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This morning, I've been reading Michelle Obama's Becoming--our monthly book club selection--while prepping myself for an MRI this afternoon. As unlikely as it seems, the two are thankfully linked.
I expected my BP to be off the charts when I took my readings this AM. After years spent servicing stuck elevators and HVAC ducts, I've recently developed such an aversion to confined spaces that I barely endured a sonogram which enclosed only the upper part of my body and was otherwise completely open.
And yet this morning, reading Michelle's book, I recorded the best aggregate BPs and heart rates that I've had the entire time I've been doing it--which is more than a year.
I guess maybe it takes me back to the time, just a few years ago, when we had people of genuine intelligence and moral integrity occupying the White House, people living exemplary lives that lent credibility to the image we once had of ourselves as a nation.
If only for the moment, her book has allayed a growing fear that Donald Trump has, in fact, managed to show us who and what we truly are--heartless, mindless, corrupt exploiters of our presumed place in this world...
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.29.2020
I expected my BP to be off the charts when I took my readings this AM. After years spent servicing stuck elevators and HVAC ducts, I've recently developed such an aversion to confined spaces that I barely endured a sonogram which enclosed only the upper part of my body and was otherwise completely open.
And yet this morning, reading Michelle's book, I recorded the best aggregate BPs and heart rates that I've had the entire time I've been doing it--which is more than a year.
I guess maybe it takes me back to the time, just a few years ago, when we had people of genuine intelligence and moral integrity occupying the White House, people living exemplary lives that lent credibility to the image we once had of ourselves as a nation.
If only for the moment, her book has allayed a growing fear that Donald Trump has, in fact, managed to show us who and what we truly are--heartless, mindless, corrupt exploiters of our presumed place in this world...
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.29.2020
