CREATIVELY MALADJUSTED

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." MLK jr
happy birthday Martin (it's actually on the 15th).

THE NEW NORMAL
i give up.
as of this year i can no longer waddle around my house in just my usual heavy knee braces, now i must add an Indoor Cane just like when i venture outside with my Outdoor Canes.
this is The New Normal as applied to crip-ness.
i first ran across this term in Berkeley when i attended the Ed Roberts Memorial held at UC in the mid 90s.many of you have probably never heard of Ed Roberts,after he died me and my soul mate found pictures of him we'd taken at various activist functions.who knew?
ever hear of CIL? Ed established the first ILC (Independent Living Center) in Berkeley while he was at UC.Ed was a quad in a power chair with an unquenchable spirit,just listening to what he had accomplished and even the things he attempted and failed at-got me out of my near-death funk in the 90s and out into crip activist circles.
even now,wracked with chronic pain,diabetes,firbromyalgia,Lyme,bad knees,eyes and everything else...i think of Ed Roberts when i haul my tired ass out of bed to meetings or to the keyboard.yeah, ED was a mensch!

in other news,
there is a picture of Mt.Rushmore on the front page of one of the local papers with the implied assumption that there is still room for Obama next to Lincoln.not even Jesus could live up to these expectations.

the country is broken, the economy flushed away and outsourced,threatened cuts to crips,frail elderly and children loom on the fractured horizon.
"The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions." Dante
we shall see.

namaste mega