Old Lady rant; trails of 'scary'...

 At 76 years of age, my life on this rock is getting financially scarey.  Home owners insurance has literally TRIPLED in price.  How are we seniors suppossed to keep our homes - and eat too???!!! And afford medical care! and gas. And well...just survive...

My current insurance company (ASSURANT) closed my claim while I am still attemping to get my remaining damages properly quoted and submitted.  When they sent me the original quote it was messed up.

Yesterday - the new adjuster (on the phone) assigned to my case (who was rude and dismissive with me during our short convesation) told me I now needed to PROVE that the out buildings were damaged during that previous hailstorm. And the FAX of the entire/corrected roof bids that I sent several days ago -THAT HAS A FRONT PAGE STATING IT W A S RECEIVED AT THAT FAX #...he told me never got there.  RIGHT.

Then today, I look on my website for ASSURANT - my claims are CLOSED!!! And when I went through our long term car coverage insurance company that will most likely be the best quote...the yearly price has tripled!!!

NOTE:  AFTER GETTING THE COLORADO DIV. OF INSURANCE INVOLVED, SEEMS LIKE THIS CLAIM JUST MAY GET STRAIGHTENED OUT.  AFTER 6 MONTHS.

Now....He GOT the second fax...same stuff...same fax#!

How are seniors suppossed to survive in this out-of-control economy??!!

Yes; finances are getting scarey.  THINK about this when you vote for a new 'fearless leader" this fall.

Think...about the millions of people that are getting into our country.  Do you know that several states (in the southern area along our border with Mexico)....are filing (whatever it is called that a state files...) for INVASION!!!  INVASION! Think about that!

We are in serious trouble ahead...

-China and Russia buddying up...

-Taiwan about to be invaded by China; and we are Taiwan's ali (and should be since they are fighting for democracy verses - communism for their people!) Will that action drag us into war?....

We need a leader strong enough to stand up to China and Russia; a leader who will close our borders (as every other nation does!!) so we can survive; a leader who will bring down prices/costs of all kinds for our everyday citizens; a leader who will bring AMERICA back up from it's proverbial "knees" and re-create PRIDE in this nation again. A leader who can be strong yet KIND enough to bring our severely divided nation - at least back to respecting each other again.  With manners....remember those 'little things' like...

-'excuse me' and 

-'thank you' and 

-'may I help you' and 

-'I'm sorry'.

..things?  "Things" that are the LUBRICANT that helps us ALL not 'rub each other wrong'. It's the "peacekeepers', the Loving words that don't take much energy or work...but that keep us all smiling at each other. Much like our Amazing Creator made us to be.  Yup!  Bring in a little 'spirituality'...good for our long lost humility and respect.

America...still - the beautiful...

imho...

Nature prevails, even in sad times...

Trails of Friendship; Forever Blessings

20 July, 2023 

Pondering, on my last 18 months of life, or so...thinking about the friends that supported me during this new and difficult journey that I have embraced....in the absence of my forever Love, Don. 

But for the hands that have held mine; the hearts that have shared mine; the voices that have soothed me when my 'song' could not be sung; souls that saw and touched  mine and wept with me, smiled with me, hoped and prayed with me.

I look back; it seems so long ago that I wailed and screamed and raged against the loss of my soulmate.  I wrote poems and sang songs for him; I dreamed and wrangled thru my memories, sometimes with pain and suffering that seemed insurmountable and oh-so-cruel.

Sometimes I turned backwards, searching for my 'real', my use-ta-was...my life without the void that hung over me then like a thunderhead bigger than any possible reality I could bear.   Times were so many when I begged and raged - taking turns with "accepting" and praying...continuing to live in moments that threatened to lifetimes!  

My friends were - many times more than not - the ways that took me to my next moment...my next awareness of my 'new me'.

My friends in many places,... were my 'lites at the end of my tunnels', the sounds I followed that were luckily louder and more realistic than the noise of complete loss that threatened at times - to consume me - to deafen my being.

You all know who you are, who you "were" when you were needed.

My gratitude and appreciation are deep and my abiding joy for those rescues and friendship and Love - no matter how small or large; this is the Love I give you back, that I give you now..

You are all in your own special ways...a part of the Blessings I carry forever.

Thank you.

I read somewhere recently; "People die; Love does not".

Danielle

Nature prevails...even in death

Love Life trails: Be - who you are

 Saw a neat article online about a garbage man...and a 3 year old...and well - LIFE!  At it's fullest and...... alive!!

"Discovery of your purpose and potential sets you free from other people's perscriptions of what they think you should be."  

DELVAR DOPSON

Nature prevails...

...in Love and Life

A TRAIL of tree

 

I AM A TREE

Oh Alas – I am a tree

My roots are deep,

My branches – free.

I stand alone

My work is calm,

Sometimes a Pine...

Sometimes a Palm.

Oh Alas - I am a tree

My roots are deep

My branches free.

Sometimes I sway

Sometimes I bend

Sometimes I break...

And then I mend.

Oh Alas - I am a tree

My roots are deep

My branches free.

So many birds

Come visit me.

I feel their Love

They comfort me.

Oh Alas – I am a tree

My roots are deep

My branches free.

The storms that pass

They test my strength

They push and pull...

And then at length..

Sometimes I break

Sometimes I die

But Oh Alas...

I am a tree.

Nature prevails..especially in the forest

Composed, written, published on 12/9/2022 

By Danielle Simone

All rights reserved to written permission only.

TODAY'S... BRAVE NEW WORLD

 A simple question; nothing complicated, nothing about UFOs or deep mathematical computations, or 'why are we here?'...you know - those mind boggling questions that keep one up till the wee hours.

A simple question.

https://thecomeback.com/politics/brittney-griner-new-russian-prison.html

After you have scanned the beginning of this article, maybe you - SOMEONE...ANYONE...could commemt below...to help my old, aging brain with just a TAD of understanding about our life on this planet.

WHY DOES A PRODUCTIVE, AMBITIOUS, YOUNG human being...who decides to bend the rules a bit (bring some herbs onto a plane with her)...get to go to PRISON?????

*******WHILE THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY WHO SUPPORTS THIS RULING*****

CONTINUES TO MURDER THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of children and other ALIVE, innocent, human beings......... IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (not even his own) 

***and REMAINS  free as a bird?*****

Inquiring minds want to know!

If  ANYONE has a clue here - can help me understand this inigma, I am open to listening - maybe learning something apparently VERY IMPORTANT that I have missed ...along my 75 years.

Thank you.

Nature prevails...

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

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 helpless.  Think 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.