And more

His judgement cometh, and that right soon.

 

AMEN.

In Regards to the latest Political events........

This quote from Shakespeare comes to mind; 

"Methinks he doth protest too much".

Think about it.  Innocent people do not obsess about things that might incriminate them.  Or send 900 tweets trying to stop investigations.

God I love Karma, especially when I get to see her in action.

"LIFE" is what happens to us while we are making other plans

     I sure never intended to miss autumn this year--or our 48th wedding anniversary, which was October 2nd.  But life took an unforeseen turn for me when I ruptured a disc in my lower back in September.  And if that wasn't bad enough, I had to go that extra mile, and the disc is pressing against the major nerve in my right leg, so I have had almost no feeling--other than pain--in my leg.  How can something be numb AND painful at the same time?  Go figure.

     So I have been unable to--walk, sit, lay, stand, or move.  The pain so intense I was shaking from it, and was sent to the ER TWICE by different doctors.  Where I lay in agony for 5 hours, BEGGING for something for the pain. Guess what?  The Doctors must answer to our dear government if they use pain medications, so now they don't want to give them.  Too many opioid idiots out there, so the rest of us must suffer.  Oh--what DID they give me?  A half milligram of valium.

  They should have stuffed it up their--uh--nose--for all the good it did me.

   So finally I got to see my personal Dr, and was given muscle relaxers and Oxycontin (GASP!!!!)   Knocked down the pain, but made me violently ill.  SO--wracked with pain, nausea, virtually no sleep for over three weeks, I finally started to get better.  Heating pads and ice, folks--oh, and deep massages from my sweetheart of a husband.  He also took over all the household chores, washing clothes, floors, cleaning the bathroom, cooking, vacuuming.  Feeding the cat, cleaning the litter box. Waiting on me whenever I needed something.  And not a single complaint.  I guess you can see why we have been married for 48 years--men like this are KEEPERS!  Thanks honey, you are one in a million !!
 

You Live in America--we are guaranteed freedom of speech!

Do you still believe this???   We are constantly being silenced--
WHY?????

 https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/06/technology/twitter-suspends-alex-jones-infowars/index.html

Rest In Peace, John McCain

We lost a truly great man today.  May he now rest in peace.

 Thank you for all you did for the American people.  We will not forget you.

Complacency Can KILL you!

Just a heads up--I have been taking the same blood pressure medication for over 14 years.  It is called Lisinopril.  I never expected that all these years later, I would have a bad reaction to it.  So when some things started to happen, I didn't connect them to the medicine--fact is, I never connected them at all--until it nearly killed me.  Small things, like choking a lot for no reason--a sudden rash that itched like crazy--

This past Sunday was just a normal day, but then I started to feel--"Odd".  Hard to explain.  And it happened so fast, I really didn't have time to even realize WHAT was happening---the left side of my tongue swelled to the roof of my mouth.  I could barely talk, and was having trouble breathing. I was rushed to the ER and there I was told I was having an anaphylactic episode.  Had I not gone to the ER right away, where they could treat the sudden swelling of my tongue and also my throat, I would have suffocated. As it was, I was lucky I got there fast and they didn't have to intubate me or do a tracheotomy to help me breathe. They believe it was a side effect of the lisinopril, a medicine I thought was "safe" because I had been on it for so long.

Now I know--NO medicine is safe!  You CAN develop side effects even after having no problems for many years.  So if lots of "little" things start happening, check out the side effects of your meds!!

Thought for the Year

A Beautiful Man, A Beautiful Soul--Zach Sobiech

The first time I saw this young man's face, I thought
"What a beautiful young man--I can see his soul, and it is shining".

 

 At the time, I knew NOTHING about him--but from the moment I saw his face, I loved him.  I could not forget him.  As an artist, he has to be the most ethereally beautiful child I have ever seen.

If you do not know him , please look up Zach Sobiech--Clouds.  He was only 18 when he died from a rare form of cancer.  I did not personally  know him, yet I grieved for him and his family.  

Today I learned that with the fund set up in Zach's name, cancer researchers at the University of Minnesota have amazing results towards a cure for Osteosarcoma,  the rare form of bone cancer that took Zachs life.

Please take the time to look up the song CLOUDS that Zach wrote and performed before he died--it is a beautiful song.  And if you are moved to make a donation for continued research, here is the link;

https://childrenscancer.org/zach/

Zach--I did not know you, or your family.  But your life, although short, has touched me deeply.  You are a beautiful angel, I believe you were put here on earth to bring awareness to this horrible cancer.  I look at photos of you, and I see an "old soul"-you have lived many lives, and will live many more.  I hope that some day, my soul will have the pleasure of meeting yours.

Random thoughts.............

That little voice in your head?  It means something.  LISTEN TO IT.

Never let anyone tell you how to think, what to think, or make you doubt yourself.

You don't have "thigh gap?"  Congratulations, you are halfway to being a mermaid!!!

The world does not exist to appease you.  Get over it.

This is your life.  You do not get a second chance--what are you doing with it?

If you have a house, enough food to eat, and money to pay your bills, you are richer than half of the world. BE THANKFUL! 

We are all fighting a personal battle--be kind.

A Lesson Learned

When we are young, we think somehow that we have all the time in the world to do the things we want to do.  But in the words of someone wise,
"LIFE" is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Over 20 years ago, I stopped doing what I loved the most--needlepoint/petitpoint--in order to pursue new crafts and new ideas. None of which I was very good at.  Unlike needlepoint, which I can say with all modesty, I excelled at.  This is not to brag--it is just a simple fact.  While most of the world seemed to be doing tedious stitch exercises, or stitching goofy looking frogs, I was quietly creating masterpieces.  Not MY words--I was told this by everyone who saw my work.  Yet I blithely set it aside, to come back to "some day".

The trouble with "some day", is that it doesn't exist, except in our minds. I learned this all too well when I decided to go back to my first love, and discovered that my eyes had other plans.

I learned I was going blind.  I am slowly losing my eyesight to macular degeneration, at the age of 66.  I am taking special vitamins, but this is not going to "fix" me.  After dealing with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, and coming to terms with the fact that I had lost part of "me"--now I was facing blindness.  As an artist, there is nothing that could have been more devastating.  I was actually diagnosed over a year ago, but am only now able to talk about it.  I mean, it's not like you can send out announcements saying HEY GUESS WHAT??  I am going blind!!  I went through all the emotions, I threw myself a pity party, and now I am ready and eager to use the time I have left-and the eyesight I have left--to do what I love the most.

To this end, I bought myself a magnifier/light, and am back to working on my tapestries.   I may never "finish" them--but for now, I am happy.  I am content.  I am doing what I was meant to do.

And here is SUMMER, from a painting by Alphonse Mucha.  Petit point, 18 mesh canvas.  That translates to 324 tiny stitches per square inch, every single one of them put in by hand, one at a time.

Good Morning, America! AND WHAT ARE YOU OFFENDED BY TODAY?????

Enough.  ENOUGH!  Every day it gets worse.  Someone--anyone, is offended by--
a word
a movie
a story
or anything else anyone can possibly be "offended" by----

And suddenly it is news worthy!  

Guess what, people? I know this will be hard to understand, and even harder to believe, but

LIFE IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!!
The world is not here to placate you, to coddle you, to conform to your every feeling.  It is what it is.

Someone says something you don't like?
A movie has a scene you don't like?
A new story says something you don't like?

TOO FUCKING BAD.

This world is not here to appease your every thought and emotion. Get over it.
Get over yourself.
Who made you think you were so special?? 

When did America become a nation of WHINERS????  Boo hoo, poor you.  

I am sick to death of it.  This world gets worse and worse. I shudder to think what will be going on here in another 10 years.

Books are being banned.  BOOKS are being banned--AGAIN.  Did we learn NOTHING by this the FIRST time?

America--you are going to hell, faster than I ever believed.

Oh no, you DIDN'T..........................

.........except yes, you did.  You really did.

Of all the Prince songs you could have chosen for the Super Bowl halftime show, you chose "I Would Die For You".

Not Purple Rain, or one of his other greats, you had to chose the one about him dying.

Does no one have even an OUNCE of basic sense any more????

Randall Margraves--Sir, I Salute You!!!

Father lunges at Larry Nassar in court before being restrained

After hearing his three daughters detail their sexual molestation at the hands of Nassar, Randall Margraves asked the judge for 5 minutes alone in a room with Nassar.  Of course, the judge declined.  The he asked for ONE minute--again denied, and he went after Nassar on his own.

He never touched him because NASSAR had multiple people protecting him.  Unlike all the young girls Nassar molested.

Our legal system protects the guilty.  ALWAYS.  How about the man who coldly shot his two young daughters to death while his wife listened in horror over a speaker phone? Finally executed last night, but his lawyers were worried he might "suffer" during the execution.  You know what? HE DESERVED TO SUFFER!  

The Bible says, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"--and yes, it also says "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord", but I am not getting into all that right now.

Randall Margraves acted in the most normal, primal way to a man who hurt his children. I am sorry he did not get to Nassar, however--

you won't ALWAYS have protection, Nassar. When you are in prison, there will be LOTS of men lined up to get you, and one or more of them WILL succeed. (Hint--don't drop the soap, Larry....... ;>)

But I digress.  We try to say we are a "civilized" society, but that is just a guise to hire fancy lawyers and let bad people walk free.

Personally, I would LOVE to see Mr. Margraves get his one minute alone in a locked room with Nassar.  Then the taxpayers would not have to support this asshole for the rest of his miserable life.

Instead, we will have to be content to sit by and let his Karma get him--and I KNOW this is going to be good!!

SICK of it

I am sick of reading stories about kids (as young as NINE) and teens committing suicide due to cyber bullying.

Does anyone see the REAL problem here?  These "kids" are given phones and computers--AKA WEAPONS---and no one is teaching them right from wrong.  They give their kids these devices, and fine--walk away, they are now "entertained" and out of mommy and daddys hair.  Much like planting a child in front of TV, but of course the child could not USE that TV to maim or harm other children!  You know what?  If they COULD have--

We would have taken it away from them!!

It is too bad that so many parents today are too busy to BE parents.  To teach right from wrong.  They are, quite literally, handing their children a loaded gun, and not bothering to tell them not to shoot anyone.  Because, of course, they are KIDS-
What harm could they do?

Well,  mommy and daddy--stop and look at the statistics of how many "kids" (under 18) are being charged with cyber bullying which results in suicide.  The numbers will stagger you. Well, maybe. 

 Or maybe , you just don't give a shit.