ANARCHY

Two nights ago I went to bed with images of the Minneapolis police station, precinct 3 (?) engulfed in flames by protestors (?) with no authority in sight, no police, no national guard, no community leaders. Anarchy. Last night, cities across America had massive protests for the death of George Lloyd who took a knee to his neck and died at the hand of a Minneapolis police officer with 18 complaints filed against him for using excessive force.

The Civil War is not over. When you lose a war you are not supposed to fly your flag. You have to take it down. When you lose a war you are not supposed to have statues erected of your generals.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
the best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity."

The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats.

NO LEADERSHIP.

SPACE X LAUNCH

Around 3:30 pm Elon Musk's Space X launched into space on its way to the International Space Station. (This is the same wunderkind entrepenueur who refused to keep his Tesla factory closed in Oakland to protect workers by threatening to take his business elsewhere.) Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and civil unrest. The current occupant attended the launch.

Not a word about the over 100,000 people who have died from Covid-19 or the violent demonstrations across almost a dozen U.S. cities, Boston, Denver, Atlanta, Oakland, Minneapolis, St. Paul, New York, San Francisco, Louisville, Chicago, L.A., etc. Protests are going on as I write this. Is it really a good idea to go into space when we haven't figured out how to behave on Earth ?

SHAVUOT
Today is the second day of Shavuot, the jewish holiday comemmorating the Giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai. How ironic. On Shavuot we read the Book of Ruth. Ruth the Moabite says to Naomi, her mother-in-law, "Whither thou goest, I will go,  for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;" And from Ruth we get to David.

Back to Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Joan Baez.
ANTHEM.
A HARD RAIN'S A GONNA FALL, PATTI SMITH.
ELEGY FOR JANIS JOPLIN, LEONARD COHEN . 
MURDER MOST FOUL. BOB DYLAN. 

After two and a half months in Lockdown, STAY HOME, WEAR A MASK, PHYSICALLY DISTANCE 6 FEET APART, young people are pouring into the streets, some wearing masks but no physically distancing. I see a spike in cases and deaths looming. Two enemies, one invisible. Armed police in L.A. and Chicago are pointing their guns at demonstrators in tank tops, sports bras and jeans.

DESOLATION ROW. , BOB DYLAN

This generation, the ones in the street, have no music. 

Protests have gone on all day long across the country. No Leadership in sight. Just the protestors and the media, CNN. NO LEADERSHIP in Corporate America. CNN headquarters was attacked last night in Atlanta.

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, STEPHEN SILLS, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, 1967. 

CHELSEA HOTEL #2, LEONARD COHEN, , LIVE, 2008


NIGHTFALL  8:17 PM

CURRENT OCCUPANT FANS THE FLAMES

The current occupant fanned these flames. Why is there no leadership ? Rotten at the top. Going into my 70th decade, I never saw anything like this VOID - no one is talking to those young protestors. No community leaders, no religious leaders, no advocates If they are, I don't see it. Social media; they are organizing on Facebook and Twitter.  It is a diverse crowd, black, white, brown. They have the internet and cell phones. The early 21st century is not going so well. Orwellian.

CURRENT OCCUPANT quotes:

Charlottesville:Re. White Nationalists marching with tiki torches and swastikas.  There are fine people on both sides. WHAT ?!?!

Brown people from Mexico are rapists and murderers.

Women: you can grab them by the p***y.

ABDICATED POWER DURING A NATIONAL CRISIS WITH SILENCE.


 

CORONAVIRUS DIARIES - SURPRISE PHONE CALL

One good thing happened during the pandemic. I got a phone call from my cousin Ken on Saturday. We were out of touch. It was so good to hear his voice and talk to someone I know since childhood. We covered a range of topics. He is in Florida. He has become a snowbird dividing his time between California and Florida. He told me about the time he visited with Ellen and Robert around the time Uncle Bob/Roby got his Talmud Torah award. Brought back many memories.

Happy Monday ! I just participated in a live Zoom exercise class from the fitness instructor in my building. It was really good to get up and have some 'virtual' connection with a group of people at 10:00 am. We are starved for connection around here - it was so good to see so many familiar faces.

I was able to participate in some Zoom classes for Dragon and Tiger Qigong and I did a four workshop on enhancing the immune system with Dragon and Tiger movements as well as learning about chinese herbs that enhance the immune system. I have not been able to get my weekly acupuncture treatments since Lockdown began. Dragon and Tiger Qigong has been a good substitute. I learned the movements in Tai Chi and Qi gong correspond to the organs in the body as acupuncture meridien points also do. I get a feeling of relaxation in body and mind plus, like acupuncture, it enhances the Immune System.

THE MILLER REPORT 5.18.20

I tune in to Governor Cuomo's news conferences every day since this pandemic started. He is as close to being 'presidential' as we have in America today, in terms of government officials. He just had a British scientist speaking from London (I think) during the daily press briefing. Then he said, "other countries have gone through re-opening and we can learn from them." Wow ! Willing to learn from countries who are going through the same thing ! What common sense ! 
"That's what it means to be NY smart, tough, and loving."

I wish Gov. Cuomo was running for president - he shows all the requisite qualities necessary; leadership skills, reliance on science and FACTS. The exact opposite of the current occupant.

THE PSYCHO NEWS

THE MILLER REPORT:
CORONAVIRUS RANT OF THE DAY

1. Vice President Mike Pence is not quarantining for 14 days despite being exposed to the virus by a staffer.

2. The president, the current occupant refuses to wear a mask.

3. The Navajo tribe in South Dakota has set up checkpoints to control who comes onto their Reservation. The Governor ordered them to stop. They won't. If smallpox didn't wipe them out, maybe the Coronavirus will. They do not have proper medical facilities to treat coronavirus, no ICU.

More LIES from today's "white house press conference":
(the press will not call them LIES, I will)

1. The current occupant stated the U.S. leads the world in testing. NO WE DON'T.
2. The current occupant refuses to wear a mask + does not follow his own CDC Guidelines while working next to white house staff who have tested positive.
3. The current occupant stated his administration has done a fantastic job distributing PPE. NO THEY HAVE NOT. THAT IS A LIE.

I think it was Lincoln who said "you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time." 

Again, the media should stop covering these Big Brother press conferences. Why should Americans be forced to listen to these nauseating lies just because he is the current occupant ?

He did not do his job.
He continues not to do his job.
Ordinarily, when someone does not do their job, they get FIRED.

INCOMPETENCE 

ANALYSIS 

We are witnessing the culmination of Big Business/Corporate America complete takeover of the government in the U.S.A. 

The prior stimulus packages did not go to small businesses, just Big Business Interests.

The current occupant refused to invoke the Defense Production Act two months ago to produce masks and ventilators because the Chamber of Commerce was against it. If you have two eyes and two ears you can see that the only interest the current occupant has is HIS OWN BUSINESS INTERESTS, i.e. hotels and golf courses !

The U.S. Senate is complicit by acting as Enablers of his agenda.

Chief Justice John Roberts stated during the Impeachment Hearings: " Gentlemen, I advise both sides to remember they are in the 'greatest deliberative body in the world'. I was yelling at the T.V. "No it isn't. It used to be. I hope it is again. But right now it is NOT." Just a bunch of sniveling cowards in the Senate with no backbone.

And finally, who is dying from coronavirus ? Women, black, brown and poor people are dying in higher numbers, 'essential workers' who still have to go to work, get minimum wage pay, no benefits, no sick time, no vacation, delivery workers, transit workers...." What is the white house response ? "Open up businesses, get back to work." Without a strategy, without a plan, delegating responsibility to governors of 50 states to deal with this biblical plague.  The current occupant takes no responsibility. I never heard a president say "it is not my responsibility" about anything in my lifetime.

Whose agenda goes forward ?An all-white, male, conservative right wing agenda. The virus has exposed how they will stop at nothing to retain power.

And the unkindest cut of all, 
THIS WAS SELF INFLICTED. 

DUE TO INCOMPETENCE 

THE END

For insight as to how this virus started please see: 

Murder Most Foul: The Perps Behind Covid-19 by Ronnie Cummins . He is co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Regeneration International, and the author of “Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Food, Farming, Climate and a Green New Deal.”

Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, and CDC Director, Dr. Redfield are all mentioned in a startling, unfavorable light regarding involvement in virus manipulation in labs, including the Wuhan Lab in China.

Corporate America: They really are trying to kill us.

The Food Industry - Big AG
The Healthcare aka as the Disease Care Industry
The Pharmaceutical Industry - BIG PHARMA

MICHAEL'S YAHRTZEIT, MOTHER'S DAY, BARRY'S BIRTHDAY

INTENSE PSYCHO-DRAMA AKA GRIEF + LOSS

PENSACOLA, AT THE BEACH, 1998

Today is Michael's yahrtzeit, five years have passed. During this time of social isolation, I miss him and think about him more than ever. He was always supportive and encouraging to me and my endeavors, more than anyone else. ("You don't know what you got till it's gone." Joni Mitchell.) I talked to Michael two weeks before he unexpectedly passed away. He told me he was moving into the house he built. I asked him how he could do that without an Occupancy Permit. He said his father was helping him get the Permit and then he and his father would move in. I missed him so much at that point, I said, can I please move in too ? Without missing a beat, "he said, sure, come ahead. How many cubes do you have, count them and let me know so I can figure out where to put them."

RAILING AT THE UNIVERSE, REVERE BEACH

Today is Mother's Day, always a difficult day. Now that I am approaching the big 7 0 , I have a different perspective.  I treasure the memory of her offering to buy me ballet shoes shortly before she was gone. She reached back 50 years for that reference to The Dorchester Years. That came out of left field.

Her headstone was installed at the Baker Street cemetery but not in the space it was designed to be in. I went to the cemetery back in October to see it. I got the second shock of my life to see an empty space ! The stone was designed for placement between SANDERMAN and GEHR.

I went to the cemetery to measure the space between SANDERMAN and GEHR in the summer of 2018. I met Judith Kaplan from the Jewish Cemetery Association at the cemetery. She saw me measuring the width and height of SANDERMAN and GEHR.

Instead, in October, 2019, I discovered it in another space, 'shoehorned' in between two stones with barely an inch to the right and left.Whoever saw anything like that ?!?!This is unacceptable. Newton Memorial Arts did not get their final payment. Instead they got litigation.

I filed a Complaint with the Attorney General's office in Massachusetts against the monument company, Newton Memorial Arts and the Jewish Cemetery Association. They did not do their jobs. I planned to go, in person, to the Attorney General's office in Boston  with all my supporting documentation for the Complaint. The coronavirus and lockdown orders prevented me from going. Depending on when Massachusetts opens for business, that's the next step.

May 12th is Barry's birthday. The last time I spoke to him was back in October. He told me he sold his house in Canton and bought a ranch in Saugus and got back together with his girlfriend Carol.  I do not know the 'adult' Barry, only the little boy. I was a second mother to him. Michael was always very good to Barry and they talked on the phone quite a bit. It was while talking to Michael in 2012 that he mentioned my mother was in the hospital. I asked him how he knew that - "I was talking to Barry." Then I had to call Barry and find out where she was. Three weeks later she was gone.

I asked Barry to contact his attorney regarding the Headstone issue. He said he would. I never heard from him.

Maybe now's the time to write about The Malden Years. Shirley walked into that marriage, upright, walking and vertical, a single-working mother before it was 'popular to be one' as she put it during the Gloria Steinhem years. That is not how she came out of it. Enter Julius Silverman, stage left.

Childhood drawing, Barry Marc Silverman, Malden, MA

CORONA VIRUS DIARIES - ALTERNATIVE NEWS

THE MILLER REPORT

The press is doing a horrible job reporting the 'news' aka 'the fake news' and lies that come out of the president's mouth every day. I am not the only one who thinks so - see Margaret Sullivan in the WP. 

I am so sick and tired of hearing the opposite of truth, common sense, facts, science, etc. in the meantime, I am going to report the news myself. The president said today that social distancing guidelines will be discontinued on Thursday. Translation: he does not care how many people die, all he cares about is the stock market and the economy. The Age of Greed. The 1%.

We are not living in the Age of the Enlightenment.

We are not living in the Age of Reason.

We are not living in the Age of the Renaissance.

We are living in the Age of Greed.

The Age of Incompetence. 

The Age of Fascist Dictatorships which are on the rise while Democracy languishes. I experience visceral nausea on a daily basis upon hearing the opposite of Common Sense and Poisonous Partisan Divisiveness.

The Age of Corruption.

Massive corruption on a global scale.

Republicans insisted on having the Wisconsin Primary during this pandemic, forcing people to choose between risking their Lives and Voting ! What ?!?! That is called VOTER SUPPRESSION. And it is alive and well in southern states, Florida, Texas, the mid-west. Protestors, organized Protests by the conservative Right have taken to state capitals. Yesterday I saw a counter protest of first line medical workers who ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES in hospitals trying to save people from dying while protestors are putting everybody else's life in Danger !

This is not the Age of Reason. It is the Age of Greed, unbridled Capitalism, a Second Gilded Age with income disparity as it was before the Depression while the rich pay no taxes. Amazon pays no taxes and Jeff Bezos got a tax cut.

THE END