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Through the eyes of a writer and traveler 😁! Life and some spiritual musings. |
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Welcome Y'all 🤠. I'm into animal rescue and rights. Positive vibes and activism! 😻🙏 It's been interesting for the past 20 years. Good folks on here and a great 😃 writing community. It's time for rethinking my writing and growing as a person . Sharing how to help others and ourselves 😉 has always been my motivation! Hugs 🤗 to new and old peeps! " The journey of 10,000 miles Begins with one step 🪜. --Lao Tzu What you don't like Don't do to another. Rabbi Hillel Do unto others as you would have someone Do unto you. Jesus 🙏 |
| Hi 👋 y'all! Hoping your holidays 😉 were merry and bright 🌞! Mine were super and also a few bummers. My last post was filled with a prayer 🙏🤲 and some history of our life. I was almost too down to write ✍️ but in the past,used to write in journals. Over a hundred at least. Somehow I got away from the paper and pen 🖋️ in my hands and started Blogs on several sites. Always abandoning them for a time and/or starting a new one about another topic and adding whatever was currently going on in my life. One was Autism and our experience with ( hers) our grandson and how he went from a non-speaking child of 3 stuck in his own little world and over a few years into a brilliant child who still struggled, but who communicated and was definitely living in our world! The same child that I would sometimes have to carry out of stores ( at 60 to 80 lbs!) get in the car and calm down. He's a teenager and you can't tell any of what it took to make it happen. He has a favorite memory that when I still lived in Oregon,he would ask me " Grandma Dee Dee tell me the story when I hit you in the head with my book-please!) Every family has its tales! It's stories of relatives past and present. Moment's in time that matters to somebody that becomes part of who they are. I'm blessed because one little boy I wouldn't give up on, became who I believed in. That even though some " experts" didn't believe it was possible, I KNEW it WAS! One night before bedtime I said to my sister " I'm going to try and read " Lil Man" a bedtime story." She looked at me like I said I was going to climb Mount Everest! She said "Okay good luck with that one! Dee I know you mean well and your heart is in the right place, just don't get your hopes up. We can only do so much, but try if you want. Don't expect too much, you know how he is . I walked into his room and said " hey honey it's time for bed and tonight I'm going to read you a story. Look it's called Good Night Moon 🌝! He looks at me with suspicious eyes and a scowl. I started to read the first line" In the great green room " By the time I was saying great, he grabbed the book and threw it at my head! I was not hurt ( except my feelings) surprised yet not. I looked at Lil Man and said" That's ok , your tired. We'll try tomorrow night. I love you sweetie. This went on every night for about a week or so. I'd start to read and he'd grab the book and threw it on the bed. One night he listened to a couple of words. In the great. Slowly it became a sentence! In the great green room Then There was a telephone And a red balloon 🎈. ( Since all my journals are lost, maybe on my old WordPress blog I wrote the exact time it took, longer than a month I'm sure!❤️) This is a longer version but the truth 😉. After a long while,he listened to the whole book and every night he started asking for his story! Then he started reading it with me and a few months later. I started reading more stories to him, until he had so many books we had to get more shelves. I almost stopped writing this because of a situation here. We have a very old tub and it's got a tiny drain hole. It's a nasty tub that won't come clean,no matter what we use. It's also got old glue from those nonslip stickers. She wants to get a paint scraper from the dollar store tomorrow. I'm going to take a metal hanger and try to snake it out. The water takes forever to go down and buying drain cleaner gets expensive every month. If this was my journal--; this would be what I would write ✍️. Only no one would see it. I'm not going to be a fancy writer ever. So it doesn't matter what I write about. I'll never be in the quills or get nominated for anything and that's ok. I'm surprised I entered a contest and didn't pull out at the last minute! Guess I'm just me! I was on LinkedIn ( I have a page) and was looking for a remote Proofreading job. I really can't make more than 85 bucks a month or I'd be in trouble. They'll take half of whatever I make and the rent would go up. But I was looking anyway and saw a volunteer position to help underprivileged high school students that want to be writers. I thought maybe I could help encourage them! And answer questions. I was excited about it. Until I saw they want professional people and that was the end of that. New year eve was crazy. I set my alarm for 6 AM We had a big day ahead. By 9:17 was about to go to sleep when people started setting off loud fireworks. It sounded like bombing going on. It was out in front, down the block and behind the building. Cheryl's window was shaking and she could see the bright light each time one exploded. A lady came out to yell but to no avail. It went on for hours. On the left BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, then the right ( see above) Then down the block I thought " how much money did these idiots spend to keep children and seniors and everyone awake? I was pissed 😡 as I'm sure most of the people in this complex were. But you can't yell at people anymore because they will target you and they could have a gun. So you can't do anything... I tried to get some sleep 😴 but it was broken by the noise. 6 AM came and I made coffee and by 9:30 out the door 🚪. We vacuumed out the car and put things in the trunk. Drove to Walmart and left the car for an oil change and went food,kitty litter and food shopping. At the self-checkout, the man in front of us was loading his riding cart and suddenly he called for the checker. He has a Humana spend card ( like us for seniors) but it wouldn't take it. We were concerned ( There's been times when we did a huge shop like over a hundred bucks and the same thing happened to us. We left everything when they said " we can't do anything, it's a third-party glitch." We went to Win Dixie after and had no problem but things were more expensive.) We were hoping that it wasn't going to happen again. The man took his bags and was going to leave anyway but our friend at the door who knows us and the times we had the problem! Took the cart back to someone to put back. Meanwhile we were scanning ours out of the riding cart and cart I was pushing. Cheryl bagged and I used her card to pay for part of it and said out loud " Jesus please let this card work oh Lord!" I went from stressing to relief when it said accepted! I prayed the same words loud when using my card and it worked! Sandra at the door checking our receipt was happy to hear ours worked! We wished each other a blessed New Year's and headed for a money order for rent. Barbara got it ready and we also wished each other the same. Both are older black ladies and some of the best people you could ever meet! I'm thankful to the people who picked me up with faith here, when I felt like mine was gone this week. I don't have too many people but I appreciate those near and far who believe in God G-d and Jesus and live it, not just talk 🦜 it! So best wishes from Dee Dee in real life 🙏! |
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