Today is Mothers' Day. It's also my birthday. I really love it when I get to celebrate my birth and the births of my children on the same day. It makes my heart so big and warm that I want to tell others about what they mean to me.
You, DK, have been an important part of my consciousness for the past, what is it, two years? Something like that. Thank you so much for this progressive forum where the assholes at least have functioning brains in their heads!
Seriously, the assholes on this site have made me think about things that the Sarah Palins and Donald Trumps of the world would never have inspired me to think about. For that, I hold the assholes on this site in high regard.
I love it that I was born and I love it that I'm a mother. I believe that black lives matter, I believe that girls who live in occupied Palestine will benefit from girls' soccer clubs introduced and sustained in their neighborhoods, I believe that paying somebody $15 dollars an hour to come do some yardwork I can no longer do but needs to be done is a good deal. It doesn't matter to me that I only make $12 an hour on a good day. I believe that most doctors and teachers give a shit and that the work they do should be well paid. I believe that most politicians and cops have lost their way and they would be well served by being forced to spend time around ... but no, this is where I could easily unwind.
I'll just leave this by saying that I'm so happy I found DK and all the fab diarists I read here. In the words of my most fave young 'uns, including the two that I spawned and will be celebrating all day today ...
I believe that WE WILL WIN!