Thank you @NPR for letting me speak my caregiver truth - that when I didn't have external caregiving support it was "imprisonment" and "hellish" and when we finally got external help, it racked up to $300k plus/yr, no coverage. #CaregiversCryForHelp
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a blessing for the life you didn't choose
Blessed are you when the shock subsides,
when vaguely, you see a line appear that divides before and after.
You didn’t draw it, and can barely even make it out.
But as surely as minutes add up to hours and days,
here you are,
forced into a story you never would have written.
Blessed are you in the tender place of wonder and dread,
Wondering how to be whole when dreams have disappeared and part of you with them,
where mastery, control, determination, bootstrapping, and grit,
are consigned to the realm of before (where most of the world lives),
in the fever dream that promises infinite choices, unlimited progress, best life now.
Blessed are we in the after, loudly shouting: is there anybody here?
We hear the echo, the shuffle of feet, the murmur of others
asking the same question, together in the knowledge
that we are far beyond what we know.
Show us a glimmer of possibility in this new constraint,
that small truths will be given back to us.
We are held.
We are safe.
We are loved.
We are loved.
We are loved.
And best of all: We are not alone.
..of making a decision every day, that you’re still gonna put one foot in front of the other, that you’re still going to get up in the morning. And you’re still going to struggle, that that was what I took away from it."
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I hate how the new twitter has basically shielded me from the tweets from @prisonculture. But I was reminded this morning of her words: Hope is a discipline. "It’s less about “how you feel,” and more about the practice... (1/2)
May we find strength & solace in our new selves; compassion for our partners, and self-compassion most of all. I see you. #LongCovidAwarenessDay 2/2.
Amplifying #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Writing for the partners and spouses of those suffering, as we bear witness to indescribable destruction. Destruction of their old selves, our old selves, and belief in systems you've been told your whole life are there to help. 1/2
@LaurenEMorrill @jduffyrice Seconding this. There are a lot of pickleball communities for 50s+. It’s also incredibly fun/community oriented for any age.
For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.
Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.
Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.
His crime—asking police for help.