Congrats, No Child! Not celebrating anything except my nephew’s 25th birthday and Malia Obama’s 22nd. Will be watching Hamilton again instead of any faux patriotic stuff.
You got that right. It’s exactly the way I feel this year, and I’m good with my decision. I’m not “over” my own personal patriotism, but I am over celebrating the faux stuff shoved down our throats.
If we have to go through this to get to a better place, it’ll be worth it, although we would have never thought this would have been the case. Just wish it would go more quickly!!!!
Happy birthday to Malia Obama!!
Best wishes for a good 4th of July to the Obama family! And the Biden family! Peacefulness to all here.
And to everyone building bridges to a better future for all.
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
I love this! A dear friend in St Kitts emailed it to me when he heard my Uncle was ill; my Uncle had a profound impact on him. It arrived mere hours before he died…
So glad you love it, too. Sweet story about your Uncle! (A former work colleague of mine gave it to me when I retired, saying I was a bridge builder … and I never felt so humbled in my entire career. Smiled my way right to retirement on that one!)
Think I mentioned here before that I actually was introduced to him once at an event I attended back in the early ’90s related to my job, when I worked for the Navy. OMG. He spoke at the event and it was great.
Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" — which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans. pic.twitter.com/bQzwoUx5TG
Recent weeks has brought America Face to Face with its inhumanity towards black people. It has shown that the disenfranchizement of Black people has continued on unabated. Seeing it all at once…is rather overwhelming…#YouWonderHowWeKeepFromGoingUnder
— Pretty Foot💃🏾 wears a mask😷 (@PrettyFootWoman) July 4, 2020
The sheer grit and guts by the Black community is beyond, beyond all measure. Systematic genocide of Black people at every level and the persecution by police. While their talents and services are being harnessed and contained…massive payoffs to the very wealthy even as COVID kills off the population.
These are the reason Republicans have been elected – ever since Ike:
Doug (OH) served our nation in Vietnam and Afghanistan:
"I have been active all my life as a Republican, I was chairman of Veterans for McCain for the state of Colorado in 2008… Trump is no friend of veterans and I will not vote for him. I hope that no veteran will." pic.twitter.com/dPj7hpo1Ao
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 4, 2020
Trump has no chance of victory unless registered Dems don’t vote.
folks will come out vote….but we will have to contend with voter suppression…i am in PA…it was so fortuitous that my state passed a law that gave us the ability to vote by mail last year…our first vote by mail was the primary…there were a few kinks but i believe the SOS is working to perfect it….
not everyone wants to vote by mail…(conspiracy theories abound) so state and local officials also have make sure that voting in person is safe….
He acknowledges “American history is no fairy tale.” He admits “we’ve never lived up to” the promise of equality. And he calls on us to help the marginalized, demonized, isolated and oppressed and “rip the roots of systemic racism” from America. https://t.co/EzHnc9uiIo
We now have a white Presidential candidate being honest & unfiltered about systemic racism.
A clear-eyed, unrelenting effort to ensure every of-age American has unfettered access to Vote is how WE BEGIN to transform America's “promise” into reality.
This must be the “good trouble” that our civil rights icons spoke about. There is upheaval and turmoil throughout the land, one by one antiquated customs and traditions are being discarded, and in its place, nothing. We can build anew, a community that respects and cherishes the individual.
Joe Biden's election as US president in November would restore UK-US relations, repair the diplomatic damage caused by the Trump administration, and boost the prospects of a transatlantic trade deal, according to European diplomats and trade experts https://t.co/J3lr5RauzW
— Henry(Joe Biden will heal America) Djoutsa (@D_jeneration) July 4, 2020
Every time I see transatlantic trade deal I get sick to my stomach because Barack was begging these fools to do the deal. And this was no ordinary deal, this deal could have given us the power in choosing who what, when where and how we do trade deals around the globe. But no, we had the Republicans and some of the Dems trying to gum up the works, I get mad even thinking about it.
Decades before 1619, enslaved Africans were already creating wealth for their owners on 'American' soil. #SystemicRacism was & REMAINS a high-margin US BUSINESS model.
Dismantling it must address that issue, as well as, systematic disenfranchisement.
A blessed 4th of July to the entire TOD community. Please note that however you are celebrating it, we, your southern neighbors, are in solidarity with you.
Definitely worthy of seeing again anyway. They have made themselves crystal clear. We all see/hear them. We need to make sure their time is over. For good.
.@SoledadOBrien writes, "We are letting viewers, listeners and readers know that the absence of reporting on communities of color is why it took shocking videos of police killings to awaken them to police brutality." https://t.co/zdr0wV7owp
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) July 4, 2020
NO ONE is at Trump’s 4th of July extravaganza. Completely empty at National Mall, public plays it smart and ignores Trump and his big show. pic.twitter.com/Q2qAqkvKnP
“We roll for justice, we roll for the revolution, we roll to make our voices HEARD. Bring your homies, bring your wheels of choice and let’s roll towards JUSTICE!” – @FroSkate
If you’re not following this collective of badasses, please change that. https://t.co/cfiBOR5MW8
After breaking into her duplex, the rapist dug his elbow into the her neck, pushed her into the wall, & said, "Maybe next time you'll learn your lesson."
Again, this is after a NORMAN POLICE OFFICER posted her home address publicly in the context of "teaching her a lesson."
In May, Norman PD also declined to press charges on a fellow cop in nearby Lexington, after he threatened Norman Mayor Brea Clark, saying she, "needs to be pulled out of office & tried on the court house lawn…the problem with politicians, they don’t get hung in public anymore." pic.twitter.com/rg4yNRXVTk
I mean, I have blistered everyone from Obama to Hillary Clinton, and across the seas to Putin and Assad. For years, I was an outspoken conservative. But I never encountered McCarthyist thuggery like the kind I've gotten from the Cult of Trump. So spare me the hand-wringing. /2
There’s nothing like a live performance. She’s accompanied by the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra at the Met. They are socially distanced, performing to an empty house.
Hi Everyone! I hope you’re all having a safe and happy Fourth!
This is pretty cool!
Since it's the 4th of July, here's Japanese Ambassador to the US, Yamanouchi Kanji, playing the Star Spangled Banner on guitar, in the style of Jimi Hendrix.
“As Republicans, there are few, if any Democrats, we’d trust. If elected to the United States Senate, we have no doubt [@CaptMarkKelly] will serve with honor and independence, and he’ll do what’s right for our country and our state.” #AZSenhttps://t.co/Rnh1OLrX6h
Canada has controlled its Covid-19 cases as the US struggles. There's been no controversy over masks, plus "early and widespread testing, a free health care system still building surge capacity, longer shutdowns, slower reopenings, social distancing,” @paulanewtonCNN explains. pic.twitter.com/tj0fH9hgcB
In a letter dated Thursday, 1,400 healthcare workers in Georgia ask that Gov. Brian Kemp close bars and nightclubs and prohibit indoor gatherings of more than 25 people, including at places of worship.https://t.co/T8HJBcN355
Thursday morning, a group of health care professionals sent a letter to Kemp calling on the governor to make mask wearing mandatory and rollback the openings of bars and gatherings of more than 25 people.
While Kemp has said mandatory masking is “a bridge too far” in his eyes…
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Instead, he’s doing a flyover of Georgia, visiting several cities to *encourage* residents to wear masks, and threatening that college football might be off the table if Georgians don’t start wearing masks in public.
Grow a spine and just MANDATE the face masks and pull back on the re-openings!!! Your job is to keep Georgians safe, not worry about how much money you and your friends are losing. Believe me, your financial loss affects you a whole lot less than it does small business owners and most hourly workers.
The largest armed Black crowd I’ve ever seen in my life just crossed the front of my house in Stone Mountain. Bigger than any Black Panther engagement I’ve ever encountered #July4th2020pic.twitter.com/vcl2cwHsTE
To anyone who feels like they “wasted” the time during quarantine because they didn’t write a book or learn a second language or get their bodies in shape, I have good news: Quarantine ain't over get back inside.
— Denzel Washington (@DenzelWashngton) July 4, 2020
Non-Natives, through no fault of their own, will misconstrue this as a dance, when it’s anything but. He’s shaming his opponents. We Lakota call this counting coup. The Native, in his rebellious simplicity, makes resistance look cool because when it’s expressed this way it is. https://t.co/vENOfs0WEF
He loved this country, when this country didn’t love him. He fought for this flag to honor Sojourner, Harriet, Frederick, Martin,& Malcom. He stood up, so Kap could kneel down. In honor of Black Lives Matter. At 95,Amos Pierce’s 1 command, “We’re gonna take care of this shit!” pic.twitter.com/tygFSEPcfN
The enslaved, were listed as inventory. Independence Day? For who? I wept as I heard our ancestors referred to as inventory. I wept again when I saw the shackles for children. It became even more real for me to see the instruments they used to keep us bound. Full video on IGTV pic.twitter.com/1dGba2gy3X
We are done with your revisionist history of this brutally flawed nation.
If America wants to be better, own up to your transgressions and actually build a system of equity. A system of liberty and justice for all. Until then we will challenge you.
The group, known as the Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC) was comprised of about 100 to 200 people, all dressed in black.
Shortly after 2 p.m., Bankhead said the group was allowed to come into the park and entered from the West Gate. They then headed toward the lawn area of the park, where the large Confederate carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the north face of the mountain can be viewed.
The group then went to Memorial Hall during their time at the park.
…one member of the group also spoke about the reason they chose the location, describing the park to fellow members of the group as the “birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan” – referring to how it was restarted atop the mountain in 1915.
“I want the heart of the Ku Klux Klan to hear me no matter where the f*** you are,” he said. “I’m in your house. Where you at? You made a threat. We don’t threaten.”
***The group ultimately left with an escort by park police. Police said they had no issues with the group during their time in the park…[Per park authorities] “We understand the sensitivity of the issues here at the park and the dark past so we respect that and allow them to come in,” he said. “As long as it’s peaceful, which it has been, then that’s fine.”***
47 years ago today, I was holding my Mother’s hand when her Soul left her body for Heaven.. just before sunrise, she had been ill for many years. I made it to her bedside in the hospital only 10 hours before she went, she was waiting for me… she knew me…
The wonder of it all, with my Mom, I had been living up in Alaska, set out on the solstice and it was a 12 day journey to Washington DC, but I made it just in time. 1973, the Watergate scandal was opening up, and it felt like going into Mordor, from the beautiful 24 hour daylight in Alaska!
When my Mother separated from her tired worn-out body (she had 11 children, she had just turned 56), I was lifted partway with her, and we went into a dimension of Light and pure Love I had never known.
It was not my time, so I had to come back down, it seemed all the lights had gone dark, but I felt her Soul rejoice, and I knew she understood a peace she had not known on earth!
Well, and because it was a special holiday in the US, 4th of July, you know it gave the word “independence” an entirely new meaning! That night, at our farm, we lit a bonfire, and prayed, and there was one empty chair, several of my brothers were not with us, they had to come down from Canada.. but indeed, that holiday never felt the same again to me or anyone in our family..
Thank you for letting me share this with you, it is eternal, and I know my life and my life’s work was changed from that day forward!
Tears of joy and wonder are good tears, yes, she was young, but she had a magnificent life, she was a fireball, and to have been given the privilege of being with her at the close, magnified how powerful the Soul is, if we can leave it free of impediments!!
Yes, and an opportunity to pass the confines of the physical plane, if we are willing and able, and the true gift is to have a chance to share with others, in hopes of helping them to release whatever obstacles may be holding them back from living in a more full consciousness…
Couldn’t sleep (extremely rare for me), got out of bed, came online and found this. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful story about such an important time in your life. You are truly mighty and – let’s face it – what a wonderful daughter you were to your dear mother. Think I will be able to sleep now, after hearing how you used your story to build the rest of your life, too, beginning with that first day. So glad “we” have TOD to share such powerful memories with each other. Again, thank you for sharing yours. Goodnight.
I was about to sleep but my room is so bright because of the eclipse. I was able to take a photo! Jupiter and saturn are also a bit visible 😍 I sky at night so much…
This 4th of July may be much different from others past, without fireworks and maybe without the usual gatherings. But how lucky are we, to have places in which no fireworks are needed, because nature provides the best show of all.#FindYourPark#EncuentraTuParque#DarkSkiespic.twitter.com/DCqcHd2Za6
— Sequoia & Kings Cyn (@SequoiaKingsNPS) July 4, 2020
How many moons can you spot this weekend? Jupiter and Saturn are currently visible near our Moon and are well-placed for viewing from 10 PM – 2 AM all weekend. The two gas giants have 161 moons between them, a few of which can be seen with binoculars. https://t.co/NJmUPcVzhHpic.twitter.com/iJkyIC4Nqk
#BlackLivesMatter protest today in Stone Mountain, GA — a popular KKK gathering site. ✊🏾 That’s 100s of armed Black men and women marching together in unity, evoking their 2nd amendment rights. (📹@naomiruta) https://t.co/hRijdSWVOT
• BUNGALOW • CARO DIARIO • HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD • JOAN OF ARC • JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE • PAPICHA • SÁTÁNTANGÓ • Shorts by Miguel Gomes & Sergei Parajanov • Three films by Hong Sangsoo • TOMMASO pic.twitter.com/k5nRJz8dh5
My reaction to @kanyewest running for President is that Republicans are STILL trying to take healthcare away from 23 million Americans by striking down the #ACA and we really need to #FlipTheSenate, so you should donate to these races:https://t.co/VrlvgRpUI1
Yesterday there were three mall shootings at once in America: in Alabama, Massachusetts and Ohio.
In Alabama, Royta Giles Jr., 8, was waiting in line with his family at The Children’s Place at the Riverchase Galleria when a gunman opened fire and fatally shot him in the head. pic.twitter.com/xiECIsvIXM
Most other high-income countries won’t experience a single mall shooting this year. But then again, they also don’t let @NRA lobbyists write their gun laws.
We don’t have to live like this. Our children sure as hell shouldn’t die like this. ACT. Text READY to 644-33. pic.twitter.com/XhAKvUEamj
BREAKING: Trump just lied and said there will be a vaccine way before the end of the year, acting like it would be ready before the election. That is a dirty rotten lie. Dr. Fauci would say it's not possible. Because it's not.
WATCH: "We have a president who is doing our arch adversary's bidding. … And he is surrounded by sycophants and weaklings." — @AmbassadorRice on the White House's claim that President Trump didn't know about Russian bounties on American heads. #MTP#IfItsSundaypic.twitter.com/7ql6Wi82FH
As much as I’d like to ignore him completely, we have to the threat that Kanye represents in the Presidential race seriously. He’s too popular not to. He is this year’s Jill Stein.
Y’all really think black voters…I can’t even finish it it’s so ridiculous.
He’s there to help Trump. Don’t doubt it. He could carve off enough politically immature voters to make a difference in certain districts. Couple that w/ rampant voter suppression & we get more of the Orange Menace. The Electoral College overrode the popular vote in 2016.
We laughed in 2016 at the rich clown riding down the escalor. Look where we are now. The Electoral College picks President. Less than 100k votes in 3 states made the difference. You think there aren’t 100k disillusioned or dumb people in the right places who’d vote for Kanye?
I’ve carried the middle class values that my parents instilled in me my entire life — and they’re the values I’ll bring to the White House. pic.twitter.com/WPIzFPD9Mv
“PM Justin Trudeau provides COVID-19 update and addresses anti-racism protests.”
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau commente les manifs demandant justice pour un homme noir du Minnesota
qui est mort lors d’une intervention policière.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Happy Fourth of July TODVille!
Congrats, No Child! Not celebrating anything except my nephew’s 25th birthday and Malia Obama’s 22nd. Will be watching Hamilton again instead of any faux patriotic stuff.
You got that right. It’s exactly the way I feel this year, and I’m good with my decision. I’m not “over” my own personal patriotism, but I am over celebrating the faux stuff shoved down our throats.
Both you and Judith are so right, it does not even feel like the 4th, everything has changed.
If we have to go through this to get to a better place, it’ll be worth it, although we would have never thought this would have been the case. Just wish it would go more quickly!!!!
The ground is shifting beneath our feet…had to get a balance
🥁🎶🥳🎉🍸🥂🍾, Furst⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Happy birthday to Malia Obama!!
Best wishes for a good 4th of July to the Obama family! And the Biden family! Peacefulness to all here.
And to everyone building bridges to a better future for all.
The Bridge Builder
By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
I love this! A dear friend in St Kitts emailed it to me when he heard my Uncle was ill; my Uncle had a profound impact on him. It arrived mere hours before he died…
So glad you love it, too. Sweet story about your Uncle! (A former work colleague of mine gave it to me when I retired, saying I was a bridge builder … and I never felt so humbled in my entire career. Smiled my way right to retirement on that one!)
Your colleague knew you well…
Awww. Thank you.
Bringing this from the last thread.
Thank you, Nerdy Wonka…🙇♀️🙏💪💙❤💪🙏🤗😍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Loved Ossie Davis! Amazing actor! Amazing voice! Amazing human!
Think I mentioned here before that I actually was introduced to him once at an event I attended back in the early ’90s related to my job, when I worked for the Navy. OMG. He spoke at the event and it was great.
Not to mention those damaging 3 words:
“…the merciless Indian Savages.”
“Say what? From the elegantly-quotable Jefferson?”
(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-radical-suggestion-exci_b_888897)
29 more billionaires while 45.5 million filed for unemployment:
“An analysis from the Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies – Program on Inequality (IPS) documented that in the span of three months,
“the U.S. added 29 more billionaires while 45.5 million filed for unemployment.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/07/03/as-covid-19-deaths-hit-record-numbers-trump-oversees-a-historic-wealth-transfer-to-the-super-rich/)
The sheer grit and guts by the Black community is beyond, beyond all measure. Systematic genocide of Black people at every level and the persecution by police. While their talents and services are being harnessed and contained…massive payoffs to the very wealthy even as COVID kills off the population.
What a profound and succinct statement, to add anything else to it would be a disservice.
honored, Don.
Damn!
These are the reason Republicans have been elected – ever since Ike:
Trump has no chance of victory unless registered Dems don’t vote.
folks will come out vote….but we will have to contend with voter suppression…i am in PA…it was so fortuitous that my state passed a law that gave us the ability to vote by mail last year…our first vote by mail was the primary…there were a few kinks but i believe the SOS is working to perfect it….
not everyone wants to vote by mail…(conspiracy theories abound) so state and local officials also have make sure that voting in person is safe….
#ExpectUs
Little doubt now that we’ll be at 100,000 cases a day, soon ….
Wonder why?
Seems this dude has the answer ….
This is the Speech to watch for 4th Of July..
This must be the “good trouble” that our civil rights icons spoke about. There is upheaval and turmoil throughout the land, one by one antiquated customs and traditions are being discarded, and in its place, nothing. We can build anew, a community that respects and cherishes the individual.
Joe is going to force America to look at itself in a mirror even if it does not want to.
Happy Birthday Malia Obama.
Every time I see transatlantic trade deal I get sick to my stomach because Barack was begging these fools to do the deal. And this was no ordinary deal, this deal could have given us the power in choosing who what, when where and how we do trade deals around the globe. But no, we had the Republicans and some of the Dems trying to gum up the works, I get mad even thinking about it.
So much time and progress was lost because of all that. Arggghhhh.
A blessed 4th of July to the entire TOD community. Please note that however you are celebrating it, we, your southern neighbors, are in solidarity with you.
I posted this yesterday. It took my breath away.
Yes, it is breathtaking; and under this admin they feel emboldened to say the quiet bits out loud…
Missed your post yesterday.
Definitely worthy of seeing again anyway. They have made themselves crystal clear. We all see/hear them. We need to make sure their time is over. For good.
Me too, but then you’d have to have values and a spine.
YUP.
Dear God!
Thread…
Thank you. RT’d every tweet in that thread.
You’re very welcome.
Here’s a real treat..
There’s nothing like a live performance. She’s accompanied by the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra at the Met. They are socially distanced, performing to an empty house.
Hi Everyone! I hope you’re all having a safe and happy Fourth!
This is pretty cool!
…and the wuss said….
Thursday morning, a group of health care professionals sent a letter to Kemp calling on the governor to make mask wearing mandatory and rollback the openings of bars and gatherings of more than 25 people.
While Kemp has said mandatory masking is “a bridge too far” in his eyes…
========
Instead, he’s doing a flyover of Georgia, visiting several cities to *encourage* residents to wear masks, and threatening that college football might be off the table if Georgians don’t start wearing masks in public.
Grow a spine and just MANDATE the face masks and pull back on the re-openings!!! Your job is to keep Georgians safe, not worry about how much money you and your friends are losing. Believe me, your financial loss affects you a whole lot less than it does small business owners and most hourly workers.
Meant to source this:
https://www.thegeorgiasun.com/2020/07/02/georgia-reports-more-than-3000-new-covid-19-cases-in-one-day/
i saw this…i absolutely love the JOY!
I stop and smile every time! Love it!
The New Back to Africa Movement…
i did not know that there was an official push to try to seen formerly enslaved folks back to Africa…
this was outside of the Marcus Garvey movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-Africa_movement
What Denzel said! 😄
OMG – how adorable!
#Truth-Transformation-Restitution
Goodnight, TODville!
Ignore the text – I was just posting the cartoon. 🙂
What’s good for the goose ….
Goodnight TOD.
The group, known as the Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC) was comprised of about 100 to 200 people, all dressed in black.
Shortly after 2 p.m., Bankhead said the group was allowed to come into the park and entered from the West Gate. They then headed toward the lawn area of the park, where the large Confederate carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the north face of the mountain can be viewed.
The group then went to Memorial Hall during their time at the park.
…one member of the group also spoke about the reason they chose the location, describing the park to fellow members of the group as the “birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan” – referring to how it was restarted atop the mountain in 1915.
“I want the heart of the Ku Klux Klan to hear me no matter where the f*** you are,” he said. “I’m in your house. Where you at? You made a threat. We don’t threaten.”
***The group ultimately left with an escort by park police. Police said they had no issues with the group during their time in the park…[Per park authorities] “We understand the sensitivity of the issues here at the park and the dark past so we respect that and allow them to come in,” he said. “As long as it’s peaceful, which it has been, then that’s fine.”***
Hesitant to share this publicly, but here goes:
This is a special day for me in several ways:
47 years ago today, I was holding my Mother’s hand when her Soul left her body for Heaven.. just before sunrise, she had been ill for many years. I made it to her bedside in the hospital only 10 hours before she went, she was waiting for me… she knew me…
The wonder of it all, with my Mom, I had been living up in Alaska, set out on the solstice and it was a 12 day journey to Washington DC, but I made it just in time. 1973, the Watergate scandal was opening up, and it felt like going into Mordor, from the beautiful 24 hour daylight in Alaska!
When my Mother separated from her tired worn-out body (she had 11 children, she had just turned 56), I was lifted partway with her, and we went into a dimension of Light and pure Love I had never known.
It was not my time, so I had to come back down, it seemed all the lights had gone dark, but I felt her Soul rejoice, and I knew she understood a peace she had not known on earth!
Well, and because it was a special holiday in the US, 4th of July, you know it gave the word “independence” an entirely new meaning! That night, at our farm, we lit a bonfire, and prayed, and there was one empty chair, several of my brothers were not with us, they had to come down from Canada.. but indeed, that holiday never felt the same again to me or anyone in our family..
Thank you for letting me share this with you, it is eternal, and I know my life and my life’s work was changed from that day forward!
Tears of joy and wonder are good tears, yes, she was young, but she had a magnificent life, she was a fireball, and to have been given the privilege of being with her at the close, magnified how powerful the Soul is, if we can leave it free of impediments!!
Yes, and an opportunity to pass the confines of the physical plane, if we are willing and able, and the true gift is to have a chance to share with others, in hopes of helping them to release whatever obstacles may be holding them back from living in a more full consciousness…
{{{ 🕊 🌏🕯🙏🏼🕊 }}}
{{{ ♥️💞TOD💞♥️ }}}
Couldn’t sleep (extremely rare for me), got out of bed, came online and found this. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful story about such an important time in your life. You are truly mighty and – let’s face it – what a wonderful daughter you were to your dear mother. Think I will be able to sleep now, after hearing how you used your story to build the rest of your life, too, beginning with that first day. So glad “we” have TOD to share such powerful memories with each other. Again, thank you for sharing yours. Goodnight.
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Dear Pamela, What a beautiful, touching and uplifting story. Love and devotion. Blessings and peace to you.
Can any of us ever rightfully thank Chips and Nerdy Wonka for giving us this place to share our lives with each other. 💙❤️💙❤️
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Love is eternal! Thank you for the beautiful reminder MightyPamela!
(((((((((( ♥️ Pamela ♥️ ))))))))))
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MP, thank you so much for sharing this story with us. ❤️🙏
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My oh my! How things have changed!
My goodness, have you ever seen anything more pathetic passing itself off as a celebration?!
The Obamas knew how to ROCK!
I can’t help myself!!
Planets, Stars, Moons! 🪐🌔✨
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Bidennnnnnnnnnnnnnn yeahhhhhhhhh…got me up to dance!!!
Yay Lincoln Center! I love that place so much! Please share and rent a film if you can.
Cool pictures from 2019 Texas Sand Sculpture Festival
My reaction too.
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Morning everyone. And larger cities can scale up. It’s not defunding, it’s redirecting, and it’s long overdue
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahoots-replace-police-mental-health-trnd/index.html
As much as I’d like to ignore him completely, we have to the threat that Kanye represents in the Presidential race seriously. He’s too popular not to. He is this year’s Jill Stein.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/this-is-a-movement/
All Kanye needs to get on the presidential ballot in Georgia is get 7500 signatures from Georgians and file by August 14.
Tell me there won’t be some people dumb enough to vote for him and I’ll sell you some nice swampland in the Sahara.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_requirements_for_presidential_candidates_in_Georgia
Love these ads from the Biden Team
“PM Justin Trudeau provides COVID-19 update and addresses anti-racism protests.”
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau commente les manifs demandant justice pour un homme noir du Minnesota
qui est mort lors d’une intervention policière.