Plot Twist

 IF there is one thing I am more than certain of, it's HUMOR will help us
get through some very difficult times..........  PLOT TWIST. !!!

 

When The Dead Speak

 

 

Buried Emotions: When the Dead Speak
- Allison Dubois -

May 28, 2021

 

 In a reading a guest asked Allison Dubois .....
"I talked to my deceased loved ones, out loud ALL the time,
do they hear me"?   This was her response.......

Those in spirit are empaths.  So they can feel everything that
we feel, they can also hear our thoughts.  

So whenever we're talking to them, you've already processed the thought through your head, so they've already heard it, but also they can feel our pain.

They can also feel our happiness.  They are very dialed into us, so if
you have a brother or somebody that you miss that you wanted to
talk to, you just talk to him and you'll hear their voice in your head.
You'll know it's theirs because it doesn't feel like your thought process,
it feels like somebody else and that's how you know it's separate from
your thoughts.  It will be something in their tone, like their personality,
their dialect even.  My dad does it all the time with me, but anybody
can do it.  It's just a matter of silence and you have to listen.

Meditation can be important in hearing the answers.  We often ask
them questions or say something, but don't wait for the response to hear
what they have to say.  So take some time, put a pad of paper in front
of yourself and a pen.  Jot down the impressions you get from them
after you ask them questions or say something to them.    

 

Link to May 28, 2021 - video

WHAT WILL MATTER by Michael Josephson

 

WHAT WILL MATTER by Michael Josephson

WHAT WILL MATTER
by Michael Josephson

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought but what you built,
not what you got but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched,
empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew,
but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.
What will matter is not your memories but the memories of those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.
It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.

©2003 Michael Josephson

www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter

www.charactercounts.org

“LIFE IS TOO SHORT WHY BE A BITCH” !!!

 Facebook post....  June 23, 2012

Waiting at CVS pharmacy on Wed after my ER visit, Nicole and I met the sweetest lady. Her name was Jo. She turned out to be the exact same age as my Mom.

Jo us a story of being at a hospital and being mistreated by the nurse who was supposed to be caring for her.

She made the nurse come close to her side and told the nurse….

“I did not choose to be here,

YOU CHOOSE this profession” …

She then said to the nurse, “Close your eyes and visualize your Mother laying here in this hospital bed”.

She then said the nurse’s face got bright red…….

Then Jo said to us….

“LIFE IS TOO SHORT WHY BE A BITCH” !!!

In a very tactful and exacting way, Jo got her point across to that nurse. :))))

*I think this was when I had vertigo.  NOT 100% certain. 

52 Years

 

52 Years by Kevin Charles Estep

I may be a 20 year old kid who has not experienced all 52 years of this drought, but I can tell you this means everything to a city and state built with the blood sweat and tears of sports fans for these 52 years. Year after year men, women, and kids dream maybe this is the year maybe this is finally our time. Season after season there is always next year, we'll get em next year. Well Cleveland sports fans this is the year enjoy it!! For if this is last one for the next 52 years, cherish it hold on to that feeling when the final buzzer sounded and the Cleveland cavilers were named NBA champions, because die hard fans have come and gone not seeing a championship, HOLD on to this one for them.
Hold on to this feeling and let it drive you to do great things! If a team can come back from a 3-1 deficit at the highest level of competition, YOU too can complete anything you put your mind too!
Kevin Charles Estep - @June 20, 2016

Today is June 23, 2021 and this came up in a Facebook note memory. 
I actually had forgotten that I shared it to FB.   Love you Kev-Kev and your wisdom.

THINK before you speak. THINK before you whine and complain.

 On August 16, 2020 I read a quote by J.J. Redick, who played for the Pelicans NBA
basketball team.   Redick at the time had a 2 year contract worth $26.5 million. 

He said........
"I'm in my 6th week of not seeing my children.  I've never gone that long without
seeing my kids or without seeing my wife.  That can really tug at your soul a little bit."
(quote J.J. Redick NBA player)

I remember on that day reading his words and being sickened.  At that time in August of 2020,
millions of people in the USA were without jobs.  They were only hanging on due to the unemployment money, or from food give a ways, or from the kindness and generosity of family and friends helping them. 
I recall thinking at the time.... his wife and family were FINE.  Let alone my sheer disgust for this individual not even stopping to think that in the USA we have an ALL volunteer military that leaves family behind for months and sometimes over a year at a time to do a military duty assignment.  POOR J.J. Redick who had not seen his family in 6 weeks. 
As a military Mother, I have known family not to see their military kids in 12 months, in 18 months and sometimes in a 2 year times span, LET ALONE the families of our dead.
They will NEVER see a child, a parent, a brother or sister again. 
IF  I could have spoken to Redick I would have told him...........
"SHUT THE FUCK UP" !!!!!!!!!!    "Play your game and shut the fuck up" !!!!!!!!!

So you might wonder why I am posting this in May of 2021.  I had written this down on an index card and I am now just getting to sharing on my blog.

THINK before you speak.  THINK before you whine and complain.
Perhaps someone has things way worse off then you do. !!!!!!!!!

 

 A Background on the National Basketball Association and how they
resumed and carried on in the face of the Pandemic. 

The 2020 NBA Bubble, also referred to as the Disney Bubble or the Orlando Bubble, was the isolation zone at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to protect its players from the COVID-19 pandemic during the final eight games of the 2019–20 regular season and throughout the 2020 NBA playoffs. Twenty-two of the thirty NBA teams were invited to participate, with games being held behind closed doors at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex and the teams staying at Disney World hotels.

The bubble was a $190 million investment by the NBA to protect its 2019–20 season, which was initially suspended by the pandemic on March 11, 2020.  The bubble recouped an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue.  In June, the NBA approved the plan to resume the season at Disney World, inviting the 22 teams that were within six games of a playoff spot when the season was suspended. Although initially receiving a mixed reaction from players and coaches, the teams worked together to use the bubble as a platform for the Black Lives Matter movement.

After playing three exhibition scrimmages inside the bubble in late July, the invited teams played eight additional regular season games to determine playoff seeding.

The playoffs began on August 17, and the NBA Finals began on September 30. The season ended on October 11 when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games. From the start of the resumed 2019–20 season until the end of the NBA Finals, the NBA ended with no recorded cases of COVID-19 for the teams participating in the bubble.

 

Teach

 On this Mother's Day....  May 9, 2021

Remember to .....  Teach Your Children.  <3

Teach Your Children

You, who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so, become yourself
Because the past is just a goodbye

Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them, "Why?"
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

And you (Can you hear?) of tender years (And do you care?)
Can't know the fears (And can you see?)
That your elders grew by (We must be free)
And so, please help (To teach your children)
Them with your youth (What you believe in)
They seek the truth (Make a world)
Before they can die (That we can live in)

And teach your parents well
Their children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them, "Why?
If they told you, you will cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

 

Songwriter: Graham Nash

From the album:   Déjà Vu

Released	May 1970
Recorded	October 24, 1969

 

David Crosby–harmony vocals

Stephen Stills–lead vocals (1st verse), harmony vocals, guitars, bass

Graham Nash–lead vocals (2nd verse), harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion

Dallas Taylor–drums, tambourine, percussion

Jerry Garcia–pedal steel guitar

 

F1 Tornado - Madison County Illinois

 On Saturday March 27, 2021 and F1 Tornado - Madison County Illinois

We were under a severe weather warning, and then a tornado warning came
through at 7:04 PM.  

Thursday April 1, 2021 local paper

Reports on a Troy IL Facebook page talked of an Amazon delivery
van being spun in the air and landing.  This is the location
of that event from Sunday evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Camper in the property across the field from our backyard
was moved and flipped.

Martha - In Memory of His Mother

 Michael Stanley Gee (March 25, 1948 – March 5, 2021)
was an American singer-songwriter.  This was written in memory of his Mother.  

 

 

Martha
--words and music by Michael Stanley
from the Album The Hang in 2012

Martha took the news and put her things away
And said it's time we all go home
Wasn't quite the way she saw that day
Just goes to show you never know
What comes rolling round the corner
Or stealing through the night
Or when it's time to rage against the fading of the light ...

	She said I know you only want to take my pain away
	But it's ashes to ashes dust to dust
	And I want to tell you that I'm not afraid
	I'm curious
	I'm just curious ...

Martha said she'd thought about it long and hard
And there wasn't all that much she'd left undone
She'd seen the moon rise on a Kenyan night
And from the Great Wall seen the setting sun
And she watched her babies' children have children of their own
And said just how amazing was this life she that she had known ...

	She said I know you only want to take my pain away
	But it's ashes to ashes dust to dust
	And I want to tell you that I'm not afraid
	I'm curious
	I'm just curious ...

And she stared out of her window
In a reverie of peace
And cherished every second till her moment of release

	She said I know you only want to take my pain away
	But it's ashes to ashes dust to dust
	And I want to tell you that I'm not afraid
	I'm curious
	I'm just curious ...
	I'm just curious ...

 

Martha - Michael Stanley - YouTube

 

Laminated Die Cuts

 Bouquet of Hope - Paper Pumpkin Stampin Up - February 2021

  I'm creating this post to show how I created this laminated butterfly die.

I added the butterfly to the card with a very thin strip of double sided tape,
which you can barely see once stuck down.  The tape is only down
the body so the wings pull up and have dimension. 

 

 

 

A close up of the butterfly 

 

Thermal laminating pouch -size 8.5" x 11"
I add a thin line of card stock to area of the pouch that is sealed.
This just keeps the pouch from curling.

 

 

 

Sprinkle glitter between the pouch

 

I cut down the laminated sheets then run through my die cutter

Cut out butterfly along with the die

My Stampin Up Demonstrator is - Bonnie Ann Keagy

https://stampinwithbonnie.stampinup.net