I just spent two hours on this! Luckily I’m both sick and unemployed & have nothing better to do. I cannot leave without posting a pix of my love though, Sir Henry. (More here: https://www.instagram.com/boodiba.and.henry/

and WRONG!

The success of the Trumpsters in today’s America helps me better understand my own failure/s.

Wow!! I wish I had that kind of drive.

This is making me want to go buy a pair of New Balance.

Apparently they are like that to the majority of their workforce as well, so it’s not surprising.

“hollow, performative grieving” - well said.

I felt that way about Facebook, rather than Twitter, which I still enjoy.

Crisis hotline. I guess I just needed a good cry.

I just texted 741741 for the 1st time today. It didn’t help at all.

Oh ya - sorry about that. I was trying to respond to the clueless, tool lawyer guy.

I’m reading through all this & hoping that ConLawHero gets run over by a bus.

He also lives only 20 minutes from his damned job & counts that minimal commute as “work” time. How many poors do you know who live 20 minutes from work? Even in a city with public transportation, it’s usually an hour away EACH WAY.

Exactly. He’s out of touch.

I have a college education and made a good salary my years in NYC, but I’d stumbled into a rent stabilized apartment in the East Village, so was stuck there. I lived for 22 years without a stove. I had a college sized, collegiate fridge I had to buy myself, but it didn’t have a freezer and was tiny. I’m lucky I was…

I think you might be under estimating the draining effects of the constant hardship & abuse involved in low income jobs. Plus if someone’s using public transport & cobbling together 2 or more low wage jobs, they DO have a lot less time.

Right - canned or frozen is generally the best you can do.

+1

Where???

Thank you! It’s a bit easier now because, though I haven’t asked for money since graduating from college 26 years ago, I’m in dire straits. She’d never send me a plane ticket to come visit, nor would she come out to the west coast. And I’ve learned I have to be extra careful to limit email & phone exposure. It’s hard…