Saturday, August 27, 2022

Forever trails...TODAY

 

TODAY

Possess this day with awe and caring

It is a gift given quickly and only once

Stain it not with tears of regret


Look to yesterday with reverence

For it is a teacher, a 'wise one'

A pathway for tomorrow

A memory – a vision

Indeed – it changes not

For it is by all rights – dead


Tomorrow is also a vision, but without substance

It is a dream, a wish, a story yet to be told

A feeling waiting to be birthed


Yesterday passes,

Tomorrow waits,


Ah....but for TODAY


Danielle Simone

8/14/1990



Nature prevails....forever

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

LIFE TRAILS - When am I ME?

 Until humankind defines 'when life begins' for our individuals, the 'pro-life, pro-abortion' scenerio will prevail.

EX: I saw a sign = "Pro-choice, not pro-abortion".  OMG; "pro-choice" for whom - the mother or the baby?  See? Semantics - a gobbledy gook playground of words where everyone is on a different platform - heading EVERYWHERE.

And we humans so enjoy that self-righteous ability we have to be able to "proclaim" a 'side' of an issue and bully foward.  Exactly HOW, I plead...does that type of communication, bring us together as a species, as opposed to constantly pitting us AGAINST one another...throughout life?

Questions to ask:

-If a HUMAN has intercourse with another HUMAN, is that pregnancy a HUMAN fetus or a PIG fetus?  I heard a confident comment once from a young girl..."Abortion is a woman's 'right' because you can't tell the difference between an early human fetus from a pig fetus..."  OK. 

-If nothing changes but GROWTH, from conception to birth....define the reasoning in terms of "Thy Shalt Not Kill" (One of our society's pervasive rules), that allows the difference to STOP that 'life'....along that path.

-If genetics are exactly the same from the moment of conception till birth....back to the pig fetus arena.

-If not "alive" from conception....then after 5 weeks, is that a 'pig heart' that starts beating?

-Interesting irony that we - who did NOT get aborted...have the right to abort - someone else.  Oh - that's right...it's not a SOMEONE yet; back to the pig fetus. (My, but pigs are popular reasoning....).

-I was giving a talk behind a podium at a college seminar on the abortion issue over 30 years ago.  One very young lady said; "If an amniocentesis showed MY fetus to be abnormal - like missing legs or something, I would certainly want the right to prevent that child from having a life of suffering!" (Love that self-righteous energy...).  So...I (with my one hand)...stepped sideways away from the podium - standing then in front of her and said: "I am so grateful that my Mom didn't make that decision"....FOR ME!!!

-Since Roe VS Wade, men now have absolutely no legal say about their unborn child.....the responsible, caring men, who might want that child they just created...  And the men who want free (unresponsible sex),  now have legal license to do so....no longer their problem.  Interesting...

WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN?  At some intermittent point when the 'product' can defend itself?  Well folks, then I guess "Moms" have the "right to terminate"....for awhile AFTER birth as well; when will that logic creep out of the box? 

The point is that this law was not created after long-term reasoned exploration; NOT.

Life is precious. Females were chosen (by whom or whatever created this Universe), to care for the unborn.  Is that a curse.... or a priviledge? Regardless, that little bundle of genetics inside us....is helplessThink about that...

Murder...is murder, whether by state rules in prisons, or federal rules for pregnancy.


Life prevails, in utero as well as in the crib as well as in the schools as well as in adulthood and certainly as well as in old age.



Monday, August 8, 2022

WORD TRAILS

I NEVER run out of words; makes me crazy as I am sure it does to those around me.  But - me...and life; nothing stands still on this Rock,  at least not for long.  As the Buddhist belief proclams, 'Nothing is permanent". As my dear friend has always touted...'THINGS CHANGE!"  Her favorite saying... TC!

Today, thinking of life in general; it's trials, hardships, grief, JOYS, 'perfect moments' (I always say..."Life is not perfect,but there ARE many - "perfect moments") to embrace and absorb - if you listen, allow yourself to genuinely and LOVINGLY feel/sense/intuit and watch...and maybe 'pray'...whatever that might - or might not mean to your personally.

Some songs below for you to enjoy,  as you ponder their meanings and as well, your 'meanings' for your life and the life of all creatures on Earth.

And maybe elsewhere...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VByX24L6xFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXjI2kuNkhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdBVJbzkoqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSZE_st_i0



Watch the next sunrise over your nearest body of water

Consider life...as a new baby chick begins to break out of it's tiny shell

Watch  a butterfly's many types of existence thru it's different stages (and WE think we have it hard!)

Watch your child's face as you tell them how proud you are of them

Bring your lonely friend some choclate - AND...a couple hours of your time to LISTEN

Tell the tired looking Mom ahead of you in line, how pretty she is

Watch a cluster of thousands of geese begin to fly off the water in unison

Call (NOT TEXT OR EMAIL)  your parent - you know, the one you think is trash...and tell them you are thankful for your life. 

On my birth day - the last one while my Mom was alive on this Earth (I did NOT know that - at the time), I called her early that AM - before she called me as she usually did, and told her - in depth - just how grateful I was for my existence - my being ABLE to celebrate this day in my ongoing life - because of her birthing of me. It was indeed - a perfect moment between us...one I now have - without her. 

I'm sure you can think of some of life's  'perfect moments' of your own.

Never forget to be GRATEFUL...for all that we have - especially when we are feeling just the opposite; it's truly anazing when we begin to recognize what we DO enjoy in this journey.

***Play in your garden...weeds can be teachers - of patience, and peace and exercise.

As tweety says...


NATURE PREVAILS, especially in our quiet moments...