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Louise is Elizabeth Hykes blog

by Louise Wiggins is Elizabeth

Rated: E · Book · Writing · #2044345

Writing about what I have been reading and encountering in the media.

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!
I comment on things I am reading, thinking about, encountering in media, and spiritual issues. I hope you will find something interesting. PS. I love feedback...

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Aug 21, 2023 at 9:07am
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My mind wanders from one thing to the other. I tend to see connections where others only see what they were told to see as a child. I'm no child; but, I lived in wonderment then... and still do. I don't allow my fingers or my pen to lead the way as much as I used to. Perhaps I should.

As for Noah... no rain today... yet.

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Louise Wiggins is Elizabeth

Feb 8, 2023 at 9:24pm
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Thank you Apondia! I'm glad you have found my ponderings interesting. I am sure you will find the book interesting.
Elizabeth

Apondia

Feb 8, 2023 at 4:04pm
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I've read several of your recent blogs. I wrote down the book and author because I would like to read it after reading your blogs. I can never understand how anyone can point to a specific person and say God said, "follow this man." Christians follow Christ. His wisdom and teaching never get old. I advocate the study of Christian History. In the Greek word Divolos = diabolical, comes the knowledge that a thought can be put into your head to turn you away from something you intended to accomplish. This is what is happening many times to ordinary Christians who are caught up with pandemic and politics. They need to get into scripture and discover the mind of holiness that was the Christ. It gives you a place to test your own thoughts about what God relates to us on a daily basis. I appreciate your comments. Write On. Sincerely Apondia

QPdoll is Grateful

Nov 16, 2022 at 6:57am
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Lovely.

WakeUpAndLive~doingNaNo'24

Jul 12, 2022 at 11:28am
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Since you are at WdC for a long time, I suppose you know about "The Poet's Place Library "

[E] with all the different useful links on poetry? I will try to find Ted Kooser's book via my own library. Thanks for sharing.

An apple a day....

May 11, 2022 at 8:05pm
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I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend, and I enjoyed reading your nice words about him. He sounds like a person I would have appreciated knowing.

JayNaNoOhNo

Jun 7, 2020 at 6:35am
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I've had the same conversation and lost a friend over it.

"I know you don't want to wear a mask, but you don't know if you're a carrier and you could make a lot of people sick. You could kill someone."

"Then I guess frail people should just stay home or take the risk."

"I'm one of those people. You just implied you don't care if I die. Even if it's you who kills me."

*Crickets*

I saw them the other day. Still not wearing a mask.

Unfortunately, this type of thinking really does make quarantine a lot sadder for so many people, including me, because I know I'm going to be stuck here a lot longer than others.

Because, "freedom". Oh, the irony.

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Alexi

Jun 7, 2020 at 2:51am
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We should all have respect for one another, I and my other half always wear face masks and gloves, we disinfect and keep a bottle in the car, we social distance as a respect to others and to protect ourselves and we stay in unless necessary to go out and walk where it is less crowded.

Others infuriate me because they don't seem to get it. The Spanish flu from 1918 to 1919 lasted approx fifteen months and in that time 500 million people were infected about a third of the world's population at that period. The death toll was between 16 million to fifty million people.

Coming up to today 2020 7,000,000 million people have been infected already in a few short months and the death toll is around 400,000 and still rising. Common sense tells us to protect ourselves and think of others. Some have no thought for others and to me are very selfish.

This could go on for some time and our world has changed forever. Man is destroying this beautiful planet by his own ignorance and this is why the wrath of God is one day coming. Just as in the days of Noah.

Every soul that dies is on our conscience, this has got to stop, we have to look after our planet and look out to one another.

When will they ever learn?

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GabriellaR45

Feb 21, 2018 at 5:02pm
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Elizabeth,

This essay is articulate and beautifully crafted.
You make a good case. I appreciate your concern that
we stop giving up on kids who need help. So many of the
kids who shot and killed students and teachers felt
isolated and disliked, with nowhere to turn. They are
usually desperate and angry, having always been a fifth wheel.
In Rutland, Vermont where I live, the police had a
brainstorm. Instead of picking up and taking kids
or adults to jail for carrying or selling drugs,
Rutland invested in mental health clinics for individuals
who steal to get drugs or die, to be treated by
doctors who are qualified to work with these
unfortunate students and adults. As a result, the
percentage of drug dealers and users has been
slowly dropping, with a long way to go. It is
clear to all of us that treating the patient sure
beats going down the road to nowhere to
endure brutal conditions in a state or federal prison.

Thanks for caring, Elizabeth !!

GabriellaR45

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HWinB.C.

Aug 22, 2017 at 9:34pm
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I've talked about the problems with media for a long time. Do you remember the show, Network (1976)? Prophetic.

The last two years has shown a complete breakdown of our perception of reporting with integrity. If it ever existed.

Yes, to answer your question. it has bothered me for several years.

May 25, 2022 at 11:59pm

#1032869

Uvalde, TX mass shooting of 4th-grade students

Another School Shooting: Uvalde, Texas, 5/24/22.

"We must acknowledge reality. This must not be a normal thing in the USA or anywhere. There is this relentless thing that guns are sacred. This is idolatry. There is not a reason in the world to own this type of gun except to do shootings like this. I live in hope. I know human beings have the capacity to do better. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.' But it requires people to make the arc bend."Jon Meacham, Presidential Historian, in an interview on MSNBC, the Eleventh Hour, 10:30 PM 5/25/22.

On the heels of shootings in Buffalo at a grocery store and California where a gunman went after Chinese Christians at worship, an 18-year-old shot his grandmother and then went to the elementary school his grandmother had worked at in 2020, in the school district he had attended and shot 2 teachers and 17 fourth graders to death wounding 19 others. This happened in a state that responded to previous mass shootings by removing almost all restrictions on gun ownership. A candidate for Governor, Beto O'Rourk, confronted Governor Abbott about these laws he signed and told him until you do something to stop this, the blood is on your hands. None of this will be news to most who read this.

I don't know about you, but I am so disgusted. I am embarrassed to say I am American. We say we are a democracy, but a minority has hijacked the Congress and is interfering with its functioning. Even though 90% of Americans support some form of gun control, we don't have it. We are told this is the doing of the NRA. They do contribute a lot to the problem. However, Congress, the Republican portion of the Senate specifically, is unwilling to even debate the problem let alone vote it up or down. The rest of the "western" world is shaking their heads and thinking we are crazy. A friend in England asked me once if I wasn't afraid to travel as I might get shot. We deserve that view of our homeland. I wonder if "crazy" might be an accurate description of the USA today.

Directly after listening to Jon Meacham, I heard a commercial for medication to control bi=polar depression. It sounded like how I feel: "a dark fog." However, I am not suffering from bipolar depression. I just want the government to start governing. I simply want a few restrictions that will protect us from angry 18-year-olds who are impulsive. I want people to quit saying mental health workers, can control this mass shooting behavior. We cannot. We are not magicians. We can only change what the client wants to change. There is no way around that fact. We need laws and law enforcement to keep AR15 arms out of the hands of those who would shoot their grandmother in the face, then kill a classroom full of 4th graders and their teachers.

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