Well done Rep. Raskin for consistently doing excellent public health messaging through some traumatic personal times. This family has been through a lot.
Raskin is a treasure, and so are you, Dok - very nice round up of the news about Raskin, and how much he's meant to our nation over the last few years.
I highly recommend Raskin's "Unthinkable," which weaves the two devastating stories of the loss of his son and the near-loss of our government together. I have rarely been suicidal, but because of loved ones around me, have been deeply affected by it none the less for decades. It was at times a heart wrenching book to read - a chapter early in the book, which focuses on his son, had me in tears over and over again, but they were not "unproductive" tears, and I learned a lot not just about his family but about mine.
Raskin's gentle humor and eternal optimism is infused throughout the book, even when he writes about losing that optimism at times. He also brings his professorial knowledge to us, and because his son was a staunch soldier for democracy and democratic rule, those stories too are woven together.
In fact, quite a bit of the second half of the book details the reasoning behind everything Raskin argued at the impeachment trial. I learned a ton from those chapters.
Again, highly recommended, even if you have to pace yourself as you read it. I particularly recommend it for those of us who've lost family and friends to suicide. Your pain and your spaghetti tangle of emotions around the situation will find a home, and some depth of understanding, in Raskin's story.
I bet the folks who teach law at William & Mary really enjoyed watching their former student look like a complete ignoramus while being schooled by Professor Raskin.
I don't pray to god anymore but I will send all the positive energy that I can to that good man. We love you, Jamie Raskin.
I haven’t read it specifically because I’ve been struggling to suicidal ideation for a few years and am not sure I can manage, but I appreciate reading your thoughts on it.
I live just over the border from his district. In fact, he once housed his election campaign in the community canter I helped run, which was a little strange, but i was literally a one-minute walk down the road. We served his district, anyway, and most people didn't know where the boundary was.
I will figure out how to write to him and do that. I will donate to his next campaign. I now subscribe to his email newsletter. Next, I'm going to find his book and read it.
.He is a justice politician, not a power politician, whom I greatly respect. I just felt this like an emotional blow and I feel sad, but if anyone can do his best to pull through, after all that has happened to him over the past few years, Jamie Raskin can. .I feel this as a drumbeat about our country: we've got to right this ship!
Well done Rep. Raskin for consistently doing excellent public health messaging through some traumatic personal times. This family has been through a lot.
I certainly hope he pulls through this well. He is a national treasure.
Raskin is a treasure, and so are you, Dok - very nice round up of the news about Raskin, and how much he's meant to our nation over the last few years.
I highly recommend Raskin's "Unthinkable," which weaves the two devastating stories of the loss of his son and the near-loss of our government together. I have rarely been suicidal, but because of loved ones around me, have been deeply affected by it none the less for decades. It was at times a heart wrenching book to read - a chapter early in the book, which focuses on his son, had me in tears over and over again, but they were not "unproductive" tears, and I learned a lot not just about his family but about mine.
Raskin's gentle humor and eternal optimism is infused throughout the book, even when he writes about losing that optimism at times. He also brings his professorial knowledge to us, and because his son was a staunch soldier for democracy and democratic rule, those stories too are woven together.
In fact, quite a bit of the second half of the book details the reasoning behind everything Raskin argued at the impeachment trial. I learned a ton from those chapters.
Again, highly recommended, even if you have to pace yourself as you read it. I particularly recommend it for those of us who've lost family and friends to suicide. Your pain and your spaghetti tangle of emotions around the situation will find a home, and some depth of understanding, in Raskin's story.
Thank you♥
I bet the folks who teach law at William & Mary really enjoyed watching their former student look like a complete ignoramus while being schooled by Professor Raskin.
I don't pray to god anymore but I will send all the positive energy that I can to that good man. We love you, Jamie Raskin.
I hate recurring cancer diagnoses. I feel like it’s MUCH worse than the first diagnosis.
I haven’t read it specifically because I’ve been struggling to suicidal ideation for a few years and am not sure I can manage, but I appreciate reading your thoughts on it.
I vote we go straight to the shock collar.
It’s really unfair that he has to put up with so much pain, so I’m sulking on his behalf.
I live just over the border from his district. In fact, he once housed his election campaign in the community canter I helped run, which was a little strange, but i was literally a one-minute walk down the road. We served his district, anyway, and most people didn't know where the boundary was.
Dear Rep. Raskin:
Please recover fully, live long, and prosper.
And Happy New Year, too, if you can manage that.
I was thinking a vuvuzela!
I will figure out how to write to him and do that. I will donate to his next campaign. I now subscribe to his email newsletter. Next, I'm going to find his book and read it.
.He is a justice politician, not a power politician, whom I greatly respect. I just felt this like an emotional blow and I feel sad, but if anyone can do his best to pull through, after all that has happened to him over the past few years, Jamie Raskin can. .I feel this as a drumbeat about our country: we've got to right this ship!
Talk about one truly fine American.
I don't pray, but there are few people on earth I want good things for more than Jamie Raskin. (Okay, all the Ukrainians too.)
Be well, sir. You are a decent, honest man, and those are far too rare.