There have been few times in my life where I’ve been forced to realize how the ordinary daily things we do, looked at as routine or tedious, are truly the most extraordinary things in our life. It could be a change that we may have no control over that makes us realize. We get so used to our daily routines that we can easily forget those blessings we've been handed. It could come to us when someone else points out the magic in the mundane that wakes us up. Suddenly, we stop taking for granted the very things we had forgotten to appreciate.
I think we all can agree that during the pandemic, it seemed everyday Biden and his henchmen were taking away freedom after freedom that we thought could never be taken from us. It seemed to happen in a flick of the switch. A simple thing like going to the store, or going out for a bite to eat became a big hurdle we all had to somehow climb over. Even bodily autonomy and informed consent became a fight that many were forced to relinquish to the left’s authoritarian approach to “healthcare”.
I’ve had these moments where I really began to think the small things I do everyday, that most days feel like a hassle, are the things that if I suddenly couldn’t do I would miss the most. Getting up at 4:30 every morning and making coffee for my wife, many mornings seems like a headache, but I know it’s extraordinary to her, from time to time she tells me how much she appreciates it. Walking my dogs everyday. They may not be able to say it but they certainly show me how much they love their walks and how extraordinary I am for taking them. We can forget how being able to get up everyday, open our eyes and see, go to work, earn a living to provide for our families, can at times seem ordinary, but to the people we support, even if they don’t notice or acknowledge it, these ordinary things we do are extraordinary. Many times the day to day routines feel like a grind but if that ability was taken away we would quickly become aware of the blessings that had been given to us. It’s these ordinary things we do that build extraordinary character and build a life.
It is easy to get caught up in the day to day routines of life and forget how precious family is and we are. Take a moment today to reflect on your blessings, and never lose sight of the extraordinary in the routines of daily life.
And all for a treatable infection with a 99+% recovery rate. Even for those age 70+, the survival rate was 94.5%. Tragically, 60% of the businesses in this country that were forced to close, never re-opened.
It was never about public health or an infection. It was about turning the world upside down with a “Great Reset” of authoritarian control, death, destruction, and loss of every freedom that every person holds — or should hold — dear.
The tragedy is inestimable. We’ll never regain what we lost.
But as the wise “King James” Goodrich said, it’s the ordinary that’s extraordinary and we must hold on to it with all our might.
America has been taken for a ride , since 1910 with the Medical Industry's grip on the minds of the people. There were no scientific studies done to even prove drugs were safe and effective. There is no real Science proving ingesting drugs or injecting vaccines really even work. People need to read the Flexner Report, which the Carnegie Foundation working with John D. Rockefeller paid for in order to eliminate all healing modalities, except Rockefeller's patented petroleum-based drugs. Rockefeller promoted the AMA...getting doctors to join by promising them Higher Income and Prestige. He got his men on the boards of medical schools to get medical drugs established as the basis of Medicine. There is no correlation between Medicine and Health. The word medicine coined by Hippocrates referred to eating the right food. to nourish the human body... "Let Food be Your Medicine; and Medicine be Your Food." Drugs and vaccines are toxic...and destroy the organs, glands and cells.
According to Webster, the etymology of the word pharmaceutical is from Greek pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeuein, to practice witchcraft, or use medicine; pharmakon, poison or medicine. In the Biblical and historical context, pharmakeia meant sorcery, referring to the use of substances to manipulate spiritual forces, induce altered states, or deceive others. Sounds kind of like Big Pharma.
Totally! If people took the time to read the list of items in drugs and vaccines...and checked them out...they would never put them into their bodies. The only thing that belongs in the bloodstream to promote health are nutrients from unprocessed food. Mankind lived thousands of years without the help of Big Pharma's toxic chemical products, which are destroying the minds and bodies of all recipients.
And I remember the crushing feeling of losing our freedoms to people in power who looked either too demented to be rational or so evil that slugs crawled out their noses as they intoned “safe and effective. Do it for the old folks… OR we will force you.”
James, another collection of beautiful words and meanings! I felt the same way just this week as I looked out my sliding doors into my lake front yard and observed over 50 geese, a flock of mallards, a momma deer and her twin fawns, and many, many birds around my bird feeders
James, I had faith in the Trump administration when they said, "Two weeks to slow the curve" and even put the postcard we received on my refrigerator in Maui. There we were, a year later and Hawaii was finally letting you go to the beach... with a mask. A lot has happened since then and yes, we truly appreciate our day to day life; thankful for our freedoms but the eyebrow remains raised. We moved back to Texas the end of 2021 and now are presented with a whole new list of issues. The right wing/left wing meme explains it all quite well.
This is beautiful James. I'm working on a habit of getting up before the sunrise...so I can watch it. Those of us who live here together go outside together and sit and watch the sunset, pretty much year round. The Saharan dust migrating through now provides brilliant, colorful sunsets.
James! Just having the capacity to READ your prose is a blessing! To have eyes that see, time enough to read & comprehend.. all the God-given minutae that enable us. Each tiny thread woven into our very being.. each one a blessing! It's sad that it takes something to disappear, whether by age, pharmaceuticals, or government mandate (or a combination of such) to make us appreciate what we truly HAVE. This country of ours, for example. What an extraordinary GIFT we have to simply live here! Happy 250th to all!
Plus, if all those vehement mud singers were to actually take anti-psychotics, perhaps they'd literally acquire heart attacks (potential side-effects?). Problem solved.
Same people who've "forgotten" about 9/11. Inconvenient truths seem to all too quickly become shelved. History, even as a word, seems to disappear when it doesn't fit within a particular narrative. As a species, some keep (purposely?) preventing themselves from learning, it seems. How puzzling. How sad. And, so, here we are.
Watching the incredible Sen. Cassidy on Face the Nation. WOW, the falsehoods and twisted logic just rolls out of this guy. M. Brennan asked all the right questions to slam Kennedy. Sen.Tim Kaine did his best to add fuel to the fire. What a perfect storm of interviews intended to sink all the work of MAHA. Another reason to feel sick inside, please make this go away.
I only do it Jane, because I want to keep up with the current spin. I want to know what BS is being promoted and by whom. You mean Scott the Mafia rep.?
Thanks Dr. Malone...for some Food for thought. Tonight on unsolved mystery why people think they can vote there way out of this...when lobbyists take away the voting power of American's votes. This is an issue, which should be tackled. Americans should demand that lobbyists should not be permitted to even be in Washington...bribing representatives is a criminal act..
Have argued for decades they should be outlawed. A movement here in Texas by conservatives to block state money from going to lobbyists. Being fought tooth and nail by rino/uniparty faction
They lobby at the state level too. With the same bad, bad, bad results. Some lobbyists are doing good, but most of the good guys and gals are outnumbered and outspent by the bad guys.
Fauci should lose ALL his assets for his criminal acts, which have harmed multitudes in our nation and worldwide...and he should not even be permitted to even be walking free. The man is pure evil with no conscience...and those who have supported him are equally as bad.
No, that’s not enough. He must be made to publicly confess the truth … that HE lied and connived to first create a pandemic pathogen and then force a host of remedies he knew were equally destructive. He must not be allowed to continue asserting his innocence because way too many people BELIEVE him. He must be forced to break the hold he has over their minds.
I’m awaiting Fauci being held accountable!! I remember being that unvaccinated person among the vaccinated. Although they thought they were protected, they didn’t want me around and made it clear. Some are still taking the boosters. Thanks for the Sunday Strip. Right on, Jill.
In childhood I contracted polio. My limitations in walking caused me to evaluate every step, every place I went, and the places I couldn’t go. I overcame most limits by sheer grit and determination, but yes, I evaluate every common thing I can do, giving thanks to the Lord.
(Btw, my hubby and I raised 40 children, homesteaded at 30, built a log house from scratch and a geodesic dome at 60, left our home of 50 years to homestead again at 80, and value every day as precious.). Thanks James for reminding us.
The toon with the obese woman in Europe being called fat would be ok if they’d just said she’s big boned.
Bullied at work when you work from home made me chuckle, as well as the pup taking up the bed and how people used to be named Lance a lot! I look forward to the Sunday Funnies!
The Babylon Bee panel showing Cubans fleeing NYC to escape Communism (not the euphemistically named “Democratic Socialism”) and the last panel titled “Freedom’s Battle 2026” should appear back to back in every patriot’s home, office, and computer wallpaper.
Here's something, completely off topic. But I think it might contribute to the whole somehow. LIke where we are now.
Hubs and I watched the new movie Citizen Vigilante. I am shocked that so many have stepped up to give it a 5 star rating. We are sliding downward me thinks. Anger begets action that causes reaction. We are on the fast track to civil war.
There have been few times in my life where I’ve been forced to realize how the ordinary daily things we do, looked at as routine or tedious, are truly the most extraordinary things in our life. It could be a change that we may have no control over that makes us realize. We get so used to our daily routines that we can easily forget those blessings we've been handed. It could come to us when someone else points out the magic in the mundane that wakes us up. Suddenly, we stop taking for granted the very things we had forgotten to appreciate.
I think we all can agree that during the pandemic, it seemed everyday Biden and his henchmen were taking away freedom after freedom that we thought could never be taken from us. It seemed to happen in a flick of the switch. A simple thing like going to the store, or going out for a bite to eat became a big hurdle we all had to somehow climb over. Even bodily autonomy and informed consent became a fight that many were forced to relinquish to the left’s authoritarian approach to “healthcare”.
I’ve had these moments where I really began to think the small things I do everyday, that most days feel like a hassle, are the things that if I suddenly couldn’t do I would miss the most. Getting up at 4:30 every morning and making coffee for my wife, many mornings seems like a headache, but I know it’s extraordinary to her, from time to time she tells me how much she appreciates it. Walking my dogs everyday. They may not be able to say it but they certainly show me how much they love their walks and how extraordinary I am for taking them. We can forget how being able to get up everyday, open our eyes and see, go to work, earn a living to provide for our families, can at times seem ordinary, but to the people we support, even if they don’t notice or acknowledge it, these ordinary things we do are extraordinary. Many times the day to day routines feel like a grind but if that ability was taken away we would quickly become aware of the blessings that had been given to us. It’s these ordinary things we do that build extraordinary character and build a life.
It is easy to get caught up in the day to day routines of life and forget how precious family is and we are. Take a moment today to reflect on your blessings, and never lose sight of the extraordinary in the routines of daily life.
God Bless and Happy Sunday!!
J.Goodrich
I still remember (beginning of Covid) as the world, starting in Europe and Asia began shutting down their businesses and schools
I said no way in hell that happens here……. And the rest was history
I always felt as though it was a trial run.
And all for a treatable infection with a 99+% recovery rate. Even for those age 70+, the survival rate was 94.5%. Tragically, 60% of the businesses in this country that were forced to close, never re-opened.
It was never about public health or an infection. It was about turning the world upside down with a “Great Reset” of authoritarian control, death, destruction, and loss of every freedom that every person holds — or should hold — dear.
The tragedy is inestimable. We’ll never regain what we lost.
But as the wise “King James” Goodrich said, it’s the ordinary that’s extraordinary and we must hold on to it with all our might.
Amen
America has been taken for a ride , since 1910 with the Medical Industry's grip on the minds of the people. There were no scientific studies done to even prove drugs were safe and effective. There is no real Science proving ingesting drugs or injecting vaccines really even work. People need to read the Flexner Report, which the Carnegie Foundation working with John D. Rockefeller paid for in order to eliminate all healing modalities, except Rockefeller's patented petroleum-based drugs. Rockefeller promoted the AMA...getting doctors to join by promising them Higher Income and Prestige. He got his men on the boards of medical schools to get medical drugs established as the basis of Medicine. There is no correlation between Medicine and Health. The word medicine coined by Hippocrates referred to eating the right food. to nourish the human body... "Let Food be Your Medicine; and Medicine be Your Food." Drugs and vaccines are toxic...and destroy the organs, glands and cells.
According to Webster, the etymology of the word pharmaceutical is from Greek pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeuein, to practice witchcraft, or use medicine; pharmakon, poison or medicine. In the Biblical and historical context, pharmakeia meant sorcery, referring to the use of substances to manipulate spiritual forces, induce altered states, or deceive others. Sounds kind of like Big Pharma.
Totally! If people took the time to read the list of items in drugs and vaccines...and checked them out...they would never put them into their bodies. The only thing that belongs in the bloodstream to promote health are nutrients from unprocessed food. Mankind lived thousands of years without the help of Big Pharma's toxic chemical products, which are destroying the minds and bodies of all recipients.
And I remember the crushing feeling of losing our freedoms to people in power who looked either too demented to be rational or so evil that slugs crawled out their noses as they intoned “safe and effective. Do it for the old folks… OR we will force you.”
James, another collection of beautiful words and meanings! I felt the same way just this week as I looked out my sliding doors into my lake front yard and observed over 50 geese, a flock of mallards, a momma deer and her twin fawns, and many, many birds around my bird feeders
Yes. The little things in life make me happy!
What a great reminder, James! Thanks once again for your insight to reestablish Joy in the mundane.
Rainy days and Mondays always get....Me down.......Karen Carpenter (so melancholy )
Ps. What do Robins say? Cheer UP!!!! Hahha
James, I had faith in the Trump administration when they said, "Two weeks to slow the curve" and even put the postcard we received on my refrigerator in Maui. There we were, a year later and Hawaii was finally letting you go to the beach... with a mask. A lot has happened since then and yes, we truly appreciate our day to day life; thankful for our freedoms but the eyebrow remains raised. We moved back to Texas the end of 2021 and now are presented with a whole new list of issues. The right wing/left wing meme explains it all quite well.
So you came to a realization that we are horrible creatures of horrible habits did you?
Uhhh yup....I can concur with that. Hahha
(just don't ask me about pronouns cuz I have no idea what all the hell they are for)
This is beautiful James. I'm working on a habit of getting up before the sunrise...so I can watch it. Those of us who live here together go outside together and sit and watch the sunset, pretty much year round. The Saharan dust migrating through now provides brilliant, colorful sunsets.
James! Just having the capacity to READ your prose is a blessing! To have eyes that see, time enough to read & comprehend.. all the God-given minutae that enable us. Each tiny thread woven into our very being.. each one a blessing! It's sad that it takes something to disappear, whether by age, pharmaceuticals, or government mandate (or a combination of such) to make us appreciate what we truly HAVE. This country of ours, for example. What an extraordinary GIFT we have to simply live here! Happy 250th to all!
Political mud slinging left and right has morphed into a fine art form with AI leading the way!
Met people who are vehemently against President Trump and RFK Jr. They need to be put on anti-psychotic drugs before they get a heart attack.
Are those almost naked Mud Pit fights still in fashion?
Time for a return eh?
Plus, if all those vehement mud singers were to actually take anti-psychotics, perhaps they'd literally acquire heart attacks (potential side-effects?). Problem solved.
And vice versus.
I think that they should lock up Gates and Fauci in the same cell!
Only after they are vaxxed.
So many have already forgotten about the COVID era, and won't discuss it. Maybe they need their toilet paper taken away again!
Same people who've "forgotten" about 9/11. Inconvenient truths seem to all too quickly become shelved. History, even as a word, seems to disappear when it doesn't fit within a particular narrative. As a species, some keep (purposely?) preventing themselves from learning, it seems. How puzzling. How sad. And, so, here we are.
Watching the incredible Sen. Cassidy on Face the Nation. WOW, the falsehoods and twisted logic just rolls out of this guy. M. Brennan asked all the right questions to slam Kennedy. Sen.Tim Kaine did his best to add fuel to the fire. What a perfect storm of interviews intended to sink all the work of MAHA. Another reason to feel sick inside, please make this go away.
His swan song perhaps?
I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch her and her interviews anymore… not since she had Scott Gottlieb on multiple times during Covid!
I only do it Jane, because I want to keep up with the current spin. I want to know what BS is being promoted and by whom. You mean Scott the Mafia rep.?
Yep! Got to keep the Medicine Money Machine humming!
Darn.... missed that.
Thanks Dr. Malone...for some Food for thought. Tonight on unsolved mystery why people think they can vote there way out of this...when lobbyists take away the voting power of American's votes. This is an issue, which should be tackled. Americans should demand that lobbyists should not be permitted to even be in Washington...bribing representatives is a criminal act..
Have argued for decades they should be outlawed. A movement here in Texas by conservatives to block state money from going to lobbyists. Being fought tooth and nail by rino/uniparty faction
Forced to return to whence they came from as Elevatorlobbyists from hell!
They lobby at the state level too. With the same bad, bad, bad results. Some lobbyists are doing good, but most of the good guys and gals are outnumbered and outspent by the bad guys.
The over bloated piggy got my poetic juices flowing this morning:
This greedy piggy played the market,
This greedy piggy used tax funds,
This greedy piggy hates our country,
Those greedy piggy use tons (of ill gotten gains),
These greedy piggies say wee, wee, wee, all the way to the bank, car lot, high end real estate....
Another wonderful crop of humour! If only we could get Fauci to drink the Kool Aid now!
I would be happy if they merely took away his 6 figure retirement
Fauci should lose ALL his assets for his criminal acts, which have harmed multitudes in our nation and worldwide...and he should not even be permitted to even be walking free. The man is pure evil with no conscience...and those who have supported him are equally as bad.
No, that’s not enough. He must be made to publicly confess the truth … that HE lied and connived to first create a pandemic pathogen and then force a host of remedies he knew were equally destructive. He must not be allowed to continue asserting his innocence because way too many people BELIEVE him. He must be forced to break the hold he has over their minds.
As long as it’s the Jim Jones’ version.
I’m awaiting Fauci being held accountable!! I remember being that unvaccinated person among the vaccinated. Although they thought they were protected, they didn’t want me around and made it clear. Some are still taking the boosters. Thanks for the Sunday Strip. Right on, Jill.
There is so much truth in these posts. I totally look forward to them.. Thank you...
In childhood I contracted polio. My limitations in walking caused me to evaluate every step, every place I went, and the places I couldn’t go. I overcame most limits by sheer grit and determination, but yes, I evaluate every common thing I can do, giving thanks to the Lord.
(Btw, my hubby and I raised 40 children, homesteaded at 30, built a log house from scratch and a geodesic dome at 60, left our home of 50 years to homestead again at 80, and value every day as precious.). Thanks James for reminding us.
Loved the Gracie one, i.e. the giraffe....BTW they found her
Free, free to be me!!
You forgot black-only television channels. Moreover, you seem to have forgotten the fundamental Rule of Racism: only white people can be racist.
The toon with the obese woman in Europe being called fat would be ok if they’d just said she’s big boned.
Bullied at work when you work from home made me chuckle, as well as the pup taking up the bed and how people used to be named Lance a lot! I look forward to the Sunday Funnies!
We sent Lance a Lot to our friend who’s actually named Lance.
The Babylon Bee panel showing Cubans fleeing NYC to escape Communism (not the euphemistically named “Democratic Socialism”) and the last panel titled “Freedom’s Battle 2026” should appear back to back in every patriot’s home, office, and computer wallpaper.
Great collection - as usual.
Here's something, completely off topic. But I think it might contribute to the whole somehow. LIke where we are now.
Hubs and I watched the new movie Citizen Vigilante. I am shocked that so many have stepped up to give it a 5 star rating. We are sliding downward me thinks. Anger begets action that causes reaction. We are on the fast track to civil war.
https://meemanator.substack.com/p/signs-of-our-times