(h/t Steeplejack)
If you would, spare an extra thought for commentor GreenNotGreen and her family.
The Washington Post has front-paged a long and magisterial article on the latest kerfuffle, but I’ll schedule a different post to discuss that.
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What else is on the agenda as we buckle down for another day?
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I woke up in a dumpster, covered in wet pine needles and a very blue sauce that tasted of fish skeleton, so today was better than most days.
— A bear (@A_single_bear) May 7, 2017
Baud
Peace to gnG.
TS
Thoughts and blessings from afar.
satby
Repeating from below: Wishing as easy a transition as possible to gnG, and love to her and her family. Peace and comfort at this time.
bystander
All best hopes and wishes to gnG and her loved ones,
Also, Moanin’ Joe is shocked that Sean Spicer and Sara Huckleberry are liars who lie for their lying liar employer.
NeenerNeener
What satby said.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Even the liberal Josh Kraushaar is ringing the alarm:
p.a.
Peace and sympathy to gnG, family, and friends.
Currants
Holding gnG in the light. Lost a dear friend to brain cancer in the end of January, and the last days are hard.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@greennotGreen: Wishing you strength and peace during this difficult time.
Arm The Homeless
All of the best for gnG, as well as family and friends. To be remembered fondly is the only thing we take with us from this crazy journey.
I don’t know if this was posted, but “Rep. MacArthur confronted at town hall: ‘You have been the single greatest threat to my family'”
We need many more engaged (enraged?) voters such as this guy. Fuck every fascist and their fascist voting base.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTTn9uDZzc&t=7m35s
Mustang Bobby
I hold gnG in the Light. (That’s the Quaker version of praying.)
Emma
I am often clumsy in trying to express my thoughts in moments like these so I will just add “me too” to all of your statements. Blessed be, GnG and the whole family.
Elizabelle
Reposting this from below, more updates from greennotGreen’s valiant family:
We had a few updates (that I saw) from greennotGreen’s family overnight on yesterday’s Tamara thread. How’s Everyone Holding Up? with the photo of the mouse.
A third entry:
And then sister addressed an email to cckids about cystic fibrosis, and addresses others who have lost loved ones before their time. Such empathy and strength:
Did I miss any other comments from the family?
Best to them all.
Mike in DC
Best wishes and prayers to gng and her loved ones.
This whole thing (Trump-Russia) feels like things could continue the slow disintegration, or fly apart at high speed. The latter became more likely with Corey’s firing, because now the leaks are flying like katyusha rockets. Rumors of imminent arrests are now starting to circulate. Lies are getting exposed as swiftly as they are being told. As this happens, support of Trump by the GOP will become untenable, and his popularity will erode further. In this scenario, we are looking at days and weeks, not weeks and months.
aimai
I want to thank Greennotgreen and her family for keeping us in their thoughts and letting us know how greennotgreen is doing. Even though we are an internet community, it is still a community, and its a terrible thing to lose a member of the community and not even know in time to send thoughts, love and prayers.
Thoughtful David
Mostly a lurker, but I’m holding you, gnG, in my thoughts.
Elizabelle
@Mike in DC: I think so too.
The bureaucrats will bring him down, and our court system, even while our political institutions (speaking of Republicans here) rot from within.
In the future, once we have Democrats in control or in greater numbers, I would like to see a lot of the Senate’s practices change.
Make the institutions more representative of their constituents, not their funding base.
Maybe we will get a do-over of Citizens United and public financing of elections out of this. The rich have too much influence. We are not government for the plutocrats, by the millionaires and hereditary politicos.
Everything that turned the GOP into party over country: burn it down. Fox News and its ilk included. They’re poison, not something that should be allowed to hide behind the First Amendment.
Elizabelle
Love and strength to greennotGreen and her family. You had a good run, and have a loving family. Yours was a good life, too near its close.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Thoughtful David: I’ll second this. I rarely comment, but I wish you & your family the best.
Immanentize
@Elizabelle: Thank you for this report. It makes me both sad and so filled with the sense of the great power of compassion.
GnG. If you are reading you have to know what a model and inspiration you have been as my family starts this journey you are now completing. I am also grateful to all in your family who showed us what love looks like in real time. Peace to all.
Elizabelle
Blurb on the front page of FTF NY Times:
Ya think? That is the least I would expect out of this!
seaboogie
Holding gnG and her family in loving light…
JPL
@Elizabelle: Thank you for putting their thoughts up, although reading it caused my allergies to act up.
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Hugs to gng and her wonderful family. Rest green.
rikyrah
Morning Everyone???
rikyrah
Sending prayers to gnG
satby
@Immanentize:
I’m sorry to see this, the news at the doctor’s doesn’t sound like it was good for Ms Imm. Hoping there are more good days than bad, and wishing for comfort and as much peace as possible to all of you too.
jacy
Thinking good thoughts for greennotGreen and those surrounding her — may they have peace and good memories to see them through.
geg6
Holding greennotGreen in the light. She’s an amazing person whose strength, dignity and unstoppable sense of humor is an inspiration to me.
In happier news, my John became the grandfather of a bouncing baby girl yesterday.
Baud
@rikyrah: Morning.
aimai
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry, Immanentize. I will be thinking about you and your wife and your family.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Elizabelle
@satby: I know. I hope Mrs. Immm has lots more time, quality life, ahead of her.
@geg6: Well that’s wonderful. Circle of life.
Cermet
So sorry for GnG and her loved ones; I too have been there and endured but always realized that it is best since we all go that route in some manner sooner or later. I’ve seen too many ones that were terribly painful and drawn out so pain treatment is a must and I am glad they had time to be there.
Elizabelle
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: A prank, but LOL.
Baud
@Immanentize: That’s tough, man. All the best to the wife.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Nice.
jacy
@Immanentize:
Holding your family in my thoughts also. Stay strong and enjoy every moment of every day.
debbie
@NeenerNeener:
Thirded.
debbie
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
So the approval number is basically the same while the disapproval grows. People coming off the fence at last. Nice!
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Thank you for this. I fell asleep at 8pm and will never catch up on this place, but this was important.
Riley's Enabler
Sending peace and light and love to gnG and her family.
HeleninEire
@Elizabelle: Thank you for taking the time to keep us all informed. Because I am in Dublin, I miss a lot of evening threads. I try to catch up the next day when most Balloon Juicers are still asleep. For the past few days, my first morning thought is I need to go through all the overnight threads and look for gnG.
And to greennotGreen – you are in my thoughts all day long. Peace to you and your family.
mike in dc
@debbie:
I think he may go below 30 before August.
Elizabelle
I think it would be cool for folks to post good news on this thread too. Points of light for greennotGreen and her marvelous family, and all of us.
Also think we should do a fundraiser for cancer research in her name, and in honor of those here, past and present, affected by that dread disease. It’s amazing to me that, with all the advances we’ve made against so many other killers, a cure for cancer still eludes us.
debbie
@mike in dc:
With shit like this, I have no doubt.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Yeah, there really should have been a cure by now, but where medicine has really excelled is in pain management. My parents both died of cancer 31 years apart, and the difference between their ends was astounding.
Elizabelle
@mike in dc: I keep hoping that Trump’s awash in disaster, and people are counting down the end of his regime, by the time I fly back to the US of Cray Cray in July. Reading a good book, in event laptops are not allowed in the cabin.
It’s not a probability, but a strong possibility. Once Republicans start running for the exits.
Also: I am tired of hearing the Democrats described as powerless. They are in the minority in Congress, that is true. GOP steering this ship over the falls.
But Dems are hardly powerless. We have moral authority. Push back on that word and descriptions like it. I see it in (newspaper) comment threads, and we have to change the tenor a bit. Powerless people cannot come to the rescue of others. We can.
Patricia Kayden
@bystander: Moaning Joe and Mika supported the Liar in Chief when he was running so…?
Cheryl Rofer
Thinking good thoughts toward greenNot Green and her family. I hope I can be that brave when my time comes.
Baud
@Elizabelle: You’re correct. But you know how it goes. Haters want to blame Dems for not stopping the GOP. That’s where the powerless talk comes from.
Baud
@debbie: Isn’t Biden still working on something?
Tazj
Peace, love and comfort to gnG and family.
satby
@Elizabelle: What a great idea!
Elizabelle
@debbie: Yeah, that’s true re pain management. Same thing here; parents gone in 1990 and 2014. A sea change.
debbie
@Baud:
I sure hope so. I remember taking my mom to the James Center, a research and treatment facility dedicated to cancer that’s part of OSU. There were so many patients being wheeled from area to area, it was like the place was its own city. Very sobering.
Betty Cracker
Strength, love and courage to gnG and family. And may there be many good days ahead for the Immanentize family.
Lapassionara
@Elizabelle: thank you for reposting. Such a sad time for her family. Ditto what others have said. Words don’t seem to be adequate, but they are all we have to express our caring.
SFAW
Loving thoughts to gnG and her sister, and the rest of the family as well.
SiubhanDuinne
May your transition be gentle and pain free, dear greennotGreen. Carry with you love and light, and gratitude for your boundless generosity, humour and honesty. You have made a difference in many lives, and you will be deeply missed.
To gnG’s loving family, thank you all so much for serving as her scribe and keeping us informed. I hope the knowledge that so many scattered strangers hold your sister/aunt/daughter in such affection will be a bit of comfort to you all in the days and weeks ahead. Along with condolences, I wish you strength and peace.
tobie
Peace, strength and love to gnG and her family.
Steeplejack
Peace to greennotGreen
Be at ease, free from trouble
Ever green at heart
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: My father died of pancreatic cancer over 30 years ago, when the 5-year mortality rate was over 95%. Now the 5-year mortality rate is still around 95%, which I find remarkable.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
I think of you and your family. I have been there, with both of my parents. Sending you and your family positive thoughts and prayers.
MomSense
Sending my love and support to gnG and sister, mom, niece, brother, and the pups who have been by her side.
@Immanentize:
We jackals will support you every step of your journey even as our hearts are breaking for you.
rikyrah
@Gin & Tonic:
My father too . Pancreatic cancer is no joke.??
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: oh, that so beautifully expresses what so many of us feel! Thank you, SiubhanDuinne!
SFAW
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Unfortunately, the “generic ballot” doesn’t mean shit at this point. So the Dems need to keep hammering on the Party of Traitors, every day in every way. I’m hoping Tom Perez has someone dedicated to being the Dems’ attack dog(s). The Rep. Maloney “I’ll hold a Town Hall in my chickenshit Rethug neighbor’s district, since he’s too much of a chickenshit” thing should continue to be replicated, I’m hoping the DNC is helping do that as well.
And the rest of us need to keep hammering on the non-national Rethugs, as well as on Congress.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
You made my screen suddenly go out of focus. Thanks.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Quick aside (as you’re probably going to see it) that Mom raved over the Met’s production of Cyrano.
HRA
Peace and prayers to gnG and her family on this day and those that will follow.
pamelabrown53
Peace, love and light to green not Green and her family. Her courage, equanimity and humor are an inspiration.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: If Steve Jobs couldn’t beat it. . .
satby
@Steeplejack: nice Steep, as are the musical selections you’ve shared. Soothing and comforting.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Lovely, especially the last line. Thank you.
Soprano2
I will hold gnG and her family in my thoughts. Peace and love to her and her family, as many others have already said.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I am so fucking tired of all this winning!
Elizabelle
Another good thought: Jimmy Carter is still with us, and lived to vote in 2016. Wish we were not so heavy on assholes in the US of A; would have liked to see his candidate in the White House, once again.
But JEC still lives, and I am grateful for that. Lot of strides in keeping people with us longer, in better comfort.
Except for pancreatic cancer.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “There is no camera, Comrade Trump. Vladimir says so.”
rikyrah
@geg6:
Congratulations ??
amk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nothing is ever twitler’s fault. What an asshole.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Sadly, I won’t be seeing it — it’s not part of the Live in HD schedule (wish the Met had seen fit to include Cyrano and refrained from giving us yet a third iteration of a fairly tedious Traviata production). Have always loved the story of Cyrano, and by all accounts Roberto Alagna is perfect in the title role. I’m glad your mom enjoyed it.
Gin & Tonic
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Elizabelle
@Gin & Tonic: Yeah. That’s about it.
SFAW
@amk:
Asshole, buffoon, moron, sociopath, bully, infant, dickhead, moron, prick, patsy, liar, grifter, moron, or clueless fuck?
SiubhanDuinne
@Immanentize:
I wish you and Mrs. Imm strength, patience and love for the journey.
Baud
@SFAW: Or?
amk
@SFAW: aaand?
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW:
Pretty much obligatory at this point:
All of them, Katie!
Booger
@Arm The Homeless: I need a cigarette after that. How can we run that man in 2018?
amk
Chyna’s Xi to South Korea (and to twitler) – Fuck Thaad.
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: I’m truly hard-pressed to come up with something stupider: “We didn’t realize the guy with the camera would take pictures.” Really? And you’re going to say that to a reporter?
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
I’m wondering whether openly and savagely mocking the Moron-in-Chief will hasten him stroking out/imploding more than other methods. Of course, that runs the risk of having President Dense before ALL those motherfuckers can be indicted. And, of course President ZEGS might be even worse, at least on the domestic front.
SiubhanDuinne
@amk:
Here are some worthy additions (William S. Gilbert, Ruddigore):
Elizabelle
Moar good news, for gnG and the rest of us: from FTF NY Times:
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All this stuff went up decades after the Civil War. They wanted to sanitize their forebears’ actions.
And, somehow, I don’t think we are ever going to see a “Donald J. Trump Memorial Association.” Leaving aside the unfortunate fact that the gentleman is still walking among us.
ETA: not sure what went wrong with formatting. Oh well. Thing is: pedestal where JDavis used to stand is empty. They improved it.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
You have learned well, Grasshopper.
clay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
So what, exactly, are they “furious” about? The fact that the photos were taken at all? (Which, duh, they knew they had cameras.) The fact that the photos were published? (Which, again, duh.) Or was it the fact that no one even knew that Kislyak was there until the photos were published, making an already sketchy situation even sketchier?
And if it’s the last one, then that means they are more upset about the reveal than they are about the action itself.
amk
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL.
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne:
Never heard/seen Ruddigore, I guess I’ll have to remedy that.
There’s also some epic cursing/insulting in Lear, I think, but I’ll have to look it up. I think it’s either Lancaster or York that does the insulting, but as I’m not anything approaching knowledgeable regarding Billy Shakes, it could be Brutus or Puck, for all I know.
amk
@clay: It’s always about coverup and these numbnutz totally suck at it. Every fucking day.
martian
@Immanentize: Is it certain? I thought you had some weeks yet to know. I am so sorry.
Keeping greennotGreen and all of you seeing her through this final passage in my thoughts. I’m so glad you have each other, a tight circle of love. Thank you for letting her friends and well wishers here keep a distant vigil.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
people were tweeting last night that having TASS photo (and sound?) equipment in the Oval Office is a pretty big security risk. I meant to ask Dr Silverman about it last night, but forgot. I imagine it will come up again.
Elizabelle
@clay: I know.
Stepping on it may be the only action Trump’s dick ever sees.
gbbalto
@Immanentize: I’m very sorry to hear this. May there be many good days.
SFAW
@SFAW:
So it was neither Lancaster, nor York, nor Puck, nor Gandalf:
OSWALD
What dost thou know me for?
KENT
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.
If nothing else, calling Shitgibbon all those things would probably tie him up for days: first having someone explain it to him, then having him tweet endlessly about that loser Shakespeare, calling President Shitgibbon all those mean things.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Congratulations! So nice to read happy things!
Svensker
Peace and blessings to green not Green and her family. Holding you all in the Light.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
LOL!
Bruce K
@SFAW: The sooner Pence is forced to show his true colors, the better, I think; he’s managed to stay relatively obscure even as VP because of the chaos stirred up at 1600. And remember, Jerry Ford only managed to pull off one pardon. If we get a wave election next year, there might just be a historical argument in a hundred years about who our first woman President actually was…
satby
@geg6: missed the good news on the first pass, congratulations to all on the newest arrival!
Elizabelle
@SFAW:
Will!
That riposte is the hip hop of its day. It’s like the REM lyrics (End of the World).
SFAW
@Elizabelle:
Outstanding.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Former Obama FP adviser
Former Dep. Director of the CIA
Elizabelle
@SFAW:
And it sounds like a baud/bawd is a good thing. May it ever be so.
amk
LOL reply to that acosta tweet
clay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, absolutely. Gee, letting Russian state media with recording equipment into one of the most sensitive offices in the world is a security risk! Whothefuckcould’veknown?!?!
But I’m just wondering about whatever WH official is “furious” about the Russians. Being “furious” implies that the Russians broke some kind of agreement. I want to know what that original agreement was. What did the Russians tell them? What did they tell the Russians? What in the nine circles of hell is going on?!?
Worth noting: It’s been reported that the photo op originated from a personal request by Putin.
laura
@Elizabelle: count me IN!
Love to gnG and her family in the transition. Peace and Grace as you ease on over.
Immentize, I wish you the best as the coming days come on. There’s moments of joy, in a world of suck. Minimizing suffering and maximizing joy is my prayer for you and your wife.
And to Rikyrah, I hope you are doing well after the long stand into your workday.
clay
@Elizabelle:
standing ovation
SFAW
@Elizabelle:
Right? Right!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Elizabelle:
It also demonstrates how much wealth the planter class had left over after all the antebellum labor theft and 50 years of near-slavery labor theft after, for their widows, kids and grandkids to have so much left to dump into ridiculous displays of grandiosity celebrating their theft.
amk
exactly.
Steeplejack
Rainy, gray and cool here in NoVA this morning. In a pleasant way.
Miles Davis, “Blue in Green.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Yes, by all means. Does anyone know the current status of Joe Biden’s cancer task force? I’m pretty sure he said around the time of the transition that he’d be continuing the initiative, but haven’t seen or heard anything more.
amk
Loving this.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: That would be a great thing to fund.
Steeplejack
Miles Davis, “Générique.”
sherparick
Thoughts with greennotGreen and her family. Showing us what love and courage are.
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie:
That article is very odd. It never once mentions the fact that US media were barred from the session with the Russian officials. So not only did the Russian photographer have access (despite the fact that WH vetting was so casual they couldn’t even find out that he worked for Tass as well as the foreign minister), which is sketchy enough on the merits, but American journalists were denied the same access. Why didn’t the WaPo article note that fact?
I’ve said it before: if a film or TV screenwriter submitted a script with only a fraction of the stuff the Trump administration has pulled, they’d be kicked out of the producer’s office.
LurkerNoLonger
@Arm The Homeless: That kind of anger is what we need, not the ginned up, AstroTurf, bullshit anger of the Tea Party circa 2010, but real, richeous anger.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Cancer is not one disease though, its a family of diseases. For example blood cancers behave significantly different than solid cancers.
ETA: Many cancers that used to be death sentence have become chronic and manageable now. There has also been a significant amount of progress in childhood leukemia etc.
Steeplejack
@Immanentize:
Sorry to hear this. Our thoughts will be with you.
The Youngbloods, “Sunlight.”
schrodingers_cat
@Immanentize: {{{ }}}. Take care of you too. Its easy to burn out as a care giver.
bupalos
I’m a bit peripheral here but just want to note that it is incredibly kind of GnG’s family to be keeping this community close at what must be an excruciating time. It’s really heartening to see.
Ohio Mom
Wishing greennotGreen all she needs for a peaceful transition, and serenity to her family.
Also hoping Immentize and his wife all they need as they grapple with their new reality.
Finally, missing Yarrow, and eager for you to come back!
Ah…so much nicer to start the day wishing people well than calling my Congressmen. But I’m afraid that has to be next on my agenda. My elderly aunt asked me why I was aggravating myself so and I replied, “I’m a middle-aged woman, it’s my duty!” She didn’t disagree.
SiubhanDuinne
@SFAW:
That scene from Ruddigore is really wonderful. Portraits of all the ancestral baronets of Ruddigore come to life to curse and threaten the current holder of the title. Done properly, it’s very effective.
Ohio Mom
@schrodingers_cat: I have to agree, it is extremely unlikely that there will ever be what people mean when they say “a cure for cancer.”
As you said, there are too many different kinds, too many variables, and also, cancer is just about inevitable. Our bodies give rise to cancerous cells all the time but our immune system usually is able to kill them.
We will continue to make progress in treatment, and I think we will also progress in helping cancer patients who are beyond treatment with more comfortable last days. Those are not small things.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
greennotGreen: through tears, because it seems like the time is very near, I offer you many many blessings to you and your loving family. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this time with us. Your bravery, equanimity, selflessness and dignity are inspirational. Go in peace and dwell in light.
artem1s
thinking of you and your family. Be at peace. you are helping us all remember our own loves and losses. And that is a good thing. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
Mary G
So grateful to gnG’s sister and niece for keeping us updated. Doing hospice at home for my mom was as hard a thing as I have ever done, but also the most rewarding.
sherparick
On the topic of the thread, as long as Trump has 80% of Republicans backing him, the Republicans in Congress will back him. And as long as McConnell and Ryan back him, he can get away with murder (I think pretty much literally). In the Red States and districts, they fear a primary from the populist Right, funded by one or more of the hard Right billionaires, near billionaires, and high multimillionaires that fund Republican Party. And this group will stand by Trump and don’t care a wit about Russian involvement, Hell, they are grateful for it as long as it helps them achieve their prime goals: 1) Always number 1 on the Republican goal, tax cuts for the rich, especially the ultra rich; 2) elimination of all regulations that hinders their ability to make a buck, whether pollution control, consumer protection, or worker protection; 3) and for the religious minded in this donor class, imposing a patriarchial rules to put “women” back in their place; and 4) for the racists among them, putting minority groups back in their place and asserting white supremacy, which is also why you will get a hard core 35% of the population that will never abandon Trump. This is the 35% that say Comey should have fired because Hillary was not indicted, and I believe Trump will move to that as his anger that his Presidency is not considered legitimate increases.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Well, I was thinking (after you posted your excellent suggestion) that (a) Uncle Joe would probably be very moved and inspired, as are we all, by gnG’s journey, and (b) whatever funds we are able to raise in the BJ community could be well-leveraged by some kind of informal partnership with Biden. Personally, I’d rather we hook up with him than with one of the big faceless ACS-type organisations. Just my opinion and random thoughts at this point.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes, of course I know that, and I imagine everyone here knows it as well. “Finding a cure for cancer” is shorthand.
SiubhanDuinne
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
And thank you, Conster, for those beautiful words.
hovercraft
Wishing you peace and love at this difficult time to gnG and her her wonderful family.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
@SiubhanDuinne:
Tried to edit but the time for doing so elapsed while I was typing.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
Holding gnG and her family in Light and Love. gnG, thank you for being here. Wishing you a peaceful and easy transition. (I’ll also echo what Conster said; would that I had such eloquence.)
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@SFAW: It’s a bit long but would make an awesome protest sign :)
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
My limited understanding is that the nasal prosthetic provided some unique dilemmas re: singing and projection.
sharl
My thoughts go out to greennotGreen, as well as my thanks – to her and her family – for the generosity they’ve shown in sharing her journey with us. For you, greennotGreen, I wish as much comfort as is possible, and for you to go in peace when you are ready, surrounded by those who love you. (Clearly you’ve got that last bit covered.)
I’ve never been a particularly brave person, to put it mildly, and I hope this will be an inspiration for me when my time approaches.
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: Peace to you too. I hold you, your wife, and whole family – along with gnG and all who know and love her – in my heart.
What are those stupid onions doing in my office?
BruceFromOhio
Her version on Live at Blues Alley always brings tears, and seems very appropriate here.
May Gaia bless your lands, your loves, and your lives, GreenNotGreen, and may your journey bring you peace at last.
Elizabelle
Popping by to say that brave greennotGreen and her family are in my thoughts today. I hope green is comfortable.
My best to you.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: No problem, sorry if I was too pedantic and came across as condescending.
manyakitty
Sending peace, love and strength to gnG and familly, the Imms, and everyone else who needs it. We are all connected.
greennotGreen
@Elizabelle: (gnG’s sister writing) gnG wanted me to say that, while she wished she had had more time here, she is not bitter about the inability of her doctors to save her. It’s been hard to find a cure because cancer actually encompasses a wide range of diseases, and one approach doesn’t fit all. For her memorial, she has instead suggested donations to three different causes, only one is cancer (American Cancer Society). The others are Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (because of her nephew) and the Avielle Foundation (because her very good friends lost a daughter, Avielle, at Sandy Hook). As throughout her life, and approaching her death, her first thought is of others.
Elizabelle
@greennotGreen: Please tell gnG that it will be done. It will be our pleasure to support all three very worthy causes.
I know I speak for everyone here when I say that we send our strength and love to you and yours as you keep gnG company in her final days. What a brave and noble sister. (Is something we could say about both of you.)
greennotGreen
@Elizabelle: (gnG’s sister): How kind of you. The BJ community is a very special one, indeed.