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Diseases of despair – an Easter ramble.

Despair on Easter Sunday, mid-Passover. Who ate the goat? Who stole the Stolen?!

Posted byrodkersh1948April 9, 2023Posted inEffectiveness, family, Holiday, JudaismTags:Americans, Bernie Sanders, Chad Gadya, despair, Disease, Easter, Greed, Iceland, Insulin, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, Passover, poverty, Wealth2 Comments on Diseases of despair – an Easter ramble.

The Waterboys, Gene Kelly & Worm Moon 2022.

I thought of the residents of my care home,

Was it disturbing their mental continence?

Would it influence me?

Posted byrodkersh1948March 20, 2022Posted infamily, Humanism, nature, PoesyTags:Brigadoon, Easter, Gene Kelly, Paschal lamb, spring, The Waterboys, Walt Whitman again, Worm moon2 Comments on The Waterboys, Gene Kelly & Worm Moon 2022.
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