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Another Move

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Two months after my last blog, I moved from the Cherry tree location. A place opened up right next to my son and his family. I broke a lease, paying penalties of course, and made the choice to get while the getting was good.  I did a lot of crying at the Cherry tree location. A lot. Though it was only a few miles as the crow flies away from my current location, I was alone. And even though I had been alone for a very long time, even while living with a spouse, it was a different kind of alone. I am in a much better place physically and mentally since the move. I think I've only cried once and I've been here close to 3 months now. Progress! I'm surrounded by many beautiful trees here, but also sky and field! It's beautiful. Soon there will be a duplex directly across, obscuring my view a bit, but you can't have it all, right? The house is renovated and charming. Open, airy, and the perfect spot for Miss Mojo who has become spoiled rotten with lots of play time. She f...
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There's a small cherry tree out my back window. It sits on a gentle mossy slope above my patio. The patio that belongs to the small duplex I have rented to escape a thirty-nine year marriage that became a living hell. It has a broken branch where I've hung a bird feeder my brother-in-law made. When I discovered the broken branch at the ideal location to view the feeder from my dining table, it brought me joy. Joy at this season of my life is a rare thing. Anyhow, I call the tree my "Jonah tree". We all remember Jonah getting swallowed by the whale, but the end of the story doesn't get as much attention. The people of Nineveh repent and turn from their wicked ways. And Jonah gets angry. Angry because God has compassion and doesn't destroy them.  God has compassion on Jonah, too, and grows a plant to cover his head and protect him from the heat as he sits stewing in his anger. I feel Jonah's pain. I'm stewing in a lot of anger these days.  Anger over a l...
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Name Above All Names

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What unexpected emotion courses through your body when you hear someone say the name Jesus?  Honestly reflect on your emotional and physical reaction? Do you experience peace or offense?  Love or loathing?  Familiarity or discomfort?  Years ago, I can remember being very uncomfortable at the mention of His name. No matter what the reaction is, there is one.  Isn't that crazy?  A name.  What other name does that?  His is the Name above all Names, and our reaction, no matter what that reaction, is evidence of it's power.  Isaiah 49:7:  Before He was born, God knew He would be rejected by many, and told us so in the Book.  And for what was Jesus hated?  Search the words He spoke that are recorded in that Book. What were the words that caused men to despise Him to the point of demanding His death? This song, How Many Kings, speaks it more clearly than I ever could: Human kings don't die for their subjects; they...
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Liberals Turning Red as Moore Exposes Hypocrisy of the Greenies

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The only thing more certain than death is that if a liberal accuses a conservative of doing something, you can be sure the liberal is doing it. For decades, conservatives have been portrayed as anti-environment knuckle-draggers that want to poison the planet because they care more about green money than a green earth. The new documentary, Planet of the Humans , produced by flaming liberal Michael Moore, provides ample evidence it's the left that's been raping planet earth all along. Conservatives have always argued that 'green' solutions like electric cars, windmills, and solar panels weren't solutions at all because of the damage inflicted to the environment and the cost involved in their production; much less their overall low energy output. Lo and behold, yet again conservative arguments are proven to be true. This documentary shows us the green movement is not about saving the earth, slowing global warming, or even giving Greta Thunberg her childhood...
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Supply Chain Shenanigans

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So last week I come across this story explaining that a lack of demand for liquid eggs led to Cargill coming in and killing healthy, egg producing chickens. As with many happenings blamed on this virus, it made me go.... Then yesterday, I see this story about Tyson, the country's largest meat producer, placing ads in mainstream newspapers, warning of a food supply breakdown...after assuring us there was no need to panic . So I wake this morning, grab my coffee and phone, and begin my usual Facebook scroll and happen upon this jewel:   "Tyson Joins Bill Gates, Cargill to Invest in Lab-Meat Producer." -- published in 2018. "Whose name keeps popping up in all things virus, for $500, Alex."  Bill Frickin' Gates.  Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?  The largest food suppliers in the world are invested to win if the supply chain breaks down -- no conflict of interest, at all, right?    Paint me a paranoid conspiracy...
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Did I Say That?

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Man, was I snarky and strongly opinionated back then.  I miss that me. 
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Viruses, Virgins and Vision

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There's a quote attributed to Ben Franklin that says 'by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail'.  I don't know about ya'll, but I was ill prepared for the Corona apocalypse.   Although I wasn't born with a wooden spoon in my hand, I raised my kids in the kitchen, not the drive-thru.  Sure we enjoyed take out on occasion, especially those occasions when I'd worked a full day and was simply too tired to be creative enough for even Hamburger Helper.  But for the most part, meals consisted of the weekly grocery purchases.   Enter January 2020, and my empty nest equaled an empty pantry in these parts.  We were eating out more because it was easier with just the two of us.  My husband had become a regular at the local Dollar General because of his weekly foraging for quick eats.  Even a peanut butter cracker was hard to come by in our kitchen.  I was Old Mother Hubbard caught with a bare cupboard.   There's a ...
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