Saturday, August 27, 2022

Ann Lemont On Life and Living It


From Ann Lemont

On Life and Living It

I am going to be 61 years old in 48 hours.  Wow.  I thought i was only forty-seven, but looking over the paperwork, I see that I was born in 1954.  My inside self does not have an age, although can't help mentioning as an aside that it might have been useful had I not followed the Skin Care rules of the sixties, ie to get as much sun as possible, while slathered in baby oil.  (My sober friend Paul O said, at eighty, that he felt like a young man who had something wrong with him.). Anyway, I thought I might take the opportunity to write down every single thing I know, as of today.

    1.  All truth is a paradox. Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift; and it is impossible here, on the incarnational side of things.  It has been a very bad match for those of us who were born extremely sensitive.  It is so hard and weird that we wonder if we are being punked.  And it filled with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together.  

    2.  Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

    3.  There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of last way, unless you are waiting for an organ.  You can't buy, achieve, or date it.  This is the most horrible truth.

    4.  Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.  They are much more like you than you would believe.  So try not to compare your insides to their outsides. Also, you can't save, fix or rescue any of them, or get any of them sober.  But radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.  It is a huge gift to the world.  When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.

     5.  Chocolate with 70% cacao is not actually a food. It's best use is as bait in snake traps.

     6.  Writing: shitty first drafts.  Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you.  You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice.  That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born

    7.  Publication and temporary creative successes are something you have to recover from.  They kill as many people as not.  They will hurt, damage and change you in ways you cannot imagine. The most degraded and sometimes nearly-evil men I have known were all writers who'd had bestsellers.   Yet, it is also a miracle to get your work published (see #1.). Just try to bust yourself gently of the fantasy that publication will heal you, will fill the Swiss cheesey holes.  It won't, it can't.  But writing can. So can singing.  

     8.  Families;  hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be. (See #1 again.)  At family gatherings where you suddenly feel homicidal or suicidal, remember that in half of all cases, it's a miracle that this annoying person even lived.  Earth is Forgiveness School.  You might as well start at the dinner table.  That way, you can do this work in comfortable pants.  When Blake said that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love, he knew that your family would be an intimate part of this, even as you want to run screaming for your cute little life.  But that you are up to it. You can do it, Cinderellie.  You will be amazed.

     9.  Food; try to do a little better.

     10.  Grace: Spiritual WD-40. Water wings.  The mystery of grace is that God loves Dick Cheney and me exactly as much as He or She loves your grandchild.  Go figure. The movement of grace is what changes us, heals us and our world.  To summon grace, say, "Help!"  And then buckle up.  Grace won't look like Casper the Friendly Ghost; but the phone will ring, or the mail will come, and then against all odds, you will get your sense of humor about yourself  back.  Laughter really is carbonated holiness, even if you are sick of me saying it.  

     11.  God; Goodnesss, Love energy, the Divine, a loving animating intelligence, the Cosmic Muffin. You will worship and serve something, so like St. Bob said, you gotta choose.  You can play on our side, or Bill Maher's and Franklin Graham's.  Emerson said that the happiest person on earth is the one who learns from nature the lessons of worship. So go outside a lot, and look up.  My pastor says you can trap bees on the floor of a Mason jar without a lid, because they don't look up.  If they did, they could fly to freedom.

     11.  Faith: Paul Tillich said the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.  If I could say one thing to our little Tea Party friends, it would be this.  Fundamentalism, in all its forms, is 90% of the reason the world is so terrifying.  3% is the existence of snakes.  The love of our incredible dogs and cats is the closest most of us will come, on this side of eternity, to knowing the direct love of God; although cats can be so bitter, which is not the god part: the crazy Love is.  Also,  "Figure it out" is not a good slogan.

     12.  Jesus; Jesus would have even loved horrible, mealy-mouth self-obsessed you, as if you were the only person on earth.  But He would hope that you would perhaps pull yourself together just the tiniest, tiniest bit--maybe have a little something to eat, and a nap.  

     13.  Exercise: If you want to have a good life after you have grown a little less young, you must walk almost every day. There is no way around this.  If you are in a wheelchair, you must do chair exercises.  Every single doctor on earth will tell you this, so don't go by what I say.

     14.  Death; wow.  So f-ing hard to bear, when the few people you cannot live without die.  You will never get over these losses, and are not supposed to.  We Christians like to think death is a major change of address, but in any case, the person will live fully again in your heart, at some point, and make you smile at the MOST inappropriate times.  But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.  All truth is a paradox.   Grief, friends, time and tears will heal you.  Tears will bathe and baptize and hydrate you and the ground on which you walk.  The first thing God says to Moses is, "Take off your shoes."  We are on holy ground.  Hard to believe, but the truest thing I know. 

    I think that's it, everything I know.  I wish I had shoe-horned in what E.L. Doctorow said about writing: "It's like driving at night with the headlights on.  You can only see a little aways ahead of you, but you can make the whole journey that way."  I love that, because it's teue about everything we tey.  I wish I had slipped in what Ram Das said, that when all is said and done, we're just all walking each other home.  Oh, well, another time.  God bless you all good.



Friday, August 26, 2022

Zuckerberg Admits FB / Media and FBI Rigged 2020 Election.

Zuckerberg Admits FB / Media and FBI Rigged 2020 Election


(Add More Evidence to 'Stop the (2020 Election) Steal' by Dems, Media, FBI)

'Subterfuge by Biden admin and FBI ' -Trump


We know Zuckerberg gave $40, 000 to the Dems for the 2020 electuon. NOW we learn the FBI told Zuckerberg/FBI to hold off on Hunter Biden laptop scandal story until AFTER election (Joe Rogan interview w Zuckerberg 8-22) . 
If this isn't evidence that FBI wasn't complicit in rigging the election along with FB and media, nothing is.
If effect, FB says it didn't suppress the story, as Zuckerberges6!+ said Twitter did, but FB 'MERELY' reduced distribution of story

-Media -Dems didn't honor Trump  covid vaccine until day AFTER 2020 election. Until that day it was ' we won't take that vaccine if it came through Trump' (Kamala and others)

And , now, Looking back, 
Latest dem  blame is 
Trump for pushing vaccine

Of course Dems liked it right after 2020 election but had nothing to do with vaccine up to election day!



BREAKING:
FBI Redacts Their Reasons for Redacting the Trump Mar-a-lago Papers

FBI Gives Trump a Bump iN POLLS with its Unsubstantiated Raid on 



Tuesday, August 16, 2022

What you can do to make a difference for your country in these critical times

What you can do to make a difference for your country in these critical times
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National Poll Worker  Recruitment Day – The Time is Now to Get Involved

Most  think the only thing one can do to make changes in the current decline of this country is to VOTE. But there is more you can do. Without objective poll workers and watchers election results can be in question again, 
So....

Congress is out for the next four weeks (thankfully!), so while they’re out, there are other types of actions we can take to make a difference for our country.


 URGENT: SIGN UP TO BE POLL WORKER OR WATCHER

 
As you may know, the main focus of Tea Party Patriots Action since the 2020 election has been election integrity. Much of election integrity depends on honest patriots like you signing up as poll workers and poll watchers. In nearly every county in the U.S., most these positions have historically been held by left-wing activists. If we are not a part of the process, we cannot ensure there is honesty and integrity in the system.
 
If you’re wondering which is better, poll worker (also called election worker, officer of election, election judge, etc. in different places) is preferable. Poll watchers are much more limited in what they are able to do, while workers have actual power to
Make decisions that matter, in most cases. And they get paid a lot of the time! So, if you have a choice, it is better to be a worker than a watcher, but being a watcher is better than nothing!
 
Deadlines are fast approaching for the November election, so please sign up today!
 
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has a handy tool to find out how to become a poll worker/watcher in your state and county. Just scroll down to the Poll Worker Recruitment Lookup Tool and select your state.
 
They also have a document that lists all of the requirements for serving as a poll worker on a state-by-state basis, so you can use that to see if you meet the requirements. Also, many states allow teenagers (i.e. 16 and up) to serve as poll workers or watchers, so if you know any high-schoolers who would want to serve in this way, invite them to sign up too!
 
One last note: Watch my speech at CPAC where I discuss election integrity and how important it is! 


Also se AMAC for more things you can do

ADVOCATING FOR YOU / ELECTION INTEGRITY

National Poll Worker Recruitment Day – The Time is Now to Get Involved