Reply #4: Words fail me. This is the 2nd time in a few days I have heard bad [View All]

[Flying Dream Blues]

things about Kaiser hospitals. How could anyone allow this? I thought all hospitals had social workers on staff who could have seen that this didn't happen. There needs to be an end to this idea that "it's not our problem." The SHAME of whoever did this! And thank God for the mission.

The Indigo Girls said it best:


Hammer and a Nail

Clearing webs from the hovel
a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep, I always do.
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like narcissus
A dark abyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.
I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes

Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts.
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.
My life is part of the global life
I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring.

Repeat Chorus