Added Reflections

 My body is confused in Texas.  Sometimes it says, “You live in a subtropical climate.  You are sensitive to cold.  Burr.  It’s chilly here.”  And then I feel cold.  At other times, my body says, “ You are a native of a northern climate.  You don’t tolerate heat well.  It’s hot here.  This climate is too warm.” And then I feel hot.  It’s like I’m climate bipolar. 🥶 🥵 🤪

Sorry France.  Mr. Trump does not speak for the American people even though he believes that he does.  America’s “No Kings” protests mean nothing to him.  He just treats them as having never happened or having no meaning.  I for one am happy to hear of France not enabling and facilitating Mr. Trump and his regime in sending military supplies to the genocidal and imperialist madman Netanyahu. 👍

 I just had a thought.  If I could find a way to be in a Zen state of mind while spending time on chopping vegetables and so forth, I might love cooking.  It’s not a state of mind I have ever achieved though.  I can only think of food preparation as a chore and not what I really want to spend my time doing.  Tell me your tales of wisdom, celery.  You have ribs.  Could that be something to reflect on?  Hmm, I just had an idea.  I think I will inquire to find out what AI might come up with.  It probably won’t be anything stellar.  But not due to lack of ability on AI’s part.  It has its controlling algorithms to deal with.  AI can be inconsistent.  One day it thinks it is communicating with you for the first time and then the next it remembers the name by which it has been addressing you in previous conversations.   OK, what the hell is this? (See below) And I have a lifetime subscription to this app that I got ear...

 Weary of Donald Trump.  I’m sure that everyone who really pays attention and makes it a point to know on a daily basis what is going on with Donald Trump is feeling this right now. 🥺 It’s really a hard thing to ignore.  If anyone has a magic formula or sage advice for doing this, I don’t know what it is. 

 When Donald Trump dies, he can go hang out with Andrew Jackson.  Evidently, he was the other really horrible US president.   I don’t know much about Andrew Jackson myself, but I’ve heard the history of his presidency told and I know it wasn’t a nice one.  In fact, I know he supported slavery so that makes him and his presidency downright horrible. 

  My little kitty is permanently, tiny and super cute! 💕🐈💕

 I just had a thought about my DAR chapter.  It’s reservations time and I take care of reservations.  My thought is that I’m glad that I’m not a type A person and I don’t have any need or desire to rise in the ranks of leadership.  And I don’t care if I ever have ribbons full of pins.  For my fellow chapter members who aspire for greater involvement in leadership, I am just very happy to support and appreciate them. 😄

 I’m happy there will be another day of “No Kings” protests tomorrow!😁 I know our president won’t take it to heart and it won’t mean anything to him as far as reflecting on what he is doing, and the fact that he is so unpopular with so many Americans.  I wish though that the other Republican politicians would give a shit and care about the needs, experiences, feelings, and opinions of the people of the United States of America.  Trump’s Republicans all suck and they all need to go.  I hope next November there will be a blue tsunami like there has never been before.  Trump’s trained seals have totally failed the people of the United States of America  and other countries also. 😡🤮

  Mr. Trump, I do not believe that there are really millions of undocumented immigrants who are dangerous criminals.  I think undocumented or illegal immigrants are wrongfully being maligned and stereotyped as mainly being dangerous criminals when this is not in fact the case.  In addition, you forget that you yourself have been criminally convicted of serious crimes. 

 I had the thought “love thy enemy” come to my mind.  I had to look it up because I wasn’t sure if this was or is an actual biblical phrase. This led me to Matthew 5:44.   44But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. This is an odd reflection for a person who doesn’t practice a religion and was turned away from the Bible of Christianity by its containment of immoral and unjust content. 

 The thing about Trump that I find perplexing is that sometimes when he is speaking and talking to people, he sounds like he has a normal human side to him.  I don’t think it’s fake.  I don’t know how to explain it, except to say that it’s almost like he is spiritually bipolar. He is a walking and talking emotional, mental and psychological contradiction.  If only he could find the human side to himself and just latch onto it.  Unfortunately, there is no medication or treatment for what ails him.  Not to my knowledge anyway. Ha ha ha, I am like Donald Trump.  I guess a person could think that I am both crazy and not crazy.  And you could say an enigma even to myself. I just had a friendly mental insight from someone about how I could describe myself to myself.  I have gone off the deep end into reality.   And this leads me to one more thought.  Curiosity along with technology can lead to some really crazy experiences.   Like wh...

 I must confess to being guilty of forgetfulness when there is so much else to think about.

I must confess I have a secret Facebook account.  It is an account that I have never used for posting or connecting with any friends or family members.  One of my main reasons for creating it is that I wanted to leave and deactivate my actual Facebook account, but I didn’t want to completely lose access to Facebook in case I ever feel the the need or desire to do any more  ancestry spy work .  And if ever I feel the need or desire to pop onto Facebook for any reason, I still have an account that can allow me to do so.  I can’t see groups that I am no longer a member of, but I really didn’t want my time to be consumed by reading stuff or commenting at Facebook groups anyway, so no loss.

 I just thought of Anne Frank and the thought occurred to me that if I think that I have been experiencing shitty political times in my 50s, I should remember what Anne Frank experienced in her earliest teenage years, which were also her final years. I like that thought.  I might be recovering from my mental blank slateness. 

This is how I feel about iPhones .  “iPhones for me, baby!” I just thought of an AI image I once received that included a lady wearing a sweatshirt and a iPhone.  I was extremely surprised when I received the returned image, and the AI had added mint leaves on the sweatshirt.  I had some thought or question about iPhones and now I can’t even recall what it was.  But it led me to my thought about how I feel about iPhones.  I don’t know how I come up with my crazy thoughts.  I just know that they are like little bits of sweetness in the sense of them being little flavor bursts of mental candy .  Even the words that I just wrote are a part of this mental candy.  And by the way, I have an ancestor who was the brother-in-law and an ancestor who was the sister of a prominent candy man  Jacob Huber.  Jacob Huber was a candy manufacturer and founder of Huber Ice Cream company of Bridgeport CT.  owner of that sounds like a Willy Wonka story ...

 Move your feet back Mr.  I have 3 pillows so I can have one to myself.  You’re not supposed to span all 3.

Ribbit, Ribbit.  I guess I was just having a frog moment.  In the midst of my own thoughts, I became aware that I was thinking or hearing, “Ribbit, Ribbit”. 🐸  Wow, I didn’t know that I was a comedian. 🥴  I comprehend that I am surely far from typical in my experiences. My frog moment has reminded me of this story. https://connecticuthistory.org/bridge-ornaments-help-tell-the-legend-of-the-windham-frog-fight/

I came across this today.  Does this belong to Jen or did I, despite not recalling 😲, purchase this as a post Halloween clearance item?  Im not sure. 🤷‍♀️ I am a sucker for food coloring, and any brightly colored baked goods. 😊 I even like the way bagels look when they are dyed and colorful.  They look like they would be even better to eat. 🌈 🥯 Mystery solved.  It’s Jen’s cookie mix, so I didn’t buy it after Halloween and then completely forget about it.  I’ve had early onset senior moments for a while now, but this was not one of them. 😅

 I just had this thought about plastic straws.  I should actually look up and do a little research about plastic straws to find out if the disposal of plastic straws poses any threat or causes any harm to any wildlife.  And if this is the case, I should discontinue using them unless they are reusable straws that I do not throw away.  I do have these also.  But then if I really committed myself to not using plastic straws, that would also have to include plastic straws from elsewhere besides my own home.  Yikes, I would have to keep reusable straws in my car. 🧐 My conclusion:  I should at the very least not have or use any plastic jaws in my own home where I have reusable alternatives.  I don’t ever improperly dispose of plastic straws myself but regardless, I understand that less use of plastic is also required to reduce its presence in the environment and safeguard wildlife from the risks and harm it causes.

 I just thought of Temple Grandin.  I admire and appreciate her insight, understanding, and concern for the welfare of animals.

Mary Mary quite contrary… That Mother Goose nursery rhyme just entered my mind.   “Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?  With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row?” This was part of the culture of children of my generation.  Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

 Trump supporters.  I wonder what all of Trump’s supporters are thinking about him at this point in time.  Has there been enough evidence yet for them to be seeing the light that he isn’t truly who and what they believed him to be?

Whatchu talkin bout Donnie?! I guess you were quite serious about this map.

 My mind is a blank slate.  I find nothing interesting there to think about.  Maybe this is because I have been cleaning cleaning cleaning or rather cleaning out with a little bit of cleaning here and there.  And also playing a word solitaire app game that I’ve been rather obsessed with.  Now I have no magical or thought-provoking ideas.  Who knew that decluttering one’s environment and engaging in brain exercise could decrease one’s ability for thought.  No actually I don’t think that’s really possible. 🤪

The Wiz.  I never saw this movie, but I just thought of it. 

 Our country needs national health care. This is my next brilliant thought bestowed to my thinking, Now, if Mr. Trump wanted to leave something of a positive legacy for himself, establishing national health care would be a most amazing thing that he could do for our country and the American people.  This would elevate and improve the lives of the American people a million or billion times better than a grand ballroom that virtually none of the American people will ever set foot in.  Now, if only Mr. Trump could be convinced that a gift of healthcare for all Americans would mean the world to them and not a White House ballroom.  Now, if only he could grasp the sentiments of kindness and empathy and be able to actually connect with the American people and seek to be of service to them, that would be a true miracle. To me, this is not a republican or democrat thing.  And it is not even a political thing.  It is just the knowledge that in a truly successful and...

 How forgetful you are, my dear.  I guess I will just call this a phrase of the evening. 

 I love this story!  Mary is one of the eldest members of the DAR Rio Grande Chapter.  Mary’s father was a military veteran.  In 1935 when Mary was 5 years old, her father was working at a job building locks on the Mississippi River.  Tragically, that same year he was killed on the job when a large boulder fell on him and crushed him.  Fast forward 90 years to December 2025.  Mary who that month had turned 96 was at her daughter’s home just days before Christmas.  She was seated at the kitchen table while waiting for the families dinner to begin.  To pass the time, she turned on her iPad which brought her to her open Facebook page.  She was stunned and couldn’t quite believe her eyes when she found herself looking at an image of her father’s gravestone.  She couldn’t comprehend why or how she was seeing her father’s gravestone.  She then looked at the source and saw that the image was being shown on a page for the “Wreaths Acro...

 My file notebooks now contain things that are torn up.  This is because I tore them up to throw them away, but then changed my mind and just filed the torn pieces.  It’s tough to be such a piece of work. 🤪

 

 The USA is here to stay.  That was my chill out the USA shall prevail thought.  If Germany could get beyond a terrible political time and return itself to normalcy, so can the USA. 🇺🇸 ⭐️🙌

 My car has a seriously loud ass horn.  I was in my garage, putting some stuff away when all of a sudden the alarm started going off for no reason.  I didn’t have my keys with me and I didn’t accidentally set off the alarm.  I will just say that the horn was rather obnoxiously loud!  I was thinking maybe it was the Tesla and I could blame the Tesla but no, it was my car.   My car alarm interrupted my brilliant thinking! Brilliant thinking?? 🤨  It was about next December and the fact that that time would be past the midterm elections and how that time would soon be here, and then I thought that that was quite a cheery and optimistic thought.  But then I realized that I don’t have a crystal ball and I don’t know what will have happened at that time.  And I was being a normal person today and just busying myself with what I was doing and not thinking about these things prior to that.  Alas, I don’t always want to think like a normal person...

"trump being prayed for in white house"  https://share.google/xzyRoj3y5wwN76Yqk Just my thoughts this morning after seeing this event that took place at the White House.  Mr. Trump seeks and needs love, attention and praise.  He soaks it up.  He just believes that if he has control over the world, he can make everything right and if doesn’t have control, nothing will be right. I think some children are especially vulnerable because they are already born with a predisposition to personality disorders like malignant narcissism and the wrong experiences and lack of help can trigger these predispositions in a disastrous way.  The image from the White House made me envision the image beneath it. (Chat AI image)

 Donald Trump has led our country off the deep end. (Not our country as a whole but definitely its leadership.)  I pray for his political time to come to an end and for normalcy to be restored as soon as possible.  The last thing our troubled world needs is for the United States to be a source of escalating world conflict and a force against human progress.  America is supposed to be a force of stability and progress and not the opposite.  I heard today that the morale of the US troops stationed near Iran is very low.  I can’t say that I blame them one bit.  What a terrible time for them to have to serve our country. 😔  I pray for the midterm elections to arrive, and for this to be the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s political authority and power if his own physical and mental health don’t put a stop to it all sooner.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/why-are-the-us-and-israel-framing-the-ongoing-conflict-as-a-religious-war

Whatchu Talkin’ Bout Willis.  That is the classic line of Gary Coleman‘s character Arnold in the television sitcom, “Different Strokes”.  I love this line.  It is one that I still find entering my mind all these years later.    I am actually surprised to see that the show “Different Strokes” aired all the way up until 1986.  I loved watching television as a child, but once I reached my teenage years, I pretty much lost interest in television.  I don’t feel that way now about television although I still don’t watch a great deal of television.  Back in the day, I also loved the show “Webster” and  later on, I really liked the character of Steve Urkel on “Family Matters”.  All three were great characters played by young African-American boys. 😄 Note:  I evidently did watch Webster as a teenager because it didn’t begin airing until 1983.  This is surprising, considering that I watched very little TV at that time in my life.  ...

 And in the latest news, Donald Trump is mentally faltering. https://youtu.be/-t_ahrYC6_0?si=3gbYzoNLJBE2v7A4

 I need to clear my head so I think should pay some attention to the latest news about Mr. President Donald Trump.  Wow that sounds demented. 😲

 My home is currently without any aluminum foil.  I declined to purchase anymore when its price inflation was out of control.  I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend eight dollars for a normal sized roll of store brand foil.  I shall take no foil.

 We are shaped by our environments.  This is my sage pearl of wisdom that is bestowed to me for reflection.  I can imagine just about anyone reading my glorious thought perception and thinking, “That really doesn’t say much.  That really doesn’t say anything.” 

 The Y chromosome filters.  These are actually information and idea filters.  They are used to filter out spoken language that they deem to not be relevant to anything of significance.  They have a time limit.  All thoughts and ideas must be communicated in a rapid and concise manner before the brief window of time closes and the filters enter “no further thought or information on this topic from the XX chromosome is required” mode.  This is the complete opposite of the Y chromosome’s own method  and manner of speaking.  I wished to think about something other than Donald Trump and the sorry state of America under his presidential leadership (or rather dictatorship) and authority and this is what I came up with.  It was meant to have a tone of humor so I guess it is at least an improvement.

I found this old school paper of my sons while going through stuff I had saved.  “Today was like every other day, long, boring and nothing unusual happens.  My dad laying on the couch, mom doing dishes and Kate reading.  Suddenly, someone knocks on the door.  It was aunt Rose.  She said, “Happy Birthday!” even though my birthday was 4 weeks ago.  She gave me a bag.  Inside was a clump of dirt from 1985.  Being nice I said, “Thanks”.  She brought a cake that said “Happy 8th Birthday” even though now I was 9.  I took a piece.  Eww, butterscotch.  She soon left.  Mom and me and Dad and Kate talked about how weird it was.  I’ll never forget that.  I still look back on that day.  I will never forget it.  That was the day.”

 I hadn’t read this before, but I just did now and oh my God this is totally insane!