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Here's the good thing. My old friend Bill Martin has this new show out -- a comedy on Thursday nights called "The Unicorn." I went to UNC with Bill, and he is still the sweet, incredibly funny man I knew more than thirty years ago. Ya'll should watch his show because it's also sweet and very, very funny and we all need funny, right?
Here's the bad thing. I need a lot of funny these days. I am not going to mince words. There's a lot of shit going down in these parts -- most of it unbloggable. I guess I am going to mince words. There's a tremendous amount of hate and rage roiling around me personally. I need all your positive juju and miracle-making, please. The other night I got into my car at 10:30 at night and drove all the way to Venice Beach in my robe and nightgown. I screamed in the car and then listened to Van Morrison sing "And It Stoned Me." I listened to Bob Marley sing "No Woman No Cry." Sophie's fine. The Brothers are good. I am not fine or good. I am digging deep to find my way back to the calm and peace that I know is somewhere within, still.
I love this poem:
Before Winter by Kwame Davis
I do so wish you peace, Elizabeth. If anyone on this earth deserves it, it is you.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear this, Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteDear Elizabeth I am sending you salt air and deep black clouds and the blessings of the owl the hawk the smallest salamander. Holding you in my green heart. Love, Rebecca
ReplyDeleteDear Elizabeth, I am thinking of you, holler all you need. I can hear you.
ReplyDeleteI am listening to Nadia Reid in the middle of the night when I don't know where's left and right, front or back.
https://youtu.be/y_Yt-_DS3bI
Shit, shit, shit. I'm so sorry things are ugly right now. Sending you Metta and light (you are light; you have a multitude of us out here to remind you of this when you need it). xoxo
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you've ever watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but I was reminded of a scene in the show when she goes out drunk in her nightgown and ends up on stage at a comedy club.
ReplyDeleteThere is much shit in the world and screaming in your car is not a bad way to deal with it. You should have heard me screaming and swearing when I found out that my stepdaughter and her mother bought a house together with some of the money they saved while living in our home rent free, ensuring that I will never be able to see my granddaughters. Oy vey!
Things will rebalance themselves, I hope. Sending hugs and love.
Sending you Positive Energy and wishing you Peace during this difficult time. It's good your Friend has a new Show with Funny, certainly we do all Need that right now!
ReplyDeleteSo much hate. So much rage. Hard to bear that all of the time. Therapy helped me until it didn't.But i hear therapy helps many to be less besieged.Not simple, therapy. It made me stare at myself til i couldn't bear it anymore. But the right kind i think can pour in some hope.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anonymous. The rage and hate is directed AT me. I find therapy enormously helpful — have gone for many years and not just to work through my own conflicts. I go for the connection, for the assistance in learning about mysel. I go for advice and mothering and wisdom.
DeleteAt you? How awful. I am so sorey and sorey i misunderstood.
DeleteI'm sorry to hear about the negative stuff going on now. When I lived in Florida I used to sometimes get out and drive around at night to work off stress -- it's amazingly effective! Take care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteSending you heaps of positive ju ju, all the way from Amsterdam. Bon courage
ReplyDeleteAwful that you have to deal with this, hate and rage are so destabilizing, hurtful and draining. I hope you can find a sanctuary in which to tend the hurt and fill yourself back up. Lovelovelove.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds exhausting. You must be so weary. Tonight when I look into the night sky I will send all the good and positive thoughts your way.
ReplyDeleteDearest Elizabeth-You are cherished and loved from here. Rage on, sister. Van Morrison works. Beethoven's 9th is a personal favorite. At full volume.
ReplyDeleteXXX Beth
Rage at you? Not gonna ask why. The world is a fekking mess. And sometimes it's just too much work to be a warrior all the time. The three point answer to the last NYT 'Spelling Bee' was 'unbroken'. May we all be unbroken. Whole.
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