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The first week of 2021 is over, and I’d like to take a moment and pick up where I left off as we look back at the week that was and look forward to some things in the near future.
Trump is no gangster. Let’s get that straight. If he wasn’t President and insulated and you were able to get up into his face, he would 100 percent crawl into his fat neck and hide from a real fight. That’s the man Don Trump is. He’s no tough guy, and I doubt he has either ever thrown a punch or taken one to the face in his life.
Steps are already underway to ensure solid communications between newly elected Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin and the Manchester Police Department.
While some medically vulnerable immigrants were released, Strafford County continues to take in more detainees, despite the risks to the immigrants and to the community. COVID-19 will soon turn the jail into a death camp for the immigrants detained inside. We must release them before this happens.
This term our elected officials must put party bickering aside and work with each other to focus on what can be done to help our residents.
What do you do when someone from your life passes away? I like to sit alone in the quiet dark and just let my mind absorb the silence. Maybe it’s because I’m more of an introvert most days and the idea of opening up like that just doesn’t sound comforting to me. Well recently, I lost someone who was special to my existence. Winter has claimed another soul and it always feels worse but I think in reality ANY season you experience someone passing away that you care about feels horrible. My sister was 30, turning 31 on January 5, but unfortunately passed away before she got to experience that.
Something powerful can happen in these moments, especially now in a new year. In particular, coming off a challenging time, our catalog of memories in these days of isolation is what we have available to build upon. And now, as it was then, the potency of food memory is available through small, personal moments; a warm kitchen in a small town, as the snow falls outside our window, eating simple food with people you love and who love you back.
In more “normal” times, we would be out in full force and large numbers during these elected-official transition moments – that is, physically present, visible and vocal – as we advocate for the core values and public policies that lift up human decency and build healthy, safe, vibrant and economically equitable communities.
The biblical story of Abraham continues as he and Sarai enter Egypt.
After a year filled with all kinds of surprises, I’ve learned to pace myself, accept that I can’t predict today, let alone anything in the future, and therefore I’ve made myself fully present, right here, right now. If perseverance got us through 2020 then creativity and flexibility will be key components for success in 2021.
The Lord whose birth we celebrated but a few days ago spoke of separating the wheat from the chaff. Christian clergy everywhere should stop providing intellectual cover to so-called pro-choice advocates and call out the modern Aztec pseudo-Christians in clear and certain terms.
At this time last year, I was homeless, dealing with what mental health professionals call “unrelenting crisis,” and not knowing when or if I would be able to get my life back together. My choices were to be treated like a child in a homeless shelter or live somewhere on my own. Around this time, I started making plans to live in a tent regardless of how cold it might be. I had simply had enough of the New Horizons shelter in Manchester.
Maybe this year we need to go easy on ourselves. We’ve lived through a historical horror flick, and the fact that you’re reading this right now means you made it through this year. We made it through this year.
Exploring historic markers in the Dartmouth/Sunapee region turned up a rich chapter of regional NH history, from churches and bridges, to baseball.
I was sold in the first 10 minutes. The attention to detail was astounding. I suppose this attention to detail could be considered only possible due to the movie being animated, but I chalk it up more to the producers truly caring about music’s realism. They respected their audience enough to show the true aspects of music-making.
Twenty-twenty comes screaming to an end, a confusing, raging inferno of a year. This was a year that will be talked about only in hushed whispers by future generations. This was a year of forced mindfulness, where each day, sometimes each hour, appeared to signal some new cosmic shift – like being blindfolded, without a seatbelt, on a roller coaster.
Markers for cemeteries, meeting houses, mills, and civil rights activists can all be found in the Monadnock Region.
Dale the tuxedo cat made it home for Christmas. Carol the bulldog, if she recovers from surgery, needs a family to love her.
I know we’ve all been busy with Christmas and getting ready for new years 2021, so let’s take a time out and ‘relax’ to a game we can all play! This holiday season come check out ROCKET LEAGUE!!
