I COULDN'T NOT WRITE THIS REACTION TO RAISE THE ROOF
Green Library Online Exhibit Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement This is important. You should visit it. 65 Stories: Say Their Names (a Stanford Libraries exhibit) Raise the Roof by MeShell Ndegeocello (Read by Staceyann Chin) “Raise the Roof” is a song from her forthcoming album No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin by Meshell Ndegeocello. It speaks about the Black American experience. I will never, as no white person will ever, be able to know precisely what that experience is like.
Read moreWaking up this morning, which is a little overcast causing it to look like a grey muggy sauna out there, with a few songs from k.d. lang’s Ingenue. It’s one of very few albums I listen to that doesn’t have a single skippable song. “So It Shall Be” is my favorite this morning.
Read moreOne of my favorite neo soul singer songwriters is a woman named MeShell Ndegeocello. She plays bass, sings, and has a new album coming out which is a tribute to James Baldwin. This song, Raise the Roof, is a spoken word piece (I’m not sure who’s speaking). If you believe black lives matter at all, you should listen to this.
Read more✝️ Heh. My Amazon review of the Book of Mormon Alexa skill is live
Read more🧼 I’m currently wearing a face mask before I hop in the shower. Listening to I’m Breathless and wondering how we all just accepted that “Vogue” was on that album and that’s the way it was and that’s the way it was going to be and just deal with it. Should’ve been an EP or something. Actually it fits more in place on The Immaculate Collection because I always want to hear “Justify My Love” right after it.
Read more😔 The Book of Mormon came up as a recommended skill to enable. Like, the actual Book of Mormon. There exists an Alexa skill for it. Because why not, right? It was kinda fun writing a five-star review that used almost every song title from the musical including “Orlando (reprise).” The only one I didn’t fit in was “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” which is a bummer. I should’ve tried harder, I know.
Read moreIt’s mom and dad’s anniversary today.
Read moreThis song just spoke to a place in me that really needed to hear it. I’ve got to get my life together. “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann song.link/us/i/1544…
Read more🦈 Sharks and batteries? Really?! Folks, we’re gonna need a bigger battery powered boat that doesn’t sink from its own weight while we get electrocuted and jump the shark to attend hate rallies, I guess. #BabyShark #Unfit #TrumpCult #MAGAcult #WordSalad #JawsTheMovie #sharks #batteries #SinkingShip
Read morePlants can be so alien looking. This is the tip of a vine Michael has growing on our brick house. 👽🌸📸
Read moreLucky shot, but it’s one of my new favorites. I’ll post to Pixelfed, which I should probably visit more than once a year. But micro.blog really is my go to for pretty much all the posts, except sassy political posts I put on LinkedIn. Anyway, here’s a bee on a Lauren’s Grape Poppy 🐝📸🌸
Read more30 FAVORITE PHOTOS OF LUCY THE BEAGLE 📸🐶
These are most of the photos of Lucy in my collection that, for one reason or another, I had marked as being favorites. 14 years is a significant amount of time to have a best beagle friend. Saying goodbye after 14 years of hellos - it’s a loss I never anticipated would be so excruciating and heartbreaking and deeply painful. I know I keep saying this, but I truly found a place in myself that I didn’t know was there when she left this plane.
Read moreOUR LUCY IS GONE
Our Lucy is gone. After a severe weekend we said goodbye to her yesterday morning at around 7:30. She’d had either a stroke or a tumor on the brain. It all happened pretty quickly. She stopped eating on Saturday. I hand fed her some baby food that she sort of seemed to like. It might’ve kept her sugar up a little, but it wasn’t enough to sustain her. Her tail had stopped wagging.
Read moreWe plan to wait until Lucy’s vet visit on Wednesday to talk options. But I know she can only decline. There’s no sudden bounce-back with a tumor on the brain. It’s been awful this weekend, especially her refusing to eat. If it can only get worse from here, if improvement is off the table and prolonging and delaying are all that’s left, then there are two fast approaching outcomes and one involves slightly less suffering for her.
Read moreMaggie cat, who was rubbing the corner of my iPhone and also apparently the keyboard, sent that last status update. Please welcome Maggie the Cat as the newest (excuse me, MEWest) co-author of this micro.blog.
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Read moreLucy isn’t eating her breakfast this morning. This is always worrying because she’s so food motivated. I’m trying to let her rest. She woke me around 4a and it was obvious she’d been up for a while judging from what I had to clean up. I don’t want to say goodbye. I don’t know how to say goodbye. I want to curl up in a ball and hold her close and tell her it’ll be ok.
Read moreYesterday was the most insufferable day I’ve ever had with Lucy. It was miserable. And heartbreaking. At one point I had this song on repeat, Sleep Baby Jane, from the Over the Rhine album Eve and cried while I sat at the dining table and it played in its loop. My baby. My baby. My baby.
Read moreTHIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT DYING. IT TURNED OUT TO BE ABOUT NOT LIVING.
There’s a Bonnie Raitt song I love called “Nick of Time” from her 1989 album of the same name. (My cool Aunt Cathie turned me on to that album. I must’ve been about 11 or 12. Her early influence on my musical tastes persists.) There are several simple observations and lessons in that song. This is my favorite: Life gets mighty precious When there’s less of it to waste.
Read moreWAITING ON A WORD
We’re at home now, Michael and I. We’ve been sitting out front in the tranquil garden green space Michael makes, shutting out the noise from the church people across the street with songs by Aretha Franklin playing on my iPhone. It’s cool outside, unseasonably and almost chilly. Michael has on his Keith Haring sweatshirt. I’m still in a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals. I like the cool outside times. We sat on one of the two benches Michael has in the garden, one black and the other white.
Read more🐶 At the animal hospital with Lucy, by the way. Trying not to think of worst possible outcomes.
Read more👨⚖️ Guilty x 34 = you are the weakest link goodbye
Read moreWe need a law that states the periodic table of elements and the theory of evolution must be on display in every CHURCH. Absolutely 💯💯💯 https://substack.com/@walterrhein/note/c-57578196?r=bx50p&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Read moreStalin’s “Great Terror,” for example, involved the execution of an estimated 750,000 people who were seen as political dissidents. The training calls these systematic killings “the original cancel culture.” DeSantis and his state department of education indoctrination can go jump off an anti-woke bridge any time. open.substack.com/pub/popul…
Read more🤕 I. Feel. Awful. If you all of a sudden think you feel a sore throat coming on and no other symptoms, take it seriously. By day three you’ll be a sweaty, achy, itchy, stuffy, runny, exhausted mess.
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