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Saige's avatar

Thanks Beth. So much to digest and so worthy of digestion. I always worry about personality politics when those being promoted to the pedestal are centre right not even centre left. And the platform is capitalism, and there is no possibility of democracy in a system of financial capitalism - which is what capitalism is, a financial system where some succeed at the expense of others, the masses.

I love the lovely snip with The Peace Train. I saw this beautiful song sung by Yusuf Islam to those of us who mourned the great loss of fifty one people. People - children, women, men, felled in prayer in a mosque a few blocks from where I live, plus plus so many people injured.

One white man had crossed the Tasman and found it really easy to grab his automatic guns and fire at peaceful people, and now the gun laws that reversed that are being reversed by our new foul leadership.

Anyway, thank you. Thank you. I will read, and re-read and digest. And when I get my next windfall I will become a paid subscriber because your work merits that recognition.

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Stephanie's avatar

Such a lovely evocative piece. The granddaughters of Depression-era grandmothers, daughters to make-do mothers, an underrecognised cohort.

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