THE MOVEMENT IS MOVING

It’s only been a few days since the petition to improve senior housing was launched at change.org/improveseniorhousing. If you haven’t signed it yet, please click on the link and add your name to this crucial effort on behalf of affordable and humane housing for our elders.

As of this morning, there were 34 signatures, many of them, I think, from Gray Panthers, the state offices of which I contacted yesterday.  They don’t seen to have a national website.  I hope they will be sharing the information I sent them among their  members.

I also contacted The View, it see if I could get Whoopi Goldberg and the other women interested in the effort — maybe even sign the petition.  Of course, I haven’t heard back from them.  In addition, I submitted a personal essay on the subject the the AARP magazine; it takes 6 weeks to get any kind of response from them. I don’t know if the Letters to the Editor I submitted to local newspapers will be published.

I hope that the notices I sent to several elderbloggers I gleaned from an older elderblogger list might prove fruitful.  I know a few responded already.

If you have any other ideas how to publicize the petition, please leave a comment.

MY MUPPETS ARCHETYPES

My blogger son just posed a piece about his Muppet Archetypes, so I gave some thought to what mine might be. While my kids watched Sesame Street, I only  gave it my distracted attention.  But I do know the major characters, so I decided that Big Bird and Kermit are my Muppet archetypes.  Kermit because, well, he’s the dreamer; Big Bird because his is flamboyant and colorful and likes to dance.

Which ones are yours?

THE STRESS OF BEING A MALE DOG

Our beautiful and sweet purebred male Golden Retriever is getting has balls removed today. Well, soon he will be able to go next door to play with his already-altered male dog friend, Darby, without having to worry that Colt might try to mount him.

When he sees me, he has trained himself to come up to me with a toy in his mouth and then he vocalizes deep in his throat in response to my saying “Hello!”