Thursday, Oct, 26, 2017
One way I try to use dialectics to keep myself sane here is to recognize I'm very much like the other residents in some ways (we're all disabled and we all have health issues. ) Hover, I'm very different from a lot of people in many ways. I'm Jewish, and virtually everyone else is Christian. I've developed a persona for myself as a man who would use the same kind of virtuous life as Jesus Christ. I attend Catholic Church here on Sunday and residents love it when I play a guitar song.
It's a struggle for me to keep from seeing myself like the people who hang around with nothing to do, waiting for lunch or bingo. It''s hard to find a resident who's an intellectual; but I have quite a bit in common with a man my age who admires me for having resisted the draft during the Vietnam War.
His Mother is now over a hundred years old. It always astounds me that she and her circle of friends have become close friends of mine. Even a 85 woman named June, who first told me she didn't want her money to go for women on AFDC to have more children. Now, I. see a "politics that goes on here that' s the other side of dirty politics. It's the politics of love, caring, mutual respect
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Oct. 24, 2017
To coin a praise from the article by "Joe," October 19 was my 70th year on this planet! Honestly, i don't feel my age. When I first came here six yeas ago, I was 64, but all my caretakers thought I was 44, 52; to tell you truth, I came here for rehabilitation and nursing care, but all this care and repeated periods of hospitalization have helped me be healthy. Very often Medicare cuts me off Therapy after only a month, and right now this leads me to experience periods of excruciating pain, which may have been cured by more physical therapy . (But all my experience over the the years indicates that I have never gone without therapy. On the whole, the last time I saw my Dr. he said I was stable. Now I have my computer, so I can have a support system for myself inside and outside this place.
To coin a praise from the article by "Joe," October 19 was my 70th year on this planet! Honestly, i don't feel my age. When I first came here six yeas ago, I was 64, but all my caretakers thought I was 44, 52; to tell you truth, I came here for rehabilitation and nursing care, but all this care and repeated periods of hospitalization have helped me be healthy. Very often Medicare cuts me off Therapy after only a month, and right now this leads me to experience periods of excruciating pain, which may have been cured by more physical therapy . (But all my experience over the the years indicates that I have never gone without therapy. On the whole, the last time I saw my Dr. he said I was stable. Now I have my computer, so I can have a support system for myself inside and outside this place.
Oct., 24, 2017
As John, my psychotherapist is fond of saying, "look at the world dialectialically,," I try to see the the good and the bad, and, often, how the good and bad are interwoven.
CNN is blaring at me that the President did, or did not, fail to "properly" apologize to the widow of a slain soldier when he did, in fact, fact, forget the solder's name. If nothing else, it was a not only an indication of how how government officials cover up for Trump but they refuse to reveal it's a blatant act of racism.
In this place I'm always told "we don't talk about politics." What the Administration means is what people consider "dirty politics," the stuff apathetic people here don't want to hear. It's a a rehab center and nursing home. A lot of people are old and demented. In general, they're attitude is "what can I do about anything?" They try to care about their family and, in general, take the attitude that it doesn't do any good to worry.
I'm really glad I had a chance to write the above paragraph because it's something I've been wanting to write for a long time.
I'll get back to the first sentence later.
As John, my psychotherapist is fond of saying, "look at the world dialectialically,," I try to see the the good and the bad, and, often, how the good and bad are interwoven.
CNN is blaring at me that the President did, or did not, fail to "properly" apologize to the widow of a slain soldier when he did, in fact, fact, forget the solder's name. If nothing else, it was a not only an indication of how how government officials cover up for Trump but they refuse to reveal it's a blatant act of racism.
In this place I'm always told "we don't talk about politics." What the Administration means is what people consider "dirty politics," the stuff apathetic people here don't want to hear. It's a a rehab center and nursing home. A lot of people are old and demented. In general, they're attitude is "what can I do about anything?" They try to care about their family and, in general, take the attitude that it doesn't do any good to worry.
I'm really glad I had a chance to write the above paragraph because it's something I've been wanting to write for a long time.
I'll get back to the first sentence later.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Sunday, October 1, 2017
David Duboff, Oct 1, 2017:
Day by day, we're heading faster and faster down the slippery slope towards fascism in this country IF the people who elected Trump,seeing him as a "populist" who would "give government back to the people, would understand populism has an ugly face: rule by the rich, while all the rest of us in this country face ever greater oppression.
An ever number know he's a racist, sexist, bigot -- any ugly characteristic you could possibly imagine. The worst part about this is that the never-ending "tweets" are destroying the very Democratic values he claims to hold so dear.
Oct,
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