Coming back to a little sanity.

 I really have to get away from all the friggin’ things I can do little about, i.e., much of what goes on in Instagram but that makes me want to rip someone’s hair out of their heads and scream obscenely….and and come back here to the blog, weekly doing Monday Music, Wordless Wednesday, Three on Thursday and so on. The Madmen have been at each other’s throats and after each other belonging since Abel and Cain and Jacob and Esau.  I will stay on there for Bebés, birds, and all that is adorable, madly amazing, and just flat out gorgeous.  If I don’t I’ll miss people.  I love people.  I don’t know why PEOPLE ARE SO SHITTY TO EACH OTHER, but, alas, they are.  

Now, your reward for reading this far. 

Executive attempt to usurp Congressional power of the Purse.

“ This crisis is not happening in a vacuum,” Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democratic appropriator in the House, said of the shutdown in a statement. She blamed Mr. Vought and Mr. Trump for undermining the division of powers — Congress passes spending laws, and the president is supposed to carry them out.”

This is a pretty fundamental understanding of this issue since the beginning of the founding of the United States of America.🇺🇸 

This quote comes from the New York Times article… Link

Excerpt of an Article from the New York Times on Brazilian President.

This is a letter in response to an article in the New Year Times on Brazil’s fantastic President.   

Maik Skowronek

Hamburg (Germany)July 30

“Let’s not miss what’s truly alarming in Trump’s recent remarks about Brazil: he suggests, almost offhandedly, that a president should interfere with court decisions — and speaks as if that were perfectly normal. So what stands out isn’t just what he says, but what he takes for granted. He assumes the executive should override the judiciary — not as a bold or controversial move, but as standard practice. The idea that courts should operate independently seems to have eroded so completely in his worldview that he now expects others to abandon it too. This isn’t just indifference to democratic norms — it’s their inversion. Trump doesn’t merely ignore checks and balances; he actively encourages their dismantling. That he no longer sees any need to defend this position is perhaps the clearest sign of how deeply he has internalized — and now exports — a fundamentally authoritarian logic.”

I wanted to share it with you.

Article about a Canadian woman detained by I.C.R.

This article is from the Guardian. 

 I had to read it twice before I could contain my emotions over what Trump and his short sighted policies  have done to our standing among Nations.  The U.S. will never recover its once exalted status as a beacon of hope or fairness.  Maybe it never deserved it?  Though I think, personally that  it was.  I remember how respected that our soldiers were in Europe. Photo is c/o Jasmine Mooney

The article: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney?CMP=share_btn_url

Gaza

 https://theintercept.com/2025/07/24/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-aid-starvation/

I've just read some of the horrible things that a fake Humanitarian aid group operating in Gaza have said, and I am absolutely APPALLED that ANY human being could be so heartless and cruel when talking about children.  

Music Monday, Amazing and just so lovely....

 

Murad's Story.  C/C the New York Times.  

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/magazine/israel-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk4.5TdE.fjHXN4IDLZ3M&smid=url-share

Nareman Shehadeh Zoabi, a lawyer at Adalah, told me that since Oct. 7, “you can’t express a Palestinian identity and not be linked to Hamas. And if you’re not fully on the Israeli side, you’re a legitimate target.”

Excerpt:

Israel first criminalized incitement to terrorism in 2002, for reasons that now seem unthinkable. Lawmakers believed — as many Israelis did — that they needed to rein in ultranationalist Jews. In 1995, the climate of incitement against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin led directly to his assassination by a Jewish extremist. Israel’s laws about speech were then a mishmash of antiquated statutes, some of which came from the British Mandate period. When the courts failed to clarify things, the Knesset decided to step in. Incitement entered the penal code.

“We’re not doing that,” she said. “We don’t swap Israeli citizens.” The state was abandoning its precedents at such a rapid clip that even a legislator who supported the counterterror law could not keep up.

O.M.G.

 HERE is the scoop..   This is getting to be a whole lot more interesting all the time.  

Can you spell DISTOPIA.. I can't but I'm sure you can.  

Tata...  this is just for fun.  Truly.  Honest.  I kid you not.  No way it's real.  Shhh it's a stealth post!

What is happening? Who is trying to control our Kid's thought processes at American Universities? Why can't I spell? lol

This is a LINK to an article about a tenured professor who lost her job at Columbia University because she DARED to have an opinion about Gaza that was not wrong but that was not, shall we say, Kosher.  

You don't have to pay to read it.  

These are some very respected investigative Journalists - some of whom quit Eastern newspapers so that they could get beyond the local Political mindset.  You may know Naomi Klein. 

It makes you wonder who is directing and who OWNs the thought machines at various, mostly Eastern, Universities. This makes me glad that my kid graduated from Berkeley.   "*dances ...and sings, "thank you Jesus...*" 

What I'm reading:

This book is fundamental in understanding what the Palestinians have had to work against in trying to keep their country from becoming just another colonized and stolen land.  

Israel's Genocidal campaign is just the latest land grab by invaders who have tried, mightily, to play the victims.    

Im Around and alive....

I'm sorry to Have neglected this blog. 

 But I must read constantly for my soul.  

And, of course, the world decides to blow up.  I guess that was inevitable, given the care and feeding of despots has been the major political activity that those in power, and those who want to be in power, have loosed on the rest of us, who really only want the human family to act, well, more humane.  

I will share my reading but not through Goodreads, which I don't like much at all.  

Wordless Wednesday….shhhhh

 Unfortunately Google won’t let me use my own photos…storage for which I pay…to post in this blogger anymore without enabling “cookies”. Theirs.  

Until I can find a way around this insult, I won be posting wordless Wednesday…

Toddling off with my knitting and a good book.

 

Artist is Dennis Cox
And the meme is at Dreamstime.com
This is what I feel like. 
I'm not as broad, either in body or probably in mind.

Heeheehee

OUCH!
See you all on Monday for Music

What I am reading.... I will be very busy.

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And... an older book by Ilan Pappe'  

                                                            Points...............>

We'd better get this right this time....

or there will be Hell to Pay

 
 

Off the net for awhile…..

 I am so disgusted and sickened by what “they who should know better than to do” are doing.  

My country, also (for one) should know better.  They are a bunch of pussyfoots and assassins.  

I have to remember the important things like: "Memento Mori".

This is the sky on the day of the first-year memorial for our daughter who passed away eight years ago. this year.  

She asked me to ignore politics.. that it was a tug of war..  She asked me, as a dying wish.. her words, to knit short fingered gloves (ones like I'd made for her) for the patients at her clinic.  

It's time I got back to my knitting and just ignore politics... because even war is political, when you think about it.  It's a big game of, "Let's you and him fight".  

 

 

Three on a Thursday:

 1. Being sleep deprived and trying to catch up by taking naps is sort of a gray haze lifestyle.  I'm beginning to see that there is no other way to get through life at this point.  And I'm watching the Pacific, especially the North Pacific.  All that ice being gone is going to make for very interesting things across the volcanic islands and the Pacific Rim countries.  

2. One of our daughters came for a visit.  I love it when they do that.  I'm smiling from ear to ear.

3. I'm hittin' ma' knittn'.  My DD wants to knit a scarf for when it's cold again.. no time soon... And it's time that some new short fingered gloves were on the the needles.  

Enjoy your weekend.  I'm going to go watch "Cold Comfort Farm". Such a sweet and silly movie.  

Wordless Wednesday…shhhh

 

Wordless Wednesday.. on a Thursday! My head has been floating at sea.

 

Shhhhh 

Three on Thursday:

1.  I'm very tired.  I think it has an emotional component to it.  I've stopped reading about the two wars.  I am so pissed off at our government's support for maniacs and the face saving in Washington.  Look, we get it.  We are in bed with a handful of sickening devils while trying to look innocent of anything they may be doing.  

2. I need to go to Ireland or Scotland to visit my relatives there.  You know.... a change of Scenery.  Maybe I'll stop in at Buckingham Palace and visit the rels...jk

3. I'm slowly making headway through the tons of saved materials for projects to make everything under the sun.  Strawberry Moon Studios needs to divest.  

That's about it for this last week of May.  Ta ta..  

Here is a treat for having read this far.  Be sure to take as many as you want.  I feel cookies help all of us through some of these modern day cases of Angst and folderol.  

San Diego community comes together to rebuild....

C/o The San Diego Times

Read about it HERE

Article C/o the Union Tribune, and a thank you for DH who is helping me cheer up a little.  

Wordless Wednesday…shhhh

Monday Music: Richie Havens Here Comes The Sun- the stage version..

I loved this man and his music... I adored him....

Three on Thursday…

I'd like to send up a BIG Thank you all for reading here.  Blogging helps keep me going- and out of trouble, mostly - in Instagram and other social media.  

This blog, knitting, and reading like a maniac have helped me to keep my sanity in the face of a world that is about to erupt into World War Three.  

1. I've been thinking a lot about how lies become the truth, if told often enough over time.  Countries do this all the time to avoid having to face the consequences of their "creative narrative" for their origin, and to support their subsequent actions to maintain the myths.  They are still lying.  

So many people believe these weavers of a certain "origin story" that they can get away with murder down future decades and even centuries.  They forget that there is a God who hears all and knows everything done, much of it IN his name.  

2.  Here is something completely different.  A photograph of the surf along the Pacific coast which was made by a family member.  I find it comforting and healing for my soul.  The Eternal Ocean.... 

Coast of California - Monterey Bay

3. I'm struggling with my knitting ..  Actually I haven't knit for nearly a year now.  I'm hoping to change that by starting another project soon.  It will be a pair of Short Fingered Gloves for the chemo-therapy patients in Santa Cruz.  I really have to settle down and do something that will help me feel better.  

Wordless Wednesday: shhhhh

 

Three on Thursday

1. I am having trouble with my eyes. Too much reading!  As if there could be such a thing 

2.  Sleepy little bee in a rose for the night

 3. Something Beautiful to see.... something my daughter crocheted one year for me..

 

Wordless Wednesday…. Shhhhh

 

c/o Matt Fitt Photography 

Music Monday: Another Mary Chapin Carpenter. The one from Susi.. A little late…

 

Wordless Wednesday: shhhh... Long ago...

 

Amazing Story. It's long but it will cheer you up immensely:

 Never mind the silly, artificial sounding voice.  The video is just a beautiful story.

Monday Music: Pearl Jam... "Waiting for Stevie"

Listen to the Lyrics...  They are beautiful, too.....

Navy Diver Drowns & Meets his Soul Family (Near-Death Experience)

In researching many events that have to do with  what has come to be called a "near death experience" I feel that it can't be ignored as some sort of Hysteria anymore.  It's being recounted by far too many people.

I'm now pretty certain that the "Universe" is trying to tell us something....  

In fact, I'm completely convinced of it.  

This is Three on Thursday Day.

And here are my three….

One.... As the Beatles have sung .......  "All you need is Love..."  

Very Worth the Read

Two….Something beautiful ...

Birthday Roses of Yesteryear

Three…. Another small joy. The tiniest edible grape ….. Ever!  🍇 

So, that is my Three on Thursday…Wishing you all to have an abundance of Love, Beauty, and Joy.  

May we remember ….. “God is watching us… from a distance”… Bette Midler  

Wordless Wednesday: Mending my mind....

 

Music Monday: Mary Chapin Carpenter: "I Take My Chances"

Wordless Wednesday: Shhhhhhh

 

Photo: Matt Fitt