Personal account covering:
* Select moments from everyday life
* Trauma
* Chronic illness
* Life with neurodivergence
* Caregiver life
* Life after loss of a spouse and recovering from grief in the context of spousal death
* Life as a widow
I'm also a huge fan of all things from the 1980s, old time radio shows, classic TV, Commercial Aviation, books & libraries, OS nerd.
#MentalHealth #Trauma #ChronicIllness #Neurodivergent #Kindness #Empathy #GenX #Widow #Caregiver #Grief #Loss
Me: sitting at my keyboard and picking at the half of my Double Whopper I have left from Burger King while thinking about how to word and structure my coming updates here.
Inappropriate & invasive thought:
Here, let me insert myself into your thought process! Here's a highly inappropriate thought filled with the kind of content one should never openly talk about.
Me: Laughs at the more absurd aspect of said thought, even though it IS highly inappropriate.
Good afternoon to all on Mindly and the greater #Fediverse!
I haven't been very active here since October 1st of 2023. Life has changed a LOT since that time, and none of it has been good.
The forthcoming updates from me in separate posts or threads will talk about everything I've been through, and the impact on me so-far.
I'll be talking a lot about being a full-time caregiver for my now late wife, dying, death, grieving, grief recovery, and what life looks like here and now.
@edwardchampion So now I'm stuck trying to figure out how my SIL found-out our address. My wife and I sorta suspect that her mother or father gave it to her even after we told them not to. I asked them both if they did, but they stated they didn't. I guess I'll never know for sure.
I made it very openly clear even on social media that we did not want to be found.
@edwardchampion Thanks, Ed. This is why the right to be forgotten is so important.
My SIL caused us so much stress on top of the intense and inhumane pain & suffering my wife was experiencing prior to her death.
Everywhere we lived, we had issues with her family and people connected to us both from our youth years using various government agencies as a means to force their personal biases, religious and/or political ideologies on us. (typical Karen behavior on steroids)
@edwardchampion Eventually, my sister-in-law (my wife's younger sister) kicks her own elderly parents out onto the street after scamming them into signing a quit claim deed giving HER the house.
They show-up at my place unannounced, then later the SIL calls police to MY ADDRESS THAT NEITHER I NOR MY WIFE NEVER GAVE HER because she's suddenly worried about her ELDERLY parents that SHE coldly kicked-out of the house.
@edwardchampion True story about the right to be forgotten....
When my late wife was diagnosed with the cancer she had, we were lucky to be able to move into the nicest place we had ever lived in.
We made the move quietly while telling most people that we were moving, but that nobody would be getting our address because we want to exercise our right to not be found.
Eventually, my wife brings her mother and father here without asking me. This led to all sorts of shit (1/?)
Now see, I don't *have* a therapist and that's why I spill ALL of my personal shit on Mastodon. š¤Ŗ
Thereās some things you save for therapy. For everything else, thereās mastodon.
King wanted to expose the inconsistency of U.S. foreign policies when juxtaposed with the persisting domestic inequality in America. This address, often referred to as "The Riverside Church Speech," faced criticism from various quarters, including prominent media outlets like The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as organizations like the NAACP, which objected to the Civil Rights Movement's involvement in anti-war protests.
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Image: US paratroopers, Ben Cat on 25 September 1965.
In a variation of his āTransformed Nonconformistā sermon delivered in January 1966 at Ebenezer Baptist Church, King openly expressed his opposition to the Vietnam War, condemning American aggression as a violation of the 1954 Geneva Accord, which promised self-determination.
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Image: King speaking in Washington, D.C., in February 1968
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