"Everyone can master a Grief but he who has it”
William Shakespeare
Greed is an incredibly contagious disease 🦠 And, it’s a shame when anyone catches it.
Zippi

Friday, November 1, 2024

What is happening? Who is trying to control our Kids thought possesses at American Universities?

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...*" 

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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.    

Saturday, September 28, 2024

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.  

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

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…

Saturday, June 15, 2024

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


Friday, June 14, 2024

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


 
 

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

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".  

 



 



Thursday, June 6, 2024

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.  

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

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.  



Monday, May 27, 2024

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.  

Thursday, May 16, 2024

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.  

Thursday, May 9, 2024

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..

 

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Friday, April 19, 2024

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.  


Thursday, April 18, 2024

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  



Monday, March 4, 2024

Music Monday: 🎶 introducing the Oud.

 

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This instrument is pronounced “Ood”. I have a quite a few tracks of different performers, and have seen some of a woman who plays an upside Spanish guitar in this style.  She’s wonderful but I can no longer find her tapes.  DM me please if you have info on her.  Use the word “OUD” in the heading, please?  🙏🏼