Back So Soon?

 I guess I will have to eat my words now because I think this is too good not to pass on. 

Never say never.

 

And for some contrast, I will share these thoughts: 

We watched “The Golden Girls 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship” last night. It was an ABC special that we TiVo-ed when it aired back in November I believe. It actually brought tears to my eyes and not from laughter.

What I was feeling was grief. Not necessarily grief for the loss of the wonderful women who stared in the show, but more for the times in which the show took place. We were fighting for our rights and freedom and our lives - and we were invincible and strong and steadfast. And as difficult as things were for us and others we were winning and making progress. We were high on our pride and confidence.

Today is dark with an evil my generation has not seen, not even during the height of the AIDS crisis and there certainly was evil directed at us then.

Today we are on the verge of losing it all.

I grieve for what we have already lost; I grieve for those happier times and the laughter; and I grieve for what is being destroyed by our own government. I grieve for the loss of innocence and safety and reality as we knew it.

We have a disease that even the Golden Girls cannot cure.

Update

 I haven't been posting and my checking in on other blogs has been sporadic. Not for any particular reason except I probably spend too much time on JMG and YouTube and putting myself together in the morning. 

After the morning oblations and hearing aids and exercises for the knee and shoulder and whatever ails me at the moment (I am not one for exercises) and doctor, dentist, pharmacy trips and grocery shopping and cooking and laundry....And the fact that I've kind of run out of things to talk about: New Mexico is monotonous, and nothing of importance has happened (or if it did, it wasn't that interesting), family, food, friends, hubby, rants, politics, outrage, LGBTQ, even the trip to California this past September - I've been there, done that.  I've written it all before. 

To take it one step further, I'm going through Reluctant Rebel past posts from the oldest to newest, saving what I like in a separate file and reverting them all to "draft" status. Eventually I will probably be deleting the entire blog for good. Just so you won't wonder what happened to me...

There is a slogan that reminds hikers to "Leave No Trace".  As a hiker on this earth, I'm afraid that will be impossible, but as a hiker on this internet thing, perhaps I will leave behind fewer breadcrumbs and so be a bit harder to find.

I will leave you with this:

May we all survive the insanity of these frightening and horrific times. I appreciate all of you, your comments, your stopping by now and then, and visiting you on your own Blogs. 

Thank you all and PEACE, my friends.