and still we wait

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Sheila Morris

SEVENTEEN

17

I have nothing.

About Sheila Morris

Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother. In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality. She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019. She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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12 Responses to and still we wait

  1. cindy knoke says:
    February 16, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    Now I am just plain furious.

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  2. Wayside Artist says:
    February 16, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    I’m a mad woman. Livid. It’s war now, and they will lose.

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  4. Apple Pie & Napalm says:
    February 16, 2018 at 7:00 pm

    17 lost and the mentality is still “well, no telling what SHE (HRC) would have gotten us into.” So, we lost more kids next week and the week after and we get more indifferent. People will pray and send donations and consider their conscience clear. I so hope some of the kids impacted by gun violence will decide to run for office and start the movement to change things.

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    • Sheila Morris says:
      February 16, 2018 at 10:35 pm

      I couldn’t believe Paul Ryan with his now is not the time to do anything until we know all the facts…I am wondering what facts he doesn’t know yet? Our children are being murdered in our schools – that is the only fact we need to know.
      And yes, I hope we have people running for office on both sides of the aisle who have some sense of compassion and decency.

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  5. Firelands says:
    February 16, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    Terrible. I don’t know what else to say.

    Liked by 1 person

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