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Louise Bourgeois :: Untitled (1950)

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THE BIG HEARTBREAK

I was thinking about something the other day….the big heartbreak..the gold standard to which you compare every other heartbreak in the same way people try to compare some bands to the Beatles and always fall short. After the big heartbreak, words seem to have less power. You’re not invincible but you’re less likely to die from the wound in the same way you died before.

It’s always about the “I can’t live without you” and then….you do. One day you wondered why the big heartbreak was so big…why it kept growing for so long even after the first big attack. I use to envision the big heartbreak in the same way I did a tumor and wondered why I couldn’t just have it removed and never understood that it would dissolve on its own one day…sure never felt like that during that time.

I guess everyone has the big heartbreak at some point in their life and I remember thinking that the universe was mocking me because I was overly sensitive to the reminders that I would be on the road propelled by the big heartbreak and I better learn to live with it. It took me all over the world chasing elusiveness with a desire to be close from a distance. I know people that ended their lives over the big heartbreak…I would imagine there are some that may even be reading this while experiencing the big heartbreak…it could be the soul mate that said he/she wouldn’t leave and then did through no choice of their own but they couldn’t outrun the clock or the plan set for them by the universe.

I guess some will one day get the big heartbreak, even if they thought they’d already seen it. At the end of all of this, we live life knowing the possibility of having that big heartbreak….kind of exciting, don’t you think? I wouldn’t trade any of it in or have done it any other way.

Darryl Rhoades

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Daily Don

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The extremism of today’s Republican Party grew in large part from the work of televangelist Pat Robertson, who died today at age 93. The son of a segregationist southern Democratic senator, Baptist minister Robertson urged evangelical Christians to vote and made them a core constituency of the Republican Party. Paving the way for those today calling for an end to liberal democracy, Robertson blamed LGBTQ Americans and women for secularizing the United States, which he saw as a tragedy and frequently blamed for natural disasters.

[Letters From An American :: Heather Cox Richardson]

+ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. - Clarence Darrow

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So many truly good and wonderful people have passed in the last two weeks that I'm hoping the passing of Pat Robertson is a sign that the trend is going the other way. I have a list. Darryl Rhoades

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I silently noticed the passing of Pat Robertson by uttering the traditional Jewish Blessing of Bruch Dayan Emet.

Blessed in the One True Judge.

But seeing which Jewish organizations have gone out of their way to laud one of the most hurtful and hateful voices directed to our community has added injury to what was a lifelong career dedicated to fueling a culture war of shaming, ostracization and abhorrence. So much of my early rabbinate was raising my voice of dignity and life affirming pathways of the sacred in the face of such damnation. It feels like a greater injury that because of his theologically twisted support of Israel would gain him a place of praise among our Jewish community. Joshua Lesser

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Darryl Rhoades And The Ticking Clock

Even Bob Dylan knew he could learn something new about songwriting from Doc Pomus. It was the summer of 1988. Already Dylan had written enough great songs to merit a Nobel Prize for Literature, which would come 28 years later, but at the time Dylan was suffering from writer’s block. As Dylan would put it, he needed advice from someone who could tell you fancy and tell you plain. Pomus, who had…

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