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 Through the eyes of a writer and traveler 😁! Life and some spiritual musings. |
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Welcome Y'all 🤠. I'm into animal rescue and rights. Positive vibes and activism! 😻🙏 It's been interesting for the past 20 years. Good folks on here and a great 😃 writing community. It's time for rethinking my writing and growing as a person . Sharing how to help others and ourselves 😉 has always been my motivation! Hugs 🤗 to new and old peeps! " The journey of 10,000 miles Begins with one step 🪜. --Lao Tzu What you don't like Don't do to another. Rabbi Hillel Do unto others as you would have someone Do unto you. Jesus 🙏 |
| Hi y'all 🤠👋 it's been a crazy 8 days since I wrote and didn't even write ✍️ half about what's happening. This month started strangely and the hits keep coming! I had to look up in my appointment book, when we started noticing the beginning of it. In June,we heard a big boom 💥, sis said " it sounds like something hit the transformer." We both went outside to look but didn't see anything. A lady was walking her dogs and didn't seem to notice anything but her phone and dogs 🐶. We went back inside 💠 and that seemed to be the end of it. Lately, our electricity has been going out for a few seconds and I reset the stove clock (From 12:00 it's digital) our coffee maker is too but it's not affected. July first I was writing an email to an old friend ( a Jesuit Priest) I was sitting on my bed ( which is like my room, decorated in Hello Kitty!🎀). Anyway I heard a very loud deep crash of thunder ⛈️ ⚡ and turned my head towards the window. I saw the biggest fattest streak of lightning outside,hit the park ground. It was so close, I wondered if it started a fire. ( It didn't but the ground has been very dry and it's been awful hot most of the month. The sound work my sister who was taking a nap on the couch downstairs and she yelled loudly. I didn't think about it until today's strangeness... It's been very hot in Mississippi,as well as most of the country. In the middle of the state it was 114 so probably felt like 125 with the heat index. We left the house about 9:30 to do laundry. It was in the 80s'. The AC has been out at the Laundromat all month 😞 ugh. It was really hot in there today. We were both getting our clothes out of the dryer and we were burning our hands, grabbing the clothes and stuff out. The glass and metal door,hit my shoulder and that hurt,it was so hot. We stuffed out laundry into the baskets and threw them into sheets, so we could fold at home 😉! 😥 Whew. Later we were trying to watch something on YouTube ( We saw an amazing concert from 2024 last night. It was The Eagles and they can still play and kick butt! We saw them in San Francisco in the 70s , volunteering for The Haight Asbury free clinic as Medics. They are still amazing 🎶😜!) Well the power was going on and off and I called the Electric company ( after Speaking with our next door neighbor and the manager. Found out the Breakers were being replaced, and it took over 3 hours to do it. We were sitting on our side of the couches and suddenly a wave passed through us 3 times and it caused the TV to flicker at the same time. It was very strange and made us think of the many other times, weird things had happened. UFO's we've seen. Missing time incidents. Things I tried to forget about. Each time it happens, over the years a big change happened. We moved to another state unexpectedly. Even thinking about it, gives me pause to wonder,if I should even be writing about them. Damn there were so many... Today it creeped out both of us, it happened to us at the same time and 3 times. I'm hoping maybe someone out there has been through the same or similar situation. This week we decided not to move to Pensacola. We are going to Virginia in time instead. We are hoping for a little house rental with a yard and fencing! There's mountains there and a lot of nature 🍄🟫! We are starved for it. Of course we'll have to either hit a winning lottery ticket or have more to save. Getting there with the kitties and us will take more planning. Staying at an extended stay so they can be with us ❤️ 😁. I'm hoping to get back here and start Weekly goals again and Blog more. My ulcers seem to be healing and feel better and more normal these days 🙏 🌹 🙏! Any input is greatly appreciated ☺️! And yes emojis 😺 definitely rock and count!!! 🤣 😁 Till next time Blessings to you. |
| Thinking of that Led Zeppelin song,as I started writing this! Dazed and confused 🤔 🎶. I'm pretty blue 💙 today y'all. It's easier to find someone to cheer up, then ask for support for myself This place is for us to come together and be there for each other. I haven't been here a month yet but slowly connecting to other people trying to survive and thrive 🌻🌸! I've been on many other sites over the past 20-plus years. The longest has been on a writing site I belong to, for 19 or so years. My plan has been to look over the stories, poems, blogs and everything but the kitchen sink (!) and keep the best. To finish or edit as needed! All that sounds good and well but health problems keep those things from being done... Somedays I feel like " what's the point? I may always have sick mornings and days." " Why bother? easier to give up". I'll probably copy this into my current blog. My friends have been supportive as they can be. Just because one has faith 🙏 it doesn't mean they won't suffer. Sometimes they are tested more than others it seems to me! It's hard when your dealing with depression on top of everything and others who don't have it, can't understand why your " making such a big deal" out of it. For the past 10 years or so, I've been dealing with a spine,that has lost part of the cushions between them and can't be fixed. The pain is insane sometimes but all can be done is pain medicine. I used to take Ballet classes and it helped some a few years ago. I'm trying to get back into it again but it's been a few months since. I had to deal with ulcers for the last year and a half. The care received wasn't good and going to see another person next month. Either it can be fixed or I have to live with this "forever". Or whatever time there is! For years I was on the go! Raising kids later grandkids. Worked and did a lot to teach and help others over the years. As crappy as I felt today, was trying to be patient and positive. It also affects my sis who lives here. Today she needed a 6-pack to deal with me being sick again. Even though she says " don't feel guilty, it's not your fault" Her vision is low and makes it harder to drive in certain light conditions and keeping her from reading or sewing 🧵🪡. I'm used to fixing things and situations. Bringing light 🕯️ to dark times with hope and faith 🙏. It's a hot sunny day but too hot out and bright to go anywhere. It's too hard for her to get to where the kitty's nail lady moved. So if anyone knows of a good nail clippers for kitties with a light, not too spendy, please let me know! Thanks for reading if you made it this far! My dear grandson turned 15 yesterday 💖 Happy we all connected on the phone. Dd |
| Hi y'all, I thought I was ok, but not so I'm hoping not to have to wait till October to be seen. It's like reruns of last year. It took that long for the first appointment. I was so sure the worst was behind and was excited about getting more involved here and getting old projects started again. The best laid plans do offen go a stray as they said... Not sure how to deal with all of this. It's too much uncertainty. Will I get better? Will it stay the same and this is my new normal? It's a lot for us both to deal with. I keep digging in and looking at options. Giant mowers outside and can't hear myself thinking 🤔! I'm skipping weekly goals this week. Great news that WDC will be celebrating 25 years birthday and will have huge celebrations! If I'm not back, will be in time. Didn't expect things to fall apart health-wise 🦉. Please send prayers or good vibes 🙏. Say hey 👋 too if ya like. I'm hanging in as best as possible. We both are. Blessings |
| About 6 hours ago I wrote this: "So how's by you dear-ee? Hi y'all 👋🤠! I'm sitting in the car having a cig,as the laundry 🧺 gets washed. The AC is out at the Laundromat and it's in the 90s whew 😥! Going to take it home to fold today. Later today I will write ✍️ more about this week and try to post it. Hot 🔥 off the press! Loud thunder and huge lightning ⚡⛈️ on Tuesday, after big shop at Walmart." Yeah 😹 it's been a crazy nutty week with ups and downs 🎢! Ok so on Tuesday we went early ( 9 AM) and used our Humana cards ♦️ at Walmart. It's like the only place to use them ( Now that Aldi's is opening a second store and Winn-Dixie went out of business in Ocean 🪸 Springs about 10 miles from home.) We knew a storm was on the way but made it home safely and unloaded the groceries. An hour later or so Sis was taking a nap on the couch and I was upstairs trying to get my writing organized. I started to write ✍️ an email to another old friend of mine Brother "K" a Cool Jesuit Priest. He's also related to my Good friend Mabs 🩷💜🪻! I needed some Spiritual counseling and one one-on-one friendship in real time! It's a solitary action to be a writer. You have to think 🤔 of ideas 💡 and find a way to tell someone what your vision is. You have to read it and edit so you make yourself clear! It takes time,concentration and energy . So I'm typing and all of a sudden I heard a super loud 📢 roar of thunder. It sounded like a truck hit the building. I turned my head left towards the window 🪟 and saw the biggest fattest streak of lightning ⚡⛈️ hit the ground outside. I jumped up thinking " I'd better unplug the TV" and heard sis yell loudly from downstairs. As I ran down the steps figured the thunder woke her out of a dead sleep. She was shocked out of her sleep. I was right 👍. It was the loudest boom we heard,it sounded like it hit a transformer. When we first moved to the south,we were living in Georgia for 9 years. We had lightning hit our house/Apt twice and it blew out our TV, stereo, washer and more like my Boom box. We had to replace everything and learned what lighting can do. This time nothing got ruined thank goodness! Wednesday I saw my " Dr" Nurse practitioner and great news, I put on 2 lbs my BP was normal, so can continue not taking the BP med! Less 💊 pills make me happy 😊😸😁! We watched some pretty good old 📽️🎥 films this week. Lured 1947 with Lucille Ball a pretty good mystery/ thriller and good cast, including Boris Karloff! Another Man's Poison 1951 With my all-time favorite Miss Betty Davis!💜🩷 A great actress for the plot of this story! 😁 About a mystery writer who becomes part of a real-life mystery and the range of her emotions is way impressive 😉! So I'm taking my bookmarks out of my color notes 🎶 app, and putting them into a Google doc. Organized into categories like Music 🎵 for links of the Beatles and Prince 🎼. While I was sick and too tired to get things I wanted to share in group s here,it made sense to hold on to them for when they could be helpful. I have to clean 🫧 the kitchen in a few. It's better to do it last thing at night before I go upstairs and settle into my bed. I play Farmville 3 and different Solitaire games and earn gift cards on Mistplay. Have been doing it for a few years and nice to get Tara Incense or Estee Lauder sample gifts! This week Uranus is going into the sign of Gemini ♊ and expect to feel a bunch of changes coming! Can be positive or not. I will be looking into it with Sis and will share some info this week. We used to check out Mark Lerner from Eugene Oregon for years but he's gotten too technical and expensive! I get emails from Jaime Wright and looking into something new! So have a blessed week 🙏 🌸 people and sending prayers and hugs 🤗 🌹 to y'all! |
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maybe I can make my Raggedy group be something to share love with people who have illnesses... You may have inspired an idea!
