Detention Centers

 Across the United States the Trump Administration is trying to purchase large empty warehouses to convert into Detention Centers, also called Trump Prison Camps. These are designed to hold thousands of people held without trial who have committed no crimes. However, local residents are pushing back and most often succeeding in stopping these Detention Centers from materializing. We CAN do something!

Emotions

 

News casters continually say, "They got emotional." But which emotion? ADORATION, AMUSEMENT, ANGER, AWE, CONFUSION, CONTEMPT, CONTENTMENT, DESIRE, DISAPPOINTMENT, DISGUST, DISTRESS, ECSTASY, ELATION, EMBARRASSMENT, FEAR, GUILT, INTEREST, LOVE, NEUTRAL, PAIN, PRIDE, REALIZATION, RELIEF, SADNESS, SERENITY, SHAME, SURPRISE (NEGATIVE), SURPRISE (POSITIVE), SYMPATHY,  TRIUMPH and more. . . 

Mother's Day

Mother's Day planting flowers in Joel's and Rachel's backyard. I've been doing this with Jackson and Jenneya every year for about 22 years, before Jackson was born. This year Jackson and I talked while we planted about writing books. He is writing one this summer.

  

Tangier

 Go to the FB page of "Wartburg College Choir" to see and hear them singing in the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Tangier, northern Morocco on the coast of the Straight of Gibraltar. 

Bleeding Hearts

 My heart bleeds for those who are losing their right to vote and hold public office due to redistricting and to gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1965, particularly African Americans. 

Wartburg College Choir tour

 Where is Granddaughter Jennaya Everist? With the Wartburg College Choir, singing at the Wartburg Castle in Germany, riding a camel in Morocco and giving a Saturday night concert in a church in Cassablanca. 

Golden Tempo

 Cheers for Golden Tempo and the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby, Cherie DeVaux.

 The Supreme Court this week issues a long-feared decision cutting back the Voting Rights decision of 1965 making voter discrimination again possible.  We need to work to make sure everyone--everyone--can vote!

King Charles Speech

 The speech given this afternoon by King Charles lll before the joint session of Congress at the Capitol was magnificent. The monarch of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth spoke with depth and words of wisdom.  Do find it and watch it.

flowering trees

 The thunderstorms have passed and the flowering trees are now beautiful, including my favorite, redbud.

Gaza children

 More than 65,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza, according UNICEF. Thousands remain missing and are believed to be buried under rubble, and at least 1,009 of those killed were under the age of one.

An estimated 17,000 children have been left unaccompanied or separated from their parents, while the United Nations reported that at least 21,000 children are living with permanent injuries.

Earth Day

 As the sun sets on Earth Day, there are droughts, fires burning, and erratic weather patterns. The National Forest Service is being weakened. Will lands and waterways be no longer protected? We have a climate crisis. Have we become numb? This Earth Day will soon pass, but what will we do tomorrow?