Good news on a bad-news day

Donna Hayes had brain surgery a few weeks ago, and she's currently living in a rehab facility, working to regain her ability to walk and talk. They weren't able to remove all the brain tumor, but they "chipped away at it" in order to relieve pressure on a nerve that was causing her more pain than she could bear. Today our friend Jill drove us both out to Sauvie Island so Donna could get some sunshine and fresh air and a break from the hospital/rehab facility. Donna wanted a photo of herself for Facebook, to assure Portland activists that while she can't be with them today, she is coming back and will meet them in the streets as soon as she can.

There is plenty of reason to meet in the streets. I can't join them tonight either, as I'll be taking care of Bella and Evan, but I hope tonight will not be the only night of reaction to today's heinous Supreme Court ruling. I hope there will be a huge, powerful upsurge of people.

A Jewish friend posted a curse against the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overrule Roe v Wade, in these words: "May your names be erased; may your gravesites be forgotten and grow over with brambles; may you be repudiated by your descendants; may you find no succor among the good people of this earth; may you be cast out by your gods and ancestors; may your souls know no peace in this world or the next until the debts you now owe to every sacred human vessel of life, every unwanted child, every suffering infant denied the mercy of a painless death, and all who carry a piece of their pain have been paid seventy times over. Ken y’hi ratzon and amen, amen, amen."