The Crow: May 2020

Monday, May 4, 2020

On a Different Note

There are times when partisanship has its place, but now is not that time. Now is when we need encouraging messages from anyone who can put party politics aside and reach out to all of us, regardless of where we live.

I found this video clip this afternoon and was lifted by George W. Bush's message. I hope that you might also find it encouraging and find hope in what he has to say. This how I think a president should speak to us, to help us reunite and work together to rebuild our country.

(In case any of you wonders, I consider myself a Democrat, though I tend to vote for the person and not the party. I voted for GWB the first time he ran because I didn't want anyone connected to the Clinton administration back in the White House. Then I listened to Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democrat convention and realized he had to be president, even though he wasn't running that year. I wrote in his name in 2004; was thrilled the following election to help put him in office in '08.)

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Getting Through Today

Like millions of others around the world, I live with clinical depression. On bad days, if I am momentarily clear-headed enough to think outside my uncontrolled, self-imposed misery, I wonder how those others get through their tough times.

One thing that helps distract me from my omnipresent Unseen is laughter; the belly-shaking kind from watching stupid movies or drunk squirrels videos or listening to musical parodies. Political parodies reign supreme.

To paraphrase Rod Serling, I gathered and submit for your approval/amusement the following videos from YouTube (not all are comedic, some are tributes):

May laughter fill your dark moments throughout your days.

(I owe several of you responses to your previous comments. Let me say now, in case the Unseen interferes with answering you yet again, that I deeply appreciate your comments, which let me know you are still here and doing relatively well. I am cheered by reading your blog posts and your comments.)

Martha

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)