Big Bird is a communist propagandist!!!

 Sen. Ted Cruz accused Big Bird on Sesame street as being a propagandist for saying on air that he had gotten his vaccine.

A Republican House member called Big Bird a 'communist'.

Oh, come on. How low can you go, Republicans?

Sesame Street is a kid's show teaching kids about reading, morals, proper behavior and fun.

Urging kids to get a vaccine because a 7 foot tall bird did is looking out for kid's health.

Every frigging one should get the vaccine and we would all be safe.

Republicans and Fox News continue to push 'anti-vaccer' rhetoric when Fox has a vaccine requirement for employees!

What is wrong with these people?

Big Bird is doing a very good thing and you guys are lying!

And lay off Big Bird--that's avian racism!!!

Church is good

Church today was great.

The vocalist, Jordan, did several spirituals--"Amazing Grace" and "Just a closer walk with thee" among them.

I told him it was like sitting behind my grandma, Lina Manona Jones, as she played the piano in the Pilgrim Holiness Church in Conklintown, West Virginia.

My sermon was decent, but not great.

But the people were so glad I was getting better, it didn't matter.

I love that little church in Milton.

But I've loved every church I've served in 40 years of parish ministry.

I didn't use my cane.

For some reason my hip and knees are better all of a sudden.

I don't care why, I just embrace it.

Coffee hour, as always at Trinity, was amazing.

I'm so glad to be there.

 

Free!

 Today, after nearly ten days, my catheter was removed!

The nurse took it out at 9 and I went back at 2:45 for a scan that showed by bladder was almost empty.

I've been drinking a bottle of water an hour and peeing each hour.

Free!

It's humbling to know your body owns  the you you are.

No matter what you think in your brain, your body is in charge.

Just remember, whatever you think in your mind--your body is what owns the you you are. 

Humbling, surely.

But good to remember.

 

Something crazier is just around the corner....

Every time I think I've seen all the crazy in the world, something crazier shows up.

Take this: hundreds of Q-Anon followers showed up in Dallas this week, sure that John F. Kennedy Jr. was going to come and reinstate President Who's Name I Will Not Write to office.

J.F.K. Jr. died 20 years ago in a plane crash.

But Q-Anon said he hadn't died, had been in hiding and working for the former president behind the scene.

(Way 'behind', I'd say!)

Then the rumor said JFK himself would show up--not having been killed in Dallas after all. And he would proclaim the former president as president again.

(He'd be 104, but what is that to 'true believers' in MAGA?)

They lined up on the street where JFK was shot--very familiar looking--waiting for the arrival at 12:30 p.m.

It did not happen.

Surprise!!! Surprise!!!

So then they said JFK Jr. would come at half-time at the football game that night.

Can you even take that in?

Crazy is all around us.

Don't ignore it, make fun of it....

 

No doctor tomorrow

A couple of weeks ago, Bern said to me, "you have all these specialists and I have none."

This week when I told her I had four doctor appoints, all with specialists, in five days, I think she changed her tune.

Yesterday I saw my cancer doctor--I don't have cancer--because my PSA went up last year and it shouldn't because I have no prostrate gland. She's driven it down with shots but I've lost all the hair under my arms and some body hair.

I'm becoming gender neutral!

Today I saw my gout doctor who has rid me of that awful joint pain I suffered with for years--mostly in my ankles.

Tomorrow, NO DOCTOR!!!

Thursday I see the cardiologist for a scan. I have a leaky valve but he want's to make sure I don't need it replaced.

Friday, I see my urologist so she can take out my catheter and check my bladder.

I have to go at 9 a.m. for the first and 2:45 p.m. for the second.

I'll deduct all the miles on my tax return as a medical expense.

Lots of miles this week.

Stay well and stay away from specialists, no matter what Bern might think....

 

Oh, my!

The first person I know personally to die from Covid is an old and dear friend named Marge.

She was vaccinated, I believe, but came down with pneumonia and then was exposed to Covid and got sicker and died.

She would not have died of the pneumonia.

She must have come in contact with a non-vaccinated person and caught the virus.

Most vaccinated people only have mild symptoms when they get Covid. But having pneumonia left her vulnerable to sickness beyond that.

Someone she was with had the virus and was probably not vaccinated.

They killed my friend.

Why can't people realize this is not a 'political' issue.

It is a public health emergency!

I used to pity anti-vaccers.

Now I hate them.

RIP, Marge.

 

 

Despair and Exultation!

I was about to set off to pick up the pizza we ordered for dinner (Margarita with anchovies, if you're interested) when I discovered my keys and wallet weren't where I always put them.

I was stunned.

Bern and I searched high and low. Bern went to my car to see if I'd left them there.

"I had them yesterday," I said full of anquish.

"Did you go out yesterday?" she asked.

She said I didn't and I half believed her.

But luckily, I believed her enough to go check my laundry bag.

Sure enough, they were in the pants I wore 'day before yesterday'!

Finding them gave me such a rush of adrenaline that I went to pick up the pizza and some wine with the cane I always use outside.

Didn't realize I'd left it until I saw it when I brought the pizza into the kitchen.

Despair and exultation within a few minutes of each other.... 

In the best order too.