Thought For The Day.

 

Flashback: Re-post from a year ago.

 

I Can't Breathe!!

I can't breathe!!

His name was George Floyd  and those were his last words. His last words as a policeman held him down by his neck, compressing him for several minutes until he died. His "crime?" Being Black.  Being Black shouldn't be a "crime" yet in USA it seems to be( and to a lesser degree here in Canada,too. Racism still happens here although to a lesser degree but it still is a problem and my BFF who is Korean has experienced it worse here actually but for Black people it's worse there yet even here when you hear on the news the cops shot and killed a suspect he's almost always Black and when they handcuff and arrest someone he's always a White guy. Why?) and police are notoriously known for basically hunting and killing Black people, mainly young Black men, and then they wonder why they have such a bad relationship with not only the Black community but why the general public doesn't have faith in them or trust them.

Police brutality and systemic racism, maybe?

So now across cities in USA in response there have been angry riots, looting, arson( they even set fire to a police station sending the cops fleeing, HA!) and overall revolt, anarchy and mayhem.It's like with the Rodney King situation in L.A. only years later. People don't learn and history repeats itself. Violence is never the solution and nothing justifies looting etc. but at the same time this is also how the unheard make themselves heard and the people are hurting and they're angry; tired of oppression , racism, discrimination, and police brutality, and now they are finally rising up, have had enough,and are fighting back.  It's gotten so bad that the National Guard has even been called in, set curfews, and been shooting  on the crowd of angry protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets. It has become chaos and if something doesn't change soon, if they don't stop killing Black people  there is going to be a revolution.

Something needs to be done.

Things have to change.

This is NOT acceptable and the people have had enough.

God is watching.

Remember George Floyd.

Today's Musing.

 

Ketchup Post.

Catching up on everything:

-Yesterday when I wiped my ass I saw a bit of blood so I wonder if the colon polyps are back again or if it's just the hemmoroid?

- I was hoping next-door was finally getting rid of the 3 eye-sore jalopies they have parked on their lawn at the front(in true redneck-style) but they only moved one of them now parked at the front of their house. No such luck.

- It was soooo cold yesterday it only got to 5 C and it felt like winter and some places nearby even got some snow!

-Universities and colleges are thinking of making the Corona vaccine mandatory for students and this is just wrong on so many levels. it's a medical procedure and it should be your choice and NOT coerced.

- I wonder too with so many of the Sheeple vaccinated and able to attain herd immunity why they still keep pushing the rest of us who don't want to get the vaccine to get vaccinated when they're immune?What's the real reason here?

- One of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a TV show or movie was in Breaking Bad when Walter White threw a pizza on top of a roof.

- I heard the marijuana dispensary offered discounts for Veteran growers and I thought they meant people that had been growing for many years( as opposed to novices) but they actually meant military Veterans. Duh, I'm such a doofus!

- I think that the real reason most of the Sheeple are actually getting the vaccine is just due to social conditioning and peer-pressure; they just go along with the crowd and want to be like everyone else and don't want to be outcasts and ridiculed, as opposed to actually thinking it's best or really actually wanting  it.

- I almost choked yesterday: eating pizza I felt something sharp going down(I wonder what it was?) and it went down the "wrong hole" and I was coughing violently, choking and gasping and it was quite scary actually but it eventually went down.

- The kitchen ceiling is back to leaking again(it rained all day yesterday) even though we had it repaired twice. I wonder if those damn squirrels keep gnawing thru something?

- I heard some places in USA are even offereing million $$$ lottery tickets to Sheeple who get the the vaccine and that's just really low, to have to bribe people to get it.What exactly is their agenda, anyway?

- Am I the only one that it annoys and irritates that Peppa Pig's face is on sideways?

- The radio DJ said that Paul McCartney can't read music! I'm so surprised! How can he play guitar then if he doesn't know which chords to play and how did he write music with John Lennon?

- I don't know which is harder for me to accept: that I'm ugly or inept?

- I'd much rather wear a tin-foil hat than to be a mindless Sheeple that blindly follows the herd.

- They found some 250 bodies of kids(some even as young as 3 years old!) in a mass gravesite at the site of a former Residential School in BC (where they used to snatch Native kids away from their homes, families,and communities for some 100 years and send off, to be abused) and it's Canada's shame and attempted genocide and they weren't "schools"; they were prisons, like Concentration camps.

If nobody saw it, it didn't happen.- Whitey Bulger.

 

Daily Pondering.

 

Tree Boys.

Yesterday I saw 3 guys cutting down this huge tree in the neighbour across the street's backyard( the teacher; the creepy one I have always suspected for years has hostages in his basement but that's for another story) and one of the guys( I call Tree Boys) had climbed almost all the way up to the top of the tree! There's been lots of dead old rotting trees on our street lately that have had to be cut down(incl. our mulberry last year,too!) so there must be some sort of tree disease going around (or insects?) infecting them all? Tree Boy  also reminds me of when I was a kid and I had made up all these what I called Characters  that I used to pretend were my siblings and friends but I now know are what others call Imaginary Friends as I was a lonely Only Child and I must have invented close to 20 of them and one of them was named Tree Boy. There was also Tree Girl and Glen Boy and Glen Girl and the others had regular "normal" names, some of them named after real actual people I knew, such as Soula, Mackie, Janice, Alex, Benji and others I just made up such as Bianca, Priscilla, Nestor, etc. I even made  Mackie and nestor brother and sister and fraternal twins! Later on my own kids also had these puppets they'd always throw up into a tree and leave there(until they fell down and then they'd toss them back up again; they lived there) we called Tree Boys, loosely based on my old character. I even drew my characters and made comic strips out of them,too.

This morning out for Buddy's walk I saw a brown rabbit again(likely the same one?) and also the strangest thing,too: a crow chasing a squirrel, and tomorrow child #8 turns 22, the same age I  was when I had my first child, so that makes me feel really old and I had this scary nightmare last night as well that the 14 YR old purposely set the house on fire! I also had this massive headache yesterday too that woke me up and still didn't go away even after weed, which is new, and it was worse behind my eyes and at the base of my skull going down my neck vertebrae so maybe I really do  have a brain tumour,afterall, and my kidneys failing even more is actually good too as now I no longer have to go pee every5-10 minutes like I used to but now only a few times a day and can hold it for hours and hours and no longer have to get up at all during the night either but before it was 1-2 times! I hardly pee much at all now and it's great, and I'm pretty sure I had rotten yogurt yesterday as well; I put it in for a smoothie but in the cup it clumped but I still drank it anyway as we can't afford to waste food as it's so expensive and when I checked the ecpiry date it said last month,and last night in bed my stomach didn't feel so good....uh,oh.

People also keep asking me when we're opening up our pool and I'm embarrassed and don't know what to say because both my hubby and mother say it's too expensive to open it( around 2K a season for the chemicals ) and I'm the only one that even uses it and it's "not worth it" just for me so what am I supposed to tell them? I'm not sure either what's more embarrassing to admit, that we're poor now or that my family devalues me so much?  There also have been a few bear sightings in this area as well, as if I need reminding that we live in cottage country, and yesterday a few of my sunflowers are starting to sprout already too even though it's only been 3 days and it's supposed to take 10-14 days to germinate but I know what I saw and I know what they look like and one of them even had the shell stuck to it...

I also posted this photo of the 18 YR old and I( when she was just a week old) on my Facebook page for Throwback Thursday. I just love it and I was also shocked to see and to realize how much I've aged since then,too, how much fatter and older-looking I've got, likely due to both medical issues(which began 4 years later) and to trauma and stress.I can still remember when I got that haircut too and how my friend D(at the old church) kept raving about it how much she loved it. I also thought that Buddy went into the 18 YR old's room every morning because he missed her but it turns out it was just to bask in a sunbeam that came thru the window at that time every morning because today it's raining and there's no sun he went elsewhere and was hunting mice in another room this morning while I was upstairs having my bath instead, and it's sad for me to realize too that I feel much more alone and lonelier married and with my hubby than I ever did single or when I'm alone, and I'm such a dolt too trying to find photos to post on this blog yesterday once they get past a thousand as I have trouble with math and numbers and labelling them  I wasn't sure if a thousand and twelve for instance was 1012 or 100012 and I had a hard time finding them, and I still remember too when I was 4 my fave. toy was my little squishy blue rubber hippo and I still love hippos so I guess some things never change,and I hope when I die that I did some good in the world and made a difference for the better; that I made someone smile, made someone laugh, made someone's day, made someone feel good about themselves, made someone feel better about themselves, made someone think, made someone question, made someone find God, made someone heal, made someone forgive, made someone find peace, made someone have hope, made someone feel not so alone, made someone inspired, made someonenot give up, made someone smile and say That was my friend.

Beauty,youth,and time are all fleeting.

 

Thought For Today.