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 gobbeldy 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.

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...