My wife has a nephew who at the young age of 17 came to live with us. Stephan was a different boy, with very different goals and motivations. When he was in his senior year of high school his father packed up and left for Tennessee, leaving Stephan alone at their house that the bank would soon take. When he began to work with me he said he didn’t want to be paid, he hated money. Of coarse I told him he had to be paid.
Stephan did everything he could to not grow up. He wanted to keep those childhood ways of life. Some days at work I would be deep into work, trying to get the job moving and thinking of the best way to make things go more efficiently, Stephan would be daydreaming, I had an image of him in a big field smelling a wild flower, certainly not thinking about his job. Stephan was much different than myself, in a way it made me sad having to teach a person who wanted to stay a child how to move forward and learn responsibility. It had felt like 100 years had gone by since I had that mindset, I didn’t want to take it from him. To this day Stephan in many ways hasn’t changed, I now accept him just the way he is.
We sometimes have to accept people for who they are. When we get into a relationship with someone it’s easy to think we have to make them into who we want them to be, especially our spouse, our children or the people that are close to us. One of the best lessons I’ve learned is people haven’t come into our life so I can make them just like me. God made us different on purpose. Different personalities, different strengths, different looks, we’re all at different maturity levels. The mistake we can make is we try to fit them into our mold. It’s like we have them on our potters wheel, we’re trying to work out the lumps get rid of what we don’t like and get them all fixed up. The problem with this is we’re not the potter, God is. God is the one making and molding people. Really we can’t change anyone. We can encourage them, we can pray for them, we can lead by example, but only God can truly change people. When someone doesn’t have our same strengths and we’re working overtime trying to make them just like us, all that does is frustrate us. It brings stress and tension into the relationship. You’ve got to give people room to be who God made them to be. God likes variety.
When I got married I first tried to make my wife just like me. I thought what greater gift could I give her than that😇. I was very naive. The ironic thing is we are drawn to people that have strengths different from ours. My wife has different strengths than I do. She is outgoing, likes to talk to people, she’s straight forward. One day at a wedding an older lady asked her if she was hired as a party starter. I’m much more quiet, I keep to myself, I never ask for help. I learned pretty quickly trying to make my strengths her strengths just causes problems. It dawned on me she doesn’t want to be just like me. I learned I was the one that needed to change.
Sometimes we get into relationships with someone and say wow I love your good qualities now I want you to have mine as well. The truth is no person has it all. The scripture talks about how we have to make allowances for peoples weaknesses. What would happen if we all would start accepting the people God put in our life and stop trying to change them. First we would have better relationships and second we wouldn’t live frustrated trying to make them into something that they’re not. Give people the room to not be perfect. Instead of complaining about what we don’t like about a person try a different approach, start telling a person what you do like about them. People respond to praise a lot better than they respond to criticism.
It’s amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them, it not only strengthens the relationship but it will help that other person to rise higher. As you give encouragement, show honor, show respect they will continue to rise to the level that you pour into them. If you want to make your spouse, your children, your loved one a better person honor them in a greater way. Accept them for who they are. Give them your approval even if they don’t fit into your mold. You have tremendous power and influence into their lives. You can push them further with you honor your acceptance, your approval or you can withhold it and keep them back.
Too many people end a relationship because there’s one main thing they don’t like about the person. They focus on what annoys them and magnify that they have too much of this or not enough of that. They’ll go find somebody else that has a strength where that other person had a weakness. The problem is this new person has a weakness where the other person had a strength. You see we’re just moving things around. It’s always going to come down to overlooking the weaknesses, seeing the best in them, accepting people for who they are. No one person can give you everything that you need. You’ve got to focus on their good qualities and not get frustrated on what they can’t give you.
God is the potter. Don’t love them only if they meet your standard. Pour on the honor and you will not only find your relationship strengthened you will see the person rise to a new level.
Thank you James, your message is uplifting, & makes me realize the situation my daughter & I had during her years in high school. She & I always butted heads, & now I realize that I was trying to change her, & figure what she needed to do after graduation, was what I wanted her to accomplish. She is extremely intelligent, & very artistic & has so much to give in her life, to others. She graduated December, 2011- earlier because she accomplished high school with the required credits. I thought she would enroll in college, but that did not happen. She met a guy (of course she did); she turned 18, & decided to take off with this guy, & travel. In the end, Jenine & her boyfriend, Mikey, are still together & now parents of two beautiful girls. I know now, that God had a path for Jenine, & now Mikey, as they have struggled along their path, but, always let me know, “it’s ok Mom, God has us”, & everything is alright! We’ll be fine. Yes, we are all fine, & I’m so Blessed we are all in God’s hands…Thank you God.
James, I was just reading a book by David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD. and he made a statement "...the simple fact that the energy of a loving thought is enormously more powerful than that of a negative one". Focusing on what a person does want versus what a person doesn't want is an example of directed manifestation. You are onto something so powerful!
Many years ago, an older lady who lived a hard life was amazed I was still married after 25 years—she was married three times. She asked me what my secret was to having a long marriage.
I told her two things. My marriage vows were to God, and both of us loving Jesus was greater than any circumstances in life or issues between each other. I then told her that when you begin to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, if you get to that other side, the only thing you will find is crabby grass.
My husband and I lived blissfully together for 11 years before we got married. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1995, a year after we married. I quit my job and started fulltime caregiving 17 years later, 2012, and then he died 12 years after that, in 2024, right before our 30 year wedding anniversary. 41 years total together, mostly "joined at the hip" as he would say. As his condition worsened over those 12 years sometimes I felt all that was left of our relationship were our traditional marriage vows before God and man. I took great strength from that. Our vows themselves helped deepen my belief in God's love for each of us.
What a wonderful story. The Bible describes a believer’s relationship to Christ as a picture of a Groom and his Bride, Jesus being the Groom of course, and the Bride, being the Church—the totality of believers.
Just as God told Joshua in Joshua 1, that he would not leave him nor forsake him, Jesus said the same of His Bride. That promise has led my to be like Him, and a reminder of how much he really loves me, CQL, a sinner saved by grace.
To go back to yesterday's topic. I've observed some of the most comfortable marriages are where the wife is the positive, friendly, outgoing Social Secretary. (A role I could never fulfill.) As for relations with my Uber liberal acquaintances. I quietly listen to them. If needed, I do set out my position. I don't invest in accomplishing change for a better. If it should happen (and it's in the best for everyone), I enjoy a private satisfaction and hopes for their benefiting. Your points are well taken and appreciated!
Hi Jean, I was working until late yesterday with another snowstorm we got so I didn’t get a chance to comment. It gave me more time to put this monstrosity together. Sorry again it’s so long. I think it’s worth reading though..
What you call "monstrosity", I call a great read! You always seem to come up with an interesting theme. This one was truly excellent! Honoring others for their God-given strengths is to honor God's handiwork. My husband has strengths I will never have & the reverse is also true. We went through the period in early marriage where we were attempting to change each other.. then, after maturing, eventually landed into the place where we realized that our individual strengths, when combined, made us into a powerful TEAM! Together, we are a super couple! That's where love really grows. That's when God smiles, I believe, & says, "Well done.. I knew you'd get there!".
I'm a believer in the man's(husband, father, grandfather) role in marriage and family, as the foundational key to the individuals within, both male and female, to follow/lead God directed lives. A mom can do a ton, to try to make up for the absent, for whatever reason, Godly leader, when not provided by the hubby, but it's not the same.
Very well said, James. You have a gifted manor of writing about truthfully important things in everyone’s life, that are so deeply hidden, that they are almost never acknowledged. The power of love is universal. It’s one of those mysterious blessings from God that not only edifies the giver but the receiver as well. It produces a satisfying feeling like listening to a group singing a cappella in four part harmony, reminiscent of the barbershop quartet in the movie, The Music Man.
Sad, scary is the TDS Cult, of which I believe ALL the Crazy Lib-tards are members, have no Tell-Tale resume. I know Many slender Lib-tards. It's been, the worst part of this Soul-Sucking era. The sadness of realizing that ANYONE we encounter, whether a stranger, or a loved one at your dinner table, could be a TDS/Libtard/Cult member. I can only read a person's Lib-tard-ness, after I say, Shenanigans, and they react with big eyes, or a turtle neck reach.
"A blazing bony little woman popped out from amid all the clusters in the entry gallery and came towards them. She was an X-ray with a teased blond pageboy and many tiny grinning teeth. Her emaciated body was inserted into a black-and-red dress with ferocious puffed shoulders, a very narrow waist, and a long skirt. Her face was wide and round – but without an ounce of flesh on it . . . Her clavicle stuck out so far Sherman had the feeling he could reach out and up the two big bones. He could see lamplight through her ribcage.”
It seems that white liberal women are producing children much less frequently than conservative, traditional family women. White liberals seem to be genocide themselves out of existence.
I'd add "traditional Christians" which is independent of any "church" label. Christians are those that read the Bible & truly follow the teachings therein & are not organized by outside "religions". We are chosen by God to follow His Son. The external organization of this is irrelevant, I believe.
I'd also add "non-traditional Muslims", as the actual hard-core believers in that "faith" are the ones who want nothing more than to conquer & do away with (destroy) anyone who doesn't adhere to their belief system, which none of the other faiths aspire to. These are the radical ones so prevalent in the news on all continents. Scary people, indeed.
This was simply a comment on the groups that seem to be having the most children, regardless what their religion is. Just look at Europe. In a few generations it will be mostly Muslim. If more Christians could start having more kids, all the better.
DPoe, that’s why they never stop coming after OUR children; it’s the same mentality why they never stop coming after OUR country and what she (once and I pray will) stands for: there are dozens, MORE, nations across the globe that have systems set up along the lines of what they espouse, there is nothing stopping them from going there. You’d think that would make them happy, maybe just satisfied, with a lot less effort or conflict: but noooo, the goal is not creating a socialist/commie/Marxist paradise (that/those already exist 🤣), it’s to destroy America, the one remaining garden on the globe not growing a garden of thistles.
It’s insufficient to spiritually destroy their own children, if they have any, it’s to destroy that which is still not them.
Haha, now you've gone and made me nostalgic. My irresponsible, perhaps mentally ill brother lived rent free in a house next to my mother's house. She rented out her pasture to someone who had cows. For several years there was a battle (maybe better called a circus) because my brother wanted the cows gone and my mother did not. He would call the cows' owner and tell them the cows had to be moved and then they would come and talk to my mother and she would tell them the cows could stay. I successfully stayed out of the middle of this situation until the cows' owner called me in an attempt to get some help. Unfortunately, my brother heard me talking to the owner and got extremely angry because I talked kindly to her. This occurred while our mother was in the hospital and I was there to take her home. I called my husband and asked if he could come because my brother was so angry. He wisely told me, "No, I'm not coming, you can leave." What a revelation! That's exactly what I did, leaving my brother in charge of taking our mom home. Both the cows and the mother are now gone and my brother has totally estranged himself from me, making my life much easier.
Loved that speaking truth leads to being labeled a right-wing fascist. Truth defines everyday relationships to those who also speak the truth. Never leave home without it!!
Next to freedom of speech and election integrity, we need to fix this spending problem. It’s not THEIR money so why do they get to say how it is spent. I’d like a Constitutional Amendment that puts funding back in the hands of citizen taxpayers!
I LOVE today's Sunday Strip! Brad's playing, farmers' free-tine, and Klinger cross-dressing arrempt to show mental illness and get discharged! What an uplift for today. Your Sunday Strips are so good!
Your ordeals caring for the livestock didn't escape my attention. Hang in. Warming trend on the way? Maybe? Predictions change every few hours. Spring is only 6 weeks away.
The news! just saw a talking heads meme on the notes. More than a dozen all saying exactly the same sentences. Being a journalist is so easy these days even a dog could do it.
This is the second time in a few months that an illegal alien with a truck kills people. How and where did these people get a driver's license, and how did they get a commercial driver's license? It cost me 3000 bucks and several weeks of intensive schooling, plus an exam, before I got it.
Glad the doctor where I went still uses names LOLOL. Dog - indeed, most of us would be better off if we treated ourselves like we treat our animals. Well some won't...
I guess that is a meme of yourselves in these 4 layers of winter clothes..
My Opinion on Relationships
& Marraige
My wife has a nephew who at the young age of 17 came to live with us. Stephan was a different boy, with very different goals and motivations. When he was in his senior year of high school his father packed up and left for Tennessee, leaving Stephan alone at their house that the bank would soon take. When he began to work with me he said he didn’t want to be paid, he hated money. Of coarse I told him he had to be paid.
Stephan did everything he could to not grow up. He wanted to keep those childhood ways of life. Some days at work I would be deep into work, trying to get the job moving and thinking of the best way to make things go more efficiently, Stephan would be daydreaming, I had an image of him in a big field smelling a wild flower, certainly not thinking about his job. Stephan was much different than myself, in a way it made me sad having to teach a person who wanted to stay a child how to move forward and learn responsibility. It had felt like 100 years had gone by since I had that mindset, I didn’t want to take it from him. To this day Stephan in many ways hasn’t changed, I now accept him just the way he is.
We sometimes have to accept people for who they are. When we get into a relationship with someone it’s easy to think we have to make them into who we want them to be, especially our spouse, our children or the people that are close to us. One of the best lessons I’ve learned is people haven’t come into our life so I can make them just like me. God made us different on purpose. Different personalities, different strengths, different looks, we’re all at different maturity levels. The mistake we can make is we try to fit them into our mold. It’s like we have them on our potters wheel, we’re trying to work out the lumps get rid of what we don’t like and get them all fixed up. The problem with this is we’re not the potter, God is. God is the one making and molding people. Really we can’t change anyone. We can encourage them, we can pray for them, we can lead by example, but only God can truly change people. When someone doesn’t have our same strengths and we’re working overtime trying to make them just like us, all that does is frustrate us. It brings stress and tension into the relationship. You’ve got to give people room to be who God made them to be. God likes variety.
When I got married I first tried to make my wife just like me. I thought what greater gift could I give her than that😇. I was very naive. The ironic thing is we are drawn to people that have strengths different from ours. My wife has different strengths than I do. She is outgoing, likes to talk to people, she’s straight forward. One day at a wedding an older lady asked her if she was hired as a party starter. I’m much more quiet, I keep to myself, I never ask for help. I learned pretty quickly trying to make my strengths her strengths just causes problems. It dawned on me she doesn’t want to be just like me. I learned I was the one that needed to change.
Sometimes we get into relationships with someone and say wow I love your good qualities now I want you to have mine as well. The truth is no person has it all. The scripture talks about how we have to make allowances for peoples weaknesses. What would happen if we all would start accepting the people God put in our life and stop trying to change them. First we would have better relationships and second we wouldn’t live frustrated trying to make them into something that they’re not. Give people the room to not be perfect. Instead of complaining about what we don’t like about a person try a different approach, start telling a person what you do like about them. People respond to praise a lot better than they respond to criticism.
It’s amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them, it not only strengthens the relationship but it will help that other person to rise higher. As you give encouragement, show honor, show respect they will continue to rise to the level that you pour into them. If you want to make your spouse, your children, your loved one a better person honor them in a greater way. Accept them for who they are. Give them your approval even if they don’t fit into your mold. You have tremendous power and influence into their lives. You can push them further with you honor your acceptance, your approval or you can withhold it and keep them back.
Too many people end a relationship because there’s one main thing they don’t like about the person. They focus on what annoys them and magnify that they have too much of this or not enough of that. They’ll go find somebody else that has a strength where that other person had a weakness. The problem is this new person has a weakness where the other person had a strength. You see we’re just moving things around. It’s always going to come down to overlooking the weaknesses, seeing the best in them, accepting people for who they are. No one person can give you everything that you need. You’ve got to focus on their good qualities and not get frustrated on what they can’t give you.
God is the potter. Don’t love them only if they meet your standard. Pour on the honor and you will not only find your relationship strengthened you will see the person rise to a new level.
Happy Sunday, J.Goodrich
Thank you James, your message is uplifting, & makes me realize the situation my daughter & I had during her years in high school. She & I always butted heads, & now I realize that I was trying to change her, & figure what she needed to do after graduation, was what I wanted her to accomplish. She is extremely intelligent, & very artistic & has so much to give in her life, to others. She graduated December, 2011- earlier because she accomplished high school with the required credits. I thought she would enroll in college, but that did not happen. She met a guy (of course she did); she turned 18, & decided to take off with this guy, & travel. In the end, Jenine & her boyfriend, Mikey, are still together & now parents of two beautiful girls. I know now, that God had a path for Jenine, & now Mikey, as they have struggled along their path, but, always let me know, “it’s ok Mom, God has us”, & everything is alright! We’ll be fine. Yes, we are all fine, & I’m so Blessed we are all in God’s hands…Thank you God.
James, I was just reading a book by David R. Hawkins, M.D., PhD. and he made a statement "...the simple fact that the energy of a loving thought is enormously more powerful than that of a negative one". Focusing on what a person does want versus what a person doesn't want is an example of directed manifestation. You are onto something so powerful!
Wayne Dyer was always quick to quote such vastly wonderful and mind full things
By David Hawkins. Always caught my attention like a live wire.
Many years ago, an older lady who lived a hard life was amazed I was still married after 25 years—she was married three times. She asked me what my secret was to having a long marriage.
I told her two things. My marriage vows were to God, and both of us loving Jesus was greater than any circumstances in life or issues between each other. I then told her that when you begin to think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, if you get to that other side, the only thing you will find is crabby grass.
And it still has to be mowed😁.
🤩🤣😆 Indeed!
My husband and I lived blissfully together for 11 years before we got married. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1995, a year after we married. I quit my job and started fulltime caregiving 17 years later, 2012, and then he died 12 years after that, in 2024, right before our 30 year wedding anniversary. 41 years total together, mostly "joined at the hip" as he would say. As his condition worsened over those 12 years sometimes I felt all that was left of our relationship were our traditional marriage vows before God and man. I took great strength from that. Our vows themselves helped deepen my belief in God's love for each of us.
What a wonderful story. The Bible describes a believer’s relationship to Christ as a picture of a Groom and his Bride, Jesus being the Groom of course, and the Bride, being the Church—the totality of believers.
Just as God told Joshua in Joshua 1, that he would not leave him nor forsake him, Jesus said the same of His Bride. That promise has led my to be like Him, and a reminder of how much he really loves me, CQL, a sinner saved by grace.
Thank you for sharing your story!
I agree CQL, beautiful story MrsMc!!
To go back to yesterday's topic. I've observed some of the most comfortable marriages are where the wife is the positive, friendly, outgoing Social Secretary. (A role I could never fulfill.) As for relations with my Uber liberal acquaintances. I quietly listen to them. If needed, I do set out my position. I don't invest in accomplishing change for a better. If it should happen (and it's in the best for everyone), I enjoy a private satisfaction and hopes for their benefiting. Your points are well taken and appreciated!
Hi Jean, I was working until late yesterday with another snowstorm we got so I didn’t get a chance to comment. It gave me more time to put this monstrosity together. Sorry again it’s so long. I think it’s worth reading though..
What you call "monstrosity", I call a great read! You always seem to come up with an interesting theme. This one was truly excellent! Honoring others for their God-given strengths is to honor God's handiwork. My husband has strengths I will never have & the reverse is also true. We went through the period in early marriage where we were attempting to change each other.. then, after maturing, eventually landed into the place where we realized that our individual strengths, when combined, made us into a powerful TEAM! Together, we are a super couple! That's where love really grows. That's when God smiles, I believe, & says, "Well done.. I knew you'd get there!".
Happy Sunday to you & yours!
Thank You Carol j!!
I did and appreciated it!
Thanks so much for this. I agree with you about marriage. Honor and appreciation go a long way to improving a marriage.
And all praise to our Most High Father in Heaven and his son, who gave us the institution.
My Mom had this saying (she had more than lots of em)
People come and go,
In and out of our lives,
Some just stay longer,
Us hoping they continue to be the good ones.
I'm a believer in the man's(husband, father, grandfather) role in marriage and family, as the foundational key to the individuals within, both male and female, to follow/lead God directed lives. A mom can do a ton, to try to make up for the absent, for whatever reason, Godly leader, when not provided by the hubby, but it's not the same.
Excellent food for thought- as always - James. Thank you!
Thank You Tom!!
Very well said, James. You have a gifted manor of writing about truthfully important things in everyone’s life, that are so deeply hidden, that they are almost never acknowledged. The power of love is universal. It’s one of those mysterious blessings from God that not only edifies the giver but the receiver as well. It produces a satisfying feeling like listening to a group singing a cappella in four part harmony, reminiscent of the barbershop quartet in the movie, The Music Man.
What a eonderful uplift and reminder for this upcoming week. It woukd be nice to have a small booklet of your writings here.
The Liberal white woman cartoon is totally unrealistic; she is depicted as much too slender.
Probably on GLP-1s and SSRIs.
Food fast until ICE disbanded?
That, too!
Sad, scary is the TDS Cult, of which I believe ALL the Crazy Lib-tards are members, have no Tell-Tale resume. I know Many slender Lib-tards. It's been, the worst part of this Soul-Sucking era. The sadness of realizing that ANYONE we encounter, whether a stranger, or a loved one at your dinner table, could be a TDS/Libtard/Cult member. I can only read a person's Lib-tard-ness, after I say, Shenanigans, and they react with big eyes, or a turtle neck reach.
White Savior complex
"A blazing bony little woman popped out from amid all the clusters in the entry gallery and came towards them. She was an X-ray with a teased blond pageboy and many tiny grinning teeth. Her emaciated body was inserted into a black-and-red dress with ferocious puffed shoulders, a very narrow waist, and a long skirt. Her face was wide and round – but without an ounce of flesh on it . . . Her clavicle stuck out so far Sherman had the feeling he could reach out and up the two big bones. He could see lamplight through her ribcage.”
--Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe saw what most individuals do not.
It seems that white liberal women are producing children much less frequently than conservative, traditional family women. White liberals seem to be genocide themselves out of existence.
They love abortion and vaccines. Case closed.
Not to mention, gender, affirming care.
Oh, yes, please let’s mention gender destroying care!
Like the great Klinger pic, this used to be a joke:
“Have your Leftists spayed or neutered”.
Yes, the world eventually will be dominated by traditional Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Amish, and Muslims. Demographics will win in the end.
Add non-denominational Christians.
I'd add "traditional Christians" which is independent of any "church" label. Christians are those that read the Bible & truly follow the teachings therein & are not organized by outside "religions". We are chosen by God to follow His Son. The external organization of this is irrelevant, I believe.
I'd also add "non-traditional Muslims", as the actual hard-core believers in that "faith" are the ones who want nothing more than to conquer & do away with (destroy) anyone who doesn't adhere to their belief system, which none of the other faiths aspire to. These are the radical ones so prevalent in the news on all continents. Scary people, indeed.
This was simply a comment on the groups that seem to be having the most children, regardless what their religion is. Just look at Europe. In a few generations it will be mostly Muslim. If more Christians could start having more kids, all the better.
One so hopes!
DPoe, that’s why they never stop coming after OUR children; it’s the same mentality why they never stop coming after OUR country and what she (once and I pray will) stands for: there are dozens, MORE, nations across the globe that have systems set up along the lines of what they espouse, there is nothing stopping them from going there. You’d think that would make them happy, maybe just satisfied, with a lot less effort or conflict: but noooo, the goal is not creating a socialist/commie/Marxist paradise (that/those already exist 🤣), it’s to destroy America, the one remaining garden on the globe not growing a garden of thistles.
It’s insufficient to spiritually destroy their own children, if they have any, it’s to destroy that which is still not them.
Not that this is a bad thing....
Just sayin'.
Did you hear us guffawing out loud in Virginia, Drs. Malone? Great collection of knee and head slappers today. Thanks for the laughs.
Tim & Gavin. That cartoon simply can't be real; gotta be AI. Just ankle deep? Nah, not buyin it.
You know, James, I enjoy comments like yours almost as must as the Sunday Strip! 😂😂
The archeologist is the Best! So funny but it might just turn out to be real!
Yeah, but…there’s still the issue of what gender they were assigned at birth. 😉
No livestock for me.
I have never gotten a call in the middle of the night telling me that my potatoes had broken out and were in the road stopping traffic.
Haha, now you've gone and made me nostalgic. My irresponsible, perhaps mentally ill brother lived rent free in a house next to my mother's house. She rented out her pasture to someone who had cows. For several years there was a battle (maybe better called a circus) because my brother wanted the cows gone and my mother did not. He would call the cows' owner and tell them the cows had to be moved and then they would come and talk to my mother and she would tell them the cows could stay. I successfully stayed out of the middle of this situation until the cows' owner called me in an attempt to get some help. Unfortunately, my brother heard me talking to the owner and got extremely angry because I talked kindly to her. This occurred while our mother was in the hospital and I was there to take her home. I called my husband and asked if he could come because my brother was so angry. He wisely told me, "No, I'm not coming, you can leave." What a revelation! That's exactly what I did, leaving my brother in charge of taking our mom home. Both the cows and the mother are now gone and my brother has totally estranged himself from me, making my life much easier.
I loved 5 Times August's song. Thanks for sharing! Have a great week.
A great throwback to the "talking blues" folk traditions such as early Bob Dylan did. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
ALL I CAN SAY TODAY IS:
#1. I miss the Klinger era.
#2. I'm glad that I don't have hemorrhoids.
#3. Where do I go to join the Self-help
ritual ⁉️ I need a treat ‼️
#4. We need more parents who teach their
kids to tell the truth‼️
Loved that speaking truth leads to being labeled a right-wing fascist. Truth defines everyday relationships to those who also speak the truth. Never leave home without it!!
Sessions of Congress are increasingly like hands of liars poker with them betting our money
Next to freedom of speech and election integrity, we need to fix this spending problem. It’s not THEIR money so why do they get to say how it is spent. I’d like a Constitutional Amendment that puts funding back in the hands of citizen taxpayers!
I LOVE today's Sunday Strip! Brad's playing, farmers' free-tine, and Klinger cross-dressing arrempt to show mental illness and get discharged! What an uplift for today. Your Sunday Strips are so good!
Truth, justice and the American way. Has Superman hung up his cape today?
Yes. COFFEE.
Your ordeals caring for the livestock didn't escape my attention. Hang in. Warming trend on the way? Maybe? Predictions change every few hours. Spring is only 6 weeks away.
The goats obsession clarified reality on the farm.
Absolutely. The stories I could tell...
The news! just saw a talking heads meme on the notes. More than a dozen all saying exactly the same sentences. Being a journalist is so easy these days even a dog could do it.
This is the second time in a few months that an illegal alien with a truck kills people. How and where did these people get a driver's license, and how did they get a commercial driver's license? It cost me 3000 bucks and several weeks of intensive schooling, plus an exam, before I got it.
Glad the doctor where I went still uses names LOLOL. Dog - indeed, most of us would be better off if we treated ourselves like we treat our animals. Well some won't...
I guess that is a meme of yourselves in these 4 layers of winter clothes..
Maybe in California?
Yes I heard that CA gives them out without any check-up. At the office in AZ I saw a blind man come in years ago. I hope they did not give him one.