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When Mental Health and Guns Collide
or, how did we get here?

for mental health care
of saboteurs…
were incrementally "mis-appropriated"
i.e.: stolen
(probably for political favours) -
Imagine, if the GOP had had the juevos then
to do what was right,
how differently today's headlines would read -
was a spectacularly missed GOP opportunity -
are wielded on American streets by the mentally ill -
i doubt that today's violent reality is the ‘normal life’
which speaks volumes about his party today
tuesday, 11 apr 2023
Where did the rhythm go?
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saturday, 8 april 2023
rambling thoughts on Easter
when i was a child, there was no mistake that the feast's focus is the resurrection,
with the baby animals and candy baskets definitely rendered secondary, compensation for surviving
the mind-bending 4 days before Easter of long-kneeling, standing and sitting ritual (from a kid’s POV anyway) -
without need of further interpretation,
and ultimately brought me to the understanding that, as a pre-Vatican II cradle Catholic (read: septuagenarian),
in fact, i wasn’t Christian -
technically a Christian believes that Christ died for his/her sins –
i believe Jesus died to teach me how to live and die for my own sins …
even despite my teachers, the venerable Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
whose history dates back to the 1650s France -
thankfully because their rule requires that each child be treated as if he/she were the Christ child,
to ensure that happened, i studied one on one with Mother Superior,
who sagely allowed for exploration of arcane concepts, such as,
why Catholic didn’t necessarily mean Christian –
we both agreed that the first Christians were the Catholics,
but when i countered that Catholic then and Catholic now are two very different animals,
Mother had to agree -
and i was feeling rather vindicated at a recent discovery that in fact,
Jesus consistently refers to himself as the ‘son of man’ and never as the ‘son of God’…
(that appellation was ascribed to him by later gospel writers) ...
i realized that if we look at Jesus the way he sees himself,
then his miracles are something else again
and take on huge implications for the capabilities of humankind as a whole …
conversely when we chose to see Jesus as God
(isn’t that idolatry? i remember asking Mother),
then we lose the truest, most intrinsic power in his miracles --
the resurrection plotline is not exclusive to Christians -
wherein the soul superseded ego to manifest self-enlightenment …
maybe that’s what we really ought to celebrate tomorrow: divine manifestation -
heaven knows such universal alignment is muchly needed now more than ever

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sunday, 2 apr 2023
For obvious reasons, big media companies didn't pick up this story,
but it appears in a number of local Florida sources,
so i’m going to run with it …
the headline reads:
Florida School Censors Madonna and Child;
Calls It “Assault on Family Values”
apparently Mary “doesn't look happy enough about being a mother” --
wow … spoken like a man –
here’s what i was taught about Mary –
that, as a mother, she sensed what was going to happen to her child –
that’s called maternal instinct and it is far more important than smiling pretty in artistic renderings …
it would seem, embracing darkness means to extinguish humankind’s rightful abilities -
here - read the article for yourself
below, the offending image