Thank You 🙏🏻

Thank you everyone for your well wishes. They have meant so much to me. I am feeling better, and if things go ok today, I can hopefully go home. I am more than ready to go home at this point.

I wish the guy above (Finn Harding, if you’re wondering) was taking care of me, but I couldn’t ask for a nicer group of nurses and aids taking care of me. They have all been so sweet and kind.

There won’t be a poem today and I won’t have a chance to post a Pic of the Day until I get back home (I have to conserve my phone battery), but I’m hoping we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program soon.

Thanks again for all your well wishes. 😘

Addendum:

You get my random musings since I am bored and don’t have a charger for my phone to be able to use it much. Anyway, I was thinking that instead of Elon Musk buying elections with million dollar checks or Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post for wider propaganda distribution, why can’t they take a page from other super rich individuals in American history. Yes, many have been influential in politics. JP Morgan bailed the country out of a financial crisis, but others did great things following the concept of the Gospel of Wealth. Carnegie built libraries all over the United States. Bill Gates supplied computers for schools across the country, as did Apple. The Waltons built one of the finest art museums in the United States.

As I sit here bored out of my mind, I wonder, why can’t Jeff Bezos distribute thousands of Kindles to hospitals throughout the United States and the world so when people are unexpectedly hospitalized in a place where they have no family or friends to bring them needed comforts. (I have friends, but I don’t want to inconvenience them unnecessarily.) Kindles can be reset and allow a new person to log into their own account. Cell phone companies should provide phone chargers to hospitals so that people could at least charge their phones. Those are just two minor things that would be a drop in the bucket for these billionaires. The wealthy could do so many wonderful things to help people in need, instead of only doing what increases their influence, power, and wealth! 

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I began my life in the South and for five years lived as a closeted teacher, but am now making a new life for myself as an oral historian in New England. I think my life will work out the way it was always meant to be. That doesn't mean there won't be ups and downs; that's all part of life. It means I just have to be patient. I feel like October 7, 2015 is my new birthday. It's a beginning filled with great hope. It's a second chance to live my life…not anyone else's. My profile picture is "David and Me," 2001 painting by artist Steve Walker. It happens to be one of my favorite modern gay art pieces. View all posts by Joe

4 responses to “Thank You 🙏🏻

  • perfectionsecretlyd49ff66442's avatar perfectionsecretlyd49ff66442

    Glad for your improvement, Joe!

  • Michael Cibulka's avatar Michael Cibulka

    Get well soon! Spring is coming, with warm weather on the way.

  • Rob T's avatar Rob T

    I’m glad you’re back home Joe! Yes, the nurses in our hospitals are definitely something to enjoy!

    Today’s billionaires don’t give a damn about anything but themselves. Imagine if Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos had the humanity of Andrew Carnegie and others from the Gilded Age. What a better world we would have.

    • Joe's avatar Joe

      The Gilded Age wealthy knew they got rich on the backs of the poor, but they also gave back. Probably not as much as they should, but at least they did something that was not completely selfish.

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