Tongue Out Tuesday

 Last day of February 2023…

Interesting! 🐈‍⬛
Took me awhile to find one of Dagen Bucklesby for #TongueOutTuesday 😎
😎😻 pic.twitter.com/rnrsRNUS6S

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 28, 2023

Thinking-Connecting-Sharing-Illuminating

 

Thank You Dr. Wagner, for illuminating Factually
What We Patients Feel Subjectively.
Am reading Buckminster Fuller’s Masterpiece.
He taught at SIU-E. I lived in Edwardsville and Loved the Religious Center-Fuller’s Geodesic Dome. I now see We need a Cross Section of Open… https://t.co/wCY4iRCCwI pic.twitter.com/3D2V0CuOh8

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 26, 2023

Red Sky

 We were watching the local weather forecast & a Red Glow appeared as the Sun was Setting.

Red Sky at Night
Sailor’s Delight 🛳️
Sunset while We watched Zach Daniels’ Weather Report @CBS6 📺
The next day-Record High in 70 f. In February.
🎸😎 https://t.co/7krkIT2QxM pic.twitter.com/oasOea502i

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 25, 2023

#Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 A Favorite ❤️

Tgiff 😎 🎸 🎙️

Link from YouTube 

#TBT

 

Norma and Percy owned & ran the Shoe Repair Shop.

About a block from the House I grew up in.

Norma and Percy were good friends of my Parents.

I always stopped in when I walked past

The Shoe Shop, 

heading to Main Street-Schwartz’s Drug Store, Ben Franklin The Madison Store.

The Smell of Leather, Leather everywhere.

Percy wore an apron and ran the Machines.

Polishers, Cutting Tools, Vise Grips.

Norma worked all the time.

Nice conversation.

Like another Family.

Vaxx

 Vaxx History…

Read the Gates quote here in this newspaper from 2011. pic.twitter.com/a9GkPmoCd3

— seastheday Chief Impact Officer of Seas 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 (@seastheday369) January 13, 2023

Learning to Lose

 

 

Been on My Mind a Lot Lately.

Sometimes We Lose.

Our Humanness Tested 

Again.

I remember my First Code 99,

1980-ish.

I was a New Nurse on a Medical Floor in a medium sized Hospital.

Doctors, Nurses, All hands on deck.

The Patient died after the Doctor had to stop trying.

The Doctor Lost

I Lost

The Patient & Family Lost.

We all learn something when We Lose or Fail.

I had a Dream that night that as we wheeled the Corpse to the Morgue,

He sat up and shouted, “I’m Not Dead!”

Then I woke up.

Images

 

Gadolinium I’m Visualizing a Worldwide Ban on IV/PO/SQ Metal

 

We are a Worldwide Group Interested in Stopping the use of #Gadolinium as an Intravenous injection for use as MRI Contrast. My Blog Posts are Educational, Sharing Observations & Personal Experiences about
Iatrogenic Gadolinium-Heavy Metal Deposits, Retention.… https://t.co/e94L7cT8C9 pic.twitter.com/nZViQaWF3c

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 18, 2023

 

Sky

 

Friday Night Musik

 Beautiful Story, Lesson, Hope.

❤️🎤🎹 Beth Hart

Link from Her YouTube 🎶

Covid-Vaxx-Faux Doctors-Eugenics

 

Really Great 👍🏿👍🏼🎸❤️#COVID1984
Watch
&
Ponder 🤔
How much does a Medical degree from @Harvard Cost?
No, I don’t mean Tuition, Books & Housing.
I mean for a Sophomore Dropout to get an Honorary Medical Degree?
Fake Dr. Says:
“Take the #Vaxx or You’ll kill everyone You know.”🤦‍♀️ https://t.co/MqllsOrLBK pic.twitter.com/5vln8BLM7w

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 14, 2023

Music Break

 Link from YouTube Joe Bonamassa Channel ❤️🎸

Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton 😎

A Favorite Tune 🎶 

Crank it 

Texture, Sheep’s 🐑 Wool & Photo Challenges

 

#Texture Challenge 😎🧶
Here it goes:
A Friend raises Sheep & gave me some yarn.
It sat around for years until I crocheted a blanket.
Our Present Cat Dagen calls it Hers now.
Who can argue with that? 😎 🐈‍⬛ pic.twitter.com/2sPvQC4sPg

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 13, 2023

 

Happy Valentine’s Day ! 🌹 

 

Words

 

Zentangle: Mandala Variant

 Posting a little late today 

Sleep was Welcoming Me

I Couldn’t let It Down 💤 😴 

#Carurday

Friday Night Musik

 A Very Special YouTube link…

Joan Osborne & Funk Brothers, Wonderful Musicians 

Tgiff 😻

Rare Earth Metallosis.

 

The onset of rare earth metallosis begins with renal gadolinium-rich nanoparticles from magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent exposure | Scientific Reports #Gadolinium needs Real Safety Testing ⁦@US_FDA⁩ ⁦@AuntMinnie⁩ ⁦⁦@CMSGov⁩ https://t.co/vaIZyxYi0U

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 8, 2023

Route 66

 Sometimes You just have to Slow Down & 

Take the Less Travelled Road. 🚗 🚙🇺🇸🚗🚙🚗🚙🚗🚗🇺🇸😻

Objective Reporting-Does it Happen?

Has Reporting Ever been Objective?

 

@nytimes @washingtonpost et al might not be the Objective Journalists You imagined as You packed You bags for USA 🇺🇸. Partisan Propaganda veiled as “Woke”, Omissions as Suspicious as Printed Words Amplified by #MSM. Russian Collusion Trump-LIES-ALL LIES. No retractions. pic.twitter.com/d9VxwaXguG

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 6, 2023

Compliance….Obey

 

It wasn’t about Vaxx, Distance, Mask or Closings😷
It was about Mass Compliance.
It was taking away our Facial Expressions.
Looks like @MedicareGov @HHSGov Will Never Investigate
Orders from 4 Governors practicing Medicine without a license. https://t.co/NWewIbqwQl @JaniceDean https://t.co/JHSCCX4zm2 pic.twitter.com/dfzNI0Xt33

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 5, 2023

Rerun…A Favorite Care Home.

 

Shard Villa Update, My version

By Mary E Gerdt
all rights reserved 2009

Shard Villa update
I won’t go into the specific facts because I don’t know all the minutiae but I know when a case settles only moments before trial, that somebody’s scared, somebody’s giving in, somebody doesn’t want something to come out, somebody was strutting and now they are groveling, somebody’s sad.
Usually both sides lose something but they will tell you they gave up everything.
The bottom line is somebody will be able to breathe again like the residents who gained what amounts to a welcome reprieve. The relatives who sat on pins and needles knowing legal remedy is an oxymoron. The staff who were checking the paper for jobs and smiling to their beloved residents. People like me who feel that the Villa is a magical place for people who have to live away from their original home. People like the spirit of Columbus Smith who knew how the last minute dealings in conference rooms outside of court can be where the rubber meets the road, before rubber was on roads.
If you don’t understand what I am saying, you have never had to be in one of those little conference rooms listening to someone threaten your existence to get you to sign the paper giving it all away. The alternative route is they will take it all away from you.
I told you it is a snarly place.
The details are expensive but not really important. The details are washed away by the signing of a stipulation agreement. The ABA’s preferred method for settling cases.
It saves the lawyer’s the embarrassing surprises when their clients get on the stand.
It save’s the lawyers participating in their client’s lies their clients believe in.
It produces the illusion that the courtroom just wasn’t necessary. “Settled out of court” sounds so tidy. Don’t be fooled. It is as bloody as it gets.
Congratulations to Shard Villa for maintaining the 100 year plus promise to care for elders and disabled in a castle with amenities and fabulous caring staff.
Wish them luck with me in being successful at fund raising and gaining new residents to carry on Columbus Smith’s mission.
The last day in court I felt he hovered over us, watching these lawyers perform, and all he could think of was, "let me speak…my mission…my place…it is in memory of my children, myself, my wife. Don’t let us go. Watch out for our wishes. We are history. We are the Villa. We will haunt every mother’s sons of the dissenters."
At least I had hopes that was what he was thinking as I zoned out on the boring testimony of lawyers who didn’t want to discuss the one pertinent fact. Columbus Smith was a lawyer and if they undo his wishes, they go against their own and that is truly haunting. They would be inviting everyone in the future to contest 100 year old legacies. Their nightmares are that they appear in court and their opponent cites The board vs. Columbus Smith…
Lawyering. What a bizarre profession.
No longer a mystery to me and probably never was to Mr. Smith.
Mrs. Smith looked out the window alone when her husband was in England lawyering and she wondered if this was worth it all. What a hard life for a woman alone in the wilderness of Vermont as it was in the 1800’s. Yes this couple paid their price.
Wish them the best going forward.

For Kathy Life is a Circle ❤️

 

For Kathy ❤️

Life is a Circle

Not a Line

I’m in Your Circle and

You are In Mine.

Bright Sunshine

Sky Blue and Pink 

Flowers Bloom

Above the Kitchen Sink.

Gentle Voice 

Strong and Clear 

She told Us Both

We were Welcome Here.

Edgewood Farm

Winding Road 

Past the Pond

Leaves of Gold.

Chowder simmers 

On the Stove

Dogs at our Feet

Air full of Love.

Kathy sets the Table 

You know, Fancy Style

Waited on Us and

David awhile.

We sit holding hands 

Kathy’s Prays for our Meal

We make a Circle of Love

Prayers to God.

Dinner tastes better 

At Edgewood Farm

Sharing Wine and Conversation 

Laughter, Disagreements, Elation. 

We drive out the Road

That brought us both Here

To Gardens and Horses 

Memories of Kathy

Oh, So Near.

❤️ Mary & Fred

1.28.23

Link from YouTube 🙏🏼🎸😢

Will the Circle 

Be Unbroken?

By & By, Lord

By & By.

  

Friday Night Musik

 Beautiful! 

Link from YouTube 😎

#TBT

 

                  Happy Ground Hog’s Day!

Horse Sailor hands over The Key 🔑