2025 Life Logs, Day 109: Rally, Soccer, New Friends
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2025
Weather: Sunny and Windy; High Temp 54, Low 49 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired on this day 250 years ago. More than 60 years later Ralph Waldo Emerson memorialized the first shot of the Battles of Lexington and Concord with the words, “The shot heard round the world.” Those shots were fired to separate us from England and the King’s rule. Today people all around this country held ‘No King’ rallies. We got rid of one king, and we surely do not want another. People who attended today’s rally that were at the April 5 ‘Hands Off’ rally on the Green estimated that there were about 400 people protesting today, not quite as many as on April 5, but enough to make a difference. Representative Bill Keating came and led the crowd in a boisterous cry saying that Trump is bending and breaking the law, but “We will not bend a knee and we will not break.” As Trump defies the Supreme Court, “We will not break.” It went on, but I think you get the idea. He also thanked those in attendance by saying that if wasn’t for the people turning out at rallies in Falmouth and all around the country that we wouldn’t have a chance of fighting back against the Trump regime. We the people are making a difference.
After the rally, I rushed to watch Ollie (number 23) playing in a soccer game against Fall River. Falmouth lost by the only point scored in the game, but they held their own.
During all of this I was texting back and forth with my nephew and the woman who is a paid companion that was with my sister today to try and figure out why she was not being released from the hospital. I called the hospital early in the morning and again between the rally and the game, but no one was calling me back. We finally got an answer. The hospital cannot release her until a nurse from her assisted living facility comes to check her condition and give the okay for her to return. There is no nurse on duty on the weekends, so it will be Monday before we can hope someone will come to give the okay. So that saga continues.
Tonight, Heather invited me to go to dinner at the home of one of Jonah’s friends to meet the grandparents. They are transitioning from their home of 40 years in Connecticut to living with their daughter and her family here in Falmouth. We talked about everything from neurosurgeons to Newcomers, and I look forward to meeting with them again to help them settle into life in Falmouth. Their daughter has already introduced them to Falmouth’s Senior Center and they are finding that there are so many opportunities open to them.
