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.