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It’s a gambling ad and I don’t gamble and want nothing to do with this.

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Ohio

I am up thinking about the overreach of government and what is happening in Ohio. Ohio is Insurrectionist Central. Many of the people who forced their way into the Capital were trained by the NRA in our backwoods near Ashtabula and listen to radio broadcaster conspiracy theorists. It is “Gym” Jordan land where sexual abuse of women is a man’s right. It is where Tr-mp hides amongst far right Christian theologians and imports the best looking from Palm Beach.

Ohio traffics people to include youth in the child welfare system and poor elderly who are forced into low wage workforce pool as are prisoners. Recently Tik Tok raised funds for a Walmart employee on oxygen and Tik Tok is on the government chopping block because the Chinese spy on Americans, even as it has been found that Tr-mp has Chinese bank accounts and a Chinese electronics company from Wuhan sits in Lordstown as America’s Chevy gets the boot. Again Republican project whatever they fear! It uses a paranoid prison model on law abiding citizens in hospitals, “You will leave when I tell you to leave” after having been admitted to St E’s hospital after being thrown onto a hard tiled floor to lose my right leg to a partial hip replacement, a victim of a gas pipeline leak or as I was told by a gas employee, a possible bomb. My town is Black. We in the zip code are presumed to be guilty from the get-go. This stems from the history of slavery, an internalized system of owners and owned. There is no free will in Ohio. It is God or the devil heroin.

Ohio needs systemic change. It needs to live elsewhere for a while, see how the other half lives and not deSantis copycat Florida. It needs to respect the Federal government and whatever help it gets from it instead of using Federal funds in whatever way it chooses, passed behind backs to the Energy secto in Michael Jackson’s music video’s seedy back rooms. “Can you hear me”?!

I came “home” to northeastern Ohio to find it deteriorated. My old sorority building dark, dank from flooding , memories of sexual abuse by frat boys behind locked doors and alcohol. A maintenence man tried to rent it to me as he showed foreign students well kept Victorian suites as I watched well aware of young male status in Ohio. Once grand homes formerly used by steel barons and friends of the Audubons lay in waste. Country cars and trucks park on lawns now owned by the invasion of groundhogs and yes Nutria imported from Florida I’ve been told. 200 year old Oaks fall quietly into cars and home windows.

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Happy Dog!

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Headlands State Beach on Lake Erie in Ohio.

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An Introduction

I am an environmental advocate, digital artist, retired contemporary Fine Art gallery owner from Chelsea in NYC and in Cherry Grove, NY on The Fire Island National Seashore in the summer months. I currently live in northeastern Ohio near Lake Erie in a haunted house!