Labor Day without labor! For theater professionals, Broadway is still dark. Zoom rooms abound with play readings which, like sugar-free ice cream, is less than satisfying. As our world in America seeks to re-open, many are determined to live their best life while making sure they wear masks and avoid crowds.
During the AIDS crisis, my husband and I watched horrified as many of our Broadway dancer buds left this world at an age clocking younger than our own two daughters living today! Looking back, we realize the timing for our decision to marry prior to the outbreak, ironically, protected us. Today, during the Covid Crisis, we shelter-in-place together and are protected again, financially anyway, as long as social security and pension checks continue. Others are losing their businesses. Others, already living alone, are isolated even further. Still others succumb to Covid alone.
On the up side, thank God for modern technology and social media keeping us all connected! We gratefully share more meals, binge more series and bike ride along the Hudson River together more often than ever before.
What could be bad?
After “sheltering in place” for six months, walking in the world again will be our challenge. Together. In respect. In communion. In peace. And I gotta say — under new leadership.
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” Elie Wiesel
Just as our government turned its back on the AIDS epidemic (Reagan) — so too, this government has escalated a pandemic which could have been arrested early on. Pay attention, please. 9/11 happened and that government (Bush), too, was warned. How many times does tragedy have to strike before we, the people, recognize when government greed and corporate needs are taking priority over providing for and protecting us? We, the people.
I was a straight A student in school. I wanted to work. I still do. I want to go to bed each night knowing I accomplished something of worth that day. Even if that something is swaying even one more vote over to the Biden/Harris ticket. Hence the need to post . . . something.
I really don’t like politics. But I did love it when we, the people voted that skinny guy with the funny name into the White House. Were they perfect? No. But they were filled with integrity and tried every day to live up to the responsibility invested in them to lead we, the people. Nothing like the reality show we have going on daily now — from the bully pulpit of the White House, on Twitter, on every single news program every single hour of every single day. Will Drumpt even accept hearing “you’re fired” this November? I fear not. He will not go gentle into that good night, but woe to this world if we, the people, have to live with his dictatorship another 4 years.
He is NOT our risen savior. How dare he?
I believe he is the devil in disguise. He’s proven time and again that he speaks with forked tongue. He whispers what you want to hear — especially if you believe in white supremacy. Disgusting really.
Do NOT give him that power. Please. Filter. Discern. Vote.
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people of good conscience to remain silent.” Thomas Jefferson
