alone yet grateful

 Thanksgiving and Christmas time while joyous and happy for most is especially hard for some. I am among those who no longer have family available to be with throughout any part of any year. I deal with it by being thankful for the memories I have when things were different, people were different and family was there. 

All of those who held my family together have passed away now and those who are left I'm hoping are having their own get-togethers and making their own memories. This is how life goes it sort of trails off at and near the end. I've managed to sort it out and be alright with it but I know there are some suffering during this stage and I feel for them. 

At some point in this life, I began to realize that no communication from friends, family, and people in general actually is communication, and that is when I started being less affected emotionally by the silence. Thanksgiving for me now that I'm older with health issues, is every day and not just one day. I am grateful for getting another day to listen to the wind in the trees, hear the birds sing, and enjoy the sunshine. And Christmas has a meaning that exceeds what we used to see it as when we were kids so I look forward to it for a different reason now. 

I know that my way of dealing with these things isn't as easy for some as it is for me but I still recommend looking at it all differently and understanding that every day we wake up we are gifted and get another chance to enjoy life as our loved ones who have passed would want us to be doing. So look up and not down if you are alone while others are living the way you once did. They are making memories that you once made that will carry them through times like this and that is a very good thing to see. 

We are never completely alone in this world no matter what we are going through. There is God who is waiting for you to acknowledge him and he will carry the weight you find too much to bear.  

 

 

        

this is not the time to relax

 As the news cycle churns we face a choice of options some of us haven't had since we were little kids but with much more severe consequences today. Good or evil. Good of course Mom would always say, there is no other option. But those simple solutions and days we lived back then are gone now. Radical types have forced changes our world was never ready for and the consequences of those changes have wrecked our lives. There is much blame to go around for individuals and political "correctness," advocates but none more worthy of blame than ourselves for not stopping it by whatever means necessary like people did back when our country was young.  

The election 2 weeks ago shocked me to the bone. I have said many times our system is clearly so corrupt and fraudulent that there is no way on earth the far left in America would allow Donald Trump to come out of this election as the President of The United States. But it was too big to rig and now we have another and possibly our last opportunity to save the country from radical far-left lunacy. 

There isn't much time, but Trump is on the move and not wasting a single minute putting together the team that can actually save not just America but the entire world. Iran is taking 3 steps back, and Israel now has the unyielding backing of a badass in the White House. Ukraine is saying just today they can see their war finding and ending. Russia's Vladimir Putin (although a congenital 2-faced liar and menace to the world) is vowing to want to work with the Trump administration to set a new calm in what may have been another world war with the weakness of the Biden/Harris era. 

The feel in the air is positive. World tensions are cooling, if not just a bit after boiling without a strong leader in charge of America. Trump has four years, and that's it. Actually, maybe only two to three years to get major things done and put our country back on track. My fears went from worrying about the weeks and months ahead to now taking a breather for a couple of years, but then what???

One thing is for certain, I've had this positive feeling before when democrat insanity was pushed back on only to watch Republicans in name only shoot themselves in both feet. Did any of them learn their lessons, or God forbid will this happen again? We will know soon enough.. The far-left democrat lunatics are no doubt betting weak republican fools will once again show their ignorance and defy the mandate Donald Trump was given by the people who hired these same Senators and House members. If this defiance happens again, I predict America will not survive.