gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

so a year ago this morning...i was in a hospital room my mangled hand in a giant restraint...i was dazed and more than a little frightened...my right hand was in shambles and so was my future...between the shots of dilaudid and the endless iv's...something incredible happened..and has kept happening since that very day...kindness happened...doctors...nurses...physical therapists...my closest friends...more than a few casual acquaintances...and total strangers...extended healing to me...kind words...encouraging thoughts...prayers...it changed how i viewed life...how i viewed people...and it made me thankul and humbled...it is so easy to miss all the positive things that happen to us day in...dayout...but when life throws you a big curve ball...you might just find out how really amazing people can be...i know, this from the sarcastic, more than a little evil bastard who rants at the moon...but this morning...as i type this missive with both hands...i gotta tell ya...all of you that r

So four years ago I was ranting...about Bush and Cheney...about war and big business...about my lack of medical insurance and about an ever expanding elite class poised to destruct America...wow... what a difference a couple years make...Bush seems a distant memory, although his legacy ain't...Cheney remains the hate mongering old fool  he always was... and yet...it all seems so much worse...the war in iraq seems over...osama and ghadafi are dead...but my house is worth 60% less than it was 4 years ago...i still have no health insurance, but i did get to see what happens to a person thrust into the system...there is no credit...no jobs...and both parties don't seem to have a single person that could inspire and unite us...the republicans keep dredging the bottom of the barrel for whatever worked in the last election...a black guy...a woman...except as usual they have no concept of good and evil...or dumb or dumber for that matter...joe the plumber is running for congress...now