Two weeks yoga celebration, and also heart break

 Sunday August 30 2020

97.2 F

This morning, I did my morning yoga routine and that made FOURTEEN DAYS IN A ROW! So I did a happy dance. I let son AJ and JJ his love and my yoga coach/ guru know.

I worked hard, off and on, with occasional breaks. Got done what needed getting done so that I could publish my two classes on line.

We supported local business by ordering take out for brunch. 

So I am working, I'm getting things done. I'm doing what I can, in my corner of the universe. 

I had another call from a friend, thanking me for the service we led and for my drash.

Two other things.

A friend died. 77. Pancreatic cancer. May his memory be for a blessing. 

Then, a post on Facebook (I am minimizing Facebook, it is so toxic and divisive these days).  A "friend" (really the parent of one of the members of my long ago youth theatre troupe) had posted a meme with a person captioned "Did you ever notice how the police don't bother you if you aren't doing anything illegal?"

I hit snooze. I won't see that person's posts for 30 days.

I thought about engaging. I thought about privately messaging. But that's what is going on with Facebook- fanning flames, no one changing anyone's mind.

I would have said:

Look at the person in this photo:  A big good ol' boy white dude. Probably, that dude isn't bothered by police if he does nothing illegal. 

Probably that dude isn't bothered by the police even if he *does* something a bit illegal- like smacking his wife around. Or carrying a gun where he shouldn't. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

But if that dude was a woman, not doing anything illegal, but maybe out later ... well... 

But if that dude were a Black man, in a white neighborhood, doing nothing illegal...well...

Or if that dude were a woman, say, named Breonna, legally sleeping in her own home...

I wish it were true that the police wouldn't bother you if you weren't doing anything illegal. 

And if the laws were all just, and equitably enforced.

I wish it were true.