To anyone here having a rough time, feeling down, or just in need of some support, I'm here for you! Feel free to vent here or via PM to me and, if you want, to ask for a hug.
Have at it!
Have at it!
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Venting:
Bigotry sucks. It needs to be countered.
Institutionalized bigotry kills and commits violence with impunity. It needs to be fought with more energy and much more focus than just bigotry in general.
Excusing institutionalized bigotry as a mere difference of opinion is an insidiously complicit gesture. The violence continues, and good people do nothing except to tell the people most affected not to rock the boat too much, or that one is being "just as bad."
That can be pretty discouraging at times.
Hugs welcomed.
I love Easter Vigil Mass. But this year it's going to be sad.
For over 20 years I have gone with my friend and hero Pat Conard. Her family wasn't interested in a 3 hour Catholapalluza. Nobody else I knew was either. So we went together every year.
Pat was a force in this town. From "stop the hate" to "stop the war" to feed the hungry to fighting racism to gender/ lgbt to "Friends of Haiti" to voter registration to "reproductive freedom".....
You just haven't lived until you have experienced a knock down drag out argument between a Catholic churchlady prochoicer and an equally argumentative queer atheist prolifer.
Well, the summer before last she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was only moderately virulent and caught early. By Easter of last year, her treatment was mostly done and she was feeling better. But the very next week, she took a turn for the worse. Turned out the cancer had metastasized to a peculiarly nasty liver cancer. The treatment was painful, expensive, and offered little improvement to the prognosis.
She declined treatment. By June she was gone.
I want to go to Easter Vigil Mass, and I am sure I will. But it will be hard to do it and not cry.
I am not a cryer. I don't know how to do this.
Tom
For over 20 years I have gone with my friend and hero Pat Conard. Her family wasn't interested in a 3 hour Catholapalluza. Nobody else I knew was either. So we went together every year.
Pat was a force in this town. From "stop the hate" to "stop the war" to feed the hungry to fighting racism to gender/ lgbt to "Friends of Haiti" to voter registration to "reproductive freedom".....
You just haven't lived until you have experienced a knock down drag out argument between a Catholic churchlady prochoicer and an equally argumentative queer atheist prolifer.
Well, the summer before last she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was only moderately virulent and caught early. By Easter of last year, her treatment was mostly done and she was feeling better. But the very next week, she took a turn for the worse. Turned out the cancer had metastasized to a peculiarly nasty liver cancer. The treatment was painful, expensive, and offered little improvement to the prognosis.
She declined treatment. By June she was gone.
I want to go to Easter Vigil Mass, and I am sure I will. But it will be hard to do it and not cry.
I am not a cryer. I don't know how to do this.
Tom
That really sucks. I feel you.
Here, have a big hug.
Thank you so much, love. *squishy hugs*
Let me just pull me arm out'a here.....there......I'm ready for me hug!
I'd rather have a bullet in my head at this point.
Tumah
Veteran Member
Well, now that you're here, the only place left is up!
Not sure I want to touch that hand given where it is in your avatar pic. Nevertheless, here we go...
*hugs big old Rev*
Sounds like you are struggling a lot with something. Sorry to hear that.
Best wishes for better times ahead.
*glomps with squishy hugs for SG*
love love love!
Oh... oh... you guys are so sweeet
GROOOUP HUUUUG!
Thanks
I'm liking this international group hugs thing a lot!
((((HUGS EVERYBODY!!))))
Tom
Yes, I am. I don't really have hope. I just wish I was dead.