Just A Thought

Time flies and history marches on.  If you are really paying attention though, and watching a bad chapter of it unfold, the story is painfully slow.  Donald Trump’s second term of presidency has been a complete disaster.  If you are like me and you are waiting for a resolution to this disaster, it seems as though time stands still.  Our president is completely disturbed and unfit to conduct his own life in a sane manner let alone the presidency of the United States of America.  It is all falling apart for him but not nearly fast enough.  His enablers keep it going and perpetuate the madness.  Every day it is more of the same shit show, but the shit show goes on and on.  He needs to be out of office.  By now this should be painfully clear to everyone and yet he remains in his position of power day after day after day.  Our country and the Middle East are in turmoil because of Donald Trump and his response when not commanding more chaos an...

 I had a crazy dream that I was at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, and I stuck my fingertips into the water at the edge.  I knew that I perhaps shouldn’t touch the water, but I did it anyway.  It then struck me that I might be accused of doing something seriously wrong.  I looked up to where there might be cameras and covered my mouth with my hand. 🫢 I was thinking, “I’m innocent!  I only just touched the water with my fingertips!  I thought that surely I couldn’t look guilty of doing anything really wrong.”  I guess there was a part of me that was testing the waters (no pun intended) of sticking my fingers into the reflecting pool but I really wasn’t trying to do anything harmful or wrong.

Amidst all of the struggles of life, it also holds moments of joy.  Everyone deserves them.  I was a Colorado road trip flunky, but I’m happy to see my family members enjoying their journey.  Feeling emotional at the moment. 😭🥰

 Time is a very strange creature.  When I’m home, the hours always pass by super quickly.  When I’m in a car for a 12.5 hour journey, the hours stretch on forever.  Is this a theory of relativity kind of thing?  OK, I know that cars don’t really travel fast enough to slow down time.  I guess it’s a comfort versus discomfort and boredom versus non boredom kind of thing.

 I am at the airport in Amarillo waiting to fly back home.  After not being well to start (with more than a normal headache) and then trying to push through to leave and then taking at 12.5 hour car trip to Canyon TX, I am not feeling well enough to continue on with the Colorado adventure to 2 different locations that will entail many more long hours of car travels, so back home I go.  No more very long car trips for me.  They don’t agree with me. 🙁🤕🤢

In the year 2026, the president of the United States Of America, who suffers from narcissistic mental illness, shared on his presidential social media account an image of a UFC wrestler with an American flag with the red and white stripes held across his back while his butt also clad in red and white stripes served as an extension to the American flag.  The American Flag together with a wrestlers ass.   Is this really reality?? Donald, you are indeed a case like no other and your story could fill a whole set of encyclopedias! Dear lord how were people so blind to the reality of who Donald Trump is?  He is a man not of sound mind or rationality.  Any Americans who want to be more informed about President Trump can find a wealth of information in his own writing and posts on his social media account on his TruthSocial platform. Some will come into this world when Donald Trump is a chapter from history.  And for some of us, this chapter is part of our own lives. ...

 I just had a thought that I believe is important to a sense of peace and the release of unnecessary anxieties.  It doesn’t matter what time of day it is.  It doesn’t matter if morning has slipped away and become afternoon.  It doesn’t matter if the afternoon and evening have slipped away and become night once again.  The night will slip away once again and become a new morning.  All time is equally valuable and a part of our existence.  Every time of the day is ours and an opportunity for us to experience it in a positive manner.  If we feel anxiety about time slipping away or having been wasted, then this will take away from our ability to have the most positive experience with the present time in which we exist and find ourselves.  It doesn’t matter what time of day it is.  It is all ours and every time of the day has value.  If we reach the time of the day where we need to sleep again, so what.  Sleep and rest rejuvenate us...

 I have been failing with my resolve to not look at Instagram. 🫤 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZK0EZugfyK/?igsh=MWpqd3R6bXd0dDJ6Ng==

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdwv0doxVI/?igsh=MnN0cW9ya3pnN3dr I was lucky.  Parenting is never easy, but my own two children didn’t have this kind of rivalry.  My brother and I were another story. 😯 

At least he thus far doesn’t want to and hasn’t attempted to follow through with his worst threats.    

 37 Down Answer: Slacks Slacks.  Now that is a word that I haven’t heard in a long time.  I do remember when jeans were dungarees and dressier pants were slacks.  

 I was happy to see a new documentary about Abraham Lincoln on Netflix.  He was a great and good president and very important in the history of our country and the ending of slavery in our country.  I thought it would be a very worthwhile thing to watch and I really do have an interest in history now that I didn’t have as a younger person.  I thought it would be a great choice for something to watch that I could learn from that would be something to focus on other than our countries current nightmare situation with Donald Trump.  I guess I wasn’t really thinking about the reality of Abraham Lincoln’s connection with the Civil War. 😳 It’s not exactly an easy or uplifting topic and there is no story about the life of Abraham Lincoln that isn’t deeply connected with the civil war.  He did not live during a politically easy time or have an easy presidential experience.  And slavery is indeed a most dark part of our countries history.   I’m not sorry ...

I found something interesting to watch on Netflix.  An Abraham Lincoln documentary. 😄👍

 This does not sound like a good turn of events.

 I never knew before today, but the Ross stores have a 10% off senior discount on Tuesdays for people age 55+.  I only found out when I got home today and looked at my receipt and saw that I had received a 10% off senior discount.  I obviously clearly looked like I belong in this category. 🫤 Actually, I remember being given a 55+ discount somewhere, that I had not requested, back before I even turned 50.  That was 10 years ago! 😯  I’m not really complaining.  I’m happy for the discount at places that offer this.  I should pay more attention and look up if any other places offer senior discount days at 55+ so I don’t miss out!

  https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherdelaneyreese/p/trumps-outrageous-behavior-yesterday-3d4?r=ihrk5&utm_medium=ios

 I made myself a thorough to-do list so that I could remember everything that I need to accomplish.  Now my to-do list has gone missing and I can’t find it!   It is not where I believed I left it.  I can’t believe that despite all my work and efforts at being organized, my to-do list is actually missing. 🫨🙄 I guess I can’t worry about everything on my to-do list now that I can’t even find it. 🤦‍♀️. Is the universe trying to teach me something or what? 🤷‍♀️ Maybe I need to just go with the flow and not worry about everything to the point that it impacts my ability to just focus on and tend to the tasks and necessities of the day and moment. (This has been a struggle of mine for a long time.). It’s hard though, not to worry about stuff that I know I have procrastinated doing.  Oh, woe is me, I know.  It’s not easy to be a human being.

 America Es Muy Bueno.  I guess I am having a Spanish language moment.  I don’t even know if those are words that would be used together in the Spanish language.  America is very good.  That is the lovely phrase I heard myself thinking.  I just thought of those words and they felt like a positive message about the United States of America.  

 These are such contradictory messages from “President” Trump.  I wasn’t going to write or share anything here today about Donald Trump, but then in my infinite wisdom, I decided that I should.   🙄 I just thought of a message that I have for Mr. Trump.  “It’s okay to not win.  Life is full of things of value and meaning that don’t involve winning in the sense that you take it to mean.  Winning has many meanings that have nothing to do with being a victor over others or money.” I feel sorry for any person who is trapped in a mental mindset that doesn’t allow them to understand these kind of things.

 Even easy crossword puzzles are good for remembering and learning new vocabulary words.  I wasn’t familiar with the word alee.  I also discovered that the word alee is missing from dictionary.com as is aweather. .