Stacy Horn

Everything is freaking me out today. It didn’t help that I started reading this horrifying article in the Times about a woman trying to get her father out of hospitals and nursing homes so he could die at home. I’d recommend reading this just to know how the system works (and doesn’t work). Which reminds me …

Note to Douglas and Robin and Karen and Peter: That article made me appreciate even more how wonderfully you managed our mother’s (or mother-in-law’s) end of life.

I haven’t read this article yet, about the national panel that found we needed to overhaul our end-of-life care at every level. I will save that for another day.

Now I need to curl up with a pile of cats. I’m writing a new song for my cats by the way. So far it goes: I love you cats, I’d love even if you were bats, but not if you were tarantulas, so it’s really good you’re not.

People watching the People’s Climate March going by.

“Free” cookies on 11th Street. It’s nice, but would you eat cookies sitting out on a chair on the street? I think my problem is I was raised on “Don’t eat apples or unwrapped candy” and instructions like it on Halloween.

I am war weary. We never ever ever ever should have invaded Iraq. We completely destabilized the region and we’ve been “playing” wack-a-mole ever since. Yes, it’s more complicated than that and there is more history than that, but that is the step that sent us off the cliff.

My friend’s backyard, on Pancake Hollow Road. She lives in Poughkeepsie, surrounded by apple orchards. I have a basket of apples from them in my kitchen right now!

I’m back from the People’s Climate March. It was amazing right from the start. The subway uptown was packed with people on their way to the march.

You could join the parade at a number of points. I chose the front of the American Museum of Natural History. It was this crowded for miles in either direction.

I couldn’t even see the end of this sign, which could only be seen in its entirety from space.

I’m posting a lot of shots, but this is nothing compared to the number I took (and the ones that didn’t come out, alas).

Every possible group imaginable was represented, and people from all over the world.

This guy trudged painfully the whole way. He represents corporate America, and that is a dish of dry ice behind him. I should have asked for a complete explanation but I was too excited to stop.

More than once I turned around and felt like I was staring back in time, to the sixties.

That’s Central Park behind them. “When the moon is in the 7th house …” (Right?)

Whenever we passed any kind of landmark I took a picture. I’m kicking myself for forgetting to get a shot when we marched passed Fox News, where I’m sure there was a mass spontaneous combustion. That would have been quite the shot!

Some buildings were completely barricaded off, you couldn’t get near them. Like the Bank of America here. I was very happy to see priests holding signs in front of many of the churches.

Mermaids. Of course global warning is as important an issue to them as it is to us.

UPDATE: Not mermaids, but the performance group W.I.S.E. doing a performance for climate change called, “Bodies of water and the planetary change.” (You all looked stunning.)

Lettuce head man. Yeah, I don’t know. He looked good though.

My old band, Manhattan Samba, was there!!

I believe her point is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going in the wrong direction on climate change. I took some video footage, so I might post a film tomorrow. I’m so glad I went!

Someone posted the video below on Facebook. It’s freaking brilliant. So I start googling to learn about Run Wrake, the person who made it.

That’s when I learned he died in 2012, at the age of 47. Damnit cancer. I hate you. (Lost my mother to pancreatic cancer.) I’m going watch his other videos, but watch this one. You’ll thank me. And I’m sorry we lost such a talent. My condolences to his family.