It's good to see you back.pink_halenJanuary 9 2017, 00:15:35 UTC
Have you been lurking here or have you just been disconnected completely?
I always wonder about those who used to use LJ regularly and went away. We never quite know your status.
Are you still in Boulder or have you migrated to somewhere warm?
Have you been able to support yourself with non musical jobs?
Are you physically healthy?
Sometimes we all need a push in the right direction. Sometimes we need a shove to a new path. Which is it for you?
What can LJ do for you?
For now, I'm too far away to help much. Ron and I are literally on the other side of the world. We arrive in Semarang, Java, Indonesia tomorrow morning.
I hope you can find your way out of this dark place.
I have to remind myself that any time in history there has been a social change, there is always a reactive period following it, but yet the change usually carries through and is accepted.
Living through the backlash, however, isn't something I was looking forward to doing in my older age.
I'm still here (and on Dreamwidth - same name). I've been wondering about you, and hoping you were okay... so I'm very glad to see your font again, but dismayed that you're so not-okay.
Almost everybody I know is upset about recent external events, and so am I. But it's not in my nature to hide under the bed and whimper; my generation stopped a war and forced a sitting President to resign to avoid impeachment, just by singing in the streets! At the very least, we need some 21st-century protest songs. I do believe we - as individuals, as a nation, as the world - can survive this, but we are going to have to work at it.
Is there anything I can do to help you? I'm still in New Jersey, and I still don't have very much money, but I'm good at encouraging remarks and practical advice, and other Crone-ish things. And I always listen...
I don't have any specifics, yet. Later in the year I need a sponsor to collect funds towards a harp; and I don't think, given SSI rules, that I'm allowed to collect them myself without them impacting the subsidy.
I need to get a harp I can carry; mine is small, but weighty, and I'm no longer rated (I don't know if I updated about my heart attack here, but I've only my right ventricle remaining) for carrying him longer than about a block and a half. So I need a carbon-fiber harp for travel. 8-10 pounds, and ten more strings.
If SSI will let me have it without calling it a salable asset.
No, you didn't write about your heart attack! (And I infer that you moved from Boulder to someplace else sometime between 2012 and now.)
If someone were to give you a gift of a harp that suits your needs, describing it (quite correctly) as an item of "assistive technology" - well, it's common knowledge that making music can be very, very therapeutic in a number of ways ;-)
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I always wonder about those who used to use LJ regularly and went away. We never quite know your status.
Are you still in Boulder or have you migrated to somewhere warm?
Have you been able to support yourself with non musical jobs?
Are you physically healthy?
Sometimes we all need a push in the right direction.
Sometimes we need a shove to a new path.
Which is it for you?
What can LJ do for you?
For now, I'm too far away to help much. Ron and I are literally on the other side of the world. We arrive in Semarang, Java, Indonesia tomorrow morning.
I hope you can find your way out of this dark place.
Hugs from the other side of the world.
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Living through the backlash, however, isn't something I was looking forward to doing in my older age.
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Almost everybody I know is upset about recent external events, and so am I. But it's not in my nature to hide under the bed and whimper; my generation stopped a war and forced a sitting President to resign to avoid impeachment, just by singing in the streets! At the very least, we need some 21st-century protest songs. I do believe we - as individuals, as a nation, as the world - can survive this, but we are going to have to work at it.
Is there anything I can do to help you? I'm still in New Jersey, and I still don't have very much money, but I'm good at encouraging remarks and practical advice, and other Crone-ish things. And I always listen...
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I need to get a harp I can carry; mine is small, but weighty, and I'm no longer rated (I don't know if I updated about my heart attack here, but I've only my right ventricle remaining) for carrying him longer than about a block and a half. So I need a carbon-fiber harp for travel. 8-10 pounds, and ten more strings.
If SSI will let me have it without calling it a salable asset.
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If someone were to give you a gift of a harp that suits your needs, describing it (quite correctly) as an item of "assistive technology" - well, it's common knowledge that making music can be very, very therapeutic in a number of ways ;-)
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