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