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...

Political Trails

I hope that our political situation becomes one that is more 'people - centered', than presidential edict - centered. Our sacred Constitution...it WAS - and still should be - our guide; that was it's original purpose. It is - our only hope to continue the democracy we need.

I hope we Americans start to participate in politics as we used to - such that the control over the 'people' in America - gets back into the hands 'of the people', as opposed to in the form of increasing presidential edicts, health organization takeovers and any one else in" charge" of  "mandates".  

Our children; and the fear they have learned with COVID;  how will that affect our future society...world-wide, as they filter into governmental positions, teaching positions...parental responsibilities of their own.?

I hope that COVID herd immunity increases quickly, and that this virus, as with it's cousins of the past, wears out!  I hope that maybe - in 2022, we can ALL get back to some semblance of normal, whatever that will be, after our 2 plus years of fear...infused into our culture .

I hope that we can bring back into our American culture, the respect and support of our aging population. We are a resource to be utilized, not a burden to be shut away into long-term-care places where we wither and die.  Seniors have a lifetime of experience; knowledge, wisdom - a LONG view that can aide our leaders - from government all the way down to schools and community.  That 'view' can assist us all in understanding "changes" throughout all aspects of our culture.  But we have to learn to respect aging again - learn to "listen" again to the experience, wisdom and patience that comes with it. This long-view can greatly assist in preventing the repetition of historical mistakes - in all walks of life.

I hope we all learn to be kinder, more patient with each other...more Loving in ALL the interactions we have in this world...in all our lifetimes.

Nature prevails.

"I lead you into the darkness...so you could find the light."

Buffalo Trails; get in line

 

20 October, 2021

This is no longer America.

This is no longer a free nation where our Constitution reigns sovereign. “Laws” are now dictated through EXECUTIVE ORDER...more and more, rather than through Congress – through the avenue of CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION.

It is not. And it's been coming for a long time.

We have basked in the laurels of the freedoms we had for too long; kept busy with our big boats, our personal problems, and our blind faith that we were safe within our boundaries.

HA!

Our borders are open; we owe just about everything we live by (food, clothing, cars, toys, tools, etc, ) to China; the government now has complete access to our private bank accounts; our medical choices are forced by fear into a confusion of when the next person just might kill us by breathing out in our airspace - by a contrived pandemic to which we are responding as though it were – instead...a plague!

Our entire planet of population – including our children - are being forced to take a vaccine that even the producers of this vaccine admit could change both our immune systems AND our reproductive cycles for the REST OF OUR LIVES!

Did you not suspect an “agenda” when we were URGED by the government to direct deposit our funds – TO SAVE TREES?! And then it became MANDATORY! They did not have access to our bank accounts then. We STILL had a choice to hold our paychecks – the money that WE EARNED...in our hands; not now.

Were you not suspicious when a law was passed in early 2000 that made it MANDATORY to fill out multi-paged census forms (under penalty of jail time) if we did not give the government the personal/private/NON OF THEIR BUSINESS info in these forms?! I spoke to a census CEO in Washington during the time when census workers were climbing fences and engaging in all manner of trespassing to get these forms completed. This CEO repeatedly said to me: ”We would never put anyone in jail for not filling out a form”. And I repeatedly responded...”But now - you CAN!”

Have you watched in disbelief how police are roaming the outdoor – OUTDOOR (where my “air” and your “air” are highly unlikely to be shared), cafe's in France – checking vaccine passports? Are you aware that everyday, law-abiding Australians are being beaten to the ground – regardless of young or old age...simply because they are QUIETLY PROTESTING against the MANDATORY vaccine?

Where are we going as Americans – as a planet – as a species? Why is there such a sudden big push to 'get everyone in line'? Do you not see how we are being manipulated to separate from each other? To distrust each other? The fear – yes FEAR that is being spread over this planet like a bug bomb in a bar...

How do you think this is affecting our growing, vulnerable children? Think about it! They will now have cemented in their first “life tapes” in their psyches, that – anyone – ANYONE...could kill them if they get too close. OMG. Think about that. How that changes our entire culture, the entire basis that we function within. Gone are the days we felt comfortable hugging someone in the grocery store or on the street when we met community “friends”.

Wake up people; this road we are walking...being pushed ahead on by government...just may follow the trails of the long ago Buffalo hunters on our great plains. And you know what THAT looked like...

from the other side of that cliff.