For The Love Of My Life(That I May Never Really Meet)

Maybe I love that
You have my back in a fight.
Maybe I love that we're
Close at night.
Maybe love triumphed in the end,
because maybe I married
my very best friend.

Maybe I loved your
Soft gentle mouth.
Maybe meeting you
Changed my mind about the South

Imagining possibilities can be hard and easy  to love,
dreams to imagine but not much to take hold of.

My General Election Debate Fantasy...

(Not sure why I'm picturing Warren here...maybe I just find women easier to write.)
INT DEBATE STAGE NIGHT
ELIZABETH WARREN has had a good debate night. Suddenly, there is a click. TRUMP is onstage gesturing and maybe some people in the front rows hear him, but he can't tell.
WARREN
And, finally, in lieu of a closing argument, I gave America something we've been looking for for four years--a moment of silence.(gestures to CREW MEMBER) Thanks, Jimmy. We'll get that picture later.
*Yes, I do know it's sad that this is how I fantasize at night now.
**Feel free to adapt for your own favorite.

Unexpected Movie Changed by The Activist Life...

Got HBO suite back when attempting to get a break on our cable bill so I found myself rewatching "Mr. Holland's Opus" after many years. No, I don't have many thoughts about the handling of deafness in the movie, although I believe that some of the Coles are Deaf actors. The part that is different for me since I am no longer a labile college student is  near the end. 

If you'll recall, Mr. Holland's high school faces budget cuts severe enough to cut all the arts programs and precipitate the grizzled music teacher's retirement...he grouses a bit, but his heart is eased by the assembly full of students that are his, you know, human symphony and all, which is sincerely moving, if not as much of a tweak on my personal heartstrings as that "Beautiful Boy" moment(Much less wrenching now that I've reduced my expectations regarding my father issues, but I still welled up.  Still, I am optimistic that mental health is not far behind.)

Here's the part that bugs Activist Bohemian Crip about the "Human Symphony" moment...Mr. Holland taught the current governor of his state back in 1965 when she was just a shy clarinet player.  One would think that might be worth a phone call or two, even if he didn't want to hold on to his music-teaching job as if it were a Senate seat.

Bohemian Crip and The Anti-war Phone Call

Your humble correspondent was one of over 200 people representing all fifty states on a DSA call Thursday. This variety will be part of the success of the anti-war movement, especially as it reaches more affected populations, such as Muslim-Americans, veterans, socialists in faith communities and the like, as we attempt to reach the socialist goal of “end of empire” through mobilizations in local areas.

The former president of the Lawyers’ guild spoke and offered a harrowing tale about growing up in an Iran torn apart by the Iran-Iraq war and said that her family was lucky that their house was not hit by bombs.She also explained that problems with US interventions in Iran go back to the Shah in the 1950s, and already, despite the pause in tensions, Iranian-American citizens are having trouble getting back in the country if they leave. She said that one moment that heartened her since Trump’s election was when thousands of people showed up at the nation’s airports to fight the Muslim ban.

Veteran for Peace and member of DSA’s Veterans Working group Rory Fanning cited Pew Surveys taken this summer in which clear majorities of Afghanistan and Iraq vets say that fighting those wars wasn’t worth the effort or expense.  He also said that ending student debt would be a clear blow to militarism, citing his own enlistment to pay loans in 2003. He is not alone…200,000 active duty personnel owe 2.9 billion dollars, according to the National Military Family Association.

Eco-socialists should want to end war, not only because the cost of military engagements saps will and takes money from other things but because the military’s own status as a polluter equal to some small nations. https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-greenhouse-gases-140-countries-1445674

Activist Linda Sarsour cited DSA’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders, as well as other more local electoral successes, as a path to build power and bring leftist ideas into the mainstream, though she stressed that our job doesn’t stop at the ballot box.

Bohemian Crip Watches Movies: Please Stand By

Don't you hate it when the news is so elemental, it makes you feel stupid for thinking about anything else?Although this movie review is not  the only reason I want people to speak out against war with Iran, of course. Call your Senators and Reps at 202-224-3121. Do an action if you cam, though I don't have  mobility enough to do this often.

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Your bohemian Crip is usually not a fan of movies waxing metaphorical about disability stuff, and once again, as otherworldly as Dakota Fanning can sometimes appear, casting her is not what it takes to capture the autistic experience, even if that seems far removed from my own disability experience.
However, Wendy Wellcott's quest to understand the world by writing about "Star Trek" kind of grew on me as well as Toni Collette's performance as well-meaning but clueless group-home supervisor Scottie. It feels somewhat true to life that Scottie misunderstanding Wendy's motivations(including knowing next-to-nothing about the Star Trek mythos) drives a lot of the plot, as Wendy has a meltdown that keeps her from mailing her contest entry to Paramount Studios, and launches a journey from her San Francisco group home to the LA studio's mailroom to deliver the script personally.(Any writer can relate to her speech once she arrives, from "Do you know how hard it is to write something?" to the moment when she sneaks her script in the mail slot,