tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81662608422786728142024-03-13T03:08:34.323-07:00Songs of Aletheia (The Greek Godess Of TRUTH)I AM A SURVIVOR. I could have been one of the numberless child abuse victims that have been seen in the obituaries.I could have given in to the darkness that surrounded me at every turn. I could have taken my own life. (As I've said in a song I wrote called "If" "Should I let my father kill me, or should I do it myself?")
The human spirit, no matter how much darkness there is, sometimes finds the tiniest bit of light in the darkest of places. I am Unbreakable.heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-47388354808751746452023-02-16T19:21:00.004-08:002023-02-17T04:16:03.754-08:00I moved...and then I moped. The Move Knocked me into the WORST Menopause stuff I have ever been through in my Life. Ok now. WHEW!<p> </p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I haven't written on the blog in a while. For years really. And, let me tell you...life has been STRANGE. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Between covid and horrible menopausal surges (I'll talk about that in a bit) It's been YEARS since I have felt...well, ok. I FINALLY, after years, a couple brutal deaths, (my cat and Pauline), and a move, that I am sorry to say, I turned up being in Idaho.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Last year my father-in-law got VERY sick with covid, ( I like to spell it with a small c...does that somehow make me feel like I have more power over it? Meh, no dammit, I wish.) </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year about this time, I would sob every day, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">crying, missing my old house that we sold thinking about the thousands of dollars and flowers, and fruit trees, and all the beauty that was Washington state for me…</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1nGHNQcTYf3WECh3UTDu07nv6_TdVcoX2z9K6nq20RC-mZ7Mn4_pRyNY8rj4ozh-jr_1ojmWidJJGqCWXyBsmbk1eGfD3Bd0Pr9gAyV1nfuNF_0OGNGe59NoBx5oxs5dT-B--xmu5Dj26_57F7hEsRAeoRFwkLiwJx2YvDmsGQ5vFbbpeslSQh5f/s2048/Arbor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1nGHNQcTYf3WECh3UTDu07nv6_TdVcoX2z9K6nq20RC-mZ7Mn4_pRyNY8rj4ozh-jr_1ojmWidJJGqCWXyBsmbk1eGfD3Bd0Pr9gAyV1nfuNF_0OGNGe59NoBx5oxs5dT-B--xmu5Dj26_57F7hEsRAeoRFwkLiwJx2YvDmsGQ5vFbbpeslSQh5f/s320/Arbor.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was having horrible hot flashes, and my face was breaking out with menopausal acne and rosacea. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was having all kinds of menopausal issues…pretty much everyone you can think of.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I had no idea menopause could be so brutal, moving here to Idaho, actually brought on my menopause, (we moved here because my father-in-law had Covid last year and almost died, and just wanted to be a little bit closer to where they are so we can go there if he needs help or if their family needs help …</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A naturopath told me when they took my blood That all the stress from moving knocked me right into menopause that’s how much stress I was under. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just to give you an example, when we started driving to Idaho, my husband and I were in two separate cars and honestly, it was a good thing. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As we started to get closer to Idaho, the trees and water and beautiful things that are Washington disappeared, and at one point for 50 miles there was only dirt because of farmland. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBruynYW5sQDX788pT0hpT-YcnGvH5QERgQSdQ1mST63f-Iy3hlfnfs5FCLiRv1HA6TgsMqz5oYmvAyLjBxnjkuWa_VOxTvsSd0Z6BfDUjItG_rQ1lnL93mknnffE_P8JyvbXgJpPXII3_PaVlczKc6I46YIj29UTeqqhgKfU1XEtPV5UQ8wm0vFRw/s960/BackYard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBruynYW5sQDX788pT0hpT-YcnGvH5QERgQSdQ1mST63f-Iy3hlfnfs5FCLiRv1HA6TgsMqz5oYmvAyLjBxnjkuWa_VOxTvsSd0Z6BfDUjItG_rQ1lnL93mknnffE_P8JyvbXgJpPXII3_PaVlczKc6I46YIj29UTeqqhgKfU1XEtPV5UQ8wm0vFRw/s320/BackYard.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I started screaming and crying, sobbing…”I can’t believe I did this. Why did I move? “ </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was glad he wasn’t in the car because I could let it all out, compared to just sitting there shocked at the ugliness. I SCREAMED. "WHY DID I DO THIS??? WHY did I move???? Why did I let him talk me into this???"</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For almost an entire year, My stress levels were so incredibly high, ( It didn’t help that there are areas around here, where there are blocks of big black tires, and another area, where there are blocks and blocks and blocks of disassembled semis… it’s just so ugly and there’s so much dirt and tumbleweeds and sagebrush, ) when for 20 years I lived in this gorgeous paradise…(Washinton) I would wake up and sob and think about places like deception pass where it’s out near the sound and it’s gorgeous. I used to get a picnic basket And pack us a really yummy lunch with croissants and ham and cheese and all kinds of really yummy Stuff from the co-op that was just phenomenal. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCc_DzTUb1XNnf7TZfzP13mv-ZNEPBxjK1PAl8hKR88mX4lxwR2z7XaV8Xs7_x41E6qA5XaDpL9RfokaNfnQedCB7h8wLHRuLnHJBW7lx-oc_-Lwp1KZod_UQPQGT4HUHWcXi8Ht5HFYezW5wYsLnQZuZHl3psv33gztqaXAk4ghQTpbSCc8ocdIX6/s960/RoseroBay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCc_DzTUb1XNnf7TZfzP13mv-ZNEPBxjK1PAl8hKR88mX4lxwR2z7XaV8Xs7_x41E6qA5XaDpL9RfokaNfnQedCB7h8wLHRuLnHJBW7lx-oc_-Lwp1KZod_UQPQGT4HUHWcXi8Ht5HFYezW5wYsLnQZuZHl3psv33gztqaXAk4ghQTpbSCc8ocdIX6/s320/RoseroBay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">After all of this, and moving here as I said before, I thought I was dying.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I went to bed, terrified every night because I kept sleeping for two hours, and no more, and for months I dealt with this.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On YouTube, there was a guy who is into gardening that I saw, he actually had his cell phone number, and I texted him about gardening, and then saw his wife was into herbs, which I’m very into. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I told him I had been sleeping two hours a night when I texted him and he sent me straight to his wife's texts… she is an herbologist. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She also dealt with low, sleep herself and found something called rna re-mite and re-mag… I got that, and it started to help me sleep a little better, and the hot flashes that were just torture went away other than feeling a little warm sometimes… She gave me lots of recommendations like ginkgo biloba for dizziness, which made that go away… </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She also recommended that I do this group with Dr. Livingood… ( I like his stuff a LOT though he sure touts the stuff he sells a lot. The info though that he has is SO good and makes it worth it listening to his pitches.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Today I get to meet herbologist friend as we’re going to the Melaleuca castle here in Idaho Falls. I’m really excited to meet her. I feel like she has saved my life in more than one way. (She is a very sweet woman.)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For months I couldn't sleep. I'd only sleep only two hours, and I just stayed in my pajamas and moped. Never mind that I have really nice funky clothes. (Pauline used to say " you don't have clothes...you have costumes." :p They didn't get taken out of the closet for months.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Anyway, now I'm wearing my cool clothes again! I even am wearing my cool brick red lipstick and my face finally STOPPED breaking out. I’m not crying every day and more. Sure I miss my flowers in Washington state and everything else but I think I’m going to make it thank God.!!! <span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="❤️" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A week or two ago my herbologist friend recommended this stuff. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What’s interesting is I started taking these yesterday and all of a sudden I’m going more if you get my drift.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, my mood has lifted from the last year of crying every day to finding a reason to live again, ( not even kidding I can’t believe how brutal menopause is for me ) so I am so grateful to Dr. LJ and to this woman and to my life! </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Less than a month ago I wasn’t sure I wanted to live and now I’m back to everything I love and I feel like myself again. FINALLY. I honestly haven't felt this good in YEARS. Its wonderful. I am SO Grateful!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgbWAg-ByUQZ_MqmliLsNb6qn-22ySfqspw_HnvO2C09eMRPt2hxr0artlYgo7r_VX-JTZ8Q02bcxKEhMQT-jKmRIH8zA15Jzf4JMeoChRUihgUnpLCb4wgQ6P3SMstEUhrFsbRKTOUAEdqeZceQoctkWrFifJXiKBp4LHY-KXICXMbZ1WJ1crVTFV/s960/Fairy%20Me2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgbWAg-ByUQZ_MqmliLsNb6qn-22ySfqspw_HnvO2C09eMRPt2hxr0artlYgo7r_VX-JTZ8Q02bcxKEhMQT-jKmRIH8zA15Jzf4JMeoChRUihgUnpLCb4wgQ6P3SMstEUhrFsbRKTOUAEdqeZceQoctkWrFifJXiKBp4LHY-KXICXMbZ1WJ1crVTFV/s320/Fairy%20Me2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div></div>heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-87693867762549485872022-12-11T16:05:00.006-08:002022-12-12T03:12:55.802-08:00BAD SANTA! (I am allowed everywhere else in the mall EXCEPT where Santa is.)<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> BAD SANTA!!!</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyHbSp3SN0lJxCB74Rbvu6VWm12R9miZeJItDziPT8ioM7PKLeGbzjNskh4ipI9WLmoZv5n_cZ8LpbCKt3xcPf2prHE_E6kcAg8cg0g06lwVAU8L0UAtwSreNwEeSfcmluSF7DOpAzC7fDTUtDQTOGkVWRlzcAozp0kBtlZFvl2ecAwbf-9goQz46/s701/BadSANTAjpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyHbSp3SN0lJxCB74Rbvu6VWm12R9miZeJItDziPT8ioM7PKLeGbzjNskh4ipI9WLmoZv5n_cZ8LpbCKt3xcPf2prHE_E6kcAg8cg0g06lwVAU8L0UAtwSreNwEeSfcmluSF7DOpAzC7fDTUtDQTOGkVWRlzcAozp0kBtlZFvl2ecAwbf-9goQz46/s320/BadSANTAjpg.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-98d25614-7fff-c0eb-8ec4-9e6181760fcd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am awake because I had a horrible, triggering experience today. But it's weirdly funny. The more I think about it, the funnier it is.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I went to visit Santa at the mall that I sang 4 songs with a day ago…it wasn’t very busy and we sang together.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got pictures taken.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We were singing and we were talking. It was seriously FUN!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This time it was earlier in the day and of course people were coming up with their kids, so I got out of the way but because I was waiting to get my pictures I stayed there and talked with the people.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because I always stick "Bart The Bat" brochures (I am a children's book author who wants to tell people about how good bats are- they pollinate cacao (chocolate- look it up on google, its really true.) in my purse I was telling them about meeting a bat, giving them brochures etc...I just wasn't thinking about it....</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well next thing I know the mall cop comes up, starts saying I need to leave and I said "I need my pictures" He said you didn't pay for them." I was mortified- the college kid who awas at the booth never asked for it and I spaced out…I said "Here's my card" I'm happy to pay and I told him a thing or two and he said "I don't give a fuck, you need to leave."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was SO angry because he was really being a jerk. I said "I am getting my pictures. You are being incredibly rude. Don't talk to me that way, especially as an employee of the mall."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also told him I had a $25 Victoria's Secret Card. He's like I'll walk you there, get what you want but then you have to leave."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, I got my stuff, no one else was there so I sang the song with Santa that I was going to sing, (I heard The Bells On Christmas day (I was going to record it for me Facebook page and the college kid had my phone but of course now she handed it back seeing it was getting weird. ) I didn’t mean to but I sang “ backwards) “The right shall fail, the wrong prevail” I was so turned around. OMG. WHOOPS.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then got my pics after having her take one more pic as she did a seriously crappy job. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then the security guard and I went to V.S. I talked to him for a while, I was so rattled and shaking that I was having trouble remembering where my car was...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said he would help me find my car and I said "Ok- maybe if you do that I won't think you're a total asshole." Then he kind of smiled. ( I remembered where it was a few minutes later) He apologized for swearing. (I told him the F word was my go to word when I was angry, and he said that was his go to...)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I talked to him as he was walking me to my car...he is African American, and I asked him if he was mormon (as so many people here are. I have great neighbors, 3 around me that I know of and we all help each other when on vacation and get packages for each other and mail. They are quite nice.) He said no and I said "Thank God, you're smart! HAHA...I also told him (this is in the newspapers from long ago, and a long buried fact but when African Americans were given the priesthood in the mormon church the REAL reason that happened was because about 500 relatives of African Americans actually threatened to sue the mormon church if they didn't give them the priesthood- so guess what? Suddenly God and "the prophet" had a "Revelation." suddenly it happened and they got the priesthood.) Anyway, we kept talking. I asked him "are we good?"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said yes and we both went on our way. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That was BAD. I I am still awake and rattled. I found out from him that Santa actually called him on me. One of my friends said does that make me on Santa's naughty list? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; width: 16px;"><img alt="😛" height="16" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/rhy5VKNIeo_zLSQNh_kLQMRuOfnVhIpLfo_XJWnp2uiMdDdwOZ2PXK5TwptvZ5ONLG7dhYlCExYka3OlzIMzMrpP5m14M-1ivhPsGf060dSKoTb5x8J20vSXnVdY5qkwGxOU8_IJBhd38CCdbXjpVB46xAEyxzwfIsLIZTuGii6Y0P-Vd2u3HzlkP25mjg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> OMG </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; width: 16px;"><img alt="🤣" height="16" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0aViTR_3aHdNnWgzqt4mfcgKl6bMnayc9W9u9kaIq8OhVnIKcm5oAO97dE9sY5DheU_Rerd2D61sgICa8xm0viHwAO0nbwOh01diaAJiR_1pVFEI0ixCBqFtAM72ZKmC4raRuQAOzwlZJv-WCGd1_-awKZre6o2eAqt2SDkYMoNelqO8diu8eN_t9liIRg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but WHOAH. I won't bring my brochures again…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just was bored because that 17 year old employee who didn’t ask for my card kept ushering people in front of me- which I understand but I just forgot to give her my card. And I always talk about bats because of the one that ended up in my house (I helped him out of my house too because no one would help me!) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again...bats pollinate cacao- chocolate- a lot of people don’t know that…(look it up on google…its an actual thing) They also pollinate pineapple, and coffee beans, and pretty much every fruit. They are IMPORTANT. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, I have over 1300 people on my Facebook page- really SANTA, I don’t need to advertise…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 9pt; margin-right: 9pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin: 6pt 9pt 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok the next day I went back…I must be an idiot.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I originally wanted to go to say I was sorry for soliciting and sing with Santa- I even printed out "I Heard The Bells On Christmas day" in bigger font because "Santa" said he couldn't see smaller font, so I printed one bigger. The guy is a great singer- (I was in a band years back writing and singing and we got invited as one of 3 bands to be in :”Battle of The Bands when I lived there- I sang like 4 songs with him just because he did.) I had thought he was a nice guy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Though that first day they were taking forever and even having little kids cutting in front of me to get pics even though I was there the first time I went there- it was annoying, but I did it, even helped. (I thought) Later when the security guy came up he said something about paying- she hadn't asked me for my card though stupidly I spaced out and didnt give it to her at the beginning. My fault. Ug...a glutton for punishment obviously I went back and sang.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was there for such a long time (I also was having fun watching Santa and the kids but I did sing a bit. Santa is really good with the kids,,,I noticed that some of the little kids who were terrified of Santa would get scared-(I know my daughter sure did)- one girl at their place had just seen "A Christmas Story" and her mother said and was terrified of Santa because of the Santa fromthat movie...I can still hear that Santa in my head. "Ho ho ho!"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I knew the mall Santa sang and told the girl that had just seen 'A Christmas Story with the scary Santa to tell him her favorite Christmas song...she did and they sang together.... It was really cute.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I told other kids that he sang and sang with them off by the booth (not where they were. Maybe that annoyed Santa. I don't know.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not long after Santa actually called security on me (He had no idea I helped that little girl to not be terrified of him.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This time I waited in line to sit with Santa and take another picture and pay $50 for it...like I said, I even printed out a bigger caps version of the song I wanted to sing with him. ( I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day is so powerful... that's the one I wanted to sing. Still sad about that) I made sure the second time that no brochures were in my purse too) he said he had trouble seeing the words to a Christmas song on my phone last time we sang together(we sang 4 songs together last time. )</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE ONLY REASON I STAYED LONGER IS BECAUSE THEY KEPT HAVING PEOPLE CUT IN FRONT OF ME. I was patient, but on another note because they did that I was astonished that they kept doing that. (though I get it, they had to hurry people through.)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again, with all of that going on, again- stupidly, I forgot to pay.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The security guard reminded me of that when he came over and I was mortified. Of course I paid then.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This 2nd time around, I waited in line, and I even let a little girl in front of me. We all had to wait as he was on break. He shook all our hands ( mine last) and then sat in his perch.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That's when I saw the security guard and they asked me to leave again! They said that I could go anywhere else in the mall, just not there near Santa. SO weird. Banished.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OMG I have been rejected by Santa. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; width: 16px;"><img alt="🤣" height="16" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ofLHZn90rWXJs5TQyVN7zXY1EPBOsB4Dgg_LiTCobrwrkYGQjurQRRUVfiuyjXp3AbLPqmcG82Sk21iJeVs_D-Dqa1FX1bdsHLQ9uqwHWCB5YlWDypnWOXIxPDy_U-XXFdZAKNQtUKo2jz6YEY5Hu51R395cQscj_mv1-oDtEcleGlv4ezn4_Ihkg73VA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I think he called the security guards on me again.</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-left: -1pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: none; margin-left: -1pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-right: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OK I’ve heard the phrase “sometimes you will be too much for some people." But I’ve never heard the phrase “but they may call security.” Looking at this picture actually makes me laugh because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; width: 16px;"><img alt="😥" height="16" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dcHymLfLb1-C9NskalWp8vlNqiZAieUi5NrUWSpecdAb0DDltf9nditHgQyRntedEl6Fz4JRZQlSQ3As0JDcD3VaVN14bvIbauPhFUEkG8I6uxioYcKyPtcIryFm-gQL6GrpmnGhZ-D2_8LGyza96QWz-xCjzzWHeU_n5grGAc5ETk6aHoT7jNAcXz8kw" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; 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Pauline died in July last year...she was like a mother to me.</div>
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(You can read about her here:) <a href="http://songsofaletheia.blogspot.com/2018/10/pauline-my-celebration-of-life-speech.html" style="background-color: transparent;">http://songsofaletheia.blogspot.com/2018/10/pauline-my-celebration-of-life-speech.html</a> </div>
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Coincidentally, or maybe NOT so coincidentally I got a call for an appointment that was in Edmonds, Washington, a place that has so many memories for me a week after the anniversary of her death.</div>
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As I drove I saw Pauline everywhere around there. It was hard to drive through as everywhere I looked, there were memories EVERYWHERE I looked.</div>
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I got teary eyed going past where they had the "Taste Of Edmonds" that Pauline and I went to for so many ye<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ars, driving through so many spaces that Pauline and I occupied.</span></div>
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I went to downtown Edmonds near the water, parked and got out. I thought, oh, I'll just go to our favorite spot. When I got there, it was GONE. Our favorite shop was GONE. I was heartbroken, it felt like everything that Pauline and I had seen was slowly disappearing and I was trying not to cry. I decided to walk through what used to be Whimsy...a beautiful shop that had the most gorgeous $10 lacy scarves that we used to love to buy, among the funky clothes....thinking about the things we used to buy there. I was about to walk out when...</div>
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I stopped cold. To the right of me were at least 8 paintings. ALL with the EXACT blue butterfly that wouldn't leave me alone on the day Pauline died.( I couldn't help it...I called my husband bawling...he said "Are you ok?"</div>
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I could hardly speak I was crying so hard. (I bought two prints of the pictures which are here)</div>
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I see signs everywhere telling me those we love look in on us, every once in a while.</div>
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(The book "Bart Befriends A Butterfly" about "Grammy/Pauline is almost finished! The last picture in this book is a little different than the butterfly I saw...the orange is a nod to Pauline as it was her favorite color)<br />
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More about the book at <a href="http://www.bartthebat.com/">www.bartthebat.com</a> (The Bat That Came To Breakfast and Bart Befriends A Butterfly) (C) H.D Vesser 2019</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So glad that I was determined to go to the The Tacoma concentration camp (well, they are concentrating certain people with brown skin in those camps... that IS a concentration camp, and it HAS been done to death in history. The first one was in Cuba ) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I don’t care what anyone else says...this man was a beautiful soul who felt deeply and cared more than anyone will ever know. I may not agree with what he did, but talking to him with his sign that said "Never Again" I could tell that he CARED that people are suffering. I will always remember how loving and especially passionate he was about those people being held inside the center.</span><br />
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(Pauline is int he green hat...I am the one in the middle with red blonde and black hair)<br />
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Soooo...I hear that this retrograde thing is going on along with a few other things...I haven't felt this down in YEARS. I think I am starting to feel a bit better because....</div>
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Pauline (my friend that died July 16th last year) seems to me as if she has sent messages over these last few days)</div>
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a white moth showed up in my front AND back yard when I was outside, and a hummingbird sat in front of me in my back yard .</div>
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Then it flew right in front of me and sat there contemplating whether it should drink from the flowers I had in my hand for a few minutes (it almost drank from one)</div>
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I had orange flowers in my hand in memory of my friend (some orange ones had just bloomed, her favorite color- strangely they died the next day, I kid you not...that they died so quick made me cry again. <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="frown emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tcb/1/16/1f641.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">:(</span></span> ) the WHOLE day was hard.</div>
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Today a store that a friend told me about called "The Neverending Bookshop" popped up on my Facebook feed.</div>
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I had looked at it before but today I realized that its in Edmonds Washington which made me bawl.</div>
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Edmonds was our stomping grounds (I would drive her around even though I had to drive half an hour to an hour to get there...we would grocery shop...and her favorite place was by the ferry and the water.)</div>
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We would hang out at all the quaint shops downtown.</div>
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This shop is around the quaint shops downtown.</div>
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Oh My GOD. A woman who introduced me to this shop who helps small business owners told me she is going to introduce me to the shops owner.</div>
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I have an excuse to go back. Still sitting here crying.</div>
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Thinking too...yesterday I submitted the last request to the artist for the last picture in my second book in my "Bart The Bat" series "Bart Befriends A Butterfly" (That book is all about her. ) Coincidence? Maybe not.</div>
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I am awake at 4 A.M. this morning. I can't stop thinking about this guy. Before we left the Tacoma Detention center protest candlelight vigil ( I was with friends) we talked to Willem. ( I did for a few minutes, then talked to another woman next to him who was also leaving about how there had been a camp here before where they were protesting and how the police bulldozed their camp at the detention center.)<br />
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I just remember Willem being very sad about how people were being treated inside the canter. I just remember he looked really sad. I will never forget his eyes. He had such kind eyes. He just looked so sad.<br />
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He said he "Just didn't like concentration camps" and that he was staying all night and that he had done that before. (stayed all night after protests) He had a sign that said "Never Again."<br />
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He seemed like someone who cared very VERY much about how people were treated.<br />
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I see on social media that more than one person has said that Willem was not someone who they thought showed "White privilege." That he just cared very deeply about how people were treated.<br />
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A couple years ago, I was at Trader Joes grocery and talked about the Womans March that I was going to go to, and an AntiFa (antifascist) woman came up and spoke to me.<br />
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She said " we are here and at marches and protests to protect people. We, (Antifa) and I have gone to marches against Nazi's standing in front of our brothers and sisters who are at risk (especially those of color who are targeted) to protect them (Physically if it comes to that) at all costs"<br />
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I have heard, and saw at the Portland March Against The Nazis (which I went to) that Antifa was there handing out granola in wicker baskets to the protesters (I got a bag of granola)<br />
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The feeling I get is that they feel they are here to protect people.<br />
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I think Willem was trying to make a statement. (for those of you who saw the car that was burnt up- that was his daughters car.) I think that he was trying to wake people up.<br />
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This is the message I think he wants people to know through his "Manifesto."<br />
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Not that I agree with it entirely, but I think we are at a troubling time in our history.<br />
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This is his Manifesto. (His picture and manifesto was posted by someone who is involved in his Antifa group.)<br />
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I can at least post it, and those who see it will understand better where he was coming from. (or maybe not depending on which side of the fence you are on.)<br />
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Looks like someone already wrote a song about him: <a href="https://garlicbreadandroses.bandcamp.com/album/willem-van-spronsen?fbclid=IwAR2t47DTixDatRRfYg-a9GjTk4SUqFOsgT5Zs12RR7UlE3JtE-c2xHGaJ3g">https://garlicbreadandroses.bandcamp.com/album/willem-van-spronsen?fbclid=IwAR2t47DTixDatRRfYg-a9GjTk4SUqFOsgT5Zs12RR7UlE3JtE-c2xHGaJ3g</a>heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-91155569811406542462019-07-14T07:26:00.000-07:002019-07-16T06:55:16.195-07:00The Man In Tacoma Washington Who Was Shot And Killed By Police- My Friends And I talked To Him The Night Before<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
I am heartbroken...a man we talked to who was at the protest in Tacoma, Washington who really cared about the horrible things that are happening in this country<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> and who really came across as a beautiful soul is DEAD. (My friends were talking more to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He was all alone, and just before we left we met some people who were setting up a lit stencil saying "Close The Concentration Camps" onto the concentration camps wall.</span></div>
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The woman setting it up said that "the more people who are around when we do it the better because the police do things they don't normally do when others are alone." </div>
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I kid you not.</div>
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Her words are ringing in my head right now.</div>
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I remember when she said that I felt so relieved that when we left there hadn't been any police action, and that none of us were arrested for being there at the protest.</div>
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Now I am just heartbroken that they took his life.</div>
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And I don't know that I believe the police story either. I hadn't seen any kind of weapons or fire starting things anywhere around the guy. I saw he had a chair and a paper bag with food in it. That's it.</div>
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God. I just wish he hadn't died. All alone. 4 cops shot him. FOUR. It just breaks my heart.</div>
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The guy had a heart of Gold...even had protected people against the Nazis...(he was a part of a bunch of guys that did that to help others) I have read all the news stories on this and have seen everything that was said.</div>
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I KNOW how the media sensationalizes. They said "He may have been trying to hurt inmates....NO...he came to show them he was with them! That they should NOT be caged, and that they should not be doing this to little ones.</div>
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I know how the media is because in Portland when I was in the protests against the nazi's the media said that we "were trouble" we who arm in arm walked down the streets (Including a bunch of dancing grannies in the street that had a coordinated dance routine) we were all united despite a helicopter with a police woman bearing down on us yelling "TURN BACK" with a megaphone when 6 people who weren't with us threw stones at the police.(I knew because I asked the police later what happened- THAT was the real story...) we chanted "Don't blame the police, don't blame the story we walk down the street in a blaze of glory" and "Black Lives Matter" as we walked down the street. It was unifying, we all knew what we were doing was right... and it was beautiful. We just kept walking down the street that the organizers had legally set up to walk down that day and reached our destination...the media turned it into "they are all trouble." (for the ratings I'm sure.)</div>
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I wouldn't believe the media, or the hype. Go to the source and you find the truth. Too often what is portrayed is not the source or the truth.</div>
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But no one will ever know on this one, because Willem is dead.</div>
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<span data-offset-key="ddmb1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">H.D. and I were talking...I am a very persuasive bat...of course she saw things my way! Friday and Saturday I and my alter ego (Bart and H.D or H.D and Bart :) will be giving away free copies of "The Bat That Came To Breakfast." on kindle as part of an Amazon promotion. Tell your friends, neighbors, and family so they don't miss out! (We will also do another promotion closer to Easter because who wouldn't want "The Bat That Came To Breakfast for Easter? :) )</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bmje4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">If you enjoy the book, please feel free to give a review (as we all know the only reason we all click on "buy" is because we see great reviews...) Bart and his human say thanks! (they worked very hard on this book for years to get it right ...it only took six years to to get it right! (And a great illustrator) </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="39dcn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">(For those of you overseas, I'm not sure the kindle version will download, (A friend from England downloaded it, so it worked for her, but I'm not sure if it will work for the rest of you who are overseas (know its not because of this bat...I want to give it away to everyone that wants it..but Amazon would be the one that is in charge of this...My Illustrator from Serbia tried to download it and Amazon would not allow her to do it!)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="39dcn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Then go be friends on Bart's goofy Facebook page for updates (this is a series) </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BartTheBatt/">https://www.facebook.com/BartTheBatt/</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But I couldn’t put my phone down. There were just too many good thoughts on so many signs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the crowd laugh and made me feel a little bit better...even though I was still totally lost.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Suddenly I heard “Heidi!” Heidi, is that you??” and I turned around to see a friend I hadn’t seen for 5 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or 6 years. She was there with some church friends, a church I’d gone to once where for Easter they </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had everyone wash each others feet in remembrance of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This woman I know has saved my butt more than once. Once when I had to bring my daughter </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">halfway </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">across the country to college and didn’t know how I would do it, she said “take my suv’ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and we got her </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to school.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I had been scared, and now within a few minutes I wasn’t scared anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">God has a way of setting just the right person in your path when you need them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This woman has a way of putting everyone at ease.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She told me her first march was at 5 years old...she’s in her 60s or so, and her friends </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">were the same </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">age and older.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I felt privileged to be with such women. They had marched in protests before I was even born.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We marched for at least 5 hours. During the march my friend threw her shoulder out. I told her I would </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">be “Mark” (her husband) for the day and carry her purse. That I was there to help her when she was </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hurting made me feel even better that I was there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> To look around at that sea of people made me feel that maybe we’ll be ok after all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Any time that self important oompa loompa tries to take away our rights as women, I need to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">remember this march.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am so proud to say that I was a part of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Everyone was respectful, everyone with 1 purpose, though I know people had their own reasons for </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">marching.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The feeling of unity overpowered EVERYTHING.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And though, by the end of the march, my feet and legs ached, (it was EXHAUSTING!) but I was glad </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to be here with my sisters (and brothers) all 175,000 of them!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Then she proceeded to tell me that there was a shooting at the march, when I saw on the news that it </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I looked and found out that yes there was a shooting but that FRIDAY a man was shot at U.W </span><br />
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<br />heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-48722082747455899622018-10-06T08:18:00.001-07:002019-07-16T11:07:26.957-07:00Pauline (My Celebration Of Life Speech) One Year Later<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Last year I went to "Pauline's Celebration Of Life" event at the Unitarian church and brought this speech about Pauline even though I didn't know if I would be reading it.</div>
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In my life, especially when there have been events in my life that I have been invited to speak or sing there are times I have been forgotten. (as in they completely forget that I am on the program.)Whether it has been intentional or not, it doesn't matter.(by mistake probably. It especially sucks when I've spent a month for people who have asked me to sing, or when I've prepared comments over time and then since I'm at the end of the program, they have forgotten I'm singing, or speaking. This has happened at least 2 or 3 times in my life. It has been bizarre.) It has been painful for me when it has happened, especially with my past, where I was pretty much forgotten there too. The truth is in my old family I was pretty much told to sit down and shut up and anything I ever said was ignored and treated as if what I said didn't matter. (my new family thank God is nothing like this...and we've been married 28 years) </div>
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I know there were times when she would say “Heidi”, sometimes repeating herself several times after I had told her that something was really bothering me or I was getting worked up and she would just “say it like it was” in her rational way, and I would be like “Yeah, ok” and then we would discuss whatever it was… she just had a way of calming the storm, you know? I mean we got into some pretty big discussions, but the way she said “Heidi” Like “it’s going to be ok” really got me. She was also my “go to’ person when I had questions about things. She just was very wise. I really miss talking to her about things that are going on. I mean, I REALLY miss that.</div>
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From the Aloe vera plant now sitting in the kitchen windowsill (Its a big plant now) to a snake plant that I got on the day I helped her (along with her son and others) to pack up so she could go live with Eric her son (she asked me if I wanted anything and I didn’t, so she kept offering me stuff. I didn’t want anything but she said here, take the mask you and I got at the Halloween store putting it in my hand. I have its twin,we both bought one in different colors... and now they sit together on my fireplace mantel. (Now the book I have written called "Bart Befriends A Butterfly" features the two masks- the last picture of it is being done this week) </div>
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The last time I saw her I had a feeling it was the last time I would see her, but I didn’t want to believe it. I just gave her a little massage in between cutting her hair, and she kept dozing off. I just felt a lot of love towards her. I said goodbye to her and hugged her a few extra times, hoping I would see her again.</div>
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I know I haven’t written in a while (I feel like I am writing a letter to an old friend) I have had a couple of losses over the last two years (My cat of 22 years last year, and the woman who was like a mother to me in July.) It has been a couple of heartbreaking years for me, and I have retreated somewhat, coping however I could. (I actually have a project in the works...that's another reason... I will post it when I'm done with it...I'm excited to share it with you!)</div>
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But I can’t stay silent right now.</div>
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This has been a hard week for many of we women who have been through abuse (and those that identify as such or otherwise) I am triggered all over again.</div>
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When Trump ended up in power, it felt like it was a slap in the face to every woman in this country. I was shocked and disgusted and triggered by this...I felt like I had been betrayed.<br />
Those familiar feelings are all coming back and I have had numerous PTSD attacks all over again...I thought I had moved past this.</div>
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To have Kavanaugh speak to women the way he did (Not to mention like every abuser I’ve ever known throwing the question a woman is asking right back in a woman’s face who is a woman of power ...feeling like he was trying to discredit her to when he was the one on trial not her) He spoke with such contempt that he brought up a rage in me that I haven’t felt since Trump came into power. I have dealt with men like this too often in my life... I KNOW men like this, and I cannot stuff these feelings down. I don't know what to do with it.</div>
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I want to scream from the rooftops... does ANYONE hear the pleas of centuries of women put down by men in power???</div>
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I want them to HEAR us damn it!</div>
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I have been beaten, groped, attacked, and grabbed at so many times I can’t even count, and I came out of it.</div>
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How many more times do we have to rise up and say ENOUGH till things CHANGE?</div>
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WHEN are we women going to stop being re-victimized like this when there are men like this out there, and men right behind them actually PROTECTING them?<br />
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I saw an incredible show of solidarity at the Women’s march in Seattle- I will never forget it- I have seen what happens when women pull together. We need to push like HELL for change. Because from what I have seen right now...it hasn’t. It’s just going to get worse if we don’t do something about this “good ol boy” mentality of the so called “leaders” of our country..</div>
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This week as I went about my shopping for food, I just sensed this unspoken rage in women around me.</div>
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From a woman at the cash register checking out my food- I just mentioned what a hard week it was with everything going on, and she erupted into “I can’t believe this Kavanaugh guy on the stand! He’s obviously guilty! All the screaming and crying...if a woman acted like this they would say she was too emotional for the job! And if he did what he did…” I got into it with her and by the time I walked out of there my heart was racing and I was just hit by the unfairness of it all.</div>
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To a woman who is the greeter at a store “ I just can’t believe they don’t kick him out” (Kavanaugh)</div>
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Which got me to thinking of the guy that handed me a screw in high school and tried to get me to say “I want to screw” in front of a bunch of guys..., to the guy who handed me a fireman with a “fire hose” giving it to me as a “gift’ in front of everyone in ceramics class, all the guys snickering away.</div>
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To the football player in high school in that same class who sat down, told me to look down at his pants (he had red leather pants on, I guess to impress people... weirdo) I was like “what???” and he was like, I’m getting hard” I had no idea what he was talking about until I asked around with my girl friends. so I was like “I don’t see anything” not knowing what the hell he was talking about.</div>
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Which got me to thinking about the time A guy tried to stick a drumstick up my vagina (even though I had rolled up pants on in 90 degree weather…)<a href="https://songsofaletheia.blogspot.com/2015/07/teach-your-children-well-not-boys-will.html" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre;"> https://songsofaletheia.blogspot.com/2015/07/teach-your-children-well-not-boys-will.html</a></div>
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To the guy that was a friends brother spying on me when I was in the shower and another day when his mother asked him to drive me home, him driving me to the potato farms instead (With me hugging the door) and telling me that he wouldn’t drive me home unless I made out with him, me refusing and jumping out the door before he could stop me...home was more than a few miles away but there was no way in hell he was going to get his way. (He apologized and ended up driving me home, but I hugged the door all the way.) I told my friend later,(it was her brother) she didn’t believe me. </div>
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I never told his mother though. I should have. Strangely it didn’t even occur to me to until today. I don’t know why. </div>
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Would she have believed me either? Did he try that with anyone else? </div>
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Did any women get raped because of him...did he try to get their consent too? I’ll never know. </div>
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If I wouldn't have gotten out of that truck the way I did, I could have been a another victim. I’ll never know.</div>
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I’m glad I’ll never know.</div>
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I was so naive...my parents hadn’t taught me anything about sex, and this was in a small mormon town where none of us were educated unless it was by our friends, and I had pretty naive friends too. (I hadn’t had that health class yet either that taught us about male and female anatomy..) .my best friend from high school still laughs at the memory when the word penis was written on the chalkboard.<br />
I immediately said pen-is (like a pen- (you know...the thing you write with) haha<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>I could go on and on but I’ve said enough and I don’t want to bore you.<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Are other women re-living the stories I am with all of this going on around me? I’m betting there are. Old stories that they buried, the same as I did? </div>
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Are many of us being triggered with all this “good ol boy” mentality swirling around us?</div>
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Do any of us realize that this is what is happening? (That we are being re-triggered, over and over again..are we re-triggered because there has been no validation or closure? No justice.) </div>
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Anybody see the cartoon on Lady Justice? Triggering? HELL yes. It makes me want to cry just looking at it.<br />
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/30/halifax-cartoonists-response-to-kavanaugh-hearing-goes-viral.html<a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/30/halifax-cartoonists-response-to-kavanaugh-hearing-goes-viral.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/09/30/halifax-cartoonists-response-to-kavanaugh-hearing-goes-viral.html</a></div>
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And all the while as I’m talking to women the old stories of what happened to me play in my head.</div>
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I think this is why women everywhere I’m going look the way they do lately. I think we can’t help it.</div>
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This shit is triggering.</div>
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Maybe I am putting too much into it...but maybe I’m not.</div>
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This SO resonated after I posted online the above… someone named Lee had this posted online after reading words a writer had written (Rebecca Hains) who had written about Kavanaugh and how it feels like they are “ramming through this man” comparing it to the rape of women... trying to appoint an obviously unstable man to the status of “Justice"...the LAST place he should be.</div>
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Lee: " Absolutely accurate. This is the way the men choke the life out of every attempt women make to gain a place of equality alongside the “boys”.<br />
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They yell, threaten, name call, claim they are the victims, and, most importantly, stick together.</div>
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Women too often do not stand together when the volume amps up.</div>
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Men know this. They count on it. Pray it doesn’t happen this time.</div>
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For those who might not know, This pattern of upping the ante to resist women's rights actually has a name and has been studied. It's called "the change back response." It's used by abusers of all kinds and genders when their victim begins self-advocacy and resistance.<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>It's featured prominently in a book called "The Dance of Anger," in case anyone wants to read it.and based on the principles in the book (and my personal experience as a child abuse survivor), it's virtually guaranteed they will keep using these methods until women repeatedly stick together and prevail.</div>
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The cycle gets more brutal each time, though, so be prepared. You can do it, you just have to mean it like you've never meant it before. NEVER back down or you're doomed."<br />
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EDIT: A woman who is a greeter at a store who talked to me about Kavanaugh the week before did a 180- she now thinks Ford is lying. She told me that a person she knows showed her 'evidence" of Ford naked at a party" I went home, researched it...the picture she told me about - its on snopes.com It is FALSE. If she would have just researched it she would know this. I saw those pictures and when I researched it, it was obvious that it wasn't her. People come on! <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blasey-online-photos/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blasey-online-photos/</a><br />
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She also told me that her Grandfather was a CIA operative and that Ford herself taught someone how to use a polygraph and pass...ALSO discounted on Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/christine-blasey-ford-cia/<br />
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This happens SO many times when women come forward. They try to discount the woman in any way possible. Women who are victims are never believed, and if its a high profile man they are accusing, watch out! I am so sad because the just the week before, if I am remembering our conversation right, this lady said something about how so many times women are challenged on every front and men are believed...<br />
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She also told me that two other men came forward saying that "they" were the ones who raped Ford, not Kavanaugh. This was put out by Newsweek (and Fox news) Newsweek being the company that was sold for one dollar "in exchange for absorbing Newsweek's considerable financial liabilities" neither one of them are credible news sources. <span style="color: #111516; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> It hasn't come up in any other story but newsweek</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #111516; font-family: , "georgia" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">(story here on Newsweek being bought for $1) </span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">I looked up close (carefully...think RABIES!) and realized it was a bat hanging upside down on my chimney.</span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">NO ONE would claim responsibility in the area to take care of it, (I spent HOURS on the phone trying to find someone in the area to take care of it, the whole time with the thing hanging off my fireplace) soooo I had to. </span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I coincidentally had a box with fixins to make a gingerbread house on my kitchen table, so I took everything out of the box and went up to the fireplace, prayed "please God help me!" and put the plastic top over the bat. </span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">The bats wings shoot out the minute I did, one wing wrapping around the side of the fireplace and it took some serious manuverning to get that wing back in under the plastic.</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">Then I took the plastic back, prayed again "PLEEEEEEEEEEEAASE don't let him fall out of the box when I lift it up!"</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text">I shut the back...and squashed the poor things hiney. EEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE (All the while with it SCREAMING...how would you like to be woken up in the middle of a nap?:p) SQUEEKKKKKK SQEEEEEEK SQUEEEEEEK!-Talk about an unearthly sound!!!) still up against the fireplace trying to capture it and get it out of the house in a Costco gingerbread plastic box. </span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">All the while I'm screaming "I'm SORRY!" I'm SORRY!! (For squishing its tush:p)</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I manuvuered it around and got the bottom off its tush and got a closer look under the box... </span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I was surprised to see...it was kinda cute, (lil furry thing with a pushed in nose like a lil pug, almost adorable even) in a Halloween freak you out movie kind of way.</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text"> I let it loose on my deck , and instead of just flying off my deck, it used its lil bat arms to do this lil bat wiggle, going back and forth with what looked like to me like a body out of a horror movie wiggling back and forth </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">It went over the first step on my deck and landed, feet hanging over the edge in a perfect bat hanging pose, poor thing, looking confused, like it should have been in a cave but was doing the next best thing. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I RAN to get a camera to document that YES this actually happened and took some pictures. (Sadly enough, most of the pictures are BLURRY. Poor thing kept looking at me cause the camera kept flashing...</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I could hear the poor thing like a banshee in my head screeching "LADY...WHAT THE "BLEEP" are you DOING? I'm trying to sleep here!!"</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text"> I finally decided to leave the poor critter alone so it could get some rest, and came back later and it was gone. Later I realized that the pics I got were mostly blurry, but MAN the thing had a wingspan. (I got some pics of him doing the body shuffle)</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><br /></span><span data-jsid="text">I have some exciting news coming up...hopefully this year sometime that has to do with this lil guy, (can't go into too much right now yet ...so stay tuned :) )</span><br />
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heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-89839788803657563162018-02-15T15:50:00.002-08:002018-02-15T15:50:39.170-08:00Isadora Duncan, Death By Scarf And Me<br />
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I am an Isadora Duncan dancer all the way…I like dancing my way, all flowy and comfortable, in bare feet…kinda like this:</div>
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Well as least I’d like to imagine myself this way.</div>
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I have an over 70 year old friend who teases me about this.</div>
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She also teases me because I wear scarves.</div>
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A LOT.</div>
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Well one day I was wearing a scarf, walking down the sidewalk when a guy walked by with a backpack.</div>
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My scarf, having a mind of its own, attached itself to the guys backpack where I was yanked violently backwards as the guy kept walking down the street towards his destination.</div>
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He MUST have felt the backpack suddenly get heavy as I choked out a “hey! STOP!” He stopped and I got untangled.</div>
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My friend laughed when I told her this.</div>
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She said “You ARE just like Isadora Duncan! She started to get into a car and her scarf got caught on the spokes of a wheel.</div>
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It whipped around in a circle…and voila, death by scarf!”</div>
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I always imagine that when she got to heaven she was like “WTF? A SCARF??? REALLY?????</div>
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I guess I better be careful.</div>
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heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-32626290109006472162018-01-23T02:09:00.002-08:002018-01-23T02:18:00.889-08:00Have a blog here and on wordpress now...excited to introduce you guys to it! It is here: Just getting everything set up.Excited to introduce you guys to it! As usual, it will have my thoughts and maybe even some video! :) <a href="https://songsofaletheia.com/2018/01/23/since-my-near-death-experience/">https://songsofaletheia.com/2018/01/23/since-my-near-death-experience/</a>heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-12422481948476668662017-11-05T11:35:00.004-08:002017-11-07T05:14:50.850-08:00Don't Be A Dick<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are times men do it specifically for me to see in an obvious way and its just GROSS. It shows an unconscious privilege that some men have. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other day one of my friends on Facebook asked "what a person noticed about people when they meet them" (It is not the person’s fault who posted it that the person responded this way, but it was just so slimy and she just excused it- it eggs guys like this on) a guy responded and this is what ensued...and women excusing it is disgusting...( thank you my other friend</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723765215&fref=mentions" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #365899; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for your response at the end. I appreciate it so much) I have written fucking blogs about this... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dick: Nice rack , then eyes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/wIHG_xwKL_zGe9P6yGsuvVhvDNAo2sfoncoS6WX9GKPgid7QrQEsREkMZGkd45uabiLInmqGJCZC_qnbpA1Q-VT_Y06ekyV5q1-uHN8GSbAyfZz6L9C01DMC4Iz8uJ8aNxjnDD_M" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">👀</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pf6TYqPP-P1fukW7x7O4gqmDBH8X9mmeZuBMzh8XUhRo2ekywDrfRmtGdy46s7FMb5h-MHPDMFTyG_ejoHwCEzP9dfj3lK07T7bvNRwV0DYfnY4WQTr3mmZli9d6RgDly5h_VejC" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">😂</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/oM8QOicwqF2XqMUwNKa0BsIYM7GeNcplzdjkh0r6ZJLG9MZNu2BwgDH4xYGnBZB55WXfrcWaGhNXsW8zHfnk5KK7wcBsv1E1_bG06seVOzvon1NT44LXzk4g4FAAG15nG3jhWwOd" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">😂</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/LU1u_qbMSdZyIcjLGhKedaxDcFhYSE0TQqpM8lIPRIxnL29CtFu7gvvaxfTTGESaJIAeKNpYJu7gqzvbOu7z9Adz4NVmIew0_4F6UlV8-RIvNXfOrJ5p08tsPNZjPZQML6L_O-WR" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">😂</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friend 3: I don't think you're like that but, I wouldn't blame you if you are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ZYgnp82jYF6R7NlQs3396Faq4EFi2qgvZJzZCVKCE31rqlZV_a_lFbRlEHlNi4acYh0n3AQLeP0DnVU0Ik0M_Cenj5FaZDWXKqdvkP89a_l28dMtIe9Gpkc6KrwY9N0d_a1RlHe2" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:-)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DICK: well I was joking , but what man don’t look at a nice rack !! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/nlkbilqyKZ54qz7bmEOYXaMASe_qeuas-2aRU-CVMl3X1DA8oFHYONxvZ3wjwC0nbyLom-yM7Ku77EAhXCGPEdh_ZA4OMNCmxyBeS6bexIYPf5Wwc-2-m2byw7seuoyRtFbDuLC4" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">😂</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/JDSD_NoiYJVdsI86vyk-BkrAFgFQRoQUZWtEaR6MaB1SoHsgTDS-5MC2TQ3uGsvfaZWEf83pYIo58HScjuISLsij17JN5GyPeg1QkTcO-WrHd8efCdQNR55BGHQ72_uziPFaOfGA" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">😂</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: Dick I guess that means that a woman can compare men’s penises against others penises...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: It’s a small minded thing to do</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: And gives men excuses to do horrible things</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: It’s called get a brain in the right place</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: Eye roll...Yes that’s the first thing I do when I meet a person... I guess the only people you meet are other women because I don’t think a man would appreciate them looking at “your rack”...Damn do you really go around looking at other men’s penises and saying “nice rack.”You might want to rethink that especially with all the well deserved sexual-harassment suits that are going around...Heaven forbid you get fired from your job for being an asshole...damn what women put up with...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DICK: It was a joke Heidi !</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: Mansplaining... that’s what men say when they say something disgusting to women or about women...It’s not funny and it just makes women...at least most of them roll their eyes. It’s just gross man. And I’m a lady that’s been married 27 years so no I’m not a man hater I just hate it when men are pigs...You’re making men look bad and you don’t have to. I’m not a piece of meat. Would you like it if I said the first thing that I look for talking to a person is if they have a great penis?The good thing man is to look at and only if they have a great penis , a good body a good body and nice hair and they’re young anyone else we can just throw them away... you don’t need to talk to them don’t need them at all...don’t need them at all in fact... Oh don’t worry husband I’m not looking at those younger men and their penises are you it’s not everyone but you...My husband just stated that last point... now he’s a decent guy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DICK: Heidi Sebastion </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/M_qla_kE7dntHCP1q_bLAPbjEKs3KhWCVnEVFydOXGaGf6HZznwUq54OQtT7B9bu9s36BhvhVcBgbHUPWuCSZ8qh7Sz3r6JuMg4rbB5ZdRsczUSDNgk0tdmNn0EcaBhcvOr2p7ak" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">👍</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friend: Heidi , I went to High School with DICK. Trust me he's totally not that way he was being funny </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="21" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/RDE243qP6hHzquQXA30Rqi45EifbGaOLklzH7hheX6hsqJFhN6fwdjxY2k5vjxNWi5mraEEoS0M6Hozzdpg7vp1CRrj59NavvpJOvKg_bo1mQ8ofPgTMt9VJiPgyNVRFe4B7s-xm" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="21" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:-)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: I hear you...but that kind of talk turns women into objects and it’s not funny...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Even the future President of the United States took shots at him while on the campaign trail. </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Colin went on to </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">explain his protest had NOTHING to do with the military, but he felt it hard to stand for a flag that didn't treat people of color fairly.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Colin was able to do what most Americans to date have not...</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">He listened.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">In his letter Mr. Boyer writes: "I’m not judging you for standing up for what you believe in. It’s your inalienable right. What you are doing takes a lot of courage, and I’d be lying if I said I knew what it was like to walk around in your shoes. I’ve never had to deal with prejudice because of the color of my skin, and for me to say I can relate to what you’ve gone through is as ignorant as someone who’s never been in a combat zone telling me they understand what it’s like to go to war. Even though my initial reaction to your protest was one of anger, I’m trying to listen to what you’re saying and why you’re doing it." </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Mr. Boyer goes on to write, "There are already plenty people fighting fire with fire, and it’s just not helping anyone or anything. So I’m just going to keep listening, with an open mind.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">I look forward to the day you're inspired to once again stand during our national anthem. I'll be standing right there next to you."</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Empathy and understanding was shown by Mr. Boyer.........and Mr. Kaepernick reciprocated. </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Colin invited Nate to San Diego where the two had a 90 minute discussion and Nate proposed Colin kneel instead of sit. But why kneel? In a military funeral, after the flag is taken off the casket of the fallen military member, it is smartly folded 13 times and then presented to the parents, spouse or child of the fallen member by a fellow service member while KNEELING. </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">The two decided that kneeling for the flag would symbolize his reverence for those that paid the ultimate sacrifice while still allowing Colin to peacefully protest the injustices he saw. Empathy, not zealotry under the guise of patriotism, is the only way meaningful discussion can be had. </span></span> </blockquote>
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heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-68936704312491229962017-08-16T20:31:00.005-07:002017-08-22T13:59:54.408-07:00My Daughter (Who is overseas in a Muslim country) And a little Muslim Boy Who Has Been Ravaged By War: Thoughts Regarding Charlottesville (printed with her permission)From my daughter who is overseas... I am so proud of the writer she is becoming... and what she stands for.<br />
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"Some of my many thoughts regarding Charlottesville*<br />
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Last month, when I was traveling through Malaysia (a Muslim majority country), I met a restaurant owner with a 7 year old son, and both wanted to practice their English with me. They were so kind; the father kept asking me questions about my travels and told me that he hoped to travel someday too. And the son had just gotten a good grade on an English test and told me that it was his favorite subject, moreso than even his own Malay language classes.<br />
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After a while, I needed to leave and asked them if they had any questions for me. I then told them that I was an American and asked the little boy if he had any questions about America, "as long as it's not about Donald Trump," I said to his father, while laughing it off.<br />
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The second I mentioned Trump's name, the little boy panicked. He ran to his father's side and started hyperventilating. "Donald Trump wants to kill me!" he said. "Donald Trump wants to kill my country. What did we do?" Even the father had nothing to say as his son cried. Only later did he tell me that they were refugees from Yemen, a country that suffered 70 United States airstrikes in one month, under Trump's command.<br />
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I couldn't do anything. I was so shocked that I couldn't do anything but cry with the little boy for the first few minutes. Then I put my hands on the boy's shoulders and said, "I want you to listen to me. There are good people and bad people in every country. There are people who are so miserable that they want to hurt people, and that's what Donald Trump is. But the good people, they won't let anything happen to you. They love you and want you to be safe." The boy seemed unconvinced and I couldn't blame him. I couldn't even convince myself.<br />
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Because now, I look back to that little boy and all I can think is, "Was that a lie?" Would the "good people" of my country care about that little boy? He was (1) Muslim, (2) non-white, and (3) poor. Would my neighbors, who are polite, God bless them, but "just don't want to get involved in politics" see someone like him as worth protecting? Where is the line drawn? What if he was Jewish and saw the Neo-Nazis walking up and down our streets?<br />
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What's worth protecting now?<br />
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My friends, in the wake of Charlottesville, we no longer have the option of remaining neutral in American politics. The whole world is watching us, including the children who are learning what America stands for. On our own soil, Mr. Trump has turned our country into a battleground between Nazism and those who fight against Nazism, by equating the two as comparable evils. And as always, when fighting against pure evil, there cannot be a middle ground. <br />
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Our country is having an identity crisis right before our eyes. So now is our time to decide what our country truly stands for. We have to remember who we have to protect.heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-6231721788296682862017-08-16T05:00:00.002-07:002018-07-14T00:39:23.409-07:00The State Of America<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">EVERYONE who thinks that the Nazis aren't trying to organize here in America (And everyone outside of America) needs to watch this. This is, up close and personal, the state of America.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What this Nazi man is trying to justify... someone ramming a car into a crowd saying "The right wants violence and that they are only meeting the demand" (With him showing all of his guns and a knife to the journalist telling her what the nazis are planning to do) is absolutely horrifying and just a peek into a seriously demented state of mind. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am sorry, I have heard others say we need to just "talk to them" This journalist did, and what she found was terifying. We need to make sure these people NEVER do this again. Protest is fine, but these people are not just protesting, their intention is to incite violence and promote fear in the American public.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">And lets not forget Heather, the woman who died in Charlottesville...here is the incredible speech by her mother...this mothers speech is what got me to march in Portland against the Nazis... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7vHogeubI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J7vHogeubI</a></span><br />
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Woke up at 2 or so with thoughts in my head about Jezabel, my sweet cat who died last month) I've been waking up around 2 or 3 am every morning with memories of her. I am collecting them and have started writing about her. I imagine I am ready to write her story, though I will do it slowly. They are happy memories, though I imagine writing about the end is going to be excruciating.</div>
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I've never written a poem (if that's what this is...) and not sure this is finished...but here it is.</div>
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Kevin O'Conner I'd love your thoughts on this...<br />
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Hilariously, a couple of the stanzas came about because of Game Of Thrones... (See if you can figure out which lines they are) Thank you G.O.T. for helping me write my poem,...HAHA! </div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So soft, so sweet</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mewing and kneading</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your soft little paw in my hand</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Begging for food</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kneading love</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong cat</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">walking, stalking as you do</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisible tiger in the grass</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"You don’t see me"</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But I do</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting in the sun as if you own it</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharpening claws on trees as if you own them</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharpening claws on me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am smitten,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Owned by a cat </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whose “eye kisses” make my day</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a little more sweet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The blanket is not mine</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My legs are not mine</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She sleeps between them</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And insists on hogging the bed</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Until the bed is not mine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am in love with a creature</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who wakes me with hairballs</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Running around the house at night</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attacker of toilet paper rolls and socks</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A tiny dragon slaying mice</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who pounces on spiders</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And pulls birds from the sky</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">To lay them at my feet</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And now she lies in my arms</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She who was so majestic</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And hilarious</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And still loved</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Help me" in her eyes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hardly breathing, frail, and begging for relief</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will release her</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though it will haunt me all my life</span></span><br />
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heid2222http://www.blogger.com/profile/00926118391028496062noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166260842278672814.post-90435532404612421532017-07-24T10:58:00.004-07:002017-07-24T11:09:05.039-07:00Jezabel and Sebastion: never parted ever again.<br />
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My cat Jezabel, died 3 weeks ago. I've been too heartbroken to post anything for the last weeks. She and Sebastion were best friends. This picture was when Buggy was sick (his nickname was buggy...he was relentless and would bug you until you gave him your undivided attention. The sweetest thing was when he would stick his little muzzle in your hand and keep nuzzling till you paid attention to him..<br />
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I'm sure I'll be writing about her soon and what a sweet, amazing cat she was. This is what I wrote when Buggy (Sebastion) our dog (and her best friend) died. (The rest about Sebastion is on the right hand side in 2011.)<br />
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