Lost luggage: The only anecdote to grief is courage

 

Lost luggage: The only anecdote to grief is courage

      Last week I traveled to Los Angeles to work as a background extra in a horror movie.  Took the train to Bakersfield, took the #5812 Amtrak bus to Union Station, hopped on the Metro to Hollywood Boulevard and checked into my favorite hostel right next to the Walk of Fame, the Chinese Theater and Madam Tussaud's famous wax museum.  So far so good.

      Got ready for bed.  Opened my suitcase.  Oh shite!  Freaking A!  Someone at Union Station had taken mine by mistake and left me with theirs!   No freaking way!  I called up Amtrak.  Desperately ran down to Union Station!  Gone!  It was gone!   I filed three different missing-luggage reports!  Wore the same freaking clothes for three freaking days!  How could this be happening!  My favorite keffeyah was in that suitcase!  Arghh.

      The acting job was fun.  The trip home was bearable.  But then I started to think about my poor lost suitcase and grief took over.  My clothes, my toilet kit, my favorite nightgown, a genuine vintage cassette recorder, my hand-crocheted watermelon hat, my best keffeyah, that murder mystery by Peter Lovesey!  Lost!

      A week passed.  Two weeks.  No word from Amtrak.  I cried.  Felt like planning a freaking funeral for my poor suitcase!  Would it ever show up?  Just this one simple lost suitcase was breaking my heart!

      But then two things happened.  

      First, I remembered Gaza.  People trapped in that Zionist genocide nightmare had not only lost their suitcases but also lost their homes, their sons and daughters, their arms and legs -- and even their freaking cities.  And here I was, mourning and moping around over a lost freaking nightgown and toilet kit.

     Second, I remembered that old Chinese proverb, "The only antidote to grief is courage."  If Palestinians can lose everything they have now or ever had in their entire freaking lives and still somehow find the courage to carry on, then surely I too could man up, stop sniveling and not be so freaking grief-stricken by the loss of a mere suitcase.

    But still....

    I still miss my sweet little suitcase.  Amtrak!  How could you do this to me!

Resources: 

Alex Krainer explains the economic mess we are now in and why we are in it:  https://www.youtube.com/live/eRfIeuxy72g

The Electronic Intifada describes the latest horrors in Gaza -- even though we are led to falsely believe that the genocide in Gaza is over.  It is NOT.  Zionists are still murdering babies there (and elsewhere) daily.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdY4OE76r9g&t=4s   

Will America's war on West Asia extend to the Indian Ocean now that Trump's pissed Iran off (even more)?  Looks like things are gonna heat up there too:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdexnJCmzc 

Sooo much bloodshed, sooo much craziness.  WHY?  Who benefits?  Not you and me.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7Kj4kHHkk  

 

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