Month: March 2025
Sunday Poetry, and Related Good News!
(Good news below the poetry. The poetry is more beautifully written.)
Readers may or may not recall I’ve been undergoing some major work around our house. Back in December was the first of the foundation work, in which piers were placed at strategic points around the house to raise it after drought and earthquakes caused major dirt shifting on our block (and others surrounding.) Anyway, some or maybe all of you may be aware of the amount and depth of digging required for the work. There were great trenches around the house, including the front flower bed (mostly dedicated to wildflowers for birds and bees; nothing at all formal, just nice in a simple way.) But there were a few daffodil plants, to which DH was quite partial. I figured the entire bed’s plants were gone after the work, but this past Tuesday I pulled into the driveway after an errand, and there are the daffodil plants (not yet blooming) out drinking in sunlight, in pretty close to the same spots they used to be! I’ve just been amazed by that, and it’s a really nice thing to see out front. Thanks for reading! ⚘
The erasing of the LGBTQ+ people from society. Along with returning to segregation and promoting racism.
I know this is old but I worked hard on it. Now that I got the issues between computers worked out and I am in the process of reinstalling all the programs I need to make the computer do what I want, checking to make sure the issue that came up a week ago from reappearing. The issues of full acceptance and equality for the full LGBTQ+ community. Hugs
Please notice that the entire campaign to erase LGBTQ+ from society started with the false premise that the LGBTQ+, especially children need to be protected from trans people and drag queens. But the same people claim to be grand Christians yet they never address sexual abuse of children in churches or other organizations like foster homes / orphanages. These same people support a man for president that was credibly accused of violently raping a 13, how many more did not report the abuse? They support a man who bragged about barging into the changing rooms of teen girls as they were in different states of being undressed some of them nude during the teen pageants claiming it was his right as the owner. He is a child sex predator by his own words claiming he would date / have sex with his own young not adult daughter. They supported a man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman with the commonly understood phrase raped her. But they claim the real problem is women being raped in bathrooms if trans women are in there also. They support Pete Hegseth for Sec. Of Def. He also has been accused of sexually assaulting / raping a woman and assaulting other women. It was reported that he was often drunk and enjoyed going to places where women take off their clothing and at least one occasion needed to be restrained from going on stage with the nude women. Tell me where is the effort to removed white men from the social media and from the military? Sorry but when they say woke it means anything they dislike just as CRT did. When they say DEI it is them saying the “N” word and that females are inferior to males. Well let me get to separating the posts. Hugs.
Sometimes Memes Say It Perfectly… We Need One Another!
As most people know I love memes. I love this one as well. I think it also works well for those LGB who want to remove the T from the club, from the group. Doing so only helps those who want to see all of us LGB and T fall. United we stand, divided we fall. I have an out line for a video written as soon as I get the video computer fully repaired. This has been a long slog working with man interacting programs that came down to a conflict of mainly two and how to ake the work together. But I had to find which ones were causing the issue to even begin fixing it. Hugs
One From Worriedman
Calm was the even, and clear was the sky,/ And the new budding flowers did spring,/ When all alone went Amyntas and I/ To hear the sweet nightingale sing; by Worriedman Read on Substack
“Song: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky”. By John Dryden
Fun poem ! Bawdy! Go read it!
The whole poem-
The Poetry Foundation’ s biography of Dryden is quite good. I like the sound of his poetry. It’s good to read aloud. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-dryden
“Fenn, did you see what happened to the Lemon Oreos I left on the table?”
My desktop at work
Hellebores
Amaryllis! At home –
At work –
Greenhouse sunrise
I spent some time with Barncat tonight
I had a great time out with Amos and the Minions .
I took a bunch of pictures – I’ll use them this weekend.
That’s all I got room for – thanks for dropping by! (snip)
Peace & Justice History for 3/9
| March 9, 1839 The U.S. Supreme Court, with only one dissent, freed the slaves who had seized the Spanish slave ship Amistad, ruling that they had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus were free under American law.  Slave ship They had mutinied and taken control of the ship off the shore of Cuba (then a colony of Spain) and demanded to be taken back to Africa but wound up in U.S. waters off the coast of Long Island, New York.  More on the Amistad mutiny |
| March 9, 1945 Phyllis Daley became the first African-American commissioned nurse in the U.S. Navy. Though more than 500 black nurses served in the Army during World War II, the Navy had only dropped its color ban a few weeks before. |
| March 9, 1964 Five Sioux Indians, led by Richard McKenzie, claimed the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay as Indian land. The island had recently been abandoned, and the action was based on an 1868 treaty which entitled Indians to take possession of surplus federal land. The native Americans advocated turning it into a cultural center and Indian university, but their occupation lasted only four hours. |
| March 9, 1965 Two days after Bloody Sunday [see March 7, 1965] Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. led 1500 outraged people gathered from around the country back to the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama. They were attempting for a second time to march to the state capital of Montgomery in support of voting rights for black Americans. Confronted once again by state troopers blocking passage to the bridge, King knelt in prayer, then led his followers back, avoiding further violence. Later that evening three white ministers were attacked by local whites as they left a soul food restaurant in Selma. Reverend James Reeb was struck on the head with a club and died two days later. |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march9
Open Windows
The grift continues by Ann Telnaes
Trump is making money off the presidency…again Read on Substack
Business leaders are paying $5 million for a one-on-one dinner meeting with President Trump at Mar a Lago, WIRED reports.
dog chuckles
Miss my Grace.
Have a great night everyone!
Scottie's Playtime 