Hey there, y'all- good evening, and welcome to our monthly 1st Sunday free-for-all, wherein we yap, joke, 'meet and greet', and just generally try to enjoy ourselves and not be serious- there are plenty of other Sundays for that, right? Come on down and join us below the fold.
KosAbility is a Sunday 4pm leftkost/7 pm east volunteer diarist community of, by & for people living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues. Our use of disability includes temporary as well as permanent health/medical conditions - from small, gnawing problems to major, life- threatening ones. Our use of "love someone" extends to cherished members of other species.
Our discussions are open threads in the context of this community. Feel free to comment on the diary topic, ask questions of the diarist or generally to everyone, share something you've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about your situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered. If you are interested in contributing a diary, contact series coordinator postmodernista.
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Before we get to the bad jokes, I'd like to let you know that this weekend, I was able to do something I've never been able to do before- meet some actual kossacks in person! The Texas DK statewide meet up was this weekend, and Texan001 and I were able to attend, despite the ice and sleet and subzero temperatures. I got to meet Meteor Blades, Denise Oliver Velez, navajo, and many other Texans, including a couple of our own KA members. I learned a great deal from the topics presented and discussed, and am looking forward to trying to find opportunities to use that information in the future, even in our little generally closed-minded spot of the state.
A funny thing occurred to me, relative to the meetup and tonight's bad joke topic. The joke I'd already picked was this one:
"What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?"
"I don't know and I don't care",
which isn't, and really shouldn't be, funny at all; that it is, albeit in a really dark way, is a pretty disturbing thing.
Listening to the discussions today reminded me that part of the reason we meet together in person or virtually or both is that we aren't ignorant and we aren't apathetic. At the individual, organization, or systems level, we care enough to be here for one another with support, information, and encouragement, we gather knowledge and share it around in ways that can make a difference for the better for the people we know, and many times people we've yet to meet.
In short, I suppose, it was a great way to spend a day, just as our Sunday evenings are well spent. I realize that we may have a few more limitations because of our health conditions, but if you have the opportunity or inclination to join an in person meetup in your area sometime, I believe it would be well worth your time to meet some DK people in real life.
Now- back to the light and fluffy. Make us cringe with truly awful jokes, please?