#TBT

 

Long ago

And

Far away 

Anchors Away…

 

Me and George Washington

 

A New World

 

The New News

 

#Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 This week a Perfect cover of Helpless, written by Neil Young.

Link to YouTube Video by Molly Tuttle et al.

Beautiful.

Next: My poem about being Helpless 

Mary E. Gerdt

Helpless

played on the radio.

yes I hear you Neil,

you were there with

Katie & I 

in a red car

on the back roads 

of 

corn country

on the 90th meridian

of 

Southern Illinois.

Scarred back then 

by grief,

losing friends too young,

rendering us 

helpless.

does grief

&

does being helpless

 make scars too

in our fabric net

of

neurons?

Now

We fight

an invisible MonSter,

others know so well,

how do we explain,

how it hurts?

i am helpless

So if you see

a MonSter,

better run girl,

it is no good.

(Is it something you can run from?)

Now

 I see the universe before me,

images too large,

impossible to 

comprehend.

I never could run before

the scars

that warped my

senses,

slowing ever so slighly,

still always flatfooted,

yet

filled with

hope each day

the MonSter

can be rendered

utterly, completely, obliteratively

helpless.

Faith #TBT

 

The Trumps

 

@DailyMail @DailyMailUK @MELANIATRUMP @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse
I had so little understanding of First Lady Melania Trump
Then I read Melania’s Memoirs.
Her Full Life, Her Love of Life, Challenges, Successes.
I wanted to understand how She felt after Her Family’s Private Home… pic.twitter.com/g7RsRHxWWC

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 11, 2024

We Love President Elect Trump & First Lady Melania Trump

 

@DailyMail @DailyMailUK @MELANIATRUMP @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse
I had so little understanding of First Lady Melania Trump
Then I read Melania’s Memoirs.
Her Full Life, Her Love of Life, Challenges, Successes.
I wanted to understand how She felt after Her Family’s Private Home… pic.twitter.com/g7RsRHxWWC

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 11, 2024

When?

 Will the final Election Results be known?

Even since I wrote these words on Saturday 11/09/2024 🤦‍♀️🎸🚀🐅🦅

If the votes are dribbling in, when will We know it’s done?

Every Day it takes,

I have more questions.

Can I do that?

Sun Day

 

#Caturday

 Napoleon 

and

The Hag

Friday Night Musik

 Another Richard Barone 🎸 Favorite 😻

Our Next President

 

😻🦅🇺🇸 https://t.co/jEgamz8DAU pic.twitter.com/K6Tl9Eo9Ye

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 6, 2024

Waiting

 Why don’t We have Paper Ballots?

Waiting 

Who?

 Who will Win the 2024 USA 🇺🇸 Presidential Election?

Who?

Tomorrow the work Begins Again

 

Tomorrow the work begins Again

The Politicians have offered their pitches and promises,
Tomorrow the work begins.

But, instead there will be a party, 
a celebration or consolation.

At the end, pumped up supporters will fall exhausted, 
down to the ground.


Win or lose, 
The Politicians, sleepless euphorics, still buzz with the vibration
of all their monetary adoration,
a compensation, a self affirming confirmation.

They kissed the babies and bad breathed housewives,
They courted supporters, promised away their lives,
Cut the tax, Raised awareness,
Fights for apple pie, Mom and fairness.

At the end of that long election day,
The politician breaks down, on his knees to pray,
Prays his promises will not be broken,
That his constituents mind be aptly spoken.

So do not forget your promise, politician though you are,
Tomorrow begins the work,
Again,
the end
so far,
so far.

Caturday

 

Halloween

 

Halloween

Easy to remember
Those days in late October
That scary day,
Costumes and play,
The truth obscured,
That creepy day.

Pumpkins carved with artful care,
Falling leaves everywhere,
Candied apples,
I close my eyes,
Go back in time,
My childish side.

Tomorrow all Saints come back to our plane.
Tonight the veil thinning again & again,
The veil so thin you can almost touch
Those who have gone before
So reach out if you must.

I Voted

 

Alone Together

The Ordinary Office 

Remembering 

I held Mom’s hand tightly as we walked a block to the First Presbyterian Church in Edwardsville, Illinois.

It was about 1965.

I was 6. 

I was always up for a new adventure,

Beyond the schoolyard we walked past.

Beyond the House we lived in. Parents and 7 siblings.

Sam was just born.

We were in the Peak of the Baby Boom.

No Technology, No Bic Pens, No Email, Internet, Cable TV.

We could hear the Birds.

We walked past Mr. and Mrs. Kuethe’s House, 

My self adopted Grandparents.

She peered out the kitchen window,

Telltale curtain wave.

The other homes shades pulled,

Sunday morning.

Workers rested.

The Pews were hard

The message muddy

The music filled me

The walls endlessly fascinating

My poor neighbors scrimped to put money in the plate that went around.

What Price Redemption?

The Pastor Friendly

Shaking hands with Each of Us

It was a Safe Place

We did this every Sunday,

Mom never had anyone to go with her.

I was always up for Church.

One day She told me She“owed” the Church,

Thus began My Understanding.

Mom said when I was born,

Number 5,

Their Money wasn’t enough to pay the bills.

They lost their House,

The one Dad stick built,

A beautiful forest home

I don’t remember.

Mom said they moved into 

My Childhood Home

And The Church gave them

Food, Milk for the Baby…

Me…

And some other donations.

Mom owed them.

In her Stoic Proud Stubborn Swedish Bohemian Manner,

She Felt she owed them.

I was 13 and took Confirmation classes.

Thinking again of debts to the Church,

This religion thing was Uncomfortable.

I told Mom I wanted to quit.

She asked me to get confirmed first.

After some back and forth,

I consented.

Never again would I go into a building of Worship

Except for Weddings and Funerals.

Then I noticed Dave Lucas on Twitter

He described his Church without Walls.

I can sit comfortably in my home and tune in

As often as I like, share, chat with others on Twitter.

My Husband and I are alone out here, where we like the quiet and woods.

I never want to leave.

Together with 

The Ordinary Office 

I am participating in Worship and Prayer with likeminded people all over the World.

Together.

Alone by Choice 

Together by the Grace of God.

Amen 

Not a fictional Movie

 

About 50% there

 Care and Maintenance of a blog

Requires some level of alertness, discipline, alternating with 

Insane and Baseless babbling 😎💃

Grok 2.0 helps Me Imagine.

I’m Still not 100%

 I usually post YouTube links on Friday.

I usually post every day at 5:30 EDST

I’ve been detained, sidelined by illness that snuck up on me.

On the mend.

Here’s a wonderful YouTube Video Link showing 

The Wonder, Skill and dedication to Music 🎶 

Roy Clark ❤️❤️❤️

Posting for my followers/

 Missed posting

Am in the hospital.

Tired and Alive.

Home soon, hopefully Tomorrow.

Our Little Girl 😻

 

Tuesday

It’s Tuesday and I don’t have much to say.

It seems like a minute ago that we packed up our stuff and

Moved here

6 years ago by math

I don’t sweat

What I can’t remember.

Grok 2.0

 

Apple Season 🍎 🍏

 

Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 This week 

A Wonderful YouTube Link

Barbara Lynn

& Marcia Ball

Me and Grok 2.0

 Another Self Portrait by My Buddy Grok 2.0 ❤️🇺🇸🦅💃😎

Gadolinium Haiku

Metal coming out my hair 

Deposited there 

Can’t Prove It’s everywhere 

Me & Grok

 Grok made another great portrait of

Me and the Tiger at the Pyramids.

Have a Heart

 

Melania

 

A Great Book and Great Sculptor

 

It didn’t take long for Elon Musk to thresh the wheat from the chaff 😻
It was then easier to spot the strays who He missed.
President Trump has learned a lot from His first term. He learned even more during His second run for President.
This, President Trump’s 3rd Election… pic.twitter.com/llbDxV0eHZ

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) October 12, 2024

Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 Link from YouTube 

The Marvelous 

Barbara Lynn 🎸❤️

And

Marcia Ball 🎹😻❤️

At

Texas Music Cafe 🎤❤️

#TBT Vermont Fall Foliage

 

Link to Great Lesson

 Great Link!

Ministry of Truth 

https://www.lorhainneeckhart.com/071623-2/

Grok and Me 400 b.c.

 

End of Summer

 

My inner soul

 

#Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 

Wonderful YouTube link,

The Great Jimi Hendrix

Too soon gone ❤️

#tbt

 

The more I learn about Socrates and Plato,

The more I want to know about 400 b.c.

Gadolinium article link

 

#Gadolinium - #64. Toxic, retained in everyone. Found in the brain, bones, tissue, and organs. Only found in the body because radiology put it there -
Here's a article, discussing heavy metal toxicity.
Can you believe it --- never mentions Gadolinium! 😵https://t.co/0eLdoab7Ac?

— Living with Gadolinium, LLC (@Lambertdebb) October 2, 2024

Gadolinium posted yesterday…clarification

 

@Lambertdebb I want to expound on my comments because I thought about them all day. Your book makes Me 🤔 think. About Me and others like Me. My today thoughts in parentheses.

1️⃣ What’s the Proof so I can show all of My
Academic Specialists? … (Spotty studies at best about… pic.twitter.com/yxpCromJT6

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) September 30, 2024

New #Gadolinium Book-Patient Experiences, Available Information

My Book Review📚
Friend and X’er @Lambertdebb recently published a book about #Gadolinium, a common contrast injection given prior to many #MRI Tests.
I read it in one day.
Having had a number of Doses, I took particular interest in it,
Of Course. Debbie led me to Questions, some… pic.twitter.com/PehPfMAnVN

 My Book Review📚

Friend and X’er @Lambertdebb recently published a book about #Gadolinium, a common contrast injection given prior to many #MRI Tests.

I read it in one day.

Having had a number of Doses, I took particular interest in it,

Of Course. Debbie led me to Questions, some with answers.

1️⃣ What’s the Proof so I can show all of My

Academic Specialists?

2️⃣ What have other patients experienced?

3️⃣ What has God got to do with it?

4️⃣ Why is @Wagner_Nephro more curious than most Doctors?

5️⃣ Are the new ICD-10 codes looking for matches? Anybody counting?

6️⃣ Have Payers and Providers considered FDA Warnings? Liabilities, perhaps, for long term health consequences of patients receiving Gadolinium. Frequencies, Doses, identification of which drug. Pharmacy, Storage, Purity, Location of MRI Machine.

Informed Consent?

7️⃣ What are patient’s options? Testing, Chelation, no Chelation, diet, lifestyle, write your heart out, pray to whatever/whoever/however You Believe.

You’re going to need it.

No answers yet

Debbie Lambert covers much of these topics.

Many of the answers are yet to be recognized.

Mary Gerdt

Retired Disabled Registered Nurse.

 

 

 

 

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt)