Today is Sunday, July 13th, 2025

 Time flies and then it doesn't... It's been 15 months since Linda left us...  I miss her spunk, laughter, joy, love, generosity... she saw through the facade and confronted the truth and invited everyone in...she was real and she was my beloved sister/mother spirit, supporter, collaborator and dearest friend.  I was immensely proud to be a part of her life in Tuscany.  Now how we met and found our mutual love for music, dance and life is quite another story... such stark contrast to such an ugly beginning.  In September, 2000, my husband Tracy and I purchased the house kitty corner from the Hall's with the intent to remodel it as our beach house and because of Linda we erased the horrific beginning and made it our home.  It was Linda, indomitable Linda who revealed our new community and gave us 22 years of shared history.  

Tracy met Linda in the process of acquiring our building permits and letting our friends stay there for about a year until we could start construction... for months that's all I heard..."Linda this and Linda that"  blah blah blah... until I finally exclaimed "WHO THE F*#k IS LINDA???'

Then, Tracy took me to meet our newest and soon to become beloved friend... Linda

I miss her so.... thankful for so many wonderful memories.... Linda tooling around on her beach bike.... Linda stepping into a hula hoop and giving it a go at Carroll's 60th birthday party...singing with the piano player at the Carmel Mission Inn...sipping her extra dry gin martini in Tuscany and so she goes.... 

Today is Tuesday, March 18th 2025

I've been house bound a lot lately due to stormy weather and just lack of interest... however, I  participated in the Tesla Takedown on Saturday, March 8th in Seaside with Alice, Madeline and Jeannette.

Also, I participated in the postcard demonstration... had 125 of these babies printed at Staples...

Added an RBG stamp and mailed them all on Saturday the 15th... the ides of March...

Meanwhile the dumpster fire continues...and another 1967 quote from Dick Goodwin rings true..

        "Dissenters are sometimes accused of demeaning the presidency. That office should demand respect.  Its dignity, however, flows not from private right or title or the man who occupies it, but solely from the fact that its occupant is chosen by the people of the United States.  It is their office, and if they, or any among them, feel that it is wrongly used, then it is their obligation to speak."

As Trump picks up people off the street... labels them Venezuelan gangsters without due process and flies them to El Salvador and pays that corrupt government $6 million to imprison them...

What's next??????

Today is Sunday, February 16th, 2025

 OK so I'm officially paranoid.  I am freaked out.  Around 10 PM last evening after coercing Murphy to go outside to potty, we encountered a weird and totally disgruntling situation. Murph was on a leash and he was about to go potty... I was on the deck, leash in hand.... a flashlight from the street that had been moving down the street stopped and suddenly Murph was on alert and the hand holding the flashlight was extended so that I was being observed.... and it wasn't continuing to move....no it was trained on me and Murphy.  I didn't say anything.  I just yanked the leash and Murph hopped up onto the deck and we went inside.  I locked the door.... shook and went into action.  I turned the light off so I could see if someone was going to come thru the gate... then, since no one was approaching....I turned the panic lights on and called the sheriffs office.

They said I did the right thing and would patrol the area... cause let's face it...no one is walking  their dog at 10 o'clock at night...

What should I do?  Is it time for me to buy a gun?

 

Today is Thursday, February 13th, 2025

 In reading "An Unfinished Love Story"  I came across this passage:

"Some have called upon us to mute or stifle dissent in the name of patriotism and the national interest.  It is an argument that monstrously misconceives the nature and process and the greatest strength of American democracy....It is not our privilege but our duty as patriots, to write, to speak, to organize, to oppose any President and any party and any policy at any time which we believe threatens the grandeur of this nation and the well being of its people.  This is such a time."

       an excerpt from Dick Goodwin's speech to the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) on September 17, 1966... in opposition to the American escalation of the Vietnam War.

Funny how it's really timeless and how appropriate it is today...

We are faced with an increasingly fraught situation... an unhinged resentful President set on personal revenge aided and abetted by his henchmen and set on destroying our Democracy and the rule of Law.  We CANNOT just sit idly by and watch the dumpster fire.  We MUST stand up in direct opposition.  We must call out exactly what it is... clearly Trump wants to be a King and Musk is his chief Oligarch Henchman systematically doing the actual destruction.  

It's time to ACT!!!! Organize, demonstrate... FIGHT!!!

Today is Wednesday, February 5th, 2025

I am apoplectic!  This is a dumpster fire!!!  I have checked the networks  this morning and Trump is once again distracting the public with his ridiculous plans for Gaza and his executive order to ban transgender youth from playing sports.  

This is Trump - the Master of Distraction!!!!

Meanwhile, Musk has taken control of the government check book and financial systems.  No one elected Musk BUT he's in control of our Nation!  He is controlling what and where our nation puts our funds...and he has OUR power.   

This is a COUP!!!  WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Trump pardoned the Jan. 6th criminals to form his own militia...  

Everyone of his new cabinet has lied to Congress during their confirmation hearings.  They are orchestrating the takeover of justice - the FBI, Health, Education and Human Rights.

We need to FIGHT!!!!