Fascinating to look back

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It’s September 26, 2021.  For some reason I went to my site.  I felt like it’d be years since I was there, but in fact, it was not.  I forget, in the heartbeat of day-to-day life, little things I have done, or I have thought.

But I find some of them here.  I used to think that having your own website did not pan out the way I expected.  At first I thought everyone should have one – like a home address.  But things did not go that way, and I just thought the ubiquitous “oh well” with a shrug.

Now, years later, I enjoy my visits back in time. I am so surprised to read some of my blogs… who was that girl?  Oh, it was me.  Gee, I had forgotten that.

So let me catch up a bit (and this could be a repeat as I have not re-read all my blogs).  May, 2019 we made the sudden move to lease our home in Newport Beach and move to where the kids and grandkids were (Oregon). Got that done – moved into a low density road along the Willamette just days before our Vida home burned in the Holiday Farms Fires.  Within a year, we had moved next door, and Byron and family took over our house.  It is fantastic to share lives – we all help each other out, especially with the little guy.

Pua and Chris found a small farm-like home and Keoni and Favi found a small 1st home for themselves.  Kamaili (age 11) has been living with us, and has started school at Country Christian School. She move back in with her folks once they get into their home (November).  Cabo vacation had to be canceled due to all this activity.

Harbor just sold.  Hard in some ways, but not hard in other ways.  We lost Louise in May, and an unsolicited offer came in.  It just seemed time to move on.

Things look good on the horizon.  The Good Lord is with us, as always, but it is especially easy to be grateful in times such as these – good health, the hope we have for the young children, and finding happiness in the little things in life.  We praise Him and rejoice in Him.  I don’t necessarily like who I was when I was without Him, but I am so happy for who I have become once I returned to Him.

Why Facebook is Fakebook

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/emails-reveal-how-influential-articles-that-established-covid-19-natural-origins-theory-were-formed_3848832.html

You may have to buy a subscription to Epoch to read this, but the gist of it provides evidence of a co-ordinated effort (a skeptic would say “conspiracy”)  on the part of government agencies to mislead the public on the origins of Covid.  Basically, our government – much like the CCP in China –  took control over news and social media (thanks Jack and Mark) and spoon-fed us their own narrative.

 

Americans should be outraged.  This is not the ideals we were founded upon, and this is a testament of what those in power have coming for us in the future.  This path of controlling speech and rhetoric will be our own undoing.

2019 Hate Crime Statistics

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Hate crime statistics are released by government, Nov. 2020.

Report can be viewed here.

 

 

Censored: Trump’s 2021 interview

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YouTube and various social media platforms deny you your right to hear other voices – voices other than their own

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/03/31/full_interview_former_president_donald_trump_talks_to_lara_trump_about_china_biden_2024__more.html

 

Wokeness – they’ve legitimized bullying

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Cliff notes:

Wokeness is not really about fairness for minorities, the oppressed and the poor, past or present. It is mostly a self-confessional cult of anointed bullies, and hypocrites of all races and genders, who seek to flex, and increase, their own privilege and power. Period.

— Victor Davis Hanson.

For example, CEO of Delta citing Georgia’s new voter integrity law as racist because it requires an ID.  Yet Delta requires an ID to get on their planes.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/delta-airlines-ceo-woke-revolution-victor-davis-hanson

 

 

Econ 101

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Read it, and understand government intervention. Don’t blame the employer – they are doing what they are supposed to, ie, cutting costs. The markets will decide if the employer is hurting their business or not….

https://www.dailywire.com/news/44106/nyc-implemented-minimum-wage-hike-fast-food-hank-berrien?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=030219-news&utm_campaign=position4

Cohen’s plea deal and Manafort’s conviction

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On Twitter this morning, Brit Hume referenced this article, written for the National Review by Andrew C. McCarthy.  It is a very good read on the recent convictions of Trump’s campaign manager and his attorney.

I, for one, am not alarmed at the these events, outside of the fact that Democrats will try to make it a hill to die on.   I don’t really care about the man’s intimate relations (as long as they are consensual, of course).  What I do care about is protecting our Constitution, and getting big Government out of our lives. #MAGA

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/what-to-make-of-the-cohen-plea-and-manafort-convictions/

NFL’s hypocrisy

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I realize I have been silent for quite sometime – just didn’t have much to say given our current climate of a vitriolic left advocating violence.  But this showed up in my in-box today, and after verifying its content, I wanted to share it.  The issues listed below deal with the NFL’s strict uniform code, while kneeling for the flag is not a violation of the uniform code.  But if you can have a uniform code, can you not have a code of conduct?

 

NFL History…history not often reported or leaked to the ticket holders.

 I hope this helps you; it opened my eyes, to understand just when the public’s respect for the NFL organization started to crumble….

  • In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him take it off.
  • In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
  • In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus Know Peace” but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
  • In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness.
  • In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem..).
  • In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
  • 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden…

It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue:

For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11…

BUT they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America, and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters.

That is who and what the NFL now is shown itself to be.

Honor our military; too many of whom have come home with the

American Flag draped over the coffin.

The New Normal

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I almost said this, the other day, to my friend, as she was burying her beloved sister.  But I thought better of it – it sounded too cruel to remind her of her new normal – life without her best friend, her sister.

At the same time, I have often thought of my own “new normal”.  I am old. At 63,  almost 64, I am old.  Not in spirit, and not necessarily in capability – I can still benchpress at least 100 pounds, and still do the splits.  But I am constantly reminded of my age by something as simple as my hands.

First of all, they ache.  Secondly, they are puckered.  Gone are the smooth fingers and plump hands.  Left behind are well-traveled roads, so to speak. Or in other words, well-worn limbs that have served me well, but show the ravages of time.

While I wish to remain youthful, time marches forward, and we all have reminders of that tune.  There have been many “conversations” in my head about this aging thing.  Should I deny it and keep myself trim and fit?  Should I accept it and allow a little bit of fudge factor (a little bit of fat) onto my body?

What I have found is what I think most people who survive this long have found – be comfortable, be in the moment, and just love.  This requires that you let go of certain disciplines of the youth (that never-ending quest for the perfect body, for example), and that you just accept life as it appears on your doorstep. It does not mean you forsake common sense – you still have a body you must keep healthy through diet and exercise.  But stop obsessing on it, and start enjoying what is truly important in life – loving people and being loved by people. Even momentary love – that moment of kindness when you let a busy person go in front of you in line.  Or when a friend wants to have dinner (and you are on yet another diet), or when someone just needs you to be there at that funeral.

It’s the little things in life that count.  It is not the needs of the flesh that count, but the needs of the spirit that matter.  Our soul, while embodied in flesh, needs to be nourished more so than our physical bodies need food. Find your peace in this, and the world will be at your feet.

Inner Child

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I took this from Instagram, from thinkgrowprosper.  It is a beautifully poignant comment about how we should be living.

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thinkgrowprosper“It demonstrates a conflict between a man and a woman as well as the outer and inner expression of human nature. Their inner selves are executed in the form of transparent children, who are holding out their hands through the grating. As it’s getting dark (night falls) the children start to shine. This shining is a symbol of purity and sincerity that brings people together and gives a chance of making up when the dark time arrives.”
—#AlexanderMilov (artist)