Robert Kennedy, Jr. testified today to a Senate Committee.
He lied, changed his lies and avoided answering most questions.
It is a sad day for health.
He has emptied the federal health system of real experts and replaced them with those who agree with him.
Florida, among other Red states, is making it more difficult, if not improbable, to get vaccines.
He should resign.
He even had Bernie Sanders siding with President Trump on the Covid vaccine!
Not a good day to get healthier....
I've had health problems the last couple of months. I've probably told you more about them in my blog than you wanted to ever know!
But those issues have given me lots to ponder about.
One of them is 'death'.
I've never really thought I was at death's door in these long weeks, but it has caused me to ponder death and dying.
My mother was in her mid-60's when she died. My dad made it to 83.
I'm an only child of them and if you average their death ages I'm already above the average....
So, is it any wonder that I ponder dying while in and out of the hospital and surrounded by doctor appointments?
I haven't reached any conclusions yet--far from it.
And I must admit that even as an Episcopal priest I have little concept of 'heaven' and 'eternal life'. Not even close.
Death waits for us all. Patient and in no hurry for us.
But it is worth pondering....
Sometimes I like to put my thoughts (multitudes of them!) on the back burner and just look at nature.
Today I did that on the back deck looking at our back yards, the flowers and shrubs there and just be present to the sunny day.
It works, more often than not.
All my concerns, worries, fears and dread simply goes away for a while.
It's just me, our back yard and the sunshine.
I recommend you try it from time to time.
A real oasis of calm in turbulent times.
Try it.
You'll be glad you did.
The courts of the US are all that is between us and a trumpian dictator.
Several rulings lately serve to tell us they are doing their job.
For example, only Congress can make tariffs, not the President.
I just heard Ken Burns on MSNBC talking about his faith in America as the 'best country on earth'.
I want to believe him.
I want to stand with him.
I want 'our' country back....
Pray that it will be so.
I shouldn't have posted that thing yesterday about my bowels!
Sorry.
Sometimes I just write without thinking. Or, more precisely, don't think until I've written.
Sometimes good but mostly bad.
I'll try to write about things that aren't as awful as that yesterday.
I could write--for example--about our president....
Oops! that's at least as bad as black poop....
Black poop.
My poop is black.
Two doctors told me it was because I'm taking a high dosage of Iron.
(I don't know why I need Iron.)
And I 'do know' I don't like black poop.
I long for days of brown....
Many people spent Labor Day not 'laboring' at all--but having fun, eating well and relaxing.
We should remember those who do 'labor' on the holiday.
Police. Fire-fighters. Doctors and nurses. Our Military folks. People like that.
I'll even say a prayer for the ball-boys and ball-girls at the U.S. Open Tennis Tourney.
Bern is a tennis nut so I watch lots of it with her.
The people who chase down and hold the balls deserve all the praise--even along with the tennis players.
I believe that.
