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Apr. 23rd, 2019 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vvalkyriIt's been a decent day. I spent a very long time talking about all sorts of stuff with a gal met in a coffee shop.
I spent time talking with someone from the Government Accountability Project, who knew my dad. I'll be setting up some way to donate to their whistleblower legal fund in his memory.
The head of the Administrative Law Judges referred to Dad as A Lion in the ALJ community. I asked if he knew him, and he said, "I never met him, but I've heard about him my whole career."
Over on FB I also created a fundraiser for the FSH society. It was that sort of muscular dystrophy that so limited Dad's last year.
Of course there was no need for it to be anywhere near so limited. Some was his stubbornness, some was Stepmother and the driveway, some was Billy's choices about the van she was looking at (it was cheap but deemed too old to go North, but it could have at least gone around town) and some was him needing to keep his legs up plus his chair being way less comfortable for him than the recliner.
I don't know if there was a lot more I could have accomplished for him, but I do wish I'd gotten a google assistant in there.
What's so hard is that there's so much that people with even more physical limitation can do with the right supports.
I just read an opinion piece by Paul Krugman about what the GOP is apparently okay with*, and the threat to democracy from not caring about a foreign power attacking our elections. I said in response on fb,
Anyway.e
Wish me luck on not being too bruised tomorrow. During my walk around the tidal basin I walked, fast, right into a branch.
Oops.
* ( the Krugman piece )
I spent time talking with someone from the Government Accountability Project, who knew my dad. I'll be setting up some way to donate to their whistleblower legal fund in his memory.
The head of the Administrative Law Judges referred to Dad as A Lion in the ALJ community. I asked if he knew him, and he said, "I never met him, but I've heard about him my whole career."
Over on FB I also created a fundraiser for the FSH society. It was that sort of muscular dystrophy that so limited Dad's last year.
Of course there was no need for it to be anywhere near so limited. Some was his stubbornness, some was Stepmother and the driveway, some was Billy's choices about the van she was looking at (it was cheap but deemed too old to go North, but it could have at least gone around town) and some was him needing to keep his legs up plus his chair being way less comfortable for him than the recliner.
I don't know if there was a lot more I could have accomplished for him, but I do wish I'd gotten a google assistant in there.
What's so hard is that there's so much that people with even more physical limitation can do with the right supports.
I just read an opinion piece by Paul Krugman about what the GOP is apparently okay with*, and the threat to democracy from not caring about a foreign power attacking our elections. I said in response on fb,
It might be a mercy that my father died before this became quite so clear.
I had a recurring argument with him during 2017, where I would try to get across the gravity of what I saw happening and he would insist that the institutions would hold and we would survive this. And sometimes I would get through, and he'd say maybe the institutions wouldn't hold. And it was heartbreaking, as though I had destroyed somebody's faith. I started avoiding those conversations.
Anyway.e
Wish me luck on not being too bruised tomorrow. During my walk around the tidal basin I walked, fast, right into a branch.
Oops.
* ( the Krugman piece )
