Notices by Clay Rivers (clayrivers@mastodon.world)

@StillIRise1963 One thing about checking out of the media, it kinda makes for gaps in knowing what’s going on. 😕 I hope you SIL and relatives do well.

@StillIRise1963 How do you get KTLA where you are?

@EricFielding Oh, my goodness!! I used to live in Pasadena—Los Robeles and Del Mar. such a beautiful area. Thanks for update. 😢
@StillIRise1963

@StillIRise1963 Oh, no. From the Palisades?

@StillIRise1963 I thought fires were out in the Palisades. Pasadena, too? Yikes.

@RiversideBryan Happy new year!@bmacDonald94

@StillIRise1963 She’ll appreciate that, no doubt.

@StillIRise1963 Chances are she won’t then. Unless she’s looking for a diversion. Trust your instincts. ❤️

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@bmacDonald94 You are so right. They each hold a special place in our hearts. With these losses I’m just a mound of emotion and I can’t. Even begin to put feelings into words, but these condolences help define the loss and give it clarity.

@bmacDonald94 Thank you, Bill. She was a feisty little “Dorkie.”

💔 Sad day at the Rivers household. Just ushered Jasmine, the family’s fourteen-year-old Dachshund-Yorkie mix, to the Rainbow Bridge. 🐾

READ MORE: https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-rainbow-bridge-the-true-story-behind-historys-most-influential-piece-of-animal-mourning-literature/#:~:text=As%20a%20concept%2C%20what%20nineteen,simple%20comfort%20for%20grieving%20hearts.

@bmacDonald94 Thanks Bill! Now to make it happen … hm. And happy holidays!
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@gothicdispatch That reminds me: I need to become more disciplined and work on my great American novel. Maybe I’ll take off for France, like Baldwin, after it gets picked up. @bookstodon @bmacDonald94

@StillIRise1963 I can only take the local news in very small doses.

@StillIRise1963 Oofff. That would be kinda rough. I don’t watch regularly. Given what I went through with this past election cycle … I just can’t.

@StillIRise1963 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve uttered that very sentence … to the amazement of listeners.

@StillIRise1963 That requires a bit of self-reflection, not to mention taking some responsibility for maintaining a system that denigrates the global majority population. I could go on and on, but I think it also involves acknowledging that it’s advantageous to them … and an advantage isn’t really an advantage unless someone else is DEPRIVED of it. Then there’s the guilt, blah, blah, blah. But SOME work through it. A select few.

@StillIRise1963 Something else occurred to me: the fact that the majority of white folks see fighting racism as something “impossible” to get their heads and HEARTS around is all the more reason why it SHOULD be grappled with with all deliberate speed. That whole impossible nature is merely an illusion. A sheen. It’s smoke and mirrors. Lies and fear. The solution is simple, it’s just not easy.

💛 “A Lynching in Central Florida”

The Ocoee Massacre is still considered the bloodiest day in modern American political history.
—@clayrivers

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