I'm still here (and on Dreamwidth - same name). I've been wondering about you, and hoping you were okay... so I'm very glad to see your font again, but dismayed that you're so not-okay.
Almost everybody I know is upset about recent external events, and so am I. But it's not in my nature to hide under the bed and whimper; my generation stopped a war and forced a sitting President to resign to avoid impeachment, just by singing in the streets! At the very least, we need some 21st-century protest songs. I do believe we - as individuals, as a nation, as the world - can survive this, but we are going to have to work at it.
Is there anything I can do to help you? I'm still in New Jersey, and I still don't have very much money, but I'm good at encouraging remarks and practical advice, and other Crone-ish things. And I always listen...
I don't have any specifics, yet. Later in the year I need a sponsor to collect funds towards a harp; and I don't think, given SSI rules, that I'm allowed to collect them myself without them impacting the subsidy.
I need to get a harp I can carry; mine is small, but weighty, and I'm no longer rated (I don't know if I updated about my heart attack here, but I've only my right ventricle remaining) for carrying him longer than about a block and a half. So I need a carbon-fiber harp for travel. 8-10 pounds, and ten more strings.
If SSI will let me have it without calling it a salable asset.
No, you didn't write about your heart attack! (And I infer that you moved from Boulder to someplace else sometime between 2012 and now.)
If someone were to give you a gift of a harp that suits your needs, describing it (quite correctly) as an item of "assistive technology" - well, it's common knowledge that making music can be very, very therapeutic in a number of ways ;-)
Let's see... the last time you posted to LJ, I had just recovered from surgery and radiation for the second (and completely unrelated to the first) cancer diagnosis, only to have my house and all my "stuff" seriously damaged by Superstorm Sandy. That took a while for me (and my husband, of course) to recover from, financially and emotionally, but we survived, because we always do. After all the repairs were done, life slowly went back to "normal
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Almost everybody I know is upset about recent external events, and so am I. But it's not in my nature to hide under the bed and whimper; my generation stopped a war and forced a sitting President to resign to avoid impeachment, just by singing in the streets! At the very least, we need some 21st-century protest songs. I do believe we - as individuals, as a nation, as the world - can survive this, but we are going to have to work at it.
Is there anything I can do to help you? I'm still in New Jersey, and I still don't have very much money, but I'm good at encouraging remarks and practical advice, and other Crone-ish things. And I always listen...
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I need to get a harp I can carry; mine is small, but weighty, and I'm no longer rated (I don't know if I updated about my heart attack here, but I've only my right ventricle remaining) for carrying him longer than about a block and a half. So I need a carbon-fiber harp for travel. 8-10 pounds, and ten more strings.
If SSI will let me have it without calling it a salable asset.
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If someone were to give you a gift of a harp that suits your needs, describing it (quite correctly) as an item of "assistive technology" - well, it's common knowledge that making music can be very, very therapeutic in a number of ways ;-)
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