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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2015 16:08:03 GMT -5
Michael,
I'm sure your nephews are grieving in their own ways.
When my sister died, I was 17 and from outward appearances, life kept moving forward. It has to. That's life. But there I was sleepwalking a few months later when I'd never done it before.
Just keep loving, same as always. Love goes around in circles. Always has. Always will.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 9:54:46 GMT -5
Oh yes...the fair weather friends...the ones that will move onto the next big thing.
Jeff...what do you think about Taylor skipping the next album cycle?
It is wearing her out...I could not imagine living her life.
She could release some new singles on a greatest hits live album.
The odds say that she has pushed her luck a long way...luck has a way of pushing back.
Any olde ways...have you written Andrea yet?
Well, bro.. selfishly, I don't like her skipping the typical album cycle (only because I'll miss her) haha, but I certainly understand it. 89' has been a whirlwind for her and I'm sure, it's eating at her gas tank physically. She deserves a break.. and to be able to take the time to enjoy herself, her friends, and family. Perhaps designate more time for Momma, since she's sick.. I'd hate for her to be busting it for all of us and miss something * if something suddenly happened to Andrea. I certainly have no issue or problems with a live album/ perhaps an acoustic setting * Personally, I don't see Tay taking time off* not in the typical fashion anyway.. she loves to work and she's afraid of losing relevancy <-- she says, though it wouldn't happen with her real fans ever. I haven't written Andrea. Though, I would absolutely love to be able to and say what I couldn't verbalize, nor did I get a chance to speak to Tay. If there was a way to write Andrea.. I would =]
I always try to see what is in the future... but never really can.
Were I to walk a mile in Taylors shoes as a songwriter...I feel I would be needing a good drink of lyrics.
Do some living while having quiet time to write songs is a luxury for Taylor.
Maybe she is getting ideas from Calvin Harris...her next album may be EDM...which is on top right now.
Electronic Dance Music has been around for years...and Calvin is #1 on that chart...hummmm
I love the fact that what ever Taylor does on this next cycle ...it will be on her terma.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 10:04:34 GMT -5
Michael, I'm sure your nephews are grieving in their own ways. When my sister died, I was 17 and from outward appearances, life kept moving forward. It has to. That's life. But there I was sleepwalking a few months later when I'd never done it before. Just keep loving, same as always. Love goes around in circles. Always has. Always will.
Thanks Jo...I am thinking that grieving never really ends....it just gets shuffled to the bottom of pile of grieves.
The mind has a remarkable way of forgetting...I have forgot so much...but I can remember.
The mind to me seems like it has its hard drive...I will call it Z.
Memories... good and bad are put there to rest...maybe forever.
Of all these things that I have forgotten can be remembered in screaming colors.
There is so much more to life than digging through old trunks in the attic.
It is pretty cool to have this head on our shoulders that is capable of so many good things...
Why do so many people use it for evil?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 10:07:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 14:46:41 GMT -5
Michael,
Taylor is such a good person and does so many wonderful things. It's a terrible thing to find your family like that on the road. A terrible thing for your family to be on the road like that.
I see they took them to the Texas Medical Center. Son works there...a whole lot of people do.
The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research. Located in Greater Houston, the center contains 54 medicine-related institutions, including 21 hospitals and eight specialty institutions, eight academic and research institutions, four medical schools, six nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices. All 54 institutions are not-for-profit. Among the affiliated medical schools are the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M College of Medicine, and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The center exceeds one thousand acres (or 1.562 square mile) in size.[6][better source needed] Some member institutions are located outside of the city of Houston. The Center is where one of the first and largest air ambulance services was created and where one of the first successful inter-institutional transplant programs was developed. More heart surgeries are performed in Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world.[9]
The Texas Medical Center receives an average of 3,300 patient visits a day and over seven million annual patient visits, including over 18,000 international patients. In 2011, the center employed over 106,000 people, including 20,000 physicians, scientists, researchers and other advanced degree professionals in the life sciences.[
....and we both know grief comes in cycles too. It'll come back to bite you in the fanny time and time again. But it doesn't stay front and center all the time....which is what you've already said so I'm just repeating now. : )
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 10:30:44 GMT -5
Thank you so much Jo...just thank you for being you!
To be non judgmental is a blessing in itself.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 10:41:39 GMT -5
I spent the last few days reconnecting with my sisters on F/B.
I learned a few things about myself...about my taste in music.
I now realize that my taste of music is sickening to some.
Instead of listening to Aaron Lewis...I should be listening to this..
To listen to country music means that I am an ignorant redneck...a racist and murderer.
Whew...I am so glad that they told me how they felt...now I know.
Oh also I found out that God is nothing more than a fairy tale...
Mostly I found out that the ones who critizize you are the ones who need help.
All I can say in response to them is...thank you and may God bless you.
Man that was like throwing water on a grease fire.
Thank you Lord for letting me see things for myself...not what other people believe that I should be.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 10:50:48 GMT -5
I can't even listen to that song^^^ all the way through...and I said... I like it.
I lied...I don't even like it...but apparently there are a whole lot who do.
Or say that they do just to fit in....to not be criticized ...they like it.
Now what I am saying here is that the LBGT community is free to flourish.
They are free to do because of the fighting men and women who have made it so.
Now I understand that you can become another race if you want to.
That is fine with me...you can marry your computer too if you want.
I really don't care what people do as long as it doesn't tread on my rights.
Now when I am told to be a certain way or I will not be included in their peaceful lives.
It gives me pause...that the most Liberal folks are the most dictatorial.
The bottom line is that they do not even know it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 10:53:15 GMT -5
It is only fair to share the song that received absolutely no likes!
Hey...I like it...really do!
youtu.be/vsQzw_Ax8Cw
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 11:58:23 GMT -5
Michael,
I know how that goes. In so many ways, I'm a stereotype that entire popular movements of "consciousness" have been speaking and railing against ...well, all of my life. Demographically, I am now or have been:
1. Redneck (in both the original farmer meaning of it as well as the family that could define the other meanings) 2. Rural (population density of the county I grew up in is still 5 people per square mile and my dad grew up on the homestead that his grandparents homesteaded after the civil war. The farm was auctioned in the 1980's when I was in my 20's). 3. Working poor (we do fine now but I started out babysitting 5 kids under the age of 5 when I was 11, working on farm labor crews--corn detasseling at 13, by 15 I was waiting tables at the local truck stop with an alcoholic boss who was 9 months behind on paying me because there was no money. But it was a step up from the fields where my hands would bleed from the corn sap. 4. Uneducated. I'm the first generation of my family to graduate from high school. That's still the highest education level in my family. Hubby's side is different. My mom has a 6th grade education. My dad an 8th grade. My grandfather's had a first and second grade education. 5. Unemployed. It was a decision we made when son was born and we lived 1,500 miles away from family and hubby was deployed and gone. Childcare for an infant for the 12 hours a day I was gone each day was more than I made. In practical application though, son was born a year after we were married and I'd lived on my own income for 11 years before I got married so in my lifetime, I was only a two income family for one year before son came along. I was used to not having any money. It was just life for everyone I knew as well as myself. I waited a long time to decide I wanted to do the family thing so when it came, I really embraced it. It was a personal choice. But I do understand that it's a personal choice which is not popular with a lot of people. 6. Faith in God. 7. A belief that Christianity makes the world a better place. 8. A former military dependent and the wife of a former sailor. 9. My chronic (but well controlled) health issues which people would like to assign blame to the unhealthy for. That's a real trend these days too.
There's pretty much nothing about the many stereotypes I fit that popular movements of "consciousness" like. At best, they merely blow me off and think I'm irrelevant. Which is a step up from being told off but I'm not sure by how much.
Maybe that's one of the reasons we all like Taylor so much. There have always been so many people who are very vocal about what's wrong with all the parts of who she is and she keeps on being who she is, even as that changes as she grows, but it's her path. Something to truly respect.
P.S. I had to google the artist from the clip you posted as I'm not familiar with her and I see she led the cross dressing movement along the way. Personally, I don't care what people wear but that's not my thing and I can't picture following an artist based on it. Did like the violins she had. Want to hear the ironic Michael? Our son has two best friends and then a wider circle of about 30 good friends and then he knows a ton of people. One of his two best friends decided a few years ago that his physical gender wasn't who he really is. Sweet girl. Always has been all the years they grew up together. Politically though, she doesn't fit the any of the stereotypes that supposedly gender reassignment folks would be/have.
I've always believed that was the way of things in life. All of us are a part of so many different components, personalities and personal choices. Then activists step in claiming to "speak" for this group or that group. That's an impossible thing since no two people are alike. I have to add in that my distrust of activists goes way back to my working poor roots. Long before all the newer causes came into being, there were activists who "spoke" for the poor and "decided" for the poor. Very often they make they made things worse and then the poor lived with the consequences of their personal "activism".
Probably should add that I have a strong bias against activists here. While I was alive when Woodstock happened, I was a kid, living in a small town and didn't know anything about it until years and years and years later. Then I watched a documentary about it and it was a royal mess. It wasn't legal to begin with because the town wouldn't issue the permit. Farmer's had their entire crops destroyed ...and entire years worth of work, by the crowds. The National Guard had to come in to provide food, water and medical care. There weren't sanitary facilities at all so the human excrement was just everywhere, left behind. If you look at the pictures of the destruction left behind. It had rained and everything was soaked in mud so people just abandoned it. If that's freedom, how were the farmer's who lost so much free? They were just minding their own business, working hard and trying to help feed others and it just got all stomped on.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 12:07:54 GMT -5
It gives me pause...that the most Liberal folks are the most dictatorial. The bottom line is that they do not even know it. That's always been my personal experience. Give me a redneck every time. They usually follow their own path and pretty much expect that you will too. Edited to add: I am glad that most progressives are shedding the label of "liberal" since they don't believe it fits them anymore. Maybe "liberal" will someday once again mean people who believe in liberty. Progressives seem to have morphed into messengers of "justice". There was a time when liberals were against society deciding what was "justice" for all.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 12:15:49 GMT -5
It is only fair to share the song that received absolutely no likes!
Hey...I like it...really do!
youtu.be/vsQzw_Ax8Cw
Me too...I have it on my Ipod. Fell completely in love with it the first time I heard it and played it nonstop for a couple of days. I still love, love, love it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 12:42:03 GMT -5
Michael,
Family....I just googled my brother-in-law and this is on his list of likes on youtube.
Keeping in mind that my brother-in-law is from the Netherlands. He came to the US about a decade ago to marry my sister-in-law and they live in NYC. This is a debate on a Texas bill on abortion.
Legislatively, SB1 was defeated but it came back in the form of SB5 and was passed into law in 2013.
Keeping in mind that both versions of this bill required abortion facilities to follow the same guidelines that other medical facilities have to follow. Which is what, in my generation of women at least, we wanted. We wanted women to be able to not die in a backstreet alley because they were so desperate not to have a baby.
New generations, new activists. Ones who call names and have to be removed from Senate hearings.
In my mind, women are better off with safer medical practices but that's not what the women's movement is telling us now. So I guess we can add me, as a woman, being "anti-woman" because I think it's a good thing for those performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.
Clearly my brother-in-law feels differently. Family.
Edited to add: not sure where the girl in the clip gets her info but Texas has Sex Ed. I don't remember what year son had it in school but I do remember that the teacher said he already knew everything so he'd give him credit and he could take another class in the time slot the second semester. When son was young and we lived in DC, 7 out of every 10 black men in DC were HIV positive. The kids I babysat next door had lost their uncle to AIDS and there was a guy dying from it a couple of doors down from our townhouse. It was everywhere and little kids have been known to bite each other. Seemed prudent to start explaining about how you could get sick from the transmission of bodily fluids and he was young so it was all just information to him rather than something that was part of his life. But my point is, Texas teaches Sex Ed in school. Son is 25 now and it had to have been at least a decade ago that he took it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 12:47:26 GMT -5
Gosh Jo...now I remember why I love you so much.
I never forgot...it is just that the clutter gets in the way.
Thank you so much for being a true friend!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 12:50:50 GMT -5
I love you too Michael. Always will.
Thank you so much for being a true friend. : )
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