Our French door replacements were installed today. Hallelujah! We are thrilled to finally have doors opening into the music/office room.

They are as beautiful as we thought they would be.

Ciao.

As many of you know, I am a women’s basketball fan. Yesterday, Muffet McGraw, Carolyn Peck, Geno Auriemma, and Dawn Staley discussed racial injustice and inequality. The discussion was moderated by Angel Gray.

If you go to Hoopfeed.com, there is a brief excerpt from Carolyn Peck’s experience with racial profiling in Gainesville, FL. For those of you who don’t know, Gainesville is considered, by some, to be a liberal bastion within a rural conservative Trump loving region. It’s home to the University of Florida. But even in this supposedly open-minded city, there is an ugly part.

Give a listen to Coach Peck’s experience. It’s a short excerpt and won’t take up much of your time. After listening to it, I don’t think you’ll have further questions on what white privilege is.

Note, that this isn’t the first time I’ve been made aware of this kind policing. We need an overhaul of the system. We need to de-militarize our police forces. That trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy white elite needs to be rescinded and that money spent for the people who created that wealth.

You’ve been fed bullshit from the white powerful elite and you’ve swallowed it over and over.

STOP EATING THE BULLSHIT!

This is worth your time. Finally, an honest assessment of law enforcement.

Please watch to the very, very end.

Hypothetical question: let’s imagine that young black men armed themselves just like the white assholes above and marched to and forced themselves into the state capital building of say….Michigan. Think any of them would still be alive today?

This is our fucking white privilege.

Do you get it now?

“The past was great for white people (and white men in particular) because their positions went largely unchallenged. In understanding the power of white fragility, we have to notice that the mere questioning of those positions triggered the white fragility that Trump capitalized on. There has been no actual loss of power for the white elite, who have always controlled our institutions and continue to do so by a very wide margin. Of the fifty richest people on earth, twenty-nine are American. Of these twenty-nine, all are white, and all but two are men (Lauren Jobs inherited her husband’s wealth, and Alice Walton her father’s).

Similarly, the white working class has always held the top positions within blue-collar fields (the overseers, labor leaders, and fire and police chiefs). And although globalization and the erosion of workers’ rights has had a profound impact on the white working class, white fragility enabled the white elite to direct the white working class’s resentment toward people of color. The resentment is clearly misdirected, given that the people who control the economy and who have managed to concentrate more wealth into fewer (white) hands than ever before in human history are the white elite.

The call to Make America Great Again worked powerfully in service of the racial manipulation of white people, diverting blame away from the white elite and toward various peoples of color—for example, undocumented workers, immigrants, and the Chinese—for the current conditions of the white working class.”

Excerpt from White Fragility, written by Robin DiAngelo.

Godammit.

Carbohydrates and fat are high energy. If you’re at a weight loss stall increase your protein intake and decrease fat. As always, no crappy carbs allowed.

Ciao.

“If belief in heaven was private, like the tooth fairy, I’d say fine. But tooth fairy supporters don’t come round to your house and try to convert you. They don’t try and teach your children stultifying pseudo-science in school. They don’t try to prevent access to contraception.” ~Christopher Hitchens

“…recent US data found that 90% of patients hospitalized due to Covid-19 had underlying medical conditions including hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and as noted in that article, only 12% adults are considered metabolically healthy as defined as having a healthy waist circumference and normal systolic and diastolic blood pressure, blood glucose and HbA1C and cholesterol such as HDL, as well as triglycerides. Looking at this information together, we need to understand that something as straight-forward as losing weight, particularly the weight that we carry around our middles can significantly improve our outcome should we become infected with Covid-19.” From Joy Kiddie’s recent article about obesity and Covid-19.

Here’s the deal. I’m not worried about myself. I’m metabolically healthy. I’m one of the 12-20% of Americans that don’t have any co-morbidities. So, I don’t worry about Corona virus for myself. But, I do worry about others who are not healthy. I don’t want to get exposed to it and then, unknowingly, expose an older family member who may have a tough time surviving an infection.

So, to my older family members – please eat healthily. Throw out the crap – you know what crap is. Go for a walk everyday. Get plenty of rest. Did I say eat healthily? No, grains or bread, crackers, pretzels, donuts, fruit juices and anything with added sugar. Stay away from starchy vegetables. No “little bit of this”. It adds up and it’s not good.

Experts are saying EVERYONE is going to be exposed to this eventually. Please prepare now by changing your lifestyle so you have the best chances of survival.

Ciao.