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I did mean to make you cry
Today, I am making a video. Tomorrow, I will make people cry. Tomorrow I will be at my day job, teaching high school. These are not the people who will be crying, hopefully. Tomorrow there will be a funeral. The video I am making today will be played at that funeral, and people will cry.
By Rebecca Lupton4 years ago in Humans
Suddenly Having Money
I did it, I finally sold my house. It had been a 5-to-6 year process. I was supposed have sold it back in 2015 as part of the ( legal) process of getting my Dad into a nursing home. I'm not going to go into the detail as my memory fails me for detail, and most things these days and it was a long, very involved legal and financial process, a veritable pain-in-the-ass. All I know is that my fathers income I was using to pay the bills was gone, since I was very underemployed staying at home and caring for him and eventually he needed 24 hour care. I tried to find work in the niche I wanted to work in, part-time health care and/or clerical positions. I wasnt very sucessful as all these positions, most I sought through temporary hiring agencies and the positions they provided were full-time.
By Susan Braithwaite4 years ago in Humans
A different country
I grew up in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s — Southern Ireland that is. Now that probably brings to mind a lot of assumptions not only about me but also my upbringing. The thing is I was brought up in a Protestant family (actually adopted — but that’s a story for another time), so that meant I was in a minority subculture. Not only that but parts of the history of that subculture had, not that long ago, been part of an oppressive, and abusive empire. All that meant that there were some messages given to me, both verbal and implied, about who I was and was supposed to be. Some of it was relevant, but much of who I thought I was as an Irish person was in fact erroneous and fed into my insecurities well.
By Nick Tarleton4 years ago in Humans
The Complete Guide to Life After the Omicron Virus and What It Means for You
The Complete Guide to Life After the Omicron Virus and What It Means for You Introduction: How the Omicron Virus Started The Omicron virus was a computer virus that infected the computers of the United States and caused a global cyber attack.
By Ganesh Lokare4 years ago in Humans
Learning to Listen
In 1998 I had the opportunity to visit The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia with a friend and his mother. This friend had two special qualities. First of all, he was on the autism spectrum and second, he was fascinated with history. As we walked through the streets from the train station, he rewarded me with a continuous monologue of everything we were seeing from a historical perspective, including who all of the streets were named after and the roles these people played in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. I was happy to listen in silence. It was a gift I will never forget.
By Gail Wylie4 years ago in Humans
