Okay, I do love you still!

Our memories are built like this

Some are clear and real

Others travel in and out

With no specific rhythmic or rhyme

Life's phases too are tapestries

With textures of their own

Some we love and some we hate

From all of them, we've grown anew

So we gather wisdom from our pains

From torment we grow strong

From the sorrow, we grow Joy

Our spirit nurtured by mistakes;

Still fated travels on..

Memorial Day;

‎"True enough; nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start again today, and make a new ending!"

Holidays give way to Joy and Relaxation,
but still, I find myself thinking of more..

Thomas Jefferson

Quotation: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

This;

Thursday reminds me that it isn't power that people fear, it's the loss of being part of a whole that keeps people focused on that which is obvious only when they're not looking around them!

Did you Vote?

Here in my(NW) corner of the Universe, the acrimony and false dealing(s) has open the door to run away criminality(or so they say) due to the now under-funded criminal justice apparatus. And, perhaps where you move about under it all, similar dysfunction is on the offer? Makes me sad!

Nonetheless, before we throw in the towel and jump back to 1952(again), let's all take a deep(er) breath and ask for the truth instead.

What can it hurt to know the facts before we act(up)?

Words I liked;

"Begin while others are procrastinating

listen while others are talking

Smile while others are frowning

Study while others are sleeping

Believe while others are doubting

Plan while others are playing

Save while others are wasting

Decide while others are criticizing

Persist while others are quitting

Prepare while others are dreaming

And with determination,

success will smile at you."

Mothers(reloaded);

Yesterday, I remembered a heart I'd broken, it was, my mothers.

Not because of just one thing, or one incident, or even another’s thoughtless action that I ignored, but, because of my own need to be busy, to be about something other than my Fathers business, my mother, she went unnoticed, unrecognized, unrealized!

So this Sunday, I'll put aside the cards.

Put aside the flowers.

And just offer my Love,

which oddly enough, is all a mother ever wants...

Ask your Mother(s);

what is was it like to be a Woman during that "sweet, by & by" when all a man needed to do was say his wife wasn't what he needed her to be, and(who needs a divorce), he could have her committed on word(s) alone.

And then, Vote for your future(and not their past)!

The week, ends;

and I'm thinking about You.

Wondering what your week was like(?), and how your Spring is unfolding(?) around You. Me, I'm living that NW Dream still, enjoying the fresh air, while keeping my eyes open to it all! Ideally, You're doing the same...

Okay, I'm done with this

but I just wanted to leave this thought with you; what if there was no need to misquote, mistreat, misdirect, no need to mistake outer Wimer for the Willamette Valley, what then?

Would you be a better person?

Would your child have better friends?

Would you still be married to the 1st person you said I do with?

Reality, honestly, it is your friend!

Bring it home next time..