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