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Enjoy vacation and thanks for thinking of us. 😎
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Good morning, Carol Mae. I hope you eyes are doing okay.
I thought I would share with you this Fourth of July fruit arrangement that I just found:
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Thank you so much. It looks yummy.
My eyes are much better, thanks for asking. But it has made me a slower reader because each eye wants to focus differently. I also wear sunglasses while watching TV or read my iPad. If I don’t the right eye gets sore and then only and ice pack helps. Have a safe and fun Independence Day!
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I am glad to hear that your eyes are better, but oh my, it must require a lot of patience to read with each eye focusing differently. It’s good that you are remembering to wear those sunglasses.
I will send a bright energy thought/prayer that your eyes will get even better.
Happy Fourth!
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Happy thoughts to you too!
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Enjoy your vacation, Xena.
You deserve some time to recharge for all of the work you put into this blog.
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Enjoy your time off.
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Have a nice vacation and relax, you deserve it! We’ll be thinking of you!
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Glad to hear that you are treating yourself to three weeks off from blogging.
Here are some treats for you to stay cool:
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Hello everyone. Xena, I’ve followed this blog since ’12 but can’t remember the last time I commented. I want to apologize for that. I hope you enjoy your time off.
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Good morning, Dawn,
So glad to see you (and your cats 🙂 here.
I think you might enjoy this photo:
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Have a great time off Xena. Love always. you deserve a break. Namaste’
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Hi Shyloh,
I hope you don’t mind my sharing the following about the “Namaste” greeting you sent to Xena for those readers who may not know its wonderful meaning:
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I love it. Thank you. For me. Namaste’ is the greatest ever. And Namaste’ to you dear one!!!! Happy 4th.
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Yvw, Shyloh. And, happy 4th to you! *Hugs*
Namaste’
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Elie Wiesel has died at the age of 87. The Nobel Prize organization called Elie Wiesel “the messenger of mankind.” Having read his many books, I so agree with this. His every sentence was simple truth unadorned with glorious word flourishes. He wrote from his soul in an attempt to reach our hearts, in the hope of opening our hearts. What and how he wrote allowed no neutrality of understanding, no distraction from his words, no turning away from truth, and no escape from the choice of whether or not his readers would commit to make a better world.
I will sorely miss Elie Wiesel but his words and painful lessons will live on in my heart.
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Gronda, thanks for posting this. That student is one talented eighth grader.
Have a wonderful Fourth! I loved the cinnamon roll routine. 🙂
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Have a great vacation..This is the first time I’ve posted a you tube video. Thanks for the instructions. Enjoy the video if you have not already seen the Chicago 8th grader in action.
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“Motions hearing for 4th Freddie Gray officer scheduled for Tuesday”
http://www.abc2news.com/news/region/baltimore-city/motions-hearing-for-4th-freddie-gray-officer-scheduled-for-tuesday
Excerpt:
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https://twitter.com/wbalphotog/status/750318223380320256
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❤
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Enjoy your break, Xena… Missing you already. ♥ 👍
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Happy holidays… Love to you x barbara
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Heartbreaking… I awakened today to learn that 5 Dallas officers among 11 officers shot by sniper bullets have died. I am praying for the officers and their loved ones.
The following tweeted video shows how the sniper’s bullets turned the peaceful demonstration into a scene of panic:
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Have a great vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am soooooooooooooo missing you here. But you need the break so I am TRYING to be patient lol……….. HUgs my lovely one.
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I’d like to believe this…
“I want people to know that we put everything into everything to get this verdict,” said the juror, whose face was blacked out during the televised interview but who appeared to become choked up.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/zimmerman-juror-half-of-us-at-first-voted-to-convict/
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Mindyme,
If the 3 who voted guilty in the beginning had not been convinced that there is no law to convict, this nation might have some hope in the system.
Mark O’Mara was on CNN’s town hall about Black Lives Matter, and the man sounded like a skilled brain washer. All I could think about as he was telling Black men to voluntarily surrender their constitutional rights, was how he picked up the dummy by the shoulders at trial to show the jury how Trayvon purportedly bashed Zimmerman’s head on the concrete. Not even Zimmerman said that Trayvon picked him up by the shoulders.
I remember how he profiled Trayvon to look like burglars, and used the single White mother as the poster child for fear of men who looked like Trayvon being in that community.
He made me sick.
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And no one ever explained, or was asked to explain, how Trayvon was able to cover Zimmerslime’s mouth and nose, punch him in the face while also banging his head up and down on the ‘sidewalk’ with only 2 hands especially without having gotten any of Zipper’s DNA on his hands.
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Explain? Do they ever explain the stereotype needed to fit the situation? When we take a hard look, we see that what is now called “profiling” is actually racial stereotyping. Mark O’Mara defended Trayvon’s killer based on his own inward stereotyping. There were many things that made me disgusted during that trial, but one that stands out is that O’Mara continued talking about the head bashing, when Trayvon’s killer said that he had already moved his head off the concrete and as a result, his jacket raised and Trayvon saw the gun behind his fat butt in the dark. So, while the fat one could not stop 6 hands from beating, bashing, and smothering, he was able to pin one arm to get his gun, aim and shoot.
Even Zimmerman’s MMA trainer said that it is impossible to grip someone’s arm like that while on your back and take that shoot.
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“GQ’s list of Least Influential people of 2012.. George made it as # 6. (published worldwide)
“There’s nothing funny about the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin. However, there is something morbidly comedic about a man deluding himself into thinking that his life is in danger because a black teenager walking by might assault him with a bag of Skittles. In George Zimmerman’s world, he’s a hero. Thankfully, very, very few other human beings live in George Zimmerman’s world.”
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From CNN’s Wednesday night broadcast of “Black, White, and Blue” :
Monifa Bandele (Senior Campaign Director of MomsRising.org)
Corey Hughes
T.D.Jakes
Rory Ranchman (NYC Councilman)
Charles Blow (Op-Ed Columnist for New York Times)
Col K.L. Williams (Kinloch, Missouri Police Chief)
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Here is an exchange that occurred in the discussion Wednesday night on CNN’s “Black, White, and Blue” broadcast:
Travis Sattiewhite (News Editor, CNN Political Desk)
Mark O’Mara
Charles Blow (Op-Ed Columnist for New York Times)
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Mark O’Mara — the brain washer. Think about what he said …
So, he’s saying the “movement” is disobedience and resistance to law enforcement. What a crock! Remember the man who was told to get his license, and when he reached for it, the officer shot him?
O’Mara doesn’t appreciate how many Black men have sat with their hands on the wheel and still ended up being abused by law enforcement.
O’Mara is repeating the superiority ideologies of history, which is that Black men always have to behave according to the standard set by White society, and even behaving according to that standard is never good enough.
I’m surprised he didn’t just come out and say that Black men stopped in vehicles by the police should play dead.
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So horrific.
My heart and prayers are with all of the victims and their loved ones.
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I am praying for the Baton Rouge fallen and wounded officers and their loved ones.
My heart is breaking for the families of the three officers who have died. Sweet children who will now grow up without their daddies. So very sad. May the Lord watch over them and be present to them with His Love and Comfort.
May Officers Montreal Jackson,Matthew Gerald, and Deputy Brad Garafola rest in peace.
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https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/754797301760200704
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Rumors are circulating that Officer Ahearns in Dallas, one of the 5 officers tragically slain last week had ties to White Supremacist organizations and sported Neo Nazi tattoos as well as using racist language in his social media postings. The irony is so harsh that officers were killed in Dallas, a city who had acknowledged their problems with accountability and who had fired 70 officers in the space of a few years time. For Officer Jackson to have been slain in Baton Rouge is also harshly ironic. An officer who clearly was aware of the problems in BR with relations between the police and the citizens they vowed to ‘serve and protect’.
To kill LEOs is never the answer. To kill those who are not part of the problem is a triple travesty. I would never in a million years advocate or condone murdering anyone. If these shooters really wanted to make an impact, the targets would have been those who had brutalized citizens with impunity. Those whose victims had no justice.
I understand the frustration of feeling like one would want to exact their own justice when it’s clear no justice will be found through the courts. I understand how one can feel so strongly on an issue that they are willing to sacrifice their life for that cause. Whether one agrees with the actions of the shooters of police or not, they are both true martyrs in every sense of the word. (NEVER to imply that what they did was right.)
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Mindyme,
I heard of the rumor and it doesn’t surprise me. Still, I do not believe that humans should kill humans. I know — my pacifism is not realistic in this world, but that is my heart. Also in my belief is that there is reaping and sowing. Wherever there is a negative, there must be a positive. Maybe this was necessary for Congress to do something positive to ban assault rifles since they did nothing when citizens and children in schools were murdered with them. The problem is guns are being used as a substitute for expressions of anger, hate, and/or fear. It’s not right.
In the past 2 weeks, I’ve done lots of reading and more listening. It’s motivated me to do a series of blog posts when I return.
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I want to thank everyone for their well-wishes. I’m not yet officially back from vacation, but I’ll be around from time to time catching up.
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And a heck of a few weeks it’s been! I hope it’s been restful for you! Enjoy and come back to us refreshed!
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https://twitter.com/ChristiChat/status/755050416287707136
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Yahtzee,
One of the reasons I stopped following these trials is because the judge made it clear that he sees the allegations as civil, not criminal offenses.
Freddie Gray died while in the custody of the Baltimore police. He was unresponsive while in the van when it reached the police station. It wasn’t a bump on the head — it was severing of his spine. The judge does not believe that the police neglected their duties in how they treated, and failed to treat Freddie.
When Black Lives Matter speaks about the system giving preferential treatment and favoritism to law enforcement so they are not held accountable, this is part of what they are referring to. Even when cops are indicted and brought to trial, judges do not want to be on the retribution end if finding cops guilty.
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Please listen to the end where the reporter comments on the lesser charges.
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What a joke for Trump.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/755251813989904384
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https://twitter.com/Red_Mattos/status/755367653439660033
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Xena, how ’bout this photo 🙂 ?
https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/754133990353801216
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I love it!
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I think you might enjoy this photo:
https://twitter.com/SWildlifepics/status/741076700008701953
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I certainly do. It’s absolutely gorgeous and makes me think of a song, in which I will adjust the title to, “You are the lives beneath my wings.” . 🙂
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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/755927999942230018
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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/762709304117981184
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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/762748890609254400
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/762749130036879360
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Reblogged this on Journal Edge.
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Hi Vikas! Welcome and happy to meet you. Thanks for the reblog.
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My pleasure 🙂
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