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<\/a>Here’s a portrait of respect: RBG\u2019s former clerks meet her casket.<\/p><\/div>\n
Besides that I feel awful for the Supreme Court Justice\u2019s family and friends and admirers, I\u2019m heartsick for our country. I almost feel defeated. But I know that we must pick ourselves up and carry on with the strength that RBG had, in her memory. She fought so hard to stay on this level of life, to prevent Orange Hitler from filling her spot on the Court with one of his fellow Nazis, before a new President can be elected. (Knock on wood to that last part. From my mouth to God\u2019s ears.) That wonderful woman held on as long as she could.<\/p>\n
Before I bring you a few little tributes to her from other people, I want to celebrate some of what Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I shared in life.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her younger days.<\/p><\/div>\n
We\u2019re from the same neck of the woods. Not just from the borough of Brooklyn, but from the same neighborhood\u2014\u00a0Flatbush! My educator father\u2019s best friend was even the principal of the high school Ruth attended, James Madison, which was just fourteen blocks away from my own school; I drove by hers on just about all my visits home since I moved out to LA as a teen-ager. And she was\u00a0born\u00a0in the hospital my mother died in! (Yes, I know\u2014that seems like a very sad one, but somehow that symmetry makes me feel a tad better; it\u2019s now-hallowed ground to me, on both levels. The fact of her birth helps alter my pain of thinking about the place.)<\/p>\n
And OMG\u2014I just found-out that\u2026RBG and I were sorority sisters!!! I have never in my life been proud of being in AEPhi, until this very second of that discovery. Now I\u2019m all over it!<\/p>\n
And she was \u201cconfirmed\u201d (which is what a bat mitzvah was called back then) at the same place my brother were bar mitzvah-ed–the East Midwood Jewish Center, just ten blocks from my house.<\/p>\n
<\/a>I love this cartoon.<\/p><\/div>\n
I adore that we share these coincidences. But her brilliant and always-fair being is something that I, and most of us, can only aspire to.<\/p>\n
As to what some others have had to say to laud RBG since last week,\u00a0I love that each person had a different and lovely way of paying tribute to her. There were a few comments on Facebook that especially caught my eye. My friend, dancer\u00a0Jamie Nichols, summed-up a lot of our feelings perfectly with,\u00a0\u201cThis is a devastating loss to humanity in this insane country\u2014a monument to what a woman can be and who we are.\u201d Another pal, comedian Elayne Boosler, eloquently wrote, \u201cThank you for leaving this world so much more just, fair & better than you found it. Thank you for fighting all the good fights for those of us to whom those fights meant life or death, success or failure. What a life well lived.\u00a0\u00a0May you rest in peace.\u201d Actor Ray Buktenica wrote simply, \u201cRBG\u2026OMG,\u201d on a background of teardrops.\u00a0\u00a0Exactly.<\/p>\n