Archive for January, 2018
10th Anniversary- That Woman blog –
TEN YEARS! a lot has happened since I put up that first post
As I wrote that first post, I had no idea that in a few short weeks my world would fall apart .
I started off that January 21st 2008 with an ideal and a hope to make a difference.
https://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2008/01/ and continued to explore my own way forward from the conflict of CRA https://thatwoman.wordpress.com/category/cra/ and with “reports and studies” on Lorain’s well being, visiting the theatre and my mentor and her quote of “this too shall pass” !
BUT then: my world did fall apart and I found not kindness, or compassion but selfishness -even in death. I found my world upside down and I was in a state of disbelief .
After the horrendous news given so clinically of my son’s cancer , I continued to write for my own sake – to take me away from my own terrors for a brief while. The blog became a cathartic tool to give me strength to deal – week after week , month after month documenting the days the events and the back story of the approximately 64 categories on this blog, the 1,559 posts to date with at least another 150 in draft form .
Drafts– they reside in the not yet published stage for many reasons- in some cases I hesitate to publish – are they a “bridge too far” – should they not be consigned to hard copy – Would people really understand and believe ( even with documentation) ….. remains to be seen
and a few that will have to wait until I am dead so I do have the last word
ED Note: I wonder if my family will have the guts to press publish 😉
If I can pat myself on the back, the millions ( yes millions) of words written by me in 10 years – I can truthfully say every single thought, opinion and happenstance is accurate and truthful ( to the best of my knowledge) I have documented and or linked to documentation throughout those years the reasoning for my opinions etc.
Has this blog accomplished anything changed thinking , made a difference. If I am honest NO!-
The hypocrites still exist getting on with their lives , falling on their on their knees to pray and get their blessings from a church that has its own issues
– no sanction for the pain they caused for those grieving the loss of their son , brother and uncle . https://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/december-11th-the-beginning-of-the-beginning/
Homes and buildings in Lorain still are falling down, inspection processes are still a shambles thanks in part to the procedures and the courts, deals are still being dealt, government ( no need to say more)
General Gillmore portrait
Lorain’s history consigned to files in a cabinet. Not one piece of Lorain Lorain’s tangible history has been appreciated or saved by the thousands of words written about those early pioneers.
Hardly anybody really cares- scandals ( especially with this year’s White House) pile on and are forgotten , replaced with even more poor behavior.
Society, as we who were bought up by the post war ( WW2) generation thought it should be, society has not lived up the “greatest generation” standards.
Source :https://backpackerlee.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/traditional-british-fish-and-chips/
The saying (which the Brits will remember) – “today’s news is tomorrows fish and chip wrapper” – still holds true today. Although no longer allowed due to health and safety standards – they can’t wrap up your meal in newspaper anymore.
The premise is still the same “the news today is soon forgotten consigned to the garbage can” – it can be resurrected come election time in some cases but happenings that would have been unacceptable by society in decades prior are accepted for the most part.
Cartoon by Dave Walker
Oh! there will be a blow up on social media , posts and outrage BUT it is soon calmed , a new issue will take its place. We did our bit we were outraged on line thinking. The perpetrators of course have realized this new way of protest and the fact we the public have a short attention span.
As my mentor Jean Schaeffer said ” this too will pass” she was right. So why bother , even the documentation linked to from other blogs , newspaper links to various stories disappear from my site . I learned too late to make hardcopies in those early months.
I have documented the past 10 years, the good, the bad, the ugly, and just maybe in the time to come a researcher will come across these thoughts and opinions and get the “true story” – who knows – worth a try anyway. Well 10 years , I am not sure I have another 10 years and the blog’s fate is day to day……………… but come what may I will probably have the last word- remember don’t speak ill of the dead 😉 just not done….
Jan 3rd- Relativity to Time – Chris Ritchey
Chris Ritchey CIA
Time and relativity – I admit the highest mark I ever received from Norman Niles- my Physics teacher was D minus! I hated Math and I detested Physics- loved Chemistry and History.
However ” Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another.” https://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html
Black Holes I never understood – more a case of not wanting to be bothered- BUT and there is always a but I feel I am ( as well as probably many others of my kind) lost in time .
A mother who has lost her child – there are no words or labels for us – not a widow, an orphan, etc unless you consider “tethligons” (Sanskrit word which means ‘against the natural order’)which, for me ,conjures up some sort of terrible monster- but then losing your son or daughter makes you feel like you are in the world of monsters – caught , crunched between the teeth of the monster and then spat out – only to be caught again
Most of humanity live in a 3 dimensional world – and then again….
We can portray our reality as either a three-dimensional place where stuff happens over time,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Max Tegmark, “or as a four-dimensional place where nothing happens [‘block universe’] — and if it really is the second picture, then change really is an illusion, because there’s nothing that’s changing; it’s all just there — past, present, future.
The diagnostic box- self- portrait Chris Ritchey
My universe, Christopher, since you have been taken away has left me in a world where I float, for the most part, between the time before, then and now- New Year’s Eves have come and gone but every day and night I am elsewhere lost in time, as it no longer registers or is linear, the time that has come in between observed only by others in the 3rd dimension . I wake never knowing the year…………………. my 4 dimensional world apart from the normal .
Struggling toward some knowledge of the “physics of it all” and once again a barely passing grade. There are glimpses of understanding but the are illusive , on the edge of conscience , just out of reach –
but they are there – if only my tired brain could grab them – the tools of science notwithstanding in their cold calculations .
I continue to love and exist in this dimension – nothing changes our love or missing of you……….except they grow in strength no matter the time ….
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