Lost and Found
Lost in Schiller Park:
An antique keepsake ring
Last Wednesday after dark
Near the baby swing
Lost last Saturday
Inside the roller rink
A pair of gym shoes: grey
With laces red and pink
Found on Wicket Hill
At Foster Ave and Sayers
A hundred dollar bill
Giving thanks and prayers
Lost: a Pekingese
He will answer to Slim
Please call this number -Please!
His family misses him
A pocket watch and chain
Was found by Parker’s Lea:
Last week after the rain
Inscription says JP
Lost on Tuesday last
All of our future hopes
The country of our past
Is now the charge of dopes
Found the other day
A reason to go on
To find another way
And beat them ‘til they’re gone.
Could that be set to music, specifically country?
1Primo, very lyrical. Please share your thoughts on what you would do to reverse this mess in 2018.
Seriously, we are with you. Just looking for ways we can each drag 100 people along with us this time. The 2016 10-12 we corralled didn’t get the job done.
2Primo, I like it very much.
3Thank you for the encouragement. I just wish we didn’t have to keep doing this. Maybe it’s two steps forward and one step back, but this feels like three steps back.
4Thank you, Primo.
5Here’s a fun way.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/11/15/yup-people-donating-planned-parenthood-mike-pences-name/93877642/
You can choose which branch of P.P. to donate to, and they will send Mike Pence a thank you card. It’ll make you smile all day. (I sent mine to Texas just for you, Juanita Jean.)
6I am actually toying with the idea of starting a SuperPAC. They are apparently very easy to set up and by 2018 it may have enough to do some good at mid-terms.
7Any thoughts? I’m just trying to find something I can do with few resources.
Mighty fine, Primo!
8I’ve also considered a church that only helps LGBT causes.
9Or maybe refugees.
Don’t forget donating also to your local food bank. They are really hurting this year. What better way to counter effect the
10“I’m all for me and screw everybody else” that has been rising.
I understand the frustration and votes for Trump, but what can each of us do on an individual level to do some real positive
Change? This is a simple act that will have real meaning to a lot of people.
Also I am wearing my “safety pin” every day as a symbol that I am a person of safety for all those who are threatenened because of their color, gender, sexual orientation, religion,
11Ability or disability, age ( I am no spring kitten) gender, political agenda(important) , education or non-education, or sense of humor or lack thereof!
Seeing your very effective written protest of this horrific turn of events lends some comfort to us, but how do we fight these dopes?
12Speak up, like the gay woman who paid the bill of the homophobic family she overheard at a restaurant.
Participate- city council, county commissioners, planning and zoning, parks and rec, whatever ya got—go to a few meetings, and maybe get appointed/elected. Get appointed to a study committee/commission at your local level and start there.
Write letters to the editor of whatever your local paper is: short, attack ideas, not people. Say ” instead of xxxxxxx why can’t we yyyyyyyy? Send a letter once a month, not just two weeks before an election.
13Maryelle, et al. Please be ready to make yourselves available for such things as principled disrespect when undocumented people and even documented people are rounded up in a police state fashion for deportation or incarceration. That 60 Minute interview proves yet one more thing Trump doesn’t know diddly about. His numbers are wrong but what the heck he loves throwing large numbers about. Makes him feel like a big man. That three million he stated came clear out of his head. It is not fact. but it does give off a very niggling feeling that he is going for mass deportation with the more uniforms, batons and other weapons up front and personal.
14Follow the ego.
15A short story. Our dry cleaners, as many other services in my area, is staffed by Hispanic women. When I went in the other day to drop off and pick up the hubs shirts, I asked the woman behind the counter who remembers my name if she had a large safety pin. When she gave it to me I put it on in front of her and told her the significance of it. She apparently had not yet heard of this. The customer immediately behind me was an acquaintance with two gay sons who moved from our small town to live in more anonymity in larger cities. She had already heard about the safety pins and seemed appreciative.
I have noted that the pin is not very visible on patterned clothing. Has anyone at the Salon heard of a particular color of ribbon one could wear with the pin to make it more obvious? Any info appreciated.
16There’s no particular ribbon that I’m aware of. I enjoy the simplicity of the safety pin. I bought a “Celebrate Diversity” bumper sticker to put on my car. It’s in the rainbow colors and was initially about LBTG folks, but can apply to the entire diversity of humanity. I got it at a wonderful local shop that also has an online store. It’s northernsun.com
17@RA
My little bride decorated her safety pin with little tiny colored beads.
One of our closer friends at church already carried a fairly large handbag. MLB says the handbag now contains in addition to all the baby stuff (BS) a mom carries, a large freezer bag stuffed full of safety pins, just in case someone she knows forgets theirs.
I wear an inconspicuously small safety pin on my coat lapel, where I wore my American flag upside down during Bush 43’s term.
18Did you know the Muslim immigrants Drumpf so fears are vetted far more seriously and for much longer periods of time than the press has vetted Donniie Drumpf##k? We should be vewy afwaid!
19Thanks Debbo and Micr. I have decided to use black ribbon to signify mourning for our country and I will add beads when I can find some.
20I have 3 immense safety pins that once were used for horse blankets. The pins are 100+ years old and I put one through a button hole on my coat.
I’ve been looking for a small flag decal to put upside down on my bumper. Micr, I like the idea of wearing a flag pin upside down too.
21Here’s where some solid help could matter! Democratic Louisiana Senate candidate Foster Campbell is still fighting for the US Senate seat. Since nobody won a majority of the vote on election day — the run-off election will be held December 10. If he wins, the GOP is down one they thought they had in the bag!
Info & how to donate: http://www.fostercampbell2016.com/
Volunteering: http://www.fostercampbell2016.com/volunteer/
Phone banking:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQk2qKJ-z3_vflTJ6WmtaEN-8eAi2IsaYdYxQE3RFwYoRiCA/viewform?c=0&w=1
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/FosterForLouisiana/
22@Debbo
After Jan 19, 2017 I’ll wear the American flag upside down again until the next Dem POTUS assumes office. Assuming that happens again in my lifetime.
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