We are family! and some environmental anger

Well, Thanksgiving weekend was grand!

I met my sister at her house and rode to our aunt’s house with her and her family. It was wonderful to be able to spend the holiday with my family, especially considering my circumstances.

My job doesn’t allow the people that do 90% of the work off for the holidays, unless it happens to fall on your regular day off, and sometimes not even then. I yearn for a position there, somewhere in a basement that doesn’t require any contact with other humans for any reason for 8 hours of my day. I have been in some form of customer service for 22 years.  Kids, if you learn anything at all from this blog, make it that you need to figure out what will bring you joy, go to school for that and do it. If you can make a living wage and have health insurance that is great, but be sure you are doing something that you actually find rewarding in the truest sense. Otherwise, be born into money. Good luck.

Anyhoo, alond with my sis and her brood, I got to see my Aunt Louise, Uncle Billy, my Granny (who just turned 91!), my parents (who just had their 44th ann!),  my cousin Tina and all her girls, and my aunt’s friend John- a super nice dude. It was great! I miss them all so much all the time. I hate that we are all so far apart and that I always have to work. Now that I have been out for so long with my surgery, it will take me some time to accumulate time off, and I have to watch that all very carefully since I will need to be out for another surgery in a year or so. I am just going to have to get better about planning 1-2 day trips.  If cancer has taught me anything, it is that the people you love are more important than anything else. A couple of years ago, I my pops and aunt were talking about buying land next to each other and closer to us kids so we could all help out. I sure wish that would have happened. Unfortunately the area that they were looking at is being utterly destroyed by fracking. Maybe they will find somewhere else that is close to us one day.

My sister informed me that in our ancestral town, there are fracking wells right next to the cemetery that my grandparents are supposed to be resting in peace at. It is disgraceful that this practice is happening anywhere, but it hurts my heart so much to know that the one place we all knew we could go for peace and quiet is ruined. The only thing you used to hear there was the wind in the grass and grasshoppers. I haven’t even seen it and it makes me weep. I am not sure I can even go there now.

For more info on this practice, please visit http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/texas-and-fracking

We need clean energy if we want to keep living. That is just the truth. Closed ecosystem. No planet B. We gotta stop shitting where we eat.

So- lessons learned from this trip: I need a better car so I can drive myself. I need a different position at work so I can actually see my family for the holidays. I love my family more than anything, even if we don’t see the world the same way. I looove my Granny. My aunt is still a badass. (She always has been.) Fracking stinks in all ways. Too much food hurts, but in a good way.  🙂

 

Stay warm and remember to take blankets, towels, and sheets to animal shelters now. Also make sure your neighbors, especially those that are elderly or disabled, have some kind of heat. If they do not, provide it to them or welcome them into your home.

I love you!

 

 

 

 

 


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