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Happy Birthday, Mom!

It was a trip down Memory Lane…It was remembering all the times and moments that make up a lifetime. I wonder what drives people to form the bonds of family…and what keeps those bonds from fading…Memories…Birthdays…Moms…You are 83 years of wisdom…courage…perseverance…happiness…encouragement…and love.

God bless you, Mom.  May He forever keep you in His protection, love and light…and may you always know that you are in my heart…and you are my heart…whatever I am…you taught me to be…I am your hope…I am your chance…I am your child.

Thank you, Mom…Happy Birthday! I love you and celebrate…YOU!!!

One Nation, under God…

You have taken away the meaning of life…

Life…liberty and the pursuit of happiness is no longer a freedom, once insured by the Constitution of the United States. Our Constitution has gone beyond the shredder to being used as toilet paper. We are truly a Nation in chaos…

ISIS cuts off heads…our Justice System cuts out hearts. There is no lesser of the two atrocities. They have both gone beyond the realm of evil.

Ordinary people with ordinary lives have become collateral damage to a runaway system of broken people with horrendous self-interests over and above our self-interests…which is simply, to live.

People who just want their “peace” of “life…liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

I have fallen down in my duties as an American because my country has abandoned its duties in upholding the laws that allege to protect me and my rights…as an American. From what I have witnessed, it is a shared state of being in many Americans across the nation.

I would not call it “anarchy,” I would call it disappointment, distress, and loss of hope. When people totally disregard the election process in mass absenteeism, anarchy will result.

Looking back in reflection of the past several months since the New Year began, we have witnessed and shared a tremendous and horrific loss of life in our country due to factions resurfacing in the forms of prejudice, racism and discrimination.

Why should ANYONE awaken and walk in fear of their lives, “in the land of the free…and the home of the brave?” Show me the bravery in the constant denial of equal rights and equal justice…for all men, women and children…regardless of their race, color, creed or national origin.

Who are we? What has happened to a once courageous nation where lives were given without pause to preserve and guarantee the right of EVERY American to life…liberty…and the pursuit of happiness?!

On this day of American Independence celebrated for the 239th time since 1776, where are we as a nation in solidarity and unity? if we cannot overcome racism, prejudice, and discrimination to celebrate the beautiful tapestry of diversity which composes and intertwines the best of America in such rich and textured cultures of heritage, we are doomed to extinction at our own hand.

Independence Day…July 4, 2015. Look into your hearts, then look into a troubled nation…what can each one of us contribute to ensure our country celebrates our 240th year of Independence, 2016?

Reflect as if your life depended on it!

News flash… Your life and the next generation…and the generation after that…are your accountability and responsibility….

Happy 4th of July, 2015!

Happy Birthday, Dear First of June Babes!

May all of your deepest wishes become a part of your reality! Let them in….they are yours!!!

Go forth and change the world! Make it better…Celebrate life!

Embrace the magic….all that is…and all that will be…is at your fingertips.

We have also reached the six month mark…June 1st signals that half-year point in the course of the year … What have you accomplished? What have you yet to accomplish? This is our birthday…our coming out…and taking in. Make it the next level on your pinnacle of growth toward the center of enlightenment! Always be your best self and celebrate you!

I celebrate Me…God is Wondrous and I am grateful…that He loves me…He gives me purpose…He gave me another Birthday…I am here….

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY…everyday gives you a fresh start…your birthday gives you a new journey…I am new…I am blessed…I AM….

Go out…and “be.” Go out and live…..

Just as I can never imagine what its like for mothers to remember the loss of children on Mother’s Day, I can only say that it must be something like children remembering warm moments…and not so pleasant moments in reliving the presence of their mothers once in their lives…

For all of you who still have the living presence of your mother in your lives…remember the not so pleasant moments with compassion, and continue to share the love of, and loving “meddling” of your mothers in your lives…

My mother was horrifically and callously taken from me by a “family” and individual interferences by members of  systems run by broken people…My mother is still living.  My mother chose me as her caregiver, and the envy and jealousies of those involved separated us…forever.

The pain and the memories will haunt me…forever. No matter how hard you try, or people tell you to move on with your life, you never really can…nor can you do it.  The love and many other emotions of your life experiences with your mother is a fabric of tightly woven fibers which can never be torn asunder! Especially if your love is true.

I spent Mother’s Day, May 10, 2015, wishing my friends and other mothers that I knew, a happy Mother’s Day.  My mother was in my thoughts, every single moment…I wondered how she was doing…what she was doing…if her thoughts ever found their way to have me in them…if she was happy…sad…or indifferent to the world now around her…if she cared…if anything mattered…if I mattered….

I told my mother months before the attempt that finally succeeded in removing us from each other’s lives; that they would try to turn her against me, and I asked her to never forget me…she vowed that she never would…she kept telling me that she wanted to stay with me…

A few days before they took her away, I remember her laying in bed and saying, “Don’t go back.” She said it with such resignation, that I could only wonder how her heart must have felt…I cannot tell you how many tears I have cried remembering that… The Day After Mother’s Day brought tears and much pain in the knowing that I may never see my mother again before she leaves this world behind…

May 5, 2014 was the last day my mother and I saw each other…four days before Mother’s Day, May 9, 2014.  That is a sad and shocking story for another day….

The day after Mother’s Day is the beginning of reliving whatever took our moms out of our lives…and trying to hold on to moments and memories…the trauma of loss…and the “what ifs”….

Remember….is a place from long ago…

Remember…filled with everything you know…

Remember…when you’re sad and feeling down…

Remember…turn around…

Remember…Life is just a memory…

Remember…close your eyes and you can see…

Remember…think of all that life can be…Remember?

Dream…dream…dream…

Love is only in a dream…

Remember?

Remember…Life is never as it seems…Dream…

Dream…dream…dream…

Long ago…far away…

Life was clear…close…your…eyes…..

No matter where you are…I am there. I love you , mom….

God pity those who were instrumental in creating the travesty which robbed you of your wishes and dreams… and your desire to live out the rest of your life as you wanted… Alzheimer’s should not be a ticket to take unfair advantage and treat those afflicted as if they no longer have the rights to their own lives….

As a young Catholic girl, I was constantly being filled with religious literature cautioning me about my heart becoming “blackened” with sin…

I remember one picture in particular in my catechism book which depicted the progression of a heart eventually black with sin, by showing a child, whom behind stood their Guardian Angel.

The first illustration showed the Guardian Angel standing behind a beaming child with a beautiful, red heart.  The Guardian Angel’s hands rested on the shoulders of the good child, and the angel had a big smile on her face.

The second illustration showed the child had told a lie, and it reflected in the child’s heart as a little dark spot, and the Guardian Angel had lifted her hands up above the child’s shoulders, instead of them resting on the shoulders, and the big smile of the angel was now a slight smile…

The third and final illustration showed the child with a completely dark heart, and devilish smile, while the Guardian Angel had turned to the side, with her hands completely hiding her face in sorrow at the now “fallen” child.

Couldn’t this child be saved?

Today is the start of the Spring Equinox…the promise of new life…and new beginnings.  Spring is life! Spring is when all life recycles from the dormancy of the winter freeze.  Spring is the gift of everlasting life, in all its glory!

The new life that you asked for is here…use it well.  Understand the secret of life…in the essence of rebirth. Don’t waste it…don’t ignore it…embrace it with the magic that it brings! It is transformation at its finest.  It is the proof of the sacrifice made over 2000 years ago…

Behold His Light…in the wake of Spring!

You…hold the brush of new creation…Make the planet a better place for all….

Each day is a day in the moment…the moment of what? One day is a predictable moment of someone…somewhere…losing their life. In another moment, a life is being born…There is no certainty in any moment…of any day, that life on earth will ever be consistent in peace…love…happiness…and unity with each and every living thing on the planet…Each day, is a day in a moment, that you can bet on that…and be one hundred percent…in the moment!