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Imagine You are a Book

23 Tuesday Jul 2019

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American dysfunctional families, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, labels, Medicaid failure, Mental Health, physical health, poverty, PTSD, state of the "Union", stigmatizing, trauma

Each book is a life story

Imagine that you are a book. Each page in your book is assigned to all the doctors you’ve ever seen, and pages for each and every family member and friend and people you encounter, and bugs you squash in irritation . . . everybody has a page of YOUR book. Some have more pages than others.

You open your book about your life from birth to Now, and one by one, you tear out a sheet and give it to the appropriate doctor with a specialty in the issues of physical and/or mental health on that particular page, for each particular doctor.

Among these highly-trained specialists, there is little yet mostly no communication. Each specialist, when asked for a diagnosis, gives his take INTENDED to represent your entire book (after 5 minutes of your life), divulges a plethora of wide-ranging labels for your book’s title, meaning the entirety of YOU that they hold as truth with minds of ideological steel.

Their ignorance is causing you harm, via cost, stress of appointment after appointment while experiencing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, traveling while sick, being subjected to test after test after test with many instances of radiation exposure (body-wide), financial incurrence beyond your means, the failure of Medicaid’s infrastructure which has paid zero medical bills for 2 years and put you in a state of bankruptcy as you live on the poverty line, sick, alone, the desperation of having no doctor (but for one precious sapling, flexible and full of light–your primary care doctor) LISTEN to you with your knowledge of the whole of your own experience.

Your family avoids you. You remind them of their own mortality . . . that they too will each be invalidated and slowly die alone, as you are experiencing now. Family has disappeared but for your savior son 500 miles away . . . that set of conditions, among all issues has remained and manifested into the gut-punch of PTSD.

Each family member has a page or pages out of your life story. Light bulb moment!

You have lived each page and contain the entire narrative in a samsara*-wracked body and mind, and with each doctor or family member (of 7 immediate family), or friend, you sense rigid ignorance of the whole of your life, and the lack of interest each individual has in reading other pages of your book, even when paid! The blind men touching a huge elephant comes to mind. Each blind man has a wildly different “diagnosis” about what this thing is that they are touching.

Some family members have more of your pages than others, and rise up in power and arrogance, bestowing upon themselves some twisted honor to have known X before anyone else in your immediate family. In this scenario, it is your mother who has a rambling jumble of your pages, has a PhD diploma hanging on her wall, hence whose opinion is ceded to by others of the 7, far-flung as they are. (Do they run from her? Or do they run from you?). Four of the 5 adolescent siblings ran away or tried to get away from her sad ignorance and bitter spirit. The 5th one opted out of living with your mother, by choosing to go with your father upon the violent divorce.

Books Books Books. Too much to read and bothersome to have around. A house full of traumatized children and your two equally traumatized parents–a microcosm of the macrocosmic state of the “Union”–all covered in the pages of your book. And all the blind doctors and all the blind men couldn’t put you back together again, and had a cumulative effect in creating great confusion and stress as EVERYONE struggled to take power over your life. What an honor to have such power–especially if the PhD diplomas hanging on many walls were free tickets to RIDE over you and squish you like a bug with impunity. Get over it. In the U.S., you are worthless.

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“I am joining the protests in Puerto Rico”–Tulsi Gabbard

20 Saturday Jul 2019

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corruption, Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Iraq, kickbacks, lobbyists, Puerto Rico, San Juan, the People, Tulsi2020, Wall Street

I second that emotion–mickey morgan

Yesterday, I touched down in San Juan to stand with hundreds of thousands of protesters calling on Puerto Rico Governor
Ricardo Rosselló to resign. Thousands of people have been
protesting nonstop for a week now. And the only responses
they’ve gotten are dismissive platitudes from the Governor
ignoring their cries for an end to corruption. These protests are
about so much more than offensive language in leaked chats.
They’re about more than the Governor and his associates’ elitist
attitudes. They’re about rampant corruption within Puerto
Rico’s government that pretends to serve the interests of its
people but instead exploits them, over and over again for
profits and power. It is this blatant corruption that undermines
people’s faith in our democracy, our country and our values. 
Puerto Rico is an example of how decades of neglect by those in
power, who put their own selfish interests ahead of the
well-being of the people, and who put profits and politics ahead
of the needs of its citizens, erodes faith in our democracy and
causes widespread suffering. This isn’t something people only
experience in Puerto Rico. Across the country, we share their
sense of injustice. We know what it feels like for our voices to
go unheard — in San Juan, on Wall Street and in Washington D.C.That’s why I’m here to support the people taking action to end a multibillion-dollar corruption network involving kickbacks for
lobbyists and state officials, preferential government contracts
and use of public resources to do partisan work. I’m here to stand with my fellow Americans in Puerto Rico calling for the
resignation of a corrupt Governor who has shown he is for
himself, rather than for the people. I call on every Democratic
candidate running for President to come here and stand withour fellow Americans in Puerto Rico against corruption.
I’m here to stand with my fellow Americans in Puerto Rico
here on American soil demanding change. I stand with the
people of Puerto Rico who love our country, who have sacrificed
for our country and our people. Who have fought for our civil
rights, and who I served alongside in Iraq. Who have put their
lives on the line to serve our country. I stand with these great
patriots and the people of Puerto Rico who deserve a
government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
With love of country,
Tulsi

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I danced with Harkness from 70 to 73. I continued to dance till I was 50. After getting a bachelor's and master's in English, I started, in my last few years of dance, to use my writing with my solo choreography, ie., performance art stuff. I've worked at University of Cincinnati and Morehead State University in publications management, and now (since 97) do free-lance editing and book design (see TheKarmaPress.com . . . still being built). I concentrated on poetry in university. I have a personal blog for simple thoughts I come up with: KarmaLifeReadings.blogspot.com. I'm living in Cincinnati. I have a beautiful 30-yr-old son, Chris, who is in his first year at Georgetown University Law, focusing on war crimes, human rights and abolishing of the death penalty. He is married to his high-school sweetheart. I also read Karma Tarot cards from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective.

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