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After my stroke in 2008, it took me six months to learn how to walk with a quad-cane well enough to make it down the block to the hot dog cart, and doing so became a big event.
Needless to say, my online relationships became far more important to me than they had been, and bloggers became an important part of my day. They still are, and just so you know, I found Blue Gal's blog on Digg.com more than a decade ago (before the stroke), and when I started reading her she was all "vote for Driftglass in the weblog awards" so I had to read Driftglass before I voted for him, because that's just the kind of motherfucker I am.
So here I am now.
You know, when I just got home from the hospital and rehab place after the stroke, the big question in my mind was "how much of the way it was before will I be able to get back" and I gotta say that as an independent (not in the political sense) person, it really seemed bleak for a long time.
It turns out that the answer was "none of it" in that even the activities I was able to resume I had to approach as if for the first time.
These days, when the weather permits, I walk up the road past the mailboxes and to the dam on the old mill pond and back, which takes me about 45 minutes and gives me ample opportunity to practice not using the cane I carry when I walk. There's a bridge over a creek, and another over the river, and there is wildlife in and on the pond. Ducks and frogs, people, ducks and frogs. And the occasional Canada goose.
Anyway, I don't think things are going back to the way they were automatically.
I understand as well as anyone how much of a pain in the ass that will be.
But what I'm trying to bring to the table here is cognizance of the opportunity we're facing. Sort of like how much disdain I always have for people sporting the "tear it all down and start over" philosophy because of how much damage to ordinary people that would entail for some well meant but nebulous goals... only now the damage is done right upfront, and the repairing of it now presents us with a rare opportunity to shove things in more equitable directions as we heave them back into place.
I'm not entirely optimistic about it, but when I try to apply myself toward capitalizing on that opportunity, I find that I'm much less anxious about the goddamn apocalypse we're living through.
Also, I feel like we have a real shot at it, and that energizes everything else I do.
Thank you again for the podcast. Yesterday, I saw a new cat climb down out of a tree in front of the house, but I was too slow getting my phone out for a picture. It was a pretty cat, so I'll try to be ready next time and maybe I can send you the picture, because for the first time in all of these years, I'm actually out of cats to send in.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Thanks for remembering that both Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil were spun off from Oprah. I'm not one of these people who say things like "We have to be better than Republicans," but I'm beginning to think reading the comments sections of articles on left-leaning sites isn't worth my time. Maybe some of the comments are being deleted after I've read them, but it feels like there's been a uptick in posts actively calling for people's deaths and posts posturing about assaulting people (Nazis and COVIDiots). Whether it's actual people venting or trolls trying to provoke liberals into doing something illegal and/or stupid, it's disheartening.
Great podcast, however i believe Magical Rurualism is about the make a massive comeback as legacy media sends their best and bravist to interview all the Real Americans (tm) armed to the teeth, wearing MAGA hats, and waving conderate flags about how DC and (insert nearest elected female Democratic official here) have failed them by not ‘opening the economy’ like Dear Leader has asked.
No follow up questions or analysis of why all these protests seems so uniform, well funded, and quickly organized across the state of Midwest will be entertained.
Other than what Les Moonves said about Trump, I've seen little commentary, beside you folks, about what is driving the nightly drive on TV.
Perhaps the obvious reason so many very bad 'analysts' still shuffle around on TV like zombies is that it's a big protection racket. They all have dirt on each other. Even pedestrians like me living in D.C. have heard persistent rumors of folks maintaining their positions as media elites because they have the goods on other movers and shakers. It's obvious.
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