okay. Obviously, we all have the right to physically defend ourselves in danger, but gleefully outlining ways to hurt someone who hasn’t hurt you is a different story. If you encounter someone who is in a psychotic episode and you attack them without trying to get them help, YOU are the problem. </span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would like to think that they were afraid of her and being uneducated; I understand that psychosis can look frightening. But it was deliberately mocking and cruel. This was uncalled for.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now let’s talk about the suicides. Let’s say you are struggling with thoughts of hurting yourself. You are scared that you are losing your battle or feel like a burden. You want to ask for help but you’re scared of what people will say. And you just read those comments and saw people laughing. Are you going to ask for help or will this only further your sense of shame? Think about it.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Don’t sit there and pretend to care about suicide, which is a mental health issue, if you talk about mental illness like this! These comments SHAME people who are struggling and push them back into the shadows. They don’t get the help they need, and they DIE. Do you laugh at heart attacks too?</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When we dehumanize a mentally ill person because they are a stranger, we dehumanize every person who is suffering with mental health issues. Each one is someone’s parent, child, family member, or friend. Each one deserves to live and get help.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mental illness isn’t a joke for the people who are suffering, or their families. There’s a reason my mom wanted to die; her illness was unbearable.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I want to thank the people are who were disgusted right along with me, who confronted that terrible behavior. Thank you, on behalf of my mom and every other person who has suffered with an unmanageable disease they didn’t ask for.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now is a great time as a community to educate ourselves about suicide and mental health. Any discussion about suicide prevention NEEDS to include discussion about how we respond to people who are in crisis. Are we helping or hurting? We all can save lives. Making people feel worthless and terrible for an illness only contributes to self-harm and suicidal ideation and behaviors. We can do better than this.</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you honestly want to prevent suicides and help someone who is suffering, here is a link to Mental Health First Aid, the best training I have ever taken on responding to a person in psychosis. You can search for the classes, which are free and available online, through this link:</span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-a-course/find-a-course/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-a-course/find-a-course/</span></a></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I know Mom would want me to write this blog. She wanted people to know the truth and I hope in some way she feels redeemed. She deserved that. </span></p><p class="yiv3943271663MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To read more of my blog, please feel free to visit <a href="http://www.romycarver.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.romycarver.com</a></span></p>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-83066084756423369492021-07-13T10:39:00.005-07:002021-07-13T12:27:30.631-07:00Honoring Jaime<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ8K0ote5Ms/YO3Q0Sg9n5I/AAAAAAAAXf8/2_MIqPfbrkQ0YSVL2cajJ31u9P9jMBtNwCNcBGAsYHQ/s650/JaimeGuttenberg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="650" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ8K0ote5Ms/YO3Q0Sg9n5I/AAAAAAAAXf8/2_MIqPfbrkQ0YSVL2cajJ31u9P9jMBtNwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/JaimeGuttenberg.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />T<span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">oday is my birthday. It’s supposed to be “my day,” but I’d like to share it with someone special.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I recently learned that I had a birthday twin. Her name was Jaime Guttenberg. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because she was in the news a few years ago.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jaime was only 14 years old the day she died, the same age as my granddaughter. She died on a typical day doing typical kid things. She was in school. Her school may sound familiar too: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It was Valentine’s Day of 2018 when a former student walked into the school with an AR-15, and Jaime was one of 17 people whose stories ended that day.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I try to think of what I was doing at the age of 14, and the idea that someone would walk into my school and murder me for no apparent reason was the last thing on my mind. It’s unthinkable. I was probably laughing with friends, maybe complaining about a class, getting ready to play in the band at a basketball game. Not thinking I was going to die that day. Jaime wasn’t either. It was Valentine's Day, so she was probably planning a special day. Maybe she had a crush who she was thinking about, or maybe she was looking forward to parties and fun later that day.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jaime’s dream was to be a mother and a pediatric physical therapist. She was described as sensitive and compassionate, someone who looked out for underdogs. Her smile and her presence lit up a room. She was a beloved young woman with a bright future, who her loved ones speculate had probably been kind to the person who took her life, because that’s who she was. Jaime was a ballet dancer. She loved animals and volunteered with the Humane Society.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The young woman who her family called, “the energy in the room” was ripped brutally from her life, her family, her future, simply for going about her daily life. She will never turn 16, graduate, become that physical therapist, or have children. </span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Today, as I think about all the living I have done since the age of 14, over four decades of living, I grieve for Jaime. Today, she would be 18, finally an adult! She would have just graduated from from high school. Like me, she would have turned 18 the month after graduation. Her whole life would be ahead of her. She would probably be excited over being accepted to a college she wanted to attend in the fall, and maybe she’d have a sweetheart. This would have been a busy summer for her as a young adult, but I clearly remember the summer after my high school graduation as a delirious time. The world felt big but I felt ready and I had just conquered 12 years of school. I wanted to launch!</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jaime is frozen at 14. Her dreams are gone, and her devastated brother and parents are left to survive without her. They are now activists, who logically want assault weapons out of the hands of murderers. Not much to ask. Those who survived the shooting are changed forever, from young hopeful children to outspoken advocates who are harangued and harassed by “gun rights” people who think it’s okay to torment kids who have been shot. These kids didn’t sign up for this gig, it was handed to them by a mass murderer.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jaime deserved this day. She deserved a whole lifetime. Today was her birthday. </span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Every person deserves to live their life without having to worry about being murdered. It’s ludicrous to even be writing these painfully obvious words, but some seem to believe their “right” to stockpile guns should override the safety and well-being of others.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It’s incredibly sad that the United States’ gun worship has created people who are so terrified of their fellow humans that they must carry deadly weapons for such simple things as going to the grocery store. That’s no kind of life.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As we all know, gun deaths continue to climb. Not just murders, but accidental and completely preventable deaths are a daily occurrence in a country that has become heavy on pride and light on common sense. We’re continually only a few steps from disaster due to the gun worship, yet the deaths continue. Shootings that once dominated new cycles for weeks are now barely a blip because they are an almost daily occurrence.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">While I appreciate birthday wishes, please take a moment out of your day to think of Jaime, for her family who are enduring this important day without her. I would like to dedicate my birthday to Jaime this year, to a girl who never got to be a woman. For Jaime, for all the murdered children at Marjory Stoneman, at Thurston High, at Sandy Hook, and at all the other schools, we can do better.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jaime’s father, Fred Guttenberg, has created a GoFundMe in honor of Jaime’s birthday today, to raise money to continue what has become his life’s work. Orange Ribbons for Jaime has a scholarship program and works to stop gun violence. They also raise funds for programs that help animals and children. They are wonderful people.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Here is a link to their website, which also features the current GoFundMe. Since Jaime is no longer here, her family honors her by helping others: <a href="http://www.orangeribbonsforjaime.org.">Orange RIbbons for Jaime</a>. If you'd like to honor Jaime, please visit the site and learn how they have continued her legacy of service.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Happy birthday, Jaime.</span></p><p class="yiv3837940508MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">You may read my blog at <a href="http://www.romycarver.com">www.romycarver.com</a></span></p>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-42918380690795472832021-06-19T14:52:00.006-07:002021-07-13T11:00:58.409-07:00Juneteenth<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XSvpLpqU14Q/YM5mTZsHEiI/AAAAAAAAXSU/ASDa118nb7IZt-GPtCNiukXWzPCEfynzwCNcBGAsYHQ/s460/Juneteenth%2Bflag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="460" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XSvpLpqU14Q/YM5mTZsHEiI/AAAAAAAAXSU/ASDa118nb7IZt-GPtCNiukXWzPCEfynzwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Juneteenth%2Bflag.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />On Thursday, June 17, 2021, President Biden signed legislation which was overwhelmingly passed by the House and Senate, making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery by marking the day that enslaved people in Texas learned that they were free. This was on June 19, 1865, two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect. For obvious reasons, word was slow to spread to people who were enslaved. Texas was the last state in which the state government was still permitting slavery, in resistance to the federal law. Juneteenth has been celebrated since 1866, and is also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day,and Black Independence Day. <span><a name='more'></a></span> While the declaration of Juneteenth as a federal holiday is a wonderful victory, it is a small step in the right direction. I know that this is an unpopular opinion, but I and many others believe the descendants of enslaved people deserve reparations. The generational trauma of slavery experienced by black people to this day resonates in ways that are not obvious to white people who are not actively paying attention and trying to understand. Add to this the very obvious systemic racism in the justice system and the historically racist origins of policing and so many other American institutions, and it’s clear that the implications of white supremacy continue to reverberate throughout black lives. Here is a great article about reparations: <p></p><p><a href=" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank"> The Case for Reparations</a></p><p>If you’re white, it’s a copout to say, “Well, I don’t see any racism,” or, “I’m just not political,” or “I just don’t see color; I’m colorblind.” That’s called privilege. You can turn your face away while you assume that if you aren’t experiencing something, then nobody else is either. By choosing to ignore racism, you are part of the problem. None of us are colorblind; we are all conditioned from birth to have biases that we aren’t even aware of. Racism is baked into our language and every part of our society.</p><p>Words have immense power. It was only in the past week that I learned something that I now feel should be obvious: “slaves” is not a kind term. “Enslaved people” is much kinder. Why? Because a slave is treated as a non-human. It’s a dehumanizing term. When we refer to people collectively as slaves it places a label on them that minimizes their humanness. They are people and are not defined by that experience. Enslaved people are poets, mothers and fathers, beloved children, tradespeople, skilled artisans, with talents and hopes and dreams. They are people who are enslaved, not slaves.</p><p>We can’t undo history, but we can take sincere steps to listen to the pain slavery has created and try to right the wrongs. Tear down the statues of the Confederate traitors that endorsed and glorified the horror, and the torture of their fellow humans. I don’t care what metal pins were attached to their chests; they deserve zero honor. If they are part of your heritage, then as their descendant, you have a unique opportunity to reject the hatred of your ancestor and start the healing. You can be someone better. </p><p>We all know that the declaration of Juneteenth as a holiday isn’t going to magically stop racist brutality and hatred against people of color in America, but it furthers the conversations that matter. It helps us to build a culture in which hateful racist rhetoric and violence will be confronted, and an acknowledgement by any reasoning person that there was never a level playing field. America was never the land of the free for our brothers and sisters of color.</p><p>Maybe it feels like you can’t really do much or that as a white person in white rural Oregon, racism doesn’t really “affect” you. Maybe in an area such as rural Tillamook County, it seems far removed from you. However, there is a clear historical reason that Tillamook County is predominantly white, and it isn’t pretty. Here is a link to information about the real reason slavery didn’t happen in Oregon: (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t due to anti-slavery values) This YouTube video by Walidah Imarisha, a Portland State University professor, walks us through Oregon history with a rarely seen lens.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fo2RVOunsZ8" target="_blank">Oregon Black History Timeline</a></p><p>Based on what I have witnessed locally, there are clear reasons that people of color continue to feel uncomfortable and unsafe in our communities. We can do better than this. We can have conversations in our own communities that involve open eyed awareness of our own local history, and honest evaluations about how some of the shameful attitudes persist. We ALL play a role in creating a kinder, more collaborative society. It may mean facing and confronting uncomfortable truths, but the discomfort we may feel is nothing compared to what others are experiencing. We can teach our kids to play a role by informing them of the truth of our history and teaching them empathy and compassion.</p><p>In a predominantly white community, it’s easy to tokenize the few people in color by continually going to them with questions about racism. Imagine how exhausting it must be to be expected to represent an entire race. Nobody wants to be treated like that, which is why it’s even more important for us as white people to take the responsibility to learn without burdening others. </p><p>Here are a couple of resources:</p><p>I highly recommend this article by Peggy MacIntosh about white privilege. If that term upsets you, it’s all the more reason to take the time to ask yourself why you are feeling defensive about it and read the article: </p><p><a href="https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack" target="_blank">Unpacking the White Knapsack</a></p><p>And here’s a link to a site for white people who want to learn how to be effective allies who dismantle racism, improve our communities, and create a society with equity, inclusivity, diversity, and justice. </p><p><a href="http://www.dismantlecollective.org/resources/" target="_blank">Dismantle Collective</a></p><p>I’m in, are you?</p><p>To read more of my blogs, please feel free to visit me at <a href="http://www.romycarver.com" target="_blank">Peace Out Loud</a>.</p><div><br /></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-65350622100238528732021-04-24T18:50:00.000-07:002021-04-24T18:50:27.447-07:00Cemetery Clean Up<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eAf_iolLziU/YITKfMwQhCI/AAAAAAAAWI4/JIZPQiV2RCIko4AolFJMAULG14pUU4YhACNcBGAsYHQ/20210424_125905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eAf_iolLziU/YITKfMwQhCI/AAAAAAAAWI4/JIZPQiV2RCIko4AolFJMAULG14pUU4YhACNcBGAsYHQ/20210424_125905.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>The Bay City Oddfellows Cemetery is a very special place to me. As a kid, when things got rocky at home, I’d walk to the cemetery to sort my thoughts. I spent hours there alone. To some people this might seem odd, but for me it was a great thinking place. One day some grazing deer were just a few feet from me and I sat quietly as we watched each other. <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>My parents are now both buried in that cemetery, along with my half brother. I also know some local history about that cemetery, and it’s a very sacred place to me. I still sometimes go there to think, but these days, it’s mostly stopping for a couple minutes on my way home in my car for a quick sanity break and mental reset.</div><div><br /></div><div>When I heard through a racial and social equity group that there was a cemetery clean up happening there today, I knew I had to go. I haven’t made it down there in a while and I’m sure the weeds have been having a heyday. When I got up this morning, I had second thoughts. I had quite a few reasons I no longer felt like it. I have a wrenched neck that is giving me trouble. The kids had changed their minds about going. It was raining. I was feeling lazy and wanted some down time. And I didn’t really have time to make coffee.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, I’d said I’d be there and I hate being a flake, so I grabbed some bottled tea, took ibuprofen, found my raincoat and some gardening tools, and off I went. </div><div><br /></div><div>The event went from 9am-1pm, and it was almost 11:30 by the time I got there. My heart sank when I pulled up and saw only one other car. But a promise is a promise, and I put on my leather gloves, grabbed my gear and headed over to an older couple that was attacking a bunch of brambles with a shovel and rake.</div><div>I asked them where I was supposed to be and they said to go down the hill to register. I headed over the rise and suddenly saw over a dozen cars! The hill was swarming with volunteers. There was a big truck and trailer pulled up that was being filled with branches, weeds, and debris. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ukkjZVH3Y-s/YITHtyd1ZfI/AAAAAAAAWIo/IobfTtXcCbU3YrbS3OEZk3caN1pvPl-CQCNcBGAsYHQ/20210424_120526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="188" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ukkjZVH3Y-s/YITHtyd1ZfI/AAAAAAAAWIo/IobfTtXcCbU3YrbS3OEZk3caN1pvPl-CQCNcBGAsYHQ/w141-h188/20210424_120526.jpg" width="141" /></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KUdsXyW2xEg/YITHw2myGDI/AAAAAAAAWIs/b6dYRKBWCNEfu0JZbcgDu6LUJqq0xfEeACNcBGAsYHQ/20210424_120543.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="191" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KUdsXyW2xEg/YITHw2myGDI/AAAAAAAAWIs/b6dYRKBWCNEfu0JZbcgDu6LUJqq0xfEeACNcBGAsYHQ/w144-h191/20210424_120543.jpg" width="144" /></a></div></div><br />I momentarily forgot about the rain as tears filled my eyes. As I always do when I walk down that hill, I glanced to the left at the graves of my parents and brother, and there were four people hunched over, pulling weeds and tenderly caring for their graves. I was trying to wipe away the tears that were now spilling down my cheeks as a woman walked up the path to greet me. Her name is Lisa Sears, and I learned that the group at my family’s graves had driven all the way from Corvallis to help with this clean up. I went to thank them. I wanted to ask if I could take their picture, but they looked busy and I was feeling uncharacteristically shy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lisa organized this event through SOLVE and she has created a group called Tillamook County Cemetery Conservation. She told me about a substance called D2, which is approved by Oregon State University, to clean and restore headstones. Lisa’s group will be fundraising to get more D2 for their ongoing efforts. Lisa can be reached at 503-801-3101 or via email at tccemeterygroup@gmail.com. Here is a link to the website for this SOLVE event; it is the first of many that will be taking place in Tillamook County: https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000QFMWPUA5 I learned today about “perpetual” gravesites. Apparently, the newer flat area of the cemetery is perpetual, which means that the cemetery cares for and maintains the graves. But most of the cemetery is not perpetual, which means that the families are responsible to care for the graves. Most people don’t know this and many people don’t take care of them.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I created a modest pile of weeds from a nearby plot, my mind went over so many memories of growing up. On sunny days, my friends and I would cut through the cemetery to the corner grocery with pockets full of coins, returning with pixie sticks and jolly ranchers. We’d stop to take a drink at the little spigot halfway up the gravel path. I thought back to those days, walking down the road popping tar bubbles with our sandals. I remember as a kid being excited to discover the grave of the granddaughter of Chief Kilchis, which I believe fueled my early interest in local history. I was struck by just how entwined that little cemetery is in so many of my childhood memories.</div><div><br /></div><div>I remembered standing there as my dad’s ashes were buried, and the letter to him that I slipped into his ashes. I remember my first attempts at caring for the graves. I had put several jars of my dad’s tumbled rocks on his grave, not realizing that without landscape fabric the rocks would gradually sink into the ground. Years later, I spent hours with a trowel, digging them back out. I remember back in the late 90’s tending my dad’s grave as my mom sat there and we talked; then in 2000, watching her ashes be placed alongside him. And more recently, I have taken my grandkids through that cemetery and told them the stories, about the big tree, and about the various people who are buried there, because I don’t want any of it to be forgotten. I still like to walk to the cemetery.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I worked, I forgot completely about the rain. I became focused on watching a headstone emerge from the weeds and in wiping off the lichens. I felt immersed in history and honored to be there. I couldn’t be more glad that I went today. I will be connecting with Lisa next week and will be promoting her efforts to restore our local cemeteries and I hope others will too. It’s been many years since that cemetery looked as nice as it now does. </div><div><br /></div><div>As we were wrapping up, volunteers gathered plastic SOLVE bags full of debris, the truck and trailer were overflowing with weeds and branches, and folks headed to their cars. A hearse pulled in and a canopy was being set up for a graveside service. I couldn’t help but to feel proud of how nice it would look for that service. </div><div><br /></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-8481761458310763572021-01-09T14:51:00.010-08:002021-01-09T15:13:24.465-08:00Time for a Choice<p style="background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--2hH817QmYA/X_o4XJg9nbI/AAAAAAAAWDQ/Qk1p9ZkeGucLgyrO0doo-H-Z2t4KYbASgCNcBGAsYHQ/s354/Capitol%2BDome.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="354" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--2hH817QmYA/X_o4XJg9nbI/AAAAAAAAWDQ/Qk1p9ZkeGucLgyrO0doo-H-Z2t4KYbASgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Capitol%2BDome.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In 1999, I spent four days in Washington, DC where I lobbied for children’s mental health parity on Capitol Hill. It was November but it felt like early fall, with balmy weather, cool evenings, and </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">brightly</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> colored leaves making a swirling path for our ten-person group from Oregon. Life felt light and hopeful. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It was a magical experience.<span></span></span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span><!--more--></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I visited the Lincoln Memorial (did you know it has a rickety old elevator and a gift shop?), Ford Theater, the house where Lincoln died, and even toured the White House. I jumped in a tour van with a few of my cohorts and rode across the river into Virginia, to the Arlington National Cemetery, where I witnessed the Changing of the Guard and visited the tomb of JFK. I stood in silent reverence as I read the quotes inscribed into the walls that surrounded his grave. At the Vietnam Wall, I passed an elderly couple who were holding hands and quietly weeping. There was so much about that trip that I will never forget.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I spend many hours at the Capitol Building and watched Congress in session from a gallery seat. This was before 9/11, but security was very tight. While I had to go through metal detectors repeatedly on every floor of that building, I felt lucky to be breathing such rarefied<br /> air.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">As I walked up and down those beautiful, ancient marble steps in the House and Senate, I ran my hand carefully along the sturdy marble banister and imagined Presidents and leaders throughout history touching those same banisters, walking those same steps. I pondered what was running through their minds as they touched those </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">places</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> I was now touching, and what weighty decisions were being made in those moments. I was breathing history for those four days, and I believe every American could gain a whole new perspective by spending time in our nation’s capital. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Those buildings are sacred ground. They are ground zero for the decisions that affect every day of our lives. Regardless of political party, the energy in those buildings is palpable. There is a rush of activity, yet a kind of hushed silence. Statues line the halls and there’s a reverence in the air and a keen awareness of the important matters taking place. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">As I watched Wednesday’s events unfold, I was unable to reconcile the horrific images before me with my experience all those years ago. I was reminded of a quote from Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">That’s America now. Decency and respect are out the window. 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There’s little doubt that, if not for the heroic actions of some of the officers there, there would have been a massacre.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To review, these are the same people who were horrified when others wanted racist statues removed... that was desecration! They were outraged by looters during national disasters... those were thugs! They justified the rubber bullets and tear gas used against peaceful protesters and bystanders in Portland... they shouldn’t be there! They were scandalized by athletes who would kneel during the national anthem... how disrespectful of our flag... as they create a fake flag from a bastardized version of the American flag, then get angry with police and stomp it into the ground. They screamed at us in the Women’s March, on a Saturday in 2017, to “get a job</span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">!”...</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> as they fly cross-country to commit crimes and make fools of themselves in the middle of a workday. And they cheered when their leader signed an Executive Order a few months back mandating a 10-year sentence for anyone who desecrated federal property...that might not end </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">According to Webster’s, “terrorism” is defined as: </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1 :</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the unlawful use or threat of violence especially against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Other Words from </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">terrorism</span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">terrorist</span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> \ - </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ist</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> \ adjective or noun.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Make no mistake, these were not protesters or rioters. They were terrorists; they had this planned for weeks. To claim they were Antifa is the height of willful denial. Does anyone honestly believe that any Antifa person would be in that crowd? What do you suppose would happen to someone who announced that they were Antifa in that crowd... the same crowd that trampled a young woman to death; beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher, and nearly crushed another one in a door? I think we all know the answer. And in his statement that day, Trump said he loved them and that they were special. Nobody believes he would speak to Antifa that way; he knows they were his supporters. The group included off duty officers and some Republican state elected officials who have been vocal in their support for Trump. Recent video shows some police welcoming the mob into the building; would they do that for Antifa? I think not, so let’s not be delusional. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We can all agree that 2020 was a horrible year, and this was no way to start a new one. We are shell-shocked and exhausted, and this makes the attack even more egregious. As much as I despise Trump and all for which he stands, I don’t wish for an angry mob to zip tie him, kidnap and execute him. It is hard to imagine embodying that level of hatred and malice.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">That’s my struggle. I thought that this horrific attack might be a game changer for Trump apologists. I naively thought there was no way that people I once considered to be sane would do anything but condemn this brutal behavior. Instead, some of them are doubling down. This cult has infiltrated mainstream America in an ugly way, to the point that people are now justifying terrorist activity in our nation’s capital. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">I am deeply ashamed of what I have seen. I am angry and filled with a deep sense of darkness to hear people I know, or thought I knew, defending these terrorists, simply because they are aligned politically with them. </span><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The “law and order” party appears to care about law and order only when it involves other people. There needs to be accountability.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">We will get through this; Congress came back that same day and did exactly what they set out to do that morning before being rudely interrupted. Unfortunately, five people are dead because of the selfish coup attempt, and it’s shaken our overall sense of security to know that our fellow citizens feel somehow entitled to do a thing like this. I’m not going to say that this isn’t who we are, because it’s who at least some of us are and they’re proud of it. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Where do we go from here? I’m not ready to “unify” and make nice, and I can’t imagine any Republican being willing to if a mob of Joe Biden fans broke in and did what that mob did. They did it while waving American flags, Confederate flags and Trump flags. Nothing patriotic there. </span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There will be no healing until there is accountability. It’s like killing someone’s family member and immediately demanding forgiveness; it doesn’t work that way. The FBI has pictures and </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">videos</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and this isn’t over. The American people deserve justice for this disgusting, horrific attack on our homeland and citizens. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="TextRun SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">None of us can control the way the country was founded. We can’t undo slavery, or the genocide of Native tribes, or any of the other wrongs that go back generations before any of us were here. But we’re here now, and we bear responsibility for the present and the future. There MUST be accountability and a strong message sent that we will not tolerate this ugly violation of American rights and safety. We all know that terrorists who are not held accountable are only emboldened. If there’s to be any unity at all, we must unite behind this concept, and it seems like a simple one: terrorism isn’t okay. If we can’t even do that, if America is too far gone, then God help us.</span><span class="EOP SCXW203981088 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24.8208px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></span><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-10210942308271288662020-09-30T23:24:00.001-07:002020-09-30T23:33:09.493-07:00Thank You<p>On Monday, September 8, the coastal weather was hot, dry, and windy. We're accustomed to cold, wet, and windy, so this storm was a little different. As I stood on the front steps enjoying the powerful gusts, I had no idea how different it was about to be. I could hear the crackling of trees snapping not far away. We lost power and started our usual drill of lighting candles and lamps. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>We suddenly noticed a strange red glow outside, which then disappeared. I quickly learned via local Facebook pages that there was a forest fire nearby. I have never been in a fire before and I was in shock as I tried to figure out what to do in case we had to evacuate. I gathered kids, pets, meds, etc., while using my cell phone as a flashlight. At exactly 12:30am, I got an automated call from the Sheriff’s Department, informing us that we were at level three evacuation and to leave immediately. I woke up my sister who was spending the night, put the cats in carriers, and tried one last time in vain to find one of the dogs’ collars. </p><p>We loaded up in two cars and headed out into the night. I dropped off my sister at her house, and we ended up at the emergency shelter at the fairgrounds. Some very kind chaplains played games with the kids. I sat numbly on a metal folding chair, and silently inventoried all the things I had left behind. This was the property I grew up on, where pets were buried and a lifetime of memories made. I was completely distraught, and certain I'd never see my house in one piece again.</p><p>After a sleepless night, we checked into the Shilo Inn. At the counter, a woman behind me overheard me say we were evacuees. She said the fires had just destroyed her Lincoln City home, then apologized for bursting into sobs. In a normal non-COVID world, I would have rushed to hug her, but I helplessly tried to console her from six feet away. The shelter at the fairgrounds quickly filled with livestock, pets, and Lincoln County evacuees. Our Sheriff's Department moved rapidly to create accommodations for all. </p><p>For the next five days we waited in limbo to hear the fate of our home. I tried to pretend it was just a strange vacation. So many people took care of us, and this post is my thank you.</p><p>The motel gave us a huge discount on a room due to our situation. My friend Christy paid for two nights for us. The Rendezvous Restaurant fed us dinner for two nights in a row. Tillamook School District reached out to us and their food bank gave us food we could store and cook in our motel mini-fridge and microwave.</p><p>My family stepped in and took both dogs for the duration of our evacuation. My son rescued countless irreplaceable items from our house, even family photos on the walls. Two nights in a row, he cooked us dinner at his place.</p><p>Our neighbor Nicole rescued important papers for us on Tuesday morning, as well as my work laptop, and brought them to me at the motel.</p><p>Countless people offered up their homes, food, errands, support, you name it. Some scolded me for not calling that first night for a place to stay. We were constantly checked on, even though we weren’t sure what we needed. </p><p>Meanwhile, an epic battle was underway. An army of firefighters, and many complete strangers, were saving my neighborhood and my home. Only one person lost an outbuilding, and nobody lost their home. </p><p>There’s nothing more humbling than the kindness of strangers. Farmers showed up with their heavy equipment, logging, construction, transport, and excavating companies brought their crews, inmates from the prison camp stepped up, along with the Department of Forestry and our local fire crews. I’m sure there are some I have missed and for that I apologize. Ordinary people dropped everything to save my neighborhood. In addition, a swarm of local people quickly coordinated efforts for food, clothing, hygiene and other needs for evacuees. So many people did so much that they had to be asked to stop. I also heard that the Creamery and Werner Beef and Brew were giving meals to evacuees.</p><p>During the fire our power was out for five days, and we had to discard all the food in our chest freezer and fridge. We came home on Sunday the 13th, a muggy, smoky day, and there was no water for hours as a main line was broken down the road. I did my best to clean up, brought home a load of things from my son’s, and slowly and reluctantly began hanging pictures back on the walls. It didn’t feel like home and it didn’t feel safe. The following day was back to school and work, and I tried hard to create normalcy, while feeling guilty for still being so upset when at least I had a home.</p><p>A local woman named Melissa had a bunch of frozen meat that had been donated to her; she didn’t have room for it all, so she shared it with us. My friend Shelly took time to buy and deliver frozen veggies, eggs, bottled water, bread, and a whole variety of things. It felt like Christmas and so very appreciated!</p><p>My employer set up a fund to help and even covered the time I took off while in evacuation, so I didn’t have to use my leave time. They even sent financial assistance. Thank you CareOregon!</p><p>The donations by the community continued to pour in for fire relief for those still displaced, even a silent auction of all kinds of locally made items.</p><p>Two of my cousins surprised me with supportive cards in the mail with a check in them.</p><p>All of these things have overwhelmed me. I have wanted to write this for a while. I have been home for over two weeks, and I still can’t discuss it without choking up, because I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. How do you adequately thank an entire community for dropping everything and putting lives on the line for you? Just how??</p><p>Just know that when you contribute to someone in crisis, it’s not just about the “thing” you are giving. The Rendezvous didn't just feed my family; they fed our souls. It took one more stress from me at a time when I was unable to function at my normal level. We felt nurtured and cared for. During this time of COVID when we can’t hug people the way we’d like to, I felt embraced the entire time. There’s no way to put a value or price tag on that. It is healing a part of me that was a little broken even before the fire, that prideful ego part of me who was ashamed to ever have needs. I felt shame about accepting help but I’m learning that it’s okay to be the one who needs help. </p><p>I still get nervous now when the wind kicks up or I hear there’s a thunderstorm coming in, but I know that will get better in time. We will be okay. We have a great community, and I'm so proud.</p><p>I wish I could thank every single person who made it possible for us to be safely in our home at this moment. Untold numbers of people gave without hesitation. It’s impossible to know who you all are, but please know you are so appreciated. Maybe you think it was no big deal to call and check on someone, or bake some cookies for an auction, or bag up some clothes for a family who lost everything, but I can tell you that it's huge. I am very fortunate to live in Tillamook County. It's truly love in action.</p><p>Thank you on behalf of myself and my family, and any other people who have been impacted. You might think what you did wasn’t a big deal but it means EVERYTHING. </p>Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-86580514011028894322020-08-02T22:05:00.000-07:002020-08-02T22:08:50.364-07:00Whittling Souls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">When we want someone to hear something really important, we ask for silence. It’s the time to look away from the phone, shut off the TV, remove the headphones, stop talking, and LISTEN. It’s time to focus. I feel very strongly that 2020 is calling upon each of us to do that right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many of us are currently feeling pulled in all directions. The political climate in this country is very toxic, untruths abound, and Americans are being convinced to turn their backs and justify the oppression and pain of other human beings. People are listening to ranting lunatics on YouTube rather than making the minimal effort to READ. Reading requires FOCUS and somewhere among the tweets, posts, and instant gratification of video, we have lost our collective ability to focus. It’s exhausting and demoralizing. It occurred to me that it may be easier to get through to someone who doesn’t like to read by sharing a video. But I digress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This morning, I attended church. I was the only human in attendance, along with my sage bundle, some light reading of a spiritual nature, a buck knife, and a piece of driftwood. No cell phone, no human-made music, just silence. At least at first. Once I stilled my distractions, and began to focus and listen, I was serenaded by soft wind chimes, the buzz of busy insects, a light breeze, some birds I couldn’t identify, a crow and a tiny tree frog who only croaked once. I was joined by some hummingbirds who hovered curiously nearby. I had my bare feet on the ground and felt peaceful and calm. I wished I could stay all day, as it was a great service. At the end, I sat in silence, whittling a piece of driftwood until I got too warm, and duty called in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">COVID19 has forced me, in ways I had not anticipated, to LISTEN. It has forced me to re-evaluate priorities and explore my spirituality in much deeper ways that I would have imagined a year ago. I realize I have used the company of other humans to avoid having to be silent and think. There was a time I saw isolation as a bad thing. I’m not saying isolation is for everyone, but it’s helped me immensely. It also got me whittling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In the beginning of July, I was at the beach in my usual “secret” spot where I never have to run into anyone else. The kids and I were walking along the sand looking at rocks and shells. I picked up a piece of driftwood and suddenly envisioned it carved into a shape. I remembered my dad showing me how to whittle wood as a little kid, a memory I had totally forgotten. I came home, looking for a knife, and I was hooked. Since then, the floor around my work-from-home station is often littered with shavings, which I vacuum up between meetings. I realize that whittling is as simple as cutting away the parts that don’t make sense for what you’re trying to create. I’m not that great at it yet, but it brings me peace. I don’t generally sit down and bust through a piece in one sitting; it’s more meditative. I’ll put it down, and pick it up later, and whittle a little more, and watch it slowly improve. Sometimes a chunk will come off that I didn’t mean to cut, and I must figure out how to be flexible and make it work. Sometimes I will set something down, come back the next day and see something that is so obvious, I don’t know how I missed it the day before. Seeing it with fresh eyes gives new perspective. Whittling takes patience but it also takes focus. At least if you want to keep all your fingers. You’ll notice little details in the wood, shapes and grooves and all the little flaws and things that make it unique. I might start whittling one thing, then realize it was never meant to be what I originally thought, so I change course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I am now whittling my soul, too. I realized that this morning during church. I am carving away the pieces that don’t fit anymore for my vision of my soul. I’m a work in progress, and I do a little every day. If I’m honest with myself, and if my silent focus means anything at all, it means confronting those things in my life that need to be whittled away, so I can be my true self. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So, what does this all mean? For me, it means that I need to examine my soul daily and create practices based in silence that remove distractions and allow me to listen. While I’m hearing birds and chimes around me, I’m also listening to my own heartbeat, my own breathing. I’m listening to the thoughts that enter my head, and I’m taking time to assess them and determine what helps my soul and what needs to be whittled away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It’s a hard process. I’m a very stubborn person with strong opinions and I don’t expect that part of me to go away anytime soon. I’ve often been hobbled by anxiety produced by perfectionism, both in wood whittling, and in soul whittling. However, COVID has shown me the necessity, for the sake of my soul, to come from a place of love for myself and others. I’m still going to get mad. I’m still going to have strong feelings. But I’m also assessing the sources of those feelings, and whether they are toxic or needed. I’m going to be whittling my list of Facebook groups and friends: not to eliminate people I disagree with, but to eliminate people who are unkind or spread toxicity. To keep that negative energy would be like taking something I’ve carefully whittled and dipping it in tar. Our souls deserve at least the same consideration as a piece of wood, and I’m going to be selective in what I expose mine to. I want to learn from people who have the best interests of humanity at heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I was already dreading the end of summer as I sat outside this morning. It’s been the strangest, yet perhaps most important, summer of my life. How am I going to sit in the morning sunshine once the rains start? What will even happen in the autumn anyway? These morning times are sacred to me and it’s difficult to find that silence and connection in the house. Guess I better buy some raingear. Or maybe I’ll go to my room, close the door, open the window and listen to the rain sounds. I’ll find a way. It’s now part of who I want to become.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2020 has brought us so many unknowns this year, and for me the key has been to embrace them as a blessing. It’s forced society to stop and take a breath. It’s forced us to be creative and think outside the box to find new ways to meet old needs. Fresh ideas are finally being heard. The Black Lives Matter protests, as painful as they have been, have awakened many people to the realities faced by our Black brothers and sisters, and created a strong force for some long overdue systems change. Athletes are now kneeling en masse for the national anthem, in deep solidarity with team officials and many fans. People are waking up. We are whittling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">America must continue whittling. Let some new ideas take shape, carve away old structures that harm, or at least don’t help. Make new connections and acknowledge each other’s humanity. We have a lot to learn from each other. It’s important to mention that an untouched piece of driftwood is beautiful. So is an un-whittled soul. We are created in love and beauty and can choose to create whatever we decide to be. I’m not suggesting souls aren’t fine just the way they are; this is just what works for me and a way to evolve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2020 is the year I started meditating daily. The year I learned more about who I am and why I’m here. The year I started going outside more. The year I learned to truly value silence and mindfulness. The year I was forced to physically avoid other people and had to find new ways to connect, and suddenly discovered much higher connections. And the year I began to whittle. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"></span></div>
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I want to put out an appeal to my friends who are conservative. I know there are some among you who have felt worried about the state of things, who have heard conflicting things about Trump and don't know what to believe.<br />
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Maybe you come from a family that is very conservative and you have been taught not to question what you are told, and that those of us who are questioning this administration are a bunch of unpatriotic liberal hooligans who don't care about America.<br />
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You may not really like Trump's abrasiveness or greed, and you are silently starting to question some things, but you are worried about being attacked if you say anything out loud.<br />
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Worse yet, maybe you are a conservative Christian and you are worried that if you don't support the President that you aren't being a good Christian anymore. Maybe you are opposed to abortion and you think that Trump is protecting unborn babies so you have no choice but to support him.<br />
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I'm really trying to understand because we're in trouble, folks. And I will respect your religious beliefs if you at least listen when I say that you are being lied to and things are way worse than you think. For all of us, including the unborn.<br />
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If this is a party loyalty thing, did you know that Donald Trump is a former Democrat and is friends with the Clintons, whom you despise? Do you understand that his only loyalties are to people who can help him to achieve power and money?<br />
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He knows that if he pretends to be a Christian, if he talks about pro-life, you will support him. Churches don't have to pay taxes and they have a lot of money. He's not a godly man. He is using your faith and exploiting you to achieve greater power.<br />
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Just stop for one moment and close your eyes and ask yourself, "what if I've been wrong about him?" I know that's scary. You don't have to tell anyone, I don't need to know. But just consider that if you are, what that means if someone truly that manipulative and evil is using YOUR God for his own power. Go look at the seven deadly sins and be honest. How does he act? How does he treat people? Does he follow the teachings of Christ? Be honest.<br />
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Even the Bible doesn't want you to blindly accept him without question. He's not God. If you firmly believe that he is a really good person, you won't hesitate to research anything that says otherwise. After all, it would dishonor God for you to be blindly following someone evil in His name, right? (Matthew 7:15-20)<br />
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Please, open your mind to possibilities. If you want to talk, message me.<br />
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It's time to put the good of our country and the world above the Republican party. If you are being asked to put a political party above the good of this country/world, that's not patriotic and it's not "Christian." Hitler claimed in his book Mein Kampf to be a Christian and touted "positive Christianity." He convinced his followers that God was on his side. Too many people were shamed into feeling like bad Christians if they didn't believe him.<br />
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Maybe you already know all this but you're scared to speak out. I don't blame you and I understand. What I can promise is that if you do decide to speak out and are attacked, I will stick up for you. Nobody has the right to bully you regardless of what you think and feel and I will defend your right. I get called names all the time; it quit bothering me long ago when I realized it was a reflection on the name caller, not on me. If you need backup, I'm here. If you are reading this it is because you are on my friend's list and I care about you and wish you the best.<br />
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As Americans and citizens of the world, we all want a healthy happy society. We won't always agree on everything and that's okay. But we can have open, respectful discussions and work together to create the world our kids and grandkids can be safe to live in.</div>
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days ago I packed up my sister and my kiddos and attended a rally in support of
closing the camps on the southern border of the United States.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In recent weeks, several reports have come
out describing the horrific conditions under which immigrants are living (and
dying) and each report seems worse than the last.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Like many people, I have been left with a
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more distressing is the stunning apathy and even a kind of smug satisfaction displayed
by some people about the suffering of innocent children in a country that used
to at least give lip service to freedom.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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speak about why I support closing the camps, and what else can be done.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We are on a very slippery slope to becoming
something we once worked hard to defeat.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I have heard arguments that referring to these camps as concentration
camps is dismissive of the horrible suffering that took place in the WWII-era
concentration camps in Germany.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However,
people fail to see is that there is a difference between concentration camps
and extermination camps, which is what most people think of when they think of
a concentration camp.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Concentration
camps are designed to “concentrate” into one area people who are considered by
those in power to be undesirable.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Merriam-Webster
defines a concentration camp as “a place where large numbers of people (such as
prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or
religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first Nazi concentration camps were built
in 1933 to house political prisoners.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By
the end of WWII, some of these had evolved into the notorious extermination
camps.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That is my fear for America.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There is currently nothing preventing the
concentration camps from becoming extermination camps if something isn’t done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There is a
prolific propaganda campaign to gain support of society to defend this.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In this case, it’s widespread anti-immigrant
rhetoric that is being relentlessly flung at us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(A cursory look at history will show that the
propagandists aren’t very creative; it’s the same rhetoric: taking our jobs,
criminal element, etc., that has been used against so many other immigrant
groups, such as the Irish.)<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s also a
tactic to dehumanize people so that we lose empathy for their suffering because
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A true
story: in WWII, boys from farms and towns across America signed up to fight the
spread of Nazism.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, it was hard
to get them to shoot and kill other human beings, even enemy soldiers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The American government hired Walt Disney to
draw caricatures of Japanese and German soldiers as pigs and rats and spread
this far and wide.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The dehumanizing
worked.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is the same mind trick
being played today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Immigrant families
are portrayed as rapists, drug dealers, child traffickers, and dangerous
criminals who want to take jobs and freeload from America.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m still not sure how people reconcile their
image of someone who is willing to take a physically demanding and exhausting
laborer job with someone who is trying to get a free ride, but that shows that
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these camps defended as something President Obama started during his tenure, as
if that is a defense.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While Obama was
President, he had to house children coming over unattended, as there were
legitimate concerns about kids having nowhere to go.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were put into facilities as a temporary
measure until relatives could be found for them to be sent to.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were only to be kept in these facilities
for 72 hours before being transferred to the care of Health and Human
Services.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The chain link fence at the
facilities was to separate people by age and gender though they were admittedly
large cages.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However, Obama did NOT take
children from their parents, and did not have a family separation policy.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Obama was no
angel, to be fair.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He was referred to as
the “Deporter in Chief” because of the record numbers he deported.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Conditions for kids at these shelters was not
great, and there were plenty of allegations of abuse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This now seems mild in comparison to the
current administration.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Nobody died in
custody in those facilities, yet at the time of this writing, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seven</b> children have died under the
Trump administration’s oversight there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That
number is sure to increase based on malnourishment, medical neglect, trauma
from separation, and other abuses.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Reports indicate that children are taking care of other children, and
denied clothing, hygiene basics, food, water, sleep, and are kept in spaces
which are deliberately kept at unhealthy temperatures.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thirsty women are being told to drink out of
the toilet.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Children who had lice were
handed a lice comb and told to comb out each other’s hair.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When one of them misplaced the comb, the
group of children was punished by being screamed at and having their blankets
taken away. These things did not happen on Obama’s watch.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By the way, Anne Frank died of typhus, not in
a gas chamber.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The main carrier of
typhus is lice, which are now rampant in American concentration camps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
prisoners are often people who have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not
committed a crime</b>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If someone comes
to the U.S. and works and lives without documentation, that is not a felony, or
even a misdemeanor; it’s a civil infraction, as serious as a ticket for having
overly tinted windows.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Think about that
next time you are pulled over.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In fact,
many of the people in the camps are here <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">legally</b>.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, refugee status or asylum may be granted to people based on the
following: refugees are generally people outside of their country who are
unable or unwilling to return home because they fear serious harm.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Refugee status may be sought only from
outside the United States.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However,
asylum is available to people who meet the definition of refugee, are already
IN the United States and are seeking admission at a port of entry.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Therefore, when the Trump administration
inhumanely separated and locked up families at the ports who were requesting
asylum, they violated international law.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They were notified of this by the UN over a year ago and continue to do
it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In other words, the United States is
more in violation of the law than the people it is locking up.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>You can hear the children on audiotape
sobbing for their parents, and there is interview after interview of parents
devastated because their children were forced screaming from their arms.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The youngest child kidnapped by our
government was four months old.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He is
now two and recently returned to his parents after being in foster care.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He can’t walk or talk and is severely
emotionally damaged.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Was he such a
threat that this was necessary?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">People ask, “why
would any loving parent subject their kids to this?”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are here for a variety of reasons.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They often have family and friends
established here and are more likely to be able to survive economically.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Central and South America, especially the
rural areas, have been driven deep into poverty, partly by American policies
and practices.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And more and more
migrants are here because of the resulting violence and instability directly
related to cartel activities.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I heard
one woman’s story today, about how a gang member saw her hand a police officer
a cup of water, and decided she was “siding with the cops.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They were targeting her and her four-year-old
son for assassination.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These folks are
literally fleeing for their lives with their children.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The “right” way that people like to preach
about can take decades, and these people can’t afford it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There’s no “line” to wait in, especially for
hard-working poor families.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We hear a
lot of fear mongering from the current administration about the “migrant
caravan” and the crisis on the border.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Yes, it’s a crisis.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a
humanitarian crisis of our own making.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">If you are
stuck on the “loving parent” argument, go out tonight and rent “The Sound of
Music.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Look at the risks those parents
took to get their kids out of Nazi Germany, and the very dangerous trek they
had to make over the Alps to get into Switzerland.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That’s what loving parents do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Calling
human beings “illegal” shows ignorance and plays right into the hands of the
propagandists.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It dehumanizes people and
supports persecution and abuse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>While
there are plenty of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. from Central and South
America, there are quite a few as well from Asian and European countries; yet
we aren’t seeing them in the camps (not that I’d want to).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s extremely common for people to come here
legally on a Visa and stay illegally after the Visa expires.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In fact, it’s more common than swimming
across a river.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Because of that, and the
fact that airplanes and tunnels exist, the wall remains a wasteful and
ridiculous idea.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s a blatant play on
the fears of uninformed people.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">So what do
we do now?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I’d like to
see us remain a free country and a land of opportunity.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Right now, we are vilified by the
international community and it will only get worse.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m not at all proud to be an American on
this lovely Fourth of July morning.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s
hard to feel celebratory now that we are the bad guys.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I get it; we all grew up watching the movies
where the bad guys were always someone else.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We grew up pledging allegiance and standing as a flag passed by, and we
believed that we knew what freedom meant.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>So the cognitive dissonance must be hard for some people.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But it was true even then that taking away
someone else’s freedom doesn’t make us free.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It only makes us fearful, mean, and small.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We are now our own worst enemy, and the whole
world is watching.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We are no longer the
land of the free and home of the brave.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Nazi party of the 1940’s is alive and well and has taken up residence in the
federal government and the White House.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">WE MUST
ACT!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Remember, your tax dollars are
getting used to fund this shame!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Get
mad!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Use that angry energy for good.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here are a few ideas, though they aren’t
originally mine.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The first one is to
learn all we can about genocide, immigration, and history.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s an eye opener and should cause every
good American to speak out.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Be prepared
that when you do, others will be rude and hateful to you, because they have no
reasonable argument to defend their beliefs.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>You will be shouted at, dismissed, interrupted.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Those are the defense tactics of the ignorant.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Stand tall, knowing that you are on the right
side of history and you are not alone.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Contact your
lawmakers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In Oregon our lawmakers have
largely condemned these horrible camps, but it’s good for them to hear consensus
from their constituents.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Email, call,
show up, write letters, whatever it takes.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>And while you are at it, write a letter to your local paper.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Write a blog or a social media post.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The pen is still mightier than the
sword.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Why do you think corrupt
governments such as ours hate the media and journalists (besides the ones they
own)?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">March in
rallies and parades, attend vigils, make some noise.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Demonstrate your unwillingness to see our
country turn into a murderous fascist regime.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Bonus: you will meet wonderful people who actually want to make America
great, and those shy people watching will be emboldened by you.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Donate to
charities that can help.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>RAICES is my
personal favorite because they work directly with immigrants on the border.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even if you can’t personally afford to donate
right now, you can create a social media fundraiser and promote it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It will literally save lives.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In fact, one couple created a Facebook page
to fundraise for RAICES that brought in over $20 million!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They help with immigration bail, and they
help to free and reunite families as well as provide legal defense.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>By law, immigration bail is set at a minimum
of $1500 but can be much higher, and immigrants can spend years locked up
awaiting trial.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Traditional criminal
court bail can be as low as $50.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Trump administration is now demanding a ransom from parents who have been
located and want their children back.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Other
worthy charities include Catholic Charities, Refugee and Immigrant Center for
Education and Legal Services, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Women’s
Refugee Commission, Immigrant Families Together (which has a long list of
potential fundraisers on its site).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Be creative
and use your talents to raise money.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Art
and music are powerful outlets to raise awareness and funds.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sign
petitions, and VOTE.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Vote for candidates
who are trying to help.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Vote out the
ones who aren’t.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Learn the difference.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Tell your
local law enforcement and officials to please not partner with ICE raids.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">If you know
Spanish, volunteer to connect with English-language learners as a tutor and
mentor; offer support and comfort to local people who are undocumented.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Are you a
frequent traveler?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Donate air
miles.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Lawyer Moms of America is one
program that donates these to people in need.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Educate
others, for their own sake.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If you are a
teacher, check out the Teaching Tolerance program through Zinn Education
Project, which offers materials for specific age groups to raise awareness.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Teach your
children kindness and empathy, not greed, hate, and entitlement.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don’t know what direction this will go in
the end.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I don’t know who they want to
put in the camps next.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All I know is I
want my grandchildren to remember me as someone who tried to do the right thing
and tried to make the world a better place.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The highest compliment we can pay our loved ones is to be someone they
aren’t ashamed to be related to. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Find a
community that supports justice.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There
are some wonderful organizations and faith communities who still follow the
precepts of kindness, generosity, and humility.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They will be there for you when you get discouraged, and you will.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Lastly, take
care of yourself.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is depressing
stuff, and we’re in for a distance run, not a sprint.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thank you advance for caring.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’m interested in any other ideas that anyone
has, as we’re all in it together.</span></div>
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Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-10461258015675664862019-04-21T11:31:00.000-07:002019-05-01T07:14:20.490-07:00Christ, the Refugee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So here we are at Easter. My mind is stuck on a conversation I had yesterday with a friend who is undocumented. Tears spilled down her cheeks as she talked about losing everyone to come here with her husband and children. Obviously someone doesn't do that unless the situation is dire. Now her husband's father is on his death bed in Mexico, and they can't do what most of us take for granted: go home and say goodbye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two of their children are U.S. citizens. They face the agonizing choice of staying here with their kids, or going home to say their goodbyes and risk being detained and/or separated from their kids. The choice is obvious, so they wait...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Imagine for a moment to be in their shoes. Fleeing hardship for your children's safety, knowing you will probably never see your other loved ones again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And please don't start with the "they should have done it legally" crap, because if you say that sort of thing in reference to refugees, you don't know anything about the current U.S. immigration system, which has made it extremely expensive and nearly impossible for anyone to "do things legally" for decades. As usual, people without money are disproportionately affected by these policies and live with the consequences of a broken system, sometimes paying with their lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both of these parents work very hard to support their family. When I suggested to the mother that she apply for food stamps for her two younger kids, who are are legal citizens, she refused because she wants to earn everything, even though they have struggled. Can we please trade this family for some of our current citizens? I'm still waiting to hear what Melania Trump has contributed to society to earn a "genius Visa," and using chain migration to bring her parents here. The genius Visa is supposed to be awarded to "an alien who can demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim." Her only claim to fame appears to be nudity, but her husband is wealthy so the system works for them. There's your money lenders and Pharisees, right there. Meanwhile, honest and hard-working families and children endure hardship for the simple crime of being refugees, and not being able to afford to buy their way out of the problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are in church today worshiping a brown refugee, while simultaneously blaming and turning your back on present day refugees, you are part of the problem. Don't pretend you care about human suffering. If Jesus came back today, you would sooner look at his skin color and put him in an internment camp. What if His pregnant mother had been met at the border by armed militia or border control, and Mary and Joseph had been separated, while Mary went into early labor alone in a concrete cell and had miscarried? If this thought upsets you, I'll remind that's what is happening to current refugees in this very country. Jesus would not be welcome in the United States today, unfortunately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If, on the other hand you are someone who actually follows Christ instead of just putting up Easter memes, take a look around the community at people who may be having a hard time, and just be kind. Be like the innkeeper who at least had the minimal decency to offer Mary and Joseph a stable. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's probably also worth mentioning that ICE was in our small town a couple weeks ago and quietly took some wage earning people from their families. I don't know who they are but I may be able to find out. Maybe as a community we can band together to help them? That's something Jesus would do. He wouldn't ask for a green card. He wouldn't roll His eyes and point fingers, He'd just help. </span></div>
Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-77088911021031129232018-09-25T22:43:00.000-07:002019-05-01T07:14:24.757-07:00#MeToo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the fifth grade, when I was ten, I was bullied by a boy
in my class who told me about how he and a group of boys had pinned a girl to a
haystack with pitchforks and raped her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first time I was sexually abused was when I was eleven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life was difficult in my home at that
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad was usually drunk in the
evenings, and often physically and emotionally abusive. I was grateful for the
next door neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I vividly remember
running with a bag of clothes across our pasture, to the little road, and up
that road to the neighbor’s house for overnight refuge, with my dad chasing me and cursing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed these neighbors to turn to, and was
grateful to them for giving me rides places as we lived in a rural area and I
was trapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way home from one of
these errands, the husband pulled into the local car dealership where he worked
and said he needed to meet someone there about a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out to be true, but not before he
molested me in his office, while telling me I would make a good secretary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn’t tell anyone for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ashamed and confused and wondered what
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shortly after my freshman year, I was coerced by an older
boy into losing my virginity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew I
didn’t want to have sex, but he refused to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me over thirty years to realize that
sex without clear consent is rape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
not consent, though I finally caved in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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convinced that they could tell, and I was certain I had the word “slut”
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later in high school, a boy named Billy, who I momentarily
thought was cute, saw me lying on my belly in the carpeted hall by the auditorium
alone, studying for something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He unexpected
ran up and sat on me, pull up the back of my shirt, and unsnapped my bra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he ran off laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never told anyone about it, and I didn’t
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was eighteen, I had two male buddies who I hung out
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were smoking weed one day at my
house when one of them wanted to wrestle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He began trying to pull up my shirt and fumbled with my pants while his
friend watched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fought back, angry and
betrayed and his friend laughed at him for “getting his ass kicked by a girl.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t hang out with those guys anymore,
and I didn’t tell anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ashamed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About a year later, I lived in a tiny studio and had some
friends over for a beer or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As was often
the case in that apartment, everyone crashed out in various places, with me on
my mattress in the corner of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
awoke to being raped by someone I thought was a friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a sleepy half-drunk stupor, I pushed him
absently away, and he stopped but not before threatening my friend who was
crashed out next to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and I stared
at each other in shock without saying anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think he left before we got up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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day and I was a wreck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember
telling my brother, but I never reported it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t remember his name, and I remember thinking, as is still often
the case, there were no indications of a struggle, and no bruises, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be a he-said, she-said, and I was
humiliated enough already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I may
have seen him one time after that, on a city bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was traumatized and hoped he didn’t see
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, if I could go back as who I am
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of years later, I was married and pregnant with my
first child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned during that time
that the person who molested me when I was eleven had committed suicide after
being accused of molesting many other girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was 27, I was in a local bar with my now
ex-husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were friends with the
musicians playing there, and I had had no alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was there to dance and have fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was wearing a short skirt, and leaned
against the bar talking to my friend whose sister had just had a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I asked him all about the baby, my ex came
up to me and said it was time to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waited until we were
several blocks away, and informed me that a few guys were sitting at a table
behind me and one of them was about to hook his finger on the hem of my skirt
and pull it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was furious and wanted
to get out of the car and stomp back to the bar and beat him up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ex asked me what I would have done if he
had lifted my skirt, and I said I would have spun around, grabbed him by the hair,
and repeatedly slammed his face into the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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who it was but I still want to do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few years ago, I learned that the story that I was told in
fifth grade about the girl being raped by a local group of boys in the hay, was
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’d known in fifth grade what I
know now, I would have told the teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also learned that the man who committed suicide after molesting
me had molested his four children, as well as all of his grandchildren, male
and female, including a special needs child with developmental disabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was before moving to another state where
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since those things have happened, I’ve learned that probably
every person who violated me has other victims out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things like that don’t just happen in a
vacuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sexual abusers depend on silence
and thrive on shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a real
sense of entitlement to the bodies of other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as they can make the victim feel ashamed
(by trusting them, by drinking/smoking too much, by wearing certain clothes)
they can shame them into silence and continue the pattern of abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had reported the rapist who attacked me
when I was unconscious, I would have been the one on trial for drinking with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I found out now that one of the people who hurt me was running
for public office and I could identify them, the older, wiser, stronger me would
report them in a heartbeat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would want
the world to know what they did and have accountability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There would be people who would claim I was making it
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would say, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">"She waited over 30 years? She must be lying." </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Why didn’t she report
this earlier?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Rape survivors know
why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to live with the blame
and there’s very little accountability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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sexually assaulted every 98 seconds and every eight minutes it’s a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THIS is why people don’t report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They feel powerless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why the alleged victims of Brett Kavanaugh
waited 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe them, and I
don’t blame them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After seven years of
working with sexual assault survivors, I learned that the one you need to fear
isn’t the boogie man in the bushes we were all taught to fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s your neighbor, your family member, your
friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And statistically, only a very
tiny percentage of rape allegations are false, yet that the go-to for people
who simply refuse to believe that the “nice guy” would do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t understand that nice guys groom people
in order to assault them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There aren’t
many rapists who aren’t going to try to earn trust so they can violate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attacks by strangers are the exception, not the
rule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, 75% of rape survivors are
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know very few women who haven’t been sexually
assaulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statistics say it’s one out
of three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I disagree, because there are
too many people who equate sexual assault with injuries and force, when in fact
sex without fully informed and enthusiastic consent is sexual assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I look back over my life, I understand
more about what that looks like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
training I attended presented it like this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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their attackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enough is enough!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody deserves for any reason to be sexually
assaulted and it’s time for the cowards to be called out from the shadows and
held accountable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They certainly don’t
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learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this happened to you, you didn’t
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Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-80415500488139782792018-02-17T15:34:00.000-08:002019-05-01T07:14:28.572-07:00Five Years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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February 15, 2018. Five years. FIVE YEARS. It’s been five years today since the first arrest and I gained two small children.<br />
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I was by no means prepared mentally, emotionally, or physically. I was anemic and sick, and devastated by the nightmare we were facing as a family. I was terrified by the possibilities, and five years later, I still am.<br />
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The next three years were a blur of court dates, both for my daughter’s ongoing drug charges, and for the legal ramifications of eventually adopting her children. All the while I believed that the nightmare would be over long before now. She’s so smart, so sweet, so beautiful, she HAS to straighten out quickly, right??<br />
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Well, addiction doesn’t care. I’ve learned that and I’ve learned a few other things as well.<br />
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“I didn’t cause it, I can’t control it, and I can’t cure it.” This quote is so true. I’ve spent countless nights searching for the answer to what I did wrong. The answer is everything and nothing, and none of it matters. I, like moms everywhere, did my best. It’s been so agonizing that I’m glad I didn’t think it would continue for five years. I don’t think I could have taken it.<br />
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Having an addicted child is a different kind of grief. It’s the grief of the anticipated and the unknown. It’s having a panic attack because the phone woke me up, then being unable to go back to sleep. It’s seeing a blonde girl with a hoodie and a sloppy bun, and for a split second, thinking it’s her, then feeling the crushing realization roll in. It’s finally getting to see her and hug her, then crying all the way home because I don’t know when or if I will again. It’s checking my Messenger app to see when she was last active so I know she’s alive. It’s unanswered texts and calls. It’s people asking how she is and not knowing what to say. It’s getting mad at her, then hating myself for getting mad at her because what if something happened to her and I was mad at her at the time? It’s having the cops show up at my house looking for her and bursting into tears because I think they’re coming to give me bad news about her. It’s fretting that while I’m warm and comfortable she’s out there somewhere probably cold and hungry and all I want to do is trade her places. It’s hearing certain songs and bursting into tears. And the worst part is not knowing when the grief will ever end, or when things will unexpectedly get worse. This is the new normal. Any addict’s mom can vouch for this.<br />
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With raising her children, a new dimension is added. It’s a balancing act to make sure they have accurate, yet age-appropriate information about her. I want them to grow up strong, and not feel abandoned. I want them to know who she really is, not some caricature of her former self, but the loving, witty, smart sweet person she really is. At the same time, I’m petrified that someday, maybe tomorrow, maybe in ten years, I will have to deliver horrifying news to them.<br />
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I have learned that these are probably the good old days. I can think of so many times in my life that I have wasted good times longing for former times. I think I’ve done a lot of that over the last five years, and I’m trying to change that. Not so much for me, because I’ll never be the same again, but for the sake of the kids, who don’t deserve to grow up in the shadow of my sadness. These might be sad times for me but I have a responsibility to seek happiness for them. This is their only childhood. Sometimes now I get through a whole day without crying.<br />
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I’ve learned that love won’t make any difference. It might make me feel better to try to remind her how much I love her, but she already knows. I can’t love her clean.<br />
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All I can do is to do the one thing I don’t want to do. Let her go. I am gradually learning. I hate the word “detach” with a passion. It flies in the face of everything I am about as a parent. Detachment sounds aloof and uncaring, when all I want to do is wrap her up in my heart and love her better until she is healed. Ain’t gonna happen as long as she isn’t ready. I won’t detach. So instead I am backing off and letting her contact me. I have quit sending endless messages about being worried because all it means to her is pressure to witness my pain. It sends her the opposite way.<br />
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I’ve learned that there’s no way to prevent this. I remember kids that were friends with my kids. Some of them had no supervision at home, or serious abuse or neglect. While I was by no means a perfect parent, I tried hard to set an example. There was no alcohol or drugs in my home, except for a very occasional wine cooler or a beer in the fridge. I had all the right talks with the kids about addiction. I tried to be a mom figure to those kids who I felt were at risk, and I was grateful every day that my kids would never go down that road. I thought our family as somehow inoculated against addiction because I raised kids who were opposed to it. Well, I have news. It doesn’t matter what you do, because addiction doesn’t care.<br />
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I’ve learned that addiction is for the long haul, and there’s not a damn thing we can do to change that.<br />
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I’ve learned that people are ugly and say horrible things about addicts, things they wouldn’t dream of saying about someone with any other disease. I’ve developed a short fuse in this area, and sometimes I have to remove or unfollow people on my social media feed for the sake of my sanity. I am too grief-stricken to deal with their ignorance and rudeness in using hateful language to describe, or laughing at, people in addiction. That’s my baby they are hating on, and frankly, it’s hard not to hate them back.<br />
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I’ve learned quite a few techniques to guard my health, which has been compromised greatly by anxiety. I’ve learned quite a bit about panic attacks and insomnia. I’ve learned that when my heart starts palpitating, it’s not a heart attack, it’s my anxiety. I’m still learning how to deal with the constant fear that something will happen to me and her kids will lose their main caregiver AGAIN.<br />
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So I’m writing this because it’s been five years today and my heart is more broken than ever, she’s further away from me than ever, and all of my sadness and grief has not helped in any way. In spite of feeling hopelessly alone, I know that there are many other moms and dads and family members who are dealing with this. For five years, I’ve been very careful about talking about her addiction on social media. However, she doesn’t have anything to be ashamed of, and neither do I. I’m the mother of a beautiful, funny, wonderful person who is suffering from addiction. I can’t fix it, and I’m stuck here, but I offer my support and love to others in this situation.<br />
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You aren’t alone. You aren’t the only one hurting. Of course you are devastated because that’s your baby and you’re witnessing a terrible ravaging disease. I’ve spent a lot of time looking through old photos this past week or so, and every picture of her is a stab in my heart. I find myself looking for clues in her face where it all went wrong. I have my theories but they aren’t a comfort.<br />
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I’m the mother of an addict and I’m not ashamed of her. I’m sad for her disease, but she does not deserve to be stigmatized. I’m proud of the times she’s tried to get clean. I’m proud of her big generous heart, and her love for her kids. Our kids are dropping like flies from the outcomes of addiction and all I wish for is understanding and healing, not blame and shame. She doesn’t treat others that way and doesn’t deserve it either. Don’t try to tell me that addiction isn’t a disease or I may well go off on you, if I have the energy to try to bother to educate you. Don’t try to blame parenting for addiction; it just showcases your ignorance, and your smug arrogance that it couldn’t possibly happen to you.<br />
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I refuse to be shamed or allow anyone to shame my girl. I will fight like hell against cuts in services for people in addiction. I will fight like hell to keep Medicaid and other services that keep people alive. It increases the odds that she and so many others won’t succumb to the disease. I will fight like hell to keep people in addiction from criminalized or mistreated. I will speak out on behalf of efforts like drug courts and rehabilitation. I will speak out when I see mean-spirited videos of people who are high and out of their heads, and call people out for laughing at them. It’s damn cruel. I see the face of my daughter on every addict, every homeless person, every hopeless person. How could I possibly turn away?<br />
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In my community, I know countless people who are in recovery and leading lives that far outshine those who would put them down. They are my heroes and they know who they are. They pay forward kindnesses and mentor those who are still struggling. They have fought the battle and keep fighting daily for a better life for themselves and those around them. And they don’t forget where they came from, so they don’t judge. They just help. Compassion is a beautiful thing and it creates healing miracles.<br />
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I won’t change the world today. To everyone else it’s another day, but to me, today is five years. I don’t know how long the marathon is going to last, and I try not to think about it because I become weary. All I know is that for five years, I’ve been busy healing my beautiful grandbabies, who are safe and warm and getting the chance they deserve for happiness. The trick is to channel my grief into something useful, and that’s my something useful. My little reminders of her. It would be great if next year at this time I were writing a whole new post, about healing and redemption, but if not, it won’t be for lack of effort.<br />
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Even if I can’t personally fix my daughter’s illness I can at least do those things. It’s letting go of what won’t help and focusing on what will. I invite other parents of addicts to reach out to me so we can support each other. And hopefully as a society we can agree that access to treatment is going to be more effective than disdain and ridicule. Most addiction is linked along the line to some sort of trauma, so it stands to reason that traumatizing and demeaning someone in addiction isn’t going to make the world a better place.<br />
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I’m not even sure why I’m writing this, but I guess it’s to commemorate that for this day I’m still here and kicking, and I have two small humans depending on me to do so. I’ve spent plenty of time in that place where you don’t think you can go on another day. And I know what it’s like to not be able to talk about it because only other parents of addicts will understand. To all you other moms out there hurting, I am sending you a big hug. I’ve made it in one piece for five years now when I didn’t think I could. I’m a little sadder, and a lot older but I’m still here, and I still dare to hope. Human beings are remarkably resilient and can heal in time. No matter who you are, you have people who love you too. You are needed.<br />
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If your kids are all healthy, be grateful today. Light a candle, give them an extra hug, whatever makes sense for you to celebrate. And when you see that homeless person, that person who is hurting, or living in the pain that is drugs, remember that they are someone’s kid too. Someone out there is probably worried sick about them and doesn’t know where they are because they are too ashamed of themselves to stay in touch. Please be kind.</div>
Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-25187847457017366852017-09-25T13:49:00.000-07:002019-05-01T07:14:33.931-07:00DREAMing of Peace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm about to Facebook delete some people I genuinely like if
I hear any more deliberately ignorant anti-immigrant sentiment. (I know
that nobody is losing sleep or gnashing their teeth over this, but I hate
deleting people because I hate to give up on them.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is plenty of accurate info out there
for anyone who isn't intellectually lazy. It takes less than five minutes
to find information about the myths surrounding immigration but some people
just can't be troubled with those pesky facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And deliberate ignorance is my biggest pet peeve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you are bothered by people who look and
speak different from you, please read the following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you still don’t understand that immigrants
are humans, and just as important as you are, it will be my pleasure to not
have to see the hateful drivel you post any longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, YOUR ancestors came here "legally?" Well if it
was before 1929, that wasn't hard to do. No papers required. Quit
acting superior. As for the children of immigrants who were born on
American soil, THEY ARE CITIZENS, just as much as you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same people who whine and cry about the
Second Amendment don’t seem very educated on the rest of the U.S.
Constitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, the Fourteenth
Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when your great grandpappy came over from
Germany, and your granddad was born here, he was a first-generation American in
his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, granddad’s older
brother who was brought here at age two would be called a Dreamer and in danger
of being deported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the fault of the
immigrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s faulty immigration law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could they be “patient” and “do it the right way?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s one I hear a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are under-educated and poor, but
willing to work hard, there aren’t a lot of options to migrate here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet that is a description of many of our
ancestors, who came here with very little except a desire to change their lives
and contribute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can literally take
decades to immigrate here legally, thanks again to those prohibitive immigration
laws put in place in 1929…ironically, by the descendants of immigrants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Research the actual crime rates in immigrant
populations, and how they are way lower than non-immigrant crime rates. They
are less likely to commit crimes than the general population, even misdemeanors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Studies reveal that in
areas with higher immigration, crime decreases, particularly violent
crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But don’t take my word for
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at FBI statistics and look at
studies by a variety of neutral agencies and entities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, Google is your friend.</span></div>
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“But what about border security??”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
key is immigration reform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need
workers, skilled and unskilled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reform
would give citizenship opportunities to people who are here to work and contribute to the
economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
our border agents are able to stop arresting people who are just coming here to
work and/or be with their families, they would be freed up to address the real
problems: drugs, terrorists, gun runners, human traffickers, and other
dangerous criminals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What purpose is
being served by using tax dollars to fund detention centers full of families with little kids?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>And WHY in God’s name are we locking up
people who could be working and improving our communities? Most importantly,
the conditions in the centers are deplorable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Learn about the massive amounts immigrants contribute to the economy in
social security taxes which they can't later access (to the tune of 13 BILLION
dollars into the Social Security Trust Fund in 2010 alone). They pay
sales taxes, property taxes, and payroll taxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take the time to learn how grueling the work is that so many of them do
to support their families. Are you willing to spend 12 hour days in
sweltering heat bent over lifting things with very limited access to a restroom
and clean drinking water?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, how
much would you expect to be paid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would
you be willing to work this job with NO benefits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, quit the whining about immigrants “taking
our jobs.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You sound spoiled and
ridiculous. They aren’t lazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are earning their way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also aren't getting a “bunch of freebies.” Other than
emergency medical and required school attendance for kids in public school,
they aren’t eligible for ANY public assistance programs in any state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only exception is a brand new rule in
Oregon that allows immigrant children to have medical coverage so they can have
immunizations, antibiotics for ear infections etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know the same thing all other kids have
and ALL CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of
them are terrified to seek medical care, appear in court for traffic tickets,
or seek help for domestic violence for fear of being deported. Imagine for
a moment living like that, while you strut around with your unearned privilege.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is true in my own town, based on
meetings I have attended with local healthcare providers, legislators, and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anchor babies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
a popular term these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s based on
the theory that people come here and deliberately have babies so that they can
stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, as stated earlier, any child born on
U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You shouldn't have a problem with that, as it's written into that Constitution you like to rant about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, any
parent of such a child will not benefit from this until the child reaches the
age of 21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can still be deported at
any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been raids where
immigrant children have come home from school to an empty house because both of
their parents were taken away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no
criminal record other than the “crime” of trying to live in a safe place with
their family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the child reaches
age 21, the parents still face a lengthy and complicated process to become “legal”
which can take an additional 7-14 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So referring to American citizens as “anchor babies” is another
ignorant, hateful way to spread misinformation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s talk for a moment about those DREAMers, the kids who
were brought here as children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of
them have no connections to, or much memory of, the place they were born. Some
don’t even speak the language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
surrounded by these DREAMers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
EMTs, firefighters, military, educators, business owners, and all sorts of
other things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are America at its
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why in the world would we want to
deport them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a list of
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Were under the age of 31 as of June 15, 2012;<br />
2. Came to the United States before reaching their 16th birthday;<br />
3. Have continuously resided in the United States since June 15, 2007, up to
the present time;<br />
4. Were physically present in the United States on June 15, 2012, and at the
time of making their request for consideration of deferred action with USCIS;<br />
5. Entered without inspection before June 15, 2012, or their lawful immigration
status expired as of June 15, 2012;<br />
6. Are currently in school, have graduated or obtained a certificate of
completion from high school, have obtained a general education development
(GED) certificate, or are an honorably discharged veteran of the Coast Guard or
Armed Forces of the United States; and<br />
7. Have not been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, three or more
other misdemeanors, and do not otherwise pose a threat to national security or
public safety.</span><br />
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they turn 15 — <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if the program is still
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, WHY would we deport someone such as this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that the current administration is trying
to overturn DACA, our government has all the names and addresses of the
children and their parents, who in good faith applied to try to do things the
right way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These kids didn’t have a
choice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know a local young woman who
saved for a long time to get the nearly $500 it cost to register.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s a star student and has a bright
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless ICE shows up at her door
and deports her family back to an unfamiliar place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this what “American values” looks like now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what do we gain from deporting families
who have taught their children the value of working and studying hard, and
being good citizens?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vast majority of people who come here are here for the
same reasons your grandparents came here. Some of them, particularly the
Irish and Chinese ones, weren't very well treated either, but can't we learn
from the past and do better? Read about the myths that were spread about
Chinese and Irish immigrants back in the day. They will sound very
familiar. And if you have it in your heart to have any compassion whatsoever,
learn about the circumstances that cause families to leave everything behind
and risk their lives to immigrate. I wonder if YOU would be here if your ancestors faced the current immigration system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here’s a cool idea: learn Spanish. Oh, is it too
difficult? Well it's statistically a lot easier to learn than English but
immigrants are supposed to pick that up immediately, according to some
people. If you aren't fluently bilingual, you have no business
complaining about anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If pressing
a number 1 on a phone call to hear English is the biggest thing you have to complain about, please
get a life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you truly that entitled
and lazy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are a nation of immigrants,
most of whom managed to learn the language, and some who didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all have that ancestor who never learned
English, who came over from the “old country,” and I bet you aren’t ashamed of
yours or think they should have been deported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is, we’re
all human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those immigrants working the
fields for 12 hour days and caring for their children probably don’t have a lot
of study time on their hands either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, January 21, 2017, is the historic Women's March, which started in Washington, D.C. and has spread across this nation and even to other countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In our tiny rural community over 200 people showed up for today's march. Quite mind-blowing in a county in which Trump got more votes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We started the event with some music, and then some speakers. I was honored to be asked to speak. Then we marched through town. It was a fantastic event, and I was especially delighted to meet many other local people who share my values of equality, justice, and fairness. A few childish people drove by and flipped us off, but the overwhelming majority of people were honking and cheering as they drove by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our PA system wasn't working, and some people had asked for my speech because there were so many people that it was hard to hear. I am posting it here. I also want to add that there are two newly formed human dignity groups in our county. In South County, Progressive Action Tillamook has formed and has a Facebook page; they also organized the event. In North County, there is the newly formed Oregon Coast Love Coalition, which I believe also has a Facebook page. In Central County, Tillamook for Love, which is about two and a half years old, also has a Facebook page. I would encourage anyone who believes in freedom, justice, and peace to align with one or more of these groups, and we will work together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Hello everyone, I just want to
say that I stopped on the way here at Freddy’s to grab some poster board and a
marker and the foam boards and all the stiff boards for posters were COMPLETELY
sold out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I get here and turn the
corner, and WOW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a fantastic
turnout!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, I’m Romy and I worked for seven years
in the field of domestic and sexual violence prevention. I am here as a mother,
sister, daughter, grandmother, and concerned citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I brought my granddaughter because she’s
a concerned citizen too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I want to talk for a moment
about domestic and sexual violence, and the role that silence plays in
perpetuating violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing I
learned at the center was that abusers depend on the silence of their victims
and people around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If their victim
is too afraid to talk, if their voice is silenced, the abuser can continue to
hurt them and others with impunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
my work at the center, I taught junior high and high school kids that silence
is complicity, and I taught them about bystander intervention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They learned how to not be silent in the face
of bullying and other forms of violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I see strong parallels
between the behaviors of batterers and the behaviors of our current
administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday, America
entered a very unhealthy relationship and we love her and we’re concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We as Americans hold certain values, like
equality and human dignity, very dear and they are under threat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Already, the new
administration has vowed to cut funding to the Violence Against Women Act,
which funds life-saving services to people experiencing domestic and sexual
violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We CANNOT be silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are already defunding Planned Parenthood
in some states, which will surely lead to a rise in sexually transmitted
illnesses and unwanted pregnancies as women lose access to critical health
services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Donald Trump has an admitted
track record of sexually assaulting women and shows no remorse for his
actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He demeans immigrants, people
of color, people with disabilities, Muslims, poor people, overweight people, veterans,
really anyone who isn’t him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll be
blunt; he is an abuser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has already
removed pages from the White House website that are supportive of our LGBT
community and disabled workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he
seems to save his strongest hatred for women, whom he refers to as dogs and
pigs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not acceptable behavior
for anyone, much less a commander in chief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">When we see someone being
abused, we have a moral obligation to support that person and try to stop the
abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silence is not an option. Taking
a stand in a small town means taking risks, like you are right now by being
here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may result in people not
looking you in the eye in the grocery store anymore, or talking behind your
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good news is, you’re in a
small town so they already are!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give
them something to talk about!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Step up,
speak out, don’t be silenced!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
people escalate the abuse when someone speaks up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may roll their eyes, or call you a
snowflake, or tell you to “get over it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They may even threaten you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are trying to silence you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what
abusers do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t let them do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many ways to speak out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even refusing to laugh at jokes that are
racist, sexist, or hateful to any group is a great start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s actually a great time for cold, stony
silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Donald Trump may be the face
of the problem, but he isn’t THE problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is a demagogue, but he has had plenty of backing, and they are all counting
on our silence so they can continue to batter this planet and everyone on
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I’m going to read a quote
that I found very impactful, by Naomi Shulman:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">“Nice people made the best
Nazis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom grew up next to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They got along, refused to make waves, looked
the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were lovely people who turned their
heads as their neighbors were dragged away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You know who weren’t nice people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Resisters.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Be a resister!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t owe anyone an explanation, you
never need to justify taking a stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when you go home today, don’t just put your coat away and say, “well,
I did my part.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you won’t, and we
can’t afford that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can’t let this current administration
normalize hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to normalize
activism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have some powerful people
standing here, people who really love this community and our country, and want
to make it the best place in the world to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are the ones who can make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t have time for fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to stick together, get to know each
other, and strategize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look forward to
working with each of you, and changing the world together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you.</span></div>
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Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-41620322053418720252016-09-21T21:12:00.000-07:002019-05-06T03:59:36.634-07:00Whose Life Matters?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine for a moment that someone is bulldozing the graves
of YOUR family. In addition, they are
doing it to build a giant oil pipeline under your property, and your only
source of drinking water. Then do a
little research on ongoing oil leaks and spills and the effect on drinking
water and human health. How would you
feel about that? Would you put your body
on the line to make it stop?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine your brother/father/son is driving and his car
breaks down on the highway. He is trying
to get help and at last the police arrive.
Instead of helping they shoot him dead.
He is unarmed and not committing a crime, just trying to get
somewhere. How would you feel about
that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What if it kept happening, not only to your loved one,
but to other people’s loved ones who look like you. If the perpetrators were rarely held
accountable, how would you feel? How
would you feel about sending your black child to school, to the grocery store,
to the movies? Would you worry? Be honest.
How would you feel about this country?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine you lived somewhere that was unsafe and you had
to leave the only home you had ever known, so you and your children could be
safe? You go to a foreign country, and
you’re scared. You don’t speak the
language, but at least you are alive.
You take any job you can get because you are trying to survive and
support your family. You don’t have any
recourse if your employer mistreats you or you are injured on the job. You are treated like scum and accused of
“taking” other people’s jobs. You live
in constant fear of being caught, even though you aren’t a criminal, just a
human seeking refuge. One day you come
home and your spouse is gone. S/he has
been picked up by immigration and is facing deportation. One of your children, your youngest, was born
on US soil and is a citizen. You live in
fear that he will come home to find the rest of the family detained. Yes, that happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine you move to a country that is predominantly
Muslim. People hate you for your
religion. You are blamed for all sorts
of violence that you did not commit.
People have preconceived notions and stereotypes about you, and hate you
on sight because of your clothing. They
don’t care that you work every day, go home and cook dinner for your kids, do
community work, like to paint, love your grandparents, or help strangers
because you are nice person. They
decide, based on your religion, that you are a bad person. How would you feel? Would you feel safe? Would you feel free?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a middle-class white grandma, I have lived none of
this experience. But I don’t have to
belong to one of these groups to realize that THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY or
these things would not be taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You see, I have privilege. Nobody is building an oil pipeline through my
white neighborhood, including through the cemetery down the road where my
parents are buried. I can’t
imagine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If my car breaks down, and I see the police coming, I am
relieved. I’m willing to bet that poor
people and people of color experience that differently. Google “Broken Windows Policing” to get a better
idea of how the pettiest laws imaginable are created as an excuse to harass
innocent people for the “crime” of being poor or the wrong color, or living in
the “wrong” neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don’t experience the daily micro-aggressions that so
many others do. I have privilege. I
didn’t earn it, and I’m not special. I
just got lucky. Therefore, I have a
responsibility. That responsibility is
to point out that THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY.
Nobody is obligated to salute the flag, stand for or recite the pledge
of allegiance, or stand for our racist national anthem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you are one of the people who are “outraged” by people
who don’t salute the flag, I have a question for you: do you think that people
fought and died to support uprooting graves and poisoning the drinking water of
children? Was it so someone with a badge
can kill innocent people with impunity?
Because if you think this is a free country, YOU are part of the
problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maybe you got lucky too.
So you just assume it’s just as easy for everyone else. It’s not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The current attempted land-grab at the Standing Rock
Sioux Reservation, the modern-day lynchings of black citizens by police, and
the oppression, stereotyping and hate taking place is not freedom. It’s an international embarrassment, and
believe me, the world is watching. Ask a
Syrian what they think of the American definition of “freedom,” which seems to
involve their houses being bombed and their families being killed. Don’t even get me started on our “efforts” in
other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listen and LISTEN GOOD.
The people who refuse to stand for the national anthem are HEROES. They are speaking out against a broken
system. The anthem doesn’t care. It’s a song, just so you know. They aren’t disrespecting the flag, or a
song, or you. They are speaking out, for
all of the above, and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They have more patriotism in their little finger than you
will ever have, because they have courage.
You are not listening to what is
being said, and you are appointing yourself judge, jury, and executioner
without even trying to understand someone else’s experience. They want this country to be great, and they
have the intellect to understand that standing up for a song doesn’t make our
country great. That’s what we call
putting on a show. What makes our
country great is for every single person to be heard, for innocent people not
to die, for kids to have clean water and safe food, to be able to worship as
they choose, for families to be safe and together, and for the police to be
helpful to all. That’s freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Spare me your hypocritical rantings. Do you know how stupid you sound? Heads up, you are on the wrong side of
history. Forty years from now, the
people who acted like you, who opposed marriage equality and humane immigration
policy and non-racist laws, will be about as respected as the ones who
tormented Ruby Bridges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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allegiance to a broken system, and human rights will continue to be on the
forefront of our conscience. People are
waking up to the injustice, and thankfully, standing alongside those who are
brave enough to speak out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anyone that white lives matter, do you?
That’s already understood. Yes,
all lives matter, including immigrant lives, Native lives, gay lives, veteran
lives, Muslim lives, Latino lives, poor lives, and Black lives. The fact that we have to point it out is sad,
but apparently we do, and point it out we will.
The institutions of power in this country have killed, poisoned,
harassed, and enslaved enough people, and we will continue to speak out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome to the new civil rights movement. You don’t have to like it. The rest of us don’t care if you do or
don’t. It’s long overdue. Every single person deserves a voice, and the rest of us will stand strong (or sit as appropriate) to ensure they have it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-43809615904283228182016-03-04T20:00:00.000-08:002019-05-06T03:59:40.726-07:00For Cooper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span>After a series of other setbacks, my car has given up the ghost and
needs a new engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since my job was
ended due to funding back in October, I didn’t need this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, my tax refund this year was
spent catching up on bills and making repairs to my house that were
critical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was draining to get this
latest news, and I have been in full pity party mode all day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I picked up my phone and logged onto Facebook, and saw an
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deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cooper is only ten years old, and I’ve known his parents
so long I don’t remember how or when we met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I remember about 24 years ago or so, laughing with his dad Don as he
celebrated his sister’s baby being born that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cooper’s mom is Joanna, and her dad Gary was
my dentist for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gary died on
December 13<sup>th</sup>, within days of doctors discovering a cancerous tumor
in Cooper’s kidney, which had spread to his lung.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would need to have the tumor shrunk enough
to remove his kidney, then more aggressive treatment against the rest of the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have carried Cooper and his lovely parents in my heart as
they dealt with the memorial arrangements for his grandpa while trying to
absorb this incredibly devastating news, out of the blue.</span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qU-0Yr_66gA/VtpYHX1HAeI/AAAAAAAAD3k/vjiu1xdteD8/s1600/Cooper%2Bhealthy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qU-0Yr_66gA/VtpYHX1HAeI/AAAAAAAAD3k/vjiu1xdteD8/s1600/Cooper%2Bhealthy.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On Christmas Eve, as I opened presents and celebrated with
my family, Cooper dealt with mouth sores, jaw pain, and abdominal
cramping. He was in so much pain he was unable to eat, and was losing a
lot of weight. Two days after Christmas, his hair began to fall out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, a horrible and devastating
holiday season for him and his family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On January 5<sup>th</sup>, as I sat in the dentist’s
chair, feeling sorry for myself because I hate getting my teeth cleaned, Cooper
and his parents were saying their final goodbyes to Cooper’s grandpa, and he
was laid to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On February 3<sup>rd</sup>, as I sat waiting for my
granddaughter to come out of her tonsil surgery, I was anxious and worried,
even though I went through the same procedure with her mom and her
brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I sat agonizing and
fretting, Cooper’s parents were celebrating that their boy had been able to
come home to finish recovering from the removal of his left kidney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day prior he had had radiation simulation
in preparation for his upcoming radiation and chemo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The month since has been hell for Cooper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chemo and radiation have battered his poor
little body, while his parents helplessly watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His mother updated his Caring Bridge page
today, and it was heart wrenching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the kind of pain no parent should ever have to withstand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the last month has been wretched, they
are praying that this aggressive treatment kills the remaining cancer and
restores their son’s health. They are hopeful to get good results from an
upcoming scan on the 10<sup>th</sup> of this month, and could use all the
support they can get.</span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ua_xw_JYdLY/VtpXtJWzi3I/AAAAAAAAD3g/NHMXoLcOiCk/s1600/Cooper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ua_xw_JYdLY/VtpXtJWzi3I/AAAAAAAAD3g/NHMXoLcOiCk/s320/Cooper.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am providing a link to Cooper’s gofundme page, if
anyone is so inclined to send money their way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would mean a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/kzf65ddg">https://www.gofundme.com/kzf65ddg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you don’t wish to donate, or can’t afford to do so,
there are other ways to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Positive energy
and prayer goes a long way, and they’re free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you want to spread the word to others who can help, that’s also great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A friend of the family, Elisabeth, is selling bracelets
to raise money for Cooper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is even
a contest, which involves Portland Trailblazer tickets for whoever sells the
most tickets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you are interested
in purchasing or helping to sell bracelets, please <span class="5yl5">email her
at <a href="mailto:helpinghands@eaglehm.com">helpinghands@eaglehm.com</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It breaks my heart that there are thousands of kids out
there like Cooper, and parents enduring what his parents are enduring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How Don and Joanna have maintained even a
shred of sanity is beyond me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet they
are gracious, humble, and appreciative of every card, meal, prayer, and gesture
on their son’s behalf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor Joanna has
not even had the chance to properly grieve the death of her father, yet she
remains positive and hopeful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every kid
deserves parents that love them as much as they love Cooper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I scrolled Facebook today, I saw so many petty and
negative things, and I’ve certainly been guilty of it too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Yet here is Cooper, who always seems to be able to smile, no matter what. He and his parents </span>can provide us all a lesson,
or at least a reminder, about what really matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that short of directly helping this
family, you are at least able to stop for a moment, and remember how blessed
you are no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Peace Out Loudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07340836450631515257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938913464044602127.post-55662234689259193342016-02-28T20:19:00.000-08:002019-05-06T03:59:44.176-07:00Making America Great "Again"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lately, I have seen a lot of talk about liberals and how
we are ruining America, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
probably a whole other post, what being a liberal means to me, but for right
now, let’s talk about making America great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also see a lot of tripe from Donald Trump about how he
wants to “make America great again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
a lifelong liberal, I tend to look past soundbites and catchphrases, and ask,
exactly what does that mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As George
Carlin said, “I do this real moron thing called thinking, and I’m not a very
good American because I like to form my own opinions.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think about America’s history. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on Donald Trump’s words and behavior, I’m
assuming he wants an America that is great for HIM, not necessarily anyone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of America’s birth,
women were not allowed to vote, and black people were enslaved and treated as
less than human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life expectancy was
very low, and child mortality and deaths of women during childbirth were
common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Domestic violence and child
abuse <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were encouraged and sanctioned, and
human and civil rights for anyone other than white male landowners was
virtually non-existent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not many years prior, accused witches were burned at the
stake,tortured and killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of these
women were herbal healers, a threat to male-based allopathic medicine, which was
more invasive and often less effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Superstition and fear-based religion were the order of the day, and it
was not a safe time to be a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
still isn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fast forward to 1825, roughly 50 years later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not content to oppress Native Americans on
the eastern seaboard, white immigrants began to appropriate more and more
land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In January, Congress began forced
relocation of Oklahoma Natives in an event now referred to as the Trail of
Tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This become a pattern, as what
white people referred to as Manifest Destiny was rightly referred to by Natives
as genocide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By 1859, the railroads were in full swing from Atlantic
to Pacific, and Oregon, my home state, was founded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one time I was proud of Oregon’s refusal
to institute racism, but was horrified to learn the reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was founded as a “white homeland,” and the
reason folks didn’t want slavery is because they didn’t want black people
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1844, when it was known as “Oregon
Country,” a “lash law” was imposed that any black person, slave or free, who
dared to live here would be lashed twice a year as punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During this same time frame, many Chinese and Irish
immigrants came across the oceans in hopes of a new life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were, instead, met with extreme
prejudice and hatred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
persecuted, denied work and housing, and lived in poverty, misery and
suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Native Americans had been relegated to reservations, and
their children, like those of slaves, had been systematically ripped away to
boarding schools, where they were “re-educated.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a euphemism for being punished and
tortured and reviled for not being white, forced to speak only English, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">hav<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">e their hair cut off</span></span>, and lose ties to their families and loved ones as small children, a
direct manifestation of white supremacy sentiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not just people of color were suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Labor had long been unregulated, exploitative,
and extremely dangerous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the
decades, several attempts had been made to unionize, which had been
quashed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1870’s were a particularly
violent time for low-wage workers in slave conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wealth inequality was well established by 1900.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mass concentration of wealth through
acquisitions, such as J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Company in 1901, and the
unbridled power of banking firms, led to a population of one percent owning more
national wealth than the other 99 percent (sound familiar?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it’s 1/10<sup>th</sup> of 1%).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life expectancy for whites was 48 years and nonwhites was
34. The work force included 1.75 million children under 15 and more than five
million women, who sometimes worked for a penny an hour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1914, the infamous Ludlow Massacre resulted in the
deaths of 1200 striking miners and their families, who were attacked and
murdered in their tents, in Colorado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
year prior, on Christmas Eve, 73 men, women, and children were killed when they
were trampled to death at an upstairs party in a theater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone falsely yelled, “Fire,” then
blockaded the doors, trapping the people in the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The partygoers were striking mineworkers and
their families, and the suspected instigators were anti-union thugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were many other incidents, which most of us never
were told about in school, in our government-approved curriculum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, history is written by the victors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The right to vote for women, in 1920, was hard-won, and
the result of untold suffering and persecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It took a long concerted effort, and women were tortured and killed in
the course of gaining their rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Black men had been allowed to vote since 1870.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this was not any guarantee of being
treated as humans, and lynchings and torture of people, for the “crime” of
being black, continued for generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1927, work began to carve the faces of four wealthy
white male landowners into what had been sacred Native American land in the
Dakotas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1939 Mount Rushmore, a
visible reminder of subjugation and white domination over native peoples, was
complete.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the 1930’s, following bank crashes and other
crises, America was thrust into the throes of the Great Depression, and it was
a decade of grinding poverty and misery… unless you were part of the wealthy
1%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the 1940’s many American men were going off to war,
and there was a new workforce: women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, many women, who were skilled workers supporting families,
were displaced and told to “go back to the kitchen” once World War II
ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese Americans were
wrongfully interned into camps, even as some of their loved ones were serving
overseas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of them never regained
their jobs, possessions, or homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Life continued to be miserable during this time for
people of color, many of whom had loyally served their countries, only to come
home to anything but a hero’s welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While the NAACP won some victories in the Supreme Court, there was a
horrible backlash against people of color in the south after race riots in New
York and Detroit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The post-war era in the forties marked the beginning of
the Cold War with Russia and a kind of palpable fear in society that remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also marked the beginning, in 1950, of the
civil rights era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fifties brought us
the Korean War, civil unrest, and the shame that was the McCarthy era. Too few
people know that neither our pledge of allegiance nor our currency before the 50’s
mentioned God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The separation of church
and state which was precious to the founding fathers was thrown out the window
by fear-ridden and paranoid lawmakers, with a Bible in one hand and a flag in
the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 50’s mark one of the most repressive, uptight eras in
our society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Diversity and
individuality, as well as freedom of expression were frowned upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Racism, sexism and xenophobia were rampant as
ever, and being gay was something nobody even dared to talk about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 60’s marked a time of great unrest but also great
social growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Issues which had been
taboo and “improper” in the 50’s were now open for discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School segregation, women’s rights, “race
relations,” lesbian and gay rights, poverty programs and other social
constructs were topics of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protests
against the Vietnam war, environmental abuse, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">and </span>nuclear weapons
happened all over the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sexuality
began to be embraced as part of being human, and women’s groups began to emerge
where women <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">s</span>hared their experiences. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">D</span>omestic violence began to be
seen as a social ill, and less something to be tolerated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there were no shelters or other
places to get help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t until the
end of the decade and early 70’s that there began to be resources for abuse
survivors. Spousal rape was still legal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Freedom Riders, with their brave actions, forced the
hand of elected officials to desegregate <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">busing</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s worth mentioning the importance of
allies in any civil rights movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just like male allies helped women to get the vote, white Freedom Riders
(and their worried parents) brought attention to the movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any time we have privilege, and see someone
else being hurt, we have an obligation to use our privilege to help that person
or group, and the white Freedom Riders were a great example: not of being any
more brave than the black riders, but as an example of realizing that we are
all in this together and need to stick up for one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
seventies saw the end of Vietnam and the effect (again) on corporate owned
media on masses of people who demonized returning soldiers instead of the
warmongers who made a huge profit from the deaths of so many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also saw the beginning of pushback against
the progress made by the civil rights movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A counter-movement began, called the New Right, with a specific agenda: </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Co</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">mplete freedom to make money through businesses, including
the freedom to exploit workers and pollute the environment.</span>
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public parks and schools. </span></div>
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education, housing, food stamps, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ronald Reagan’s
administration, with the backing of the New Right, overturned many advances in
civil rights which had taken decades to achieve. He is also
famous for his “trickle-down” theory of economics, which was based on the
premise (well, let’s be honest, a lie) that creating tax breaks and incentives
for very wealthy Americans would cause them to reinvest the money back into the
economy and help everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Predictably,
they stashed it into investments for themselves and overseas bank accounts,
while the rest of society continued to suffer and wealth in<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">equa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">lity grew.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The New Right
has dredged up old oppressive dialogue, which has resulted in hateful commentators
such as Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, who blame and shame anyone who is poor
or oppressed, and perpetuate the myth that if you are poor it’s because you are
lazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They promote a dog-eat-dog philosophy
which is derisive and divisive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather
than work to improve society in general, they are profiteers and charlatans
with an inflated sense of superiority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They fan the underlying fears of racial tensions and anti-immigrant
sentiment, scapegoating those who aren’t white, wealthy, male, landowners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They claim Christianity, while embracing none
of its precepts or expectations of morality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They use their wealth and corporate power to buy legislators, influence
laws, and block accurate education, particularly in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They depend on the stupidity of the masses to
support them in their hate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unless you are
better educated than most, you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">may not have </span>heard of the Ludlow Massacre,
1913 Massacre, and the Oregon Lash Law of 1844.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So who decided what you were taught in school, and why did the people in
power not want you to know about those things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What things are you unaware of now that are being deliberately omitted
on the evening news? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The reason for
this lengthy, while hardly comprehensive, tale of our country’s history, is to
point out that at no point has America been “great” for a majority of its
people. It has, however, been consistently great for white, male, wealthy,
heterosexual, Christian, able-bodied landowners, particularly bankers and businessmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Further, in
exactly what way does Donald Trump plan to make America great “again?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I doubt he promotes a return to the civil
rights advances of the 60’s and the social constructs that leveled the playing
field for the oppressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At what part of
history has American been truly great, or is greatness something to which we
can aspire, if united?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far his words
and actions serve only to divide people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So this brings
us to the 2016 Presidential election, and we have some important choices to
make, choices which will literally affect the entire world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can vote for candidates who are owned by
the New Right and the 1%, who frankly don’t care about you and me, or we can
pick someone on our side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I highly
recommend the following website, the Political Compass: <a href="http://politicalcompass.org/">http://politicalcompass.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a link
to a quiz you can take to determine your political leanings, and there is also
a link to view where the current Presidential candidates fall on the spectrum
between left and right, as well as between authoritarian and libertarian
philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You may notice that all of
the Republican candidates are in one cluster in the upper-right
(authoritarian/right) quadrant of the graph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now notice the difference between the two remaining Democratic
candidates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hillary Clinton, while more
centrist and less authoritarian than the Republicans, remains in the same
quadrant as them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bernie Sanders,
however, is in the lower-left quadrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is left-leaning and slightly more libertarian than authoritative, like Democrats
used to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has been fighting for
civil rights for decades, while Clinton has aligned herself with the likes of
Barry Goldwater and Henry Kissinger, both glaring human rights violators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Though he is
running as a Democrat, he has been an Independent in the Senate for many
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To view his voting record, bills
introduced and sponsored, and compare to his opponents, visit <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/">www.votesmart.org</a>, a non-partisan site that
compares issues and candidates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, like
Donald Trump, he is the non-establishment candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is where any resemblance ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Trump, he is not a billionaire spewing
hate and contempt for others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His campaign
is not being financed by a single Super-PAC, but by the American people, voters
like you and me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has a long history
of sticking up for the trod upon, the very people whom Donald Trump would
exploit to make a fast buck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you think
Donald Trump is on your side, or intends to make America great for anyone other
than himself, think again. He is a rich, spoiled product of the New Right, and
is rife with all the accompanying corruption and greed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He plans to dial back civil rights, make the
rich richer, and the poor poorer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
God help you if you are a person or color, or an immigrant, or a Muslim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because while Trump doesn’t live by the
precepts of the Bible, he loves to carry one around and bash people over the
head with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will pretend to be
whatever the evangelicals want him to be so he can become more powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you vote for him, the joke is not only on
you; it is on the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has even
bragged that he could stand on the corner and shoot people and not lose
votes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He treats the entire election
process as a hilarious joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he wins
we all lose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Liberals are trying to make America truly great for the
first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t want to go
backwards to a fantasy that never was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want to create a nation
that is “great” for everyone, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, creed,
religion, skin color, gender, ability, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every victory has been hard fought and hard won, and we have suffered
setbacks, but in Bernie Sanders we have an ally with a proven history of
compassion and strength, who will not swerve from his ideals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He, unlike any other candidate in decades, is
not entrenched in scandal and corruption, and is truly on our side. I hope you will join me, if you haven’t already, in
voting for him in your state's primary, and again in November. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Vote like the world depends on it, because at this point,
it truly does.</span></div>
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