I agree with you about nature and beauty and how it has been sidelined and commodified like our own humanity, pain and loneliness. I plant seeds and grow veg and flowers to fight against the sense of futility that my condition makes me feel in relation to the world. Sending good wishes in the darkness ❤️🩹
Thanks Sarah. The thing that gets me about most people's view of nature is that it's over there, someplace you visit, when we're actually right in the middle of it. It's our lived experience. All of it.
You have inherent worth (to quote *you.*) Even when you're sick. Even when you're suffering. Even if your illness is not getting better. You have inherent worth. Finis.
I agree with you about nature and beauty and how it has been sidelined and commodified like our own humanity, pain and loneliness. I plant seeds and grow veg and flowers to fight against the sense of futility that my condition makes me feel in relation to the world. Sending good wishes in the darkness ❤️🩹
Thanks Sarah. The thing that gets me about most people's view of nature is that it's over there, someplace you visit, when we're actually right in the middle of it. It's our lived experience. All of it.
Job suffered. He didn't know that the suffering would ease, but it did. The problem is, not all of us can be Job. Some of us are Tevya:
IF I WERE A RICH MAN (Adapted for George):
"Oh, Lord, you made many, many ill people
I realize, of course, it's no shame to be ill
But it's no great honor either!
So, what would have been so terrible if I had my mental health?"
If I were a healthy man
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a healthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
I'd build a big, tall house with rooms by the dozen
Right in the middle of the town
A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below
There would be one long staircase just going up
And one even longer coming down
And one more leading nowhere, just for show
I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks
For the town to see and hear
Squawking just as noisily as they can
And each loud of the "be-gee", "be-gow", "be-geh", "be-guh"
Would land like a trumpet on the ear
As if to say, "Here lives a healthy man"
If I were a well man
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a healthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
I see my wife, my ______, looking like a well man's wife
With a proper double-chin
Supervising meals to her heart's delight
I see her putting on airs and strutting like a peacock
Oy, what a happy mood she's in
Screaming at the servants, day and night
The most important men in town would come to fawn on me!
They would ask me to advise them like a Solomon the Wise
"If you please, George Hoffman..."
"Pardon me, George Hoffman..."
Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes!
And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong
When you're well, they think you really know!
If I were well, I'd have the time that I lack to sit in the synagogue and pray
And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day
And that would be the sweetest thing of all
If I were a well man
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were a healthy man
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
**LORD WHO MAD THE LION AND THE LAMB
YOU DECREED I SHOULD BE WHAT I AM
WOULD IT SPOIL SOME VAST ETERNAL PLAN
IF, I WERE A HEALTHY M-A-A-A--AAAN ?! **
Wow Janet! I'm on Broadway. Thanks
You have inherent worth (to quote *you.*) Even when you're sick. Even when you're suffering. Even if your illness is not getting better. You have inherent worth. Finis.