The Spirit Lives On

/ Tracy Abell

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This morning’s Denver Post had a front page article about the sharp increase in Colorado gun sales following Obama’s election.  Here’s the link, but be warned: it’s a frightening trip into the psyche of small-minded, fear-based people.

Then this evening I started thinking about those who those who despaired at all the indecent and criminal actions of the past eight years but died before we turned this country around.  Ann Richards and Kurt Vonnegut.  Molly Ivins.  They were all so very smart and laugh-out-loud funny.  I started missing them all over again, and went looking for quotes. 

I found this from the inimitable Molly Ivins:

I am not anti-gun. I’m pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We’d turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don’t ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

I still miss her.  But now I’m smiling despite the fact she’s left us and all sorts of idiots in my community are stocking up on assault rifles.  How did she do that?  Maybe it has something to do with this other Mollyism:               

I still believe in Hope – mostly because there’s no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

                     

13 thoughts on “The Spirit Lives On”

  1. Me: Haa haa haa. That quote is wonderful! I love it. *reads article* Hubby, come read this.
    Hubby: *reads quote & scans article* Huh? Sorta funny. Quote is true. So should we go out and buy a gun then?
    Me: OH CRAP! Did we read the same thing?

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  2. Me: Haa haa haa. That quote is wonderful! I love it. *reads article* Hubby, come read this.

    Hubby: *reads quote & scans article* Huh? Sorta funny. Quote is true. So should we go out and buy a gun then?

    Me: OH CRAP! Did we read the same thing?

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  5. That’s a great quote 🙂
    I have to say, I don’t get the whole gun thing. I saw a billboard about a gun ‘convention’ near I-70 yesterday — why on earth do we need conventions? How many people go out and hunt their food? Maybe I’m too young to realize the importance of the ‘right to bear arms’, but I don’t get it.

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  6. That’s a great quote 🙂

    I have to say, I don’t get the whole gun thing. I saw a billboard about a gun ‘convention’ near I-70 yesterday — why on earth do we need conventions? How many people go out and hunt their food? Maybe I’m too young to realize the importance of the ‘right to bear arms’, but I don’t get it.

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  7. Oh man, I really miss Molly. I’ll bet Heaven’s a rowdier and wiser place, now that her inimitable spirit’s rattling those Pearly Gates. Smiling as I think of her, banging pots and pans for Obama on Election night… 🙂

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