{"id":12439,"date":"2017-08-16T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=12439"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:51:14","slug":"heroic-mothers-i-salute-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/heroic-mothers-i-salute-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Mothers, I Salute You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heroic<\/a><\/p>\n

How can you watch Susan Bro<\/strong><\/a> speak about her daughter without tearing up? What a magnificent woman and mother.<\/p>\n

On July 31, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry<\/strong><\/a> lost her only son to a drug overdose, but she is back at work, fighting for DACA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And earlier today, I read about a mother who started a foundation<\/a> to distribute naloxone to drug addicts after her twenty year old son died of a heroin overdose.<\/p>\n

These mothers are everything I’m not. They have pulled themselves together to do something good in the world. They are memorializing their children with so much courage and fortitude!<\/p>\n

All I’ve done is cry and wail and sleep and try to distract myself. I feel like grief is the defining aspect of my entire existence, even though I don’t want that to be true.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s not too late for me to be productive. Who knows. I am skeptical, given my laziness, which is legendary.<\/p>\n

What I do is sleep with his stuffed animals and wear his hair in a locket and go around feeling lost. But I did write to Mayor Barry and she wrote me back. I wanted to tell her that it would never be okay but it would get easier. Her son had the sweetest face, and his name was Max.<\/p>\n

If you didn’t hear Susan Bro talk about her daughter Heather, here she is.\u00a0 On the one hand we have Trump, a disgraceful amoral piece of shit, and on the other hand we have a ordinary woman exhibiting the best of humanity on one of the worst days of her life.<\/p>\n

Let’s thank her for giving us hope, and for being a light in the wilderness of 2017.<\/p>\n