My original plan for the "Eye of Mike" group on Facebook was to merely post the permalink to a weekly "table of contents" for my posts here on the "Mouth of the West" blog. That way, you'd get a once-a-week reminder that I'm still alive & kickin' (and writing). Just 52 times a year to decide whether to bother reading what I have to say. Or, of course, you could simply choose to leave the group forever.
Anyway, as I've mentioned, things never quite went according to that plan. Witness my long silence after first drafting this -- https://mouthofthewest.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-week-that-was-9-of-2020.html -- which I never completed but only just now posted.
Tonight's post will be a bit different. It's really not about the past week, but rather a summary of the past month.
As of next Monday (August 17th), it will have been four weeks since I intervened to save a homeless woman's life, then worked with a variety of community members to help get her off the streets and under competent medical & psychological care. It will mark two weeks since a horrible hit-&-run accident seriously injured an extended-family member who still remains in the hospital intensive care unit in a medically-induced coma, awaiting surgery. And it will be about a week since another extended-family member went to the emergency room, not just once but twice. Jill and I are doing our best to be supportive and understanding. On top of all that, a string of "challenging" meetings with the U.S. Department of Justice (& others) about community policing councils and related issues.
While I don't consider myself emotionally fragile, I certainly am emotionally exhausted. It didn't help that I was labeled a "demon" by that very woman I helped save. But I took that in stride, understanding the emotional trauma she has experienced over 55 years.
So, here I am, doing my best NOT to randomly post disconnected 'snippets' on Facebook, which (IMHO) is a cesspool of anger, stupidity, hatred, conspiracies, and narcissism.
In the morning I make my usual, monthly donation to the blood bank. #My_Daily_Kindness_Shared. What is yours?
Remember: Copyright © 2020-08-14, Mike Kruchoski, All Rights Reserved.
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While walking with my granddaughter Genevieve yesterday, I "spied" a car driving out of the driveway from an #Old_Spooks_and_Spies colleague's home. I asked if the driver was his wife. She said yes. I asked how he was doing, she said "fine," so I wished them all the best, telling her to say "hi" to him for me. He added me on Facebook today. I'm tickled. :-)
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