I’m not participating in 3WW this week as I’m going to New York to see friends and family and eat too much food I wouldn’t usually eat as it’s Passover and my sister is a great cook.
I hope to have news about my apartment soon.
I will say that if Obama is an elitist, then I’m____. He said what many of us say and/or think including people of faith. I used to say I would give people the Second Amendment if they would give me The First Amendment but…..The First is being slowly and not so slowly tampered with while the Second remains intact.
Boston Legal was incredible tonight. Nantucket, the Island, wanted permission to make a nuclear bomb. To truly over simplify they wanted to show that because of the present admin, every country has permission to make one–which means the country can use one The Judge was really incensed as Pakistan probably has one and that’s the country Bin Laden is probably hiding in. Of course he couldn’t grant Nantucket permission. My personal favorite line was “who will save us? The Vineyard?” I guess I am a Northerner.
Meanwhile, Shirley’s (Candice Bergen) father has end stage dementia. She had to go to court to get an order to let him have a morphine drip. Again this is a bare outline. Alan (James Spader) did a brilliant summation and talked about his best friend Denny (William Shatner) who has the very early signs. Someday Alan will have to make decisions about Denny–who unknown to Alan was watching the summation.
I have worked with many people with all different stages of dementia. I have also worked with people who were about to die yet they couldn’t get hospice care which would have allowed them a morphine drip. I have screamed at nurses and doctors.
The nursing home argued that this would set a bad precedent as so many teens and middle aged people try to kill themselves. Alan said it should be done on a case by case basis.
I disagree. Every person who is considered “terminal” and is or might be in dire pain–they argued that Shirley’s father was too far gone to feel pain–she said his agitation showed that he feels pain–should be allowed to have morphine drips. If they become addicted, so? The slight fallacy with her argument is that people with mid dementia become agitated simply because they are so confused.
I cried watching Shirley. She talked about what a great man her father had been. Now he was a shell. I have always said the greatest gift my father gave our family was dying within five days of having a stroke.
He died over Passover, his favorite holiday. My father discovered religion when we went to a seder in Mobile, when I was fourteen.
Now I live in North Myrtle Beach only it feels so North. Everybody is from somewhere else. I spoke to a woman from the Jewish Center, who invited me for a seder though I’m not really a believer. I thought that was very nice. Especially since I told her so–but many Jews aren’t. It’s a cultural thing for me.
She told me that if I just go 20 minutes South from here I will be in the real South. Maybe, baby.
That’s too funny, that the real South is 20 minutes south of you. Did you mean to do that?
Good luck with the apartment!
p.s. - re Obama? I don’t quite see how saying that people cling to the things they have left when things they had (jobs, homes, maybe even family & friends who enlisted in the military) are being taken away is so elitist. Oddly, if he was an atheist, I might see him as looking down his nose at people with beliefs, but clearly faith is something that matters to him, too.
Lil’ BoheMia, whom I had not spoken to about the Democratic candidates, has cast her vote in favor of Hillary Clinton. She wants a woman in the White House. It hit her hard that until now no woman has been president. I will vote for whomever gets the nomination, bottomline, but personally, I admit to having a hard time wishing for a woman to not get it… ’tis a hard choice.
As for your post my dearest Pia, MY GOD, how I have missed your words!!! Beautiful and eloquent and oh so Pia… I have been catching up on the last few posts and was very touched at the sweet mention. Thank you. You know the feeling, on both counts of best friendship, is completely mutual.
I know how you have felt and feel about blogging, but I tell you, no form of burnout is apparent in your beautiful words…
Love you much!
Me…
I caught BL the night before I left for Mexico, and thought that was a great episode. Didn’t catch it this week, so I’m going to have to try to get it.
I can be sad and laugh at the same time when I come here, that is why you are special, a writer who happens to blog as opposed to a blogger who happens to have to write in order the have a blog.
I found Hilary to be suffering from much the same pathos this evening - in the little piece of the debate I did get to see - it would be painful to have to vote for the same old politics, which is what she is, gender has nothing TO do with it. Obama is screeching to have American wake up.
It’s all too tiring really.
When you visit the “real south” take pictures.
That someone should even have to fight for a morphine drip for someone so ill is heinous.
Have a great trip North. Happiest of Passovers to you - enjoy the seders! The weather has been great
Obama IS an elitist. Worse, he’s a dishonest one, always trying to convince whatever audience he’s pandering to that he’s one of them and filled with contempt for anyone not like them.
If anything could, his non-apology apology gave his game away. I hope America notices.
Are you permenently in Myrtle Beach now?
Happy Passover.
Incidentally, this redneck prefers elitists to populists by a heap.
Happy Passover. Hope you’re enjoying being home for the holiday. Now are these the high holidays? Or is that some other time? Feel free to answer in a future post
Love the 20 minutes and you’ll be in the real South line.
This isn’t about this post in particular, I just wanted to commend you on your fantastic blog design. I really love the look of everything here. It’s beautifully executed, easy to read and it has a sassy sex appeal!
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The man can speak eloquently and he is pleasant to look at, but his speeches lack substance. I think people are more infatuated with him being someone “different”.
I think he was approached by the party leaders to run for president and fund him endlessly because he is likable. He wasn’t even a US senator. He was a State senator. I don’t think he is ready to lead a country just yet.