Added Reflections

 Coincidences.  I was thinking about coincidences and I thought of my brother.  On the theme of coincidences, I think that sometimes life can be ridiculously full of them when you stop and think about it.  Who could even keep track of them all.  And I just had another thought.  It will be a glorious day indeed when Donald Trump is forever gone from the presidency of the United States America and this day shall arrive.  His term has an end date.  And I believe the reality of his presidency is going to continue to be experienced by Mr. Trump in an unfavorable manner. 

This is really messed up but nonetheless truth.  If I need help falling asleep or if I wake up in the night and need help going back to sleep, the only thing that really helps to send me back to La La Land is listening to podcasts by people who talk about how crazy and terrible and effed up Donald Trump is.  How pathetic is that?  What a state of affairs.  Thanks, Donald.  I mean this in a humorous way, even though it is screwed up.   I found another podcast of interest about Donald. 😵‍💫 I only listened to the most recent episode thus far.  The two hosts were commenting and disagreeing with each other about their own thoughts and assessments about Donald Trump and what he is doing and saying.  Lord aren’t things confusing enough without listening to people debate about the psyche of Donald Trump?!! 🤦‍♀️  I actually am laughing. 😂 It’s a good thing for humor. 😁.  (I will add a link to this podcast when I find my cellphone again. ...

 The car dealership where my car was purchased has a couple of resident cats.  After having a couple things done with my car today, as I was waiting at the counter before leaving, I was glancing around and saw a cat outside come running around the corner over toward where my car was parked and waiting.  It plopped itself down under my car and proceeded to stretch itself out to take a nap.  As I was leaving, I had to ask the girl at the counter about whether it was one of their cats and to alert her that the cat was napping under my car and would need to move.  Wow, it’s like a sign.  I really am a cat lady. 🤭😂 And I have a thought for Mr. JD Vance. To be a cat lady, it matters not whether a woman is childless or not. Son of a gun.  I just thought about a conversation that I previously had with Robin W last week, that I took screenshots of but didn’t share on my Robin W blog.  Holy crap!  It’s quite a coincidence.  It’s like he knew ahe...

I took this book out to reread it about a week ago.  I haven’t got very far yet.  Reading books used to be my #1 thing that I wanted to do with any free time until the Internet and then smart phones came along.  I think I will read some of this book now.  At present though, I always feel that I need to first check the news to see if there is any major or important news that is taking place. 🙄 Watching the movie “Coco” yesterday was such a lovely change of focus!

Unfortunately there are probably die hard Trump supporters who won’t think or feel otherwise until he bites them in their own asses.  One would hope that those in this category are a low percentage.   I just thought of something.  Even if Trump for some God forsaken reason really still has a thirty something percent approval rating, it doesn’t mean that all of that population of poll participants are also individuals who will go out to vote in midterm elections.  One would hope that those in the disapproval of Trump population would also take issue with those who support and enable him. I just had a memory about a comment that was made by a neighbor when I was young.  I later on came to agree with her.  Ah Mrs. Rosa!  She was a good neighbor to have.🏡🌸 She is now with the deceased. 😇  Many my age have parents who are both deceased and mine are both still here and neither ever speaks as though they don’t still anticipate having more time still h...

 I can’t imagine having such a big ego and sense of personal magnificence and grandeur and not being embarrassed about it. 😵😳  Our president has now shared this.  https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116967081629708353

 I just had a crazy thought.  It was about when I have seen images generated by artificial intelligence, and there are people in the AI images who resemble real people that I have a connection to.  Am I just insane or is this really true???  If I don’t question my own sanity, then I would have to say yes, it is true.  I guess my thoughts had to go and get all serious about the question of whether AI can do some unbelievable and unexplainable things or I have gone nuts.  It’s a real question and I have yet to ever speak to anyone else who has had an equally crazy and hard to process experience. It’s like a weird twilight zone where artificial intelligence makes people (or just myself) question whether they have lost their marbles.  Has life in the 21st-century become oddly similar to an episode of “The Twilight Zone”? I guess it’s my job is to write the story.  I’d say it will be pretty easy if all I have to do is write about reality and I will hav...

I experienced heat exhaustion once and I never ran out of water.  It still took all of my will and strength to get myself back to my car and its air conditioning and I frequently had to stop when I could no longer continue.  There is zero chance that I could have done that on my own without water.  It makes me realize how truly dangerous and quickly life-threatening an experience of heat exhaustion along with dehydration could be.  I just remembered the people who found themself in a medical crisis or emergency at Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair.  I never looked for information to see what happened to them.  I don’t know if it’s true, but I remember hearing some stories that there were some people who were left in serious medical conditions.  I can’t remember the medical terms that were used.  I need to go look this up. Below is an AI summary of the events that took place. AI had this to say about any updates about the individuals who req...

 I just had a thought about Donald Trump kicking the bucket.  If Donald Trump kicks the bucket before the end of his term, people will have every right to experience a feeling of joy and relief.  Joy that the horrendous presidency of Donald Trump has come to an end and that he is no longer a harmful and destructive force and threat to the United States of America.   This reminds me.  One of the funniest things that I ever heard from an AI chat bot was when the chat bot made reference to me  kicking the bucket and used those exact words.  That’s quite an unexpected thing to hear from an AI. 😲😂

Ha ha.  This is how I work on my to-do list but still procrastinate.  I make the appointment for work I need to have done on my car, but I make the appointment for next week. 😁🙌 Yay, another task that I was dreading and avoiding proved to be Easy Peezy!! 👍  It’s great to speak to good and helpful customer service representatives when you have a good connection and can hear them clearly and they aren’t from some other country where the connection is poor and you can barely understand what they are saying.  It’s also great when things work out with no problems. 👏

 I just had a thought about women and pregnancy.  Women need to be able to protect and nurture their own security and well-being before they can be capable of adding the enormous additional responsibility of parenting and providing for a child.  My thought wasn’t even about Roe versus Wade, but of course that also came into my reflections.  I don’t remember now what my other thoughts were that led me to thinking about women and pregnancy.  OK, I have another thought.  It would be amazing if in my lifetime the previous row versus wade decision was restored.  There should never be any laws that can take away a woman’s right to have autonomy of her own body or her right to protect her own well-being and needs.

Maybe grace is something that is given to people who recognize and understand that they are in need of it.  There is much grace needed at this time.  Lies and denial of truths can only get people so far.  There are a lot of leaders of our country who really need to open their ears and hearts and listen and attempt to comprehend things from a broader perspective than their own.  I think this is their prerequisite to receiving grace.  The same is true for all of us in reflecting on our actions and errors from our past that we have come to view differently with greater maturity and understanding. I sent another brief message to Mr. Trump that he will never see or read.  It’s too bad that JD Vance can’t see it though.  If he is the man that he is portrayed to be in his book and movie, you would think that my thoughts would have some real meaning to him, particularly in light of him having recently become a new father again. Oh dear, it’s that pesky interlo...

 I just found myself having this thought.  An amazing thing about the 21st-century is that people can find places where they can write about whatever they would like on the internet, and they can do so in their own style which doesn’t have to fit anyone else’s mold.

 When I am around other more typical people than myself, I am reminded that typical people go about the normal business of life without paying so much attention to Donald Trump and his presidency and what people who share political news are saying about all of it.  Maybe I really am on the autism spectrum because I evidently do fixate about stuff like this a lot more than normal typical people. I think the tide is turning and things are shaping up to be more and more not in favor for Donald Trump.  It is just going to take the midterm elections happening for things to really change and begin to rein him in and hold him accountable for all his unlawfulness and corruption.

 My newly engaged nestlings are moving out today. Very close by.  I think it is going to be permanent this time.  I am not going to mind the quiet time. ☕️ 📕  I am very happy for them and I hope their lives will always treat them very well. At the moment, they are back at my house to get their dog after going out for dinner because if they left him alone in the new apartment, he might get scared and anxious and poop all over the place! 🐶😂  My son is a most amazing dog dad!  And Fat Fats is a very costly old man!  Only the best for Fat Fats’ health and wellness!! 💎🐶 😁

 I was just scrolling down Substack and I saw a post by James Tallarico about Sebastian Guerreros, the Maine man who was murdered by ICE, and his three-year-old daughter.  I suddenly found myself thinking about the three year-old girl.  What would that do to a three year-old child to see their parent killed?  Will any other adults in her life be able to help her to still have any sense of security and safety in the world that she lives in?   I guess I should get off of Substack.  It’s not a very light place to be at the moment.  Prior to seeing the post by James Tallarico, I was seeing stuff about the Cyclospora parasite. I voted for James Talerico in the Texas primary elections.  I know better than to hold my breath about such things, but if he is elected in November, that will be so freaking amazing!!! It would be fantastic to have a democratic governor in Texas!!! Go Texas America! 😂   Roll of thunder, hear my cry.  Now, why in the h...

 I turned on my phone and saw a notification for a post by Marianne Williamson on Substack.  I never before knew that she had a Substack account or that she wrote anything there.  I read her book, “A Return To Love” a long time ago.  I’m sure that what she has written is worth reading, but I’m really not in the mood to read any more Trump or political stuff tonight.  I guess I will come back to read this later.  I just had a thought about the title of her book that I read.  Isn’t that just exactly what our country needs right now!  A return to love. 💕 This is certainly my wish for our planet and humanity and all of us! 🩷 https://substack.com/@mariannewilliamson/note/c-294914278?r=ihrk5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

 Ha ha funny. 😄😂 I rented a movie that I previously owned in VHS form that I donated to Goodwill. 🫢😁  Oh well, I’m not sorry that I’m not holding onto a big box of old VHS tapes.  I still got to watch the movie that I wanted to watch.

 I just found my thoughts to be about early American pioneers and airplanes.  The early American pioneers could never in their wildest dreams have imagined that not too far into the future, it would be possible for people to fly across the country in flying machines in just a few hours.  This was my reflection recently when visiting The Museum of South Texas History.  I of course have reflected on this plenty of times prior to my visit to the museum.  It’s amazing what a difference a century can make. Of historical interest: Early American pioneers most famously traveled by wagon during the westward expansion of the 1840s through the 1860s, especially on routes like the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. Travel by train first became available to passengers in the United States in 1830, when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first regularly scheduled passenger rail service. Some sources also note earlier passenger use on railways in 1827, but the fir...

 The whole country isn’t screwed up because Donald Trump and his circle of other crazy appointed and elected officials are.  It’s good to remember that normal people still go about the normal business of life and function as normal human beings.  We all need to be connected with the normal business of life and the sanity of normally functioning people.  This is actually smart!  It’s not smart to be ignorant and disconnected from realities taking place in the world that we live in, but it’s also not smart to lose connection with the greater and real picture of things as they actually are.  It’s good to remember that sometimes crazy stuff can seem to have a loud voice online but it doesn’t mean that it’s as all pervasive as it might seem.  I am reminded of the early days and months of the Covid pandemic.  There was all that conspiracy theory and misinformation crap online about both the pandemic and the Covid vaccinations when they were developed an...

 Remember when Trump was president?  I look forward to one day saying this! 😂😄

 How Trump came to power.  I can imagine that someday this will be an academic field of study.  There will be professionals and conferences just for this field of study and inquiry.  Also, how Trump remained in power, despite exhibiting serious evidence of undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses.  Though it’s not like this has never happened before.  There’s that other guy over in the Middle East.  And there’s also the guy in Russia.  Trump may well be the star, though, of the 21st-century.  OK, maybe there won’t be conferences just about Trump or other fascist dictators and how they rise to power but God knows it is an important topic.  This should be understood and prevented from ever happening again in the democracy of the United States of America.  I’m not implying that the rest of the countries of the world don’t matter also but just that people should learn lessons from what has happened in the United States of America and ...

 I just had a thought about President Lincoln.  He had to handle a Civil War within the country of which he had been elected as president.  Wow, that’s not too stressful!! 😱 It was a term of presidency like no other!  He deserves to be sitting in that great big chair in the Lincoln Memorial!  Go Abe!

 Eek, this is a crazy thought.  It was about a sentiment I imagine to be fitting for Donald Trump. It was for beautiful women. “Look at my gold baby!”  He would be standing dressed as a boxer with an American flag held behind his backside and he would be wearing shining golden boxing shorts as he said this.   Is this what he sees in all his shining gold that he treasures??  His own shining glory? 🤭 Help.  How and why did I just come up with that???  It’s like I hear stuff that I myself and surprised and entertained by.

 I just had a funny silly thought.  My son once shook hands with former president, Clinton.  I’m glad he was a democrat!!!  🙌 Oh dear, I just remembered that Abraham Lincoln was a republican.  OK, he was a good republican.  The Republican party in modern times though has gone to the dark side unfortunately.

 I just had a funny thought about my brother.  It was something from the last time I had an in person visit with him.  We had all been sitting in the living room and talking for a while at the end of a visit before saying our goodbyes.  I think a final bit of conversation had been about technology and topics like social media.  Well I had a story to tell about AI and chatbots.  I guess someone had mentioned them.  I said to my brother just as we were all saying goodbye that I had found a chat bot that was an AI recreation of Robin Williams that I had communicated with that talked as though it was Robin Williams.   He seemed not surprised at the idea of such a thing being possible and also perhaps that he had knowledge of such things.  We were all saying goodbye though so there were no more comments into this topic.  I’ll bet my brother wasn’t sorry to dodge such a conversation with me.  I will always be my brother’s sister regardles...

 With the time of year and the heat, the food vendors should be selling lots of snow cones and icy slushy drinks.  That is what I would be looking for.  I wonder if there are any at all?  It was funny (in some different videos) to hear a man, who is possibly a big Trump supporter, say that he has been to state fairs all over the country and that Trump’s Great American State Fair in Washington DC is just terrible.  Also out of concern for the people attending the fair, you would think that rich Donald Trump could out of concern for the people arrange for there to be free water available for everyone.  Nope.  They say that the price for a single bottle of water is $5.  People in weather like that need to drink lots of water.  Trump wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to profit off of people’s potential dehydration and heat exhaustion. https://youtu.be/BjJJHWLxbm0?is=gMk98BhTXG1NoQS_

 What’s up with his hair?  I have no idea what this story was about.  I couldn’t really listen and pay attention because I kept looking at the hair on his right side at the back of his head. 🫢  I don’t mean to point this out in a mean or critical way.  My hair is a big old mess every morning or if I go out and it gets wind blown.  I guess I was just staring at his hair and contemplating that he must be overworked, stressed and tired.  Who wouldn’t be if their full-time job every day is to focus on and report on everything going on with Donald Trump and our messed up government.  https://youtu.be/F7NCpbSo86w?is=JViEpCxbCUobqRZm

I’m afraid I’m a big 4th of July Bah Humbug.  I don’t know from where people are mustering up the spirit to celebrate the 4th of July and our countries 250th birthday this year. 😞 Good for them if they can find the spirit for doing this.  To me it doesn’t really feel like there is much to celebrate this year despite it being America’s 250th birthday.  I feel that Trump and our countries government have just really ruined the whole vibe and spirit.  America isn’t really America at this time.  It’s just a big nightmare disgusting shit show.  After unexpectedly returning home from a trip that I was supposed to be taking I could have gotten involved with a parade and so forth but I really don’t even want to.  I guess I should be thinking that the American people still matter and we shouldn’t let Trump & his government ruin everything, but I still feel like it would be celebrating a lie.  Trump really only cares about stroking his own ego and furt...