Added Reflections

 Dear Mr. Trump,  I don’t think you should hang out with Mr. Netanyahu.  I don’t think you should join or assist him in fighting his wars.  He does not lead you on a path toward success in creating a peaceful world without war.  He leads you in the opposite direction.  Please recognize that the things that he desires and does in the world are the opposite of the meaning of peace.  Please remember your mission and desire to stop wars and create peace.  Please recognize that your friend seeks the opposite.  

 Tiptoe through the tulips.  I just remembered this little phrase.  from the 1970s, but I don’t remember from where the phrase came.  I remember singing this as a little song phrase as a young kid.  Oh wow, I’m not sure if I got this from something external of the 1970s or if it was just a me thing that I came up with myself? 😲 I guess I need to go Google it to find out.  Thank goodness for the Internet. And the results are in.  As a kid, I latched on to this little song phrase as one I liked repeating, but it was in fact from something of the 1970s. 😁 I did not coin the phrase.  I guess I just fancied the notion of quietly tiptoeing through tulips. 🫢🤨 Hmm, perhaps I liked the repetition of T words,  

 When Trump is out of office.  How will I feel when Trump is out of office?  I can’t wait to ask myself that question when the time comes.  

 The day Donald Trump is out of office.  That will be a spectacular day, indeed! Adios Mr. Trump.  I wish you well in your political retirement.  A spectacular day, indeed.  

Mr. Trump has shared a video of himself as a team USA hockey player.  It would be funny were it not for the violence part.   I don’t know why I don’t feel alarmed enough that Mr. Trump shared this video considering that Mr. Trump is the president and he holds the decision making power about things like whether or not our country goes to war with Iran.   https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116119517642924564

I don’t comprehend why Mr. Trump shared this video of Kaitlin Collins.  He didn’t explain.  Her remarks are critical and not praising of him.  Is his mental state at a point where he cannot discern whether commentary on his behavior and actions are praise or criticism??   https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116111079846945770

So now Mr. Trump is openly admitting that his leadership as the president of the United States of America involves making and implementing economic decisions that will affect our nation and world that are influenced and motivated by personal feelings of vendetta against justices of the Supreme Court for carrying out their right and duty to exercise their own authority as the judicial branch of government.  

 I believe I just had another lightbulb thought for tonight.  Drumroll please.  If we want there to be goodness in others, we should help them see the goodness inside of themselves. 

 The world has a lot of scammers and people with really shitty or seemingly no morals, but the flipside to this is that the world is also full of many many genuinely good people.  Not perfect people because to be human is to make mistakes, but people who do genuinely seek and desire to be the best version of themselves.  I find this to be a comforting thought.  In the duality of the existence of good and evil, good is alive and well.  

  Dear younger me, When you are at video stores and you are happily looking for interesting movies to purchase that the video stores are selling to get rid of them, the future has a surprise for you.  You will one day be boxing them up to donate to Goodwill, most of which you have never watched. Ha ha surprise! 🥳 Times change, and indeed technology altered itself quite rapidly.  You don’t know it, but you won’t be inclined to watch VHS tapes when there are already also DVDs and soon to follow Blu-ray discs and finally digital streaming.  You will one day concede that you can find a plethora of programs and movies to watch anytime you want to.  You really don’t have a need to still store a bunch of old VHS tapes as much as they may have interested you at the time of their purchase.  And you still have lots of DVDs and Blu-rays. 😲 But for now you have a big box of VHS tapes in the back of your car to drop off at Goodwill.  Amazingly thrift stores do st...

 Why did our country have to find itself in such a time of political madness?   Good vs. Evil   It seems that this is where our country is at and it is all being played out on a national and international stage.  Can the forces of darkness that have a political grip and control over our country right now just meet their downfall already so the United States of America can get back to moving in a more positive direction toward the future of our country?! https://youtu.be/JQtqA5kfhBI?si=KTIFrEesl24vS-GZ The information and ideas and realities of the 21st century are certainly enough to make anyone’s head spin from trying to think about and process it all. https://youtu.be/MoLN7-v5Jsw?si=7myhLfg-NbM6cSQK I do like that a political influencer and internet news media host on the side of history that I am on got an interview with former President Barack Obama. 👍 https://youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?si=G-1GqSkE-4IHDKIB

 My mind likes to treat me to thoughts about things I would like to say to Mr. Trump.  Usually I’m happy just to write them here.  I only previously left replies on his Truth Social postings 5 times.  Well today something got the better of me and I left a reply to his Happy Presidents’ Day Post.  I was honestly quite impressed and surprised because nothing mean or bad was said about anyone.  Usually his Happy “insert occasion” Messages are about wishing a pleasant day even to x,y&z persons that he finds to be totally corrupt and loathsome and complete losers in contrast to his own glory and greatness.  I thought a happy special occasion message without this was quite surprising and remarkable.  So I said so. Well, somehow, my message has been seen.  Not by Mr. Trump, but by others.  How did this happen??  I felt quite certain they would never be seen by anyone.  I never see any normal replies to Mr. Trump from normal everyd...

 The African-American newspaper.  I don’t know the story behind this newspaper but this was its title.  I don’t know when exactly it came into being.  I really only know that it was around after the Civil War and it covered news in New York City.  I don’t know if it was a New York City only paper or where else it might have been printed.  It is interesting though to know that there was an African-American newspaper in the period after the Civil War.  I can add the story of this newspaper to a very long list of things that I might potentially like to investigate and learn about.  I learned about this newspaper when I read a story about an ancestor of mine in it. Ok, from what little I can see right now without paid access to my Ancestry.com account, the newspaper existed from 1829-1947.

  Earlier today, I was like in awe admiring this rug while waiting for Kate at an appointment of hers.  The location we were at was formerly a pediatric clinic.  What an awesome rug they still have there.  I could imagine the possibilities for play and learning that could be had using this rug with young children.  Without the table in the center, of course.  The space would be a good place for sitting.  I can, though, appreciate the potential value of a raised piece in the center that children could climb onto, slide or walk across and jump off of again.  This table, though is way too tall and hard.  A shorter ottoman style vinyl covered padded climbing piece, in the center, with a color to match the rug, that could be added or removed, could be a lovely addition.  I think round would be a good idea.   Vienna at age 2 would surely have told me that indigo was missing.  She did this once with markers or paint or crayons or some...

A verdict on my sanity.   That was the thought that just befell my thinking.  But damn, if there is any kind of authority that can help me answer my own question, I know not of this authority.  I think I may perhaps have lots of voices available to my thinking, but this does not mean that I hear voices. 🤪  The voices of thought are like lovely friends that I wish I could hear all the time.  #realfriends

I asked for an image of these three presidents.  Trump having a big head was a surprise.  It is fitting though because he is indeed a man with a big head!

 Dear Mr. Trump, you should just love the bunny.  I mean, Bad Bunny, of course.  The thought just occurred to me again that to feel love is the greatest blessing of all.  “The only thing stronger than hate is love.”  I do believe those are wise words that he speaks.  FTR I don’t really dislike or harbor any negative feelings about Starbase, Texas.  I was just being silly because silly is more fun than being all serious in life.  

 Dear Elon Musk, I just wanted to tell you that I don’t care about your stinky town in the Rio Grande Valley if I can’t drive through it and see your town as I could with any other town in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.  #starbasetx  #stinkytown

Heat exhaustion in Texas.  This is a lovely thought that my mind just landed on.  Texas once gave me a gift of heated exhaustion.  I learned that day that even if we are not yet into the hottest part of the summer, the hot sun in Texas along with a high heat index can still put me into a state of heat exhaustion when attempting to walk outside in the sun for any prolonged period.  This I will never attempt again.  The hiking trails of Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge are very nice but not friendly to climate challenged non natives of South Texas. 🥵 #atexasreflection

 Mr. Trump did not have very nice things to say about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. I can imagine an adult cartoon story where Mr. Trump is ready to square off with Bad Bunny.  Oh wait a minute, that’s not Bad Bunny in this image, that’s Bugs Bunny.   Mr. Trump fighting Bugs Bunny.  Well I guess in a cartoon story or series, Mr. Trump finding himself with a reason to be pissed off at Bugs Bunny could be a good story also.  I see Mr. Trump appears to have lost a few of his bottom teeth.

 Thank you, Bad Bunny for bringing a message of love and unity and inclusiveness to America.  🐇🤎🤍🩶🖤 “Together We Are America.”  I love this.  Imagine a nation truly founded on the belief that all men (human beings male and female) are created equal and are of equal worth and value.

 I just had this thought of my brother playing his coward and Dracula game. He would walk around, huddled with a blanket wrapped around his head and say, “I’m a coward”.  He would then dramatically flip the blanket behind his head to transform it into a cap and say, “Not anymore, I’m Dracula!!” 🧛  

 I was thinking of my childhood “ardent pacifist” story.  There was one time when I was in a state of waking up, and I heard a voice say to me, “You are an ardent pacifist”.  I had no idea what that meant.  Well damn, I have had a touch of crazy for a very long time.  I must be an undiagnosed something, but I don’t know what that something is. 🫢🤪  And now I am hearing the name, Nelly Bly.  So of course, I looked her up to find out who she is.  Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was a pioneering American investigative journalist and adventurer famous for her undercover exposés, like her 1887 stint in a mental asylum, and for her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world in 1889-1890, inspired by Jules Verne's novel. She broke barriers for women in media, using undercover tactics to expose social injustices, advocate for the poor, and champion women's rights, becoming a major figure in “ stunt journalism".  I don’t know why my though...

  Silly Donald.  Just say you are sorry that the video about voting machine fraud, that you shared, ended with an image of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.  It’s not a terrible thing.  You should try it out.  People the world over would be stunned and amazed!!

Well hello there baby and toddler Donald.  Aren’t you cunning!  That’s an older word that my maternal grandmother used to describe sweet and adorable babies and toddlers.  I don’t know if you were meant to be MAGA President Trump from the day you were born or if you could have been another version of yourself. 

 Three more years of Trump.  This may be the reality of what we are all looking at with the presidency of Donald Trump . 🫨 A lot of people are frequently talking about what a serious state of physical and cognitive decline Mr. Trump is in.  Well, recently, I have been questioning this quite a bit.  This is what I have been thinking about.  Mr. Trump has access to the current best medical care and even new experimental treatments regardless of the cost.  Maybe I am completely wrong because I only see little bits of Mr. Trump speaking and not the whole overall picture, but it seems to me that despite the fact that practically everything that comes out of his mouth is bullshit, he seems to be speaking pretty well and doing a good job of expressing his lines of bullshit.  Again, I have no idea what’s going on through the course of his every day so I could be totally wrong in feeling that he might actually have improved in his cognitive functioning. ...

Everyone has an uncle…  It’s a familiar line I’ve heard through the most recent years of our country and world’s history.  Maybe from around the time of Trump’s first term and the Covid pandemic.  Well yes indeed, I have just such an uncle on my paternal side of the family.  He came to be of like mind with Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists, and evidently pseudo scientific information.  The whole pro Trump package.  He so believed in (and as far as I know still does) Trump and Trump being the best president ever.  He had been a high school teacher of math and physics and was well liked and he was still respected and exemplified by many of his former students through Facebook.  He posted a lot of crazy (in my opinion) stuff on Facebook.  It was all stuff that he himself believed.  There was one time that he shared a post about a supposed admission from the CDC about the inaccuracy of their information about COVID.  I can’t recall...

 Strange but true.  I think that sounds like an apt way of describing so many of my life‘s experiences.  Like when I go on a cruise and one of the things I really enjoy on the ship is the opportunity to walk up and down stairs.  It seems as though my life is filled with crazy stories that are true.  

 I know of a good question that I would ask other people if I would do such a thing.  My question would be, “Are there any podcasts that you really like to listen to?”  I think this would be an interesting question. 

 I was thinking of a particular prominent person in our country when I had these thoughts.  The name to be inserted would be Mr. Biden, although I’m sure there are many different names that could be inserted also. I believe my ideas and thoughts are also relatable and hold true for most of us at some point in our lives.  I understand that releasing animosities is an undertaking that can be very difficult and that people might not fully be ready for, but I believe that we can always choose to attempt to take some baby steps.  “Perhaps you might want to consider the possibility of opening your heart to not harboring animosity toward (insert name or names).    You might actually find that sentiments of peace and harmony and caring and friendship or simply forgiveness, where you believed them to be impossible, are worth their weight in gold.    You might find carrying these emotions in your heart to be an amazing source of peace, joy, and happiness.”