Plain Like the Sky
On a summer’s day or
The light on the snow today.
The sky today could be in June .
The light today could come back then too,
Having bounced around the universe,
Ask the light, What is out there?
Are there walls or just a curve,
Or is it all someone’s imagination?
Or is the light an emanation
From above, From some deification,
Shining down on all of us,
Plain Like the Sky
Said the light
Love, Mary
The official CIA manual of trickery and deception : Melton, H. Keith (Harold Keith), 1944- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://t.co/pelzJjoPsp via @internetarchive
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) March 18, 2026
So That’s how they did that… pic.twitter.com/KmKn2AgdYQ
Bureaucratica
Came across this on X
From the Washington Examiner
.@GovernorVA really has it out for rural Virginia.https://t.co/07MiKOZRMw pic.twitter.com/V0RSm1xEU1
— Virginians for Fair Maps (@VA_forFairMaps) March 17, 2026
The Second Amendment
Fighting back
Fighting For
Again, nothing will flood a state with 10 million standard capacity magazines faster than telling peaceable Americans you're gonna ban future sales -- especially when your tyannical "justification" is to blame them for crimes they never committed and that the ban won't prevent. https://t.co/xoDaqwqpiX
— Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) March 14, 2026
I posted on X
The proposed gerrymandered map splices together communities that have little in common. Rural areas would be represented by NOVA politicians.
— Virginians for Fair Maps (@VA_forFairMaps) March 12, 2026
The intended consequence is clear: Silence the voices of rural, conservative Virginians. It’s wrong, and we’re fighting back. pic.twitter.com/N9ep2xyiJe
@grok imagined what would happen if 9 D and 1 R is voted in.
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) March 13, 2026
Vote 🗳️ No!! pic.twitter.com/kEypLUiDws
@vademocrats drew a new map for Representing Virginians. @POTUS
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) March 14, 2026
Irony? Most of US Democrat Senators claim verification of voter’s Proof of Identification is too difficult for people who are unable to fill out the forms or find birth or marriage certificates. Yet, this ballot…
Virginia, alas, has got the blues. Our 2 U.S. Senators @timkaine and @MarkWarner Won’t vote as our representatives. They stand when their side stands, they sit together defiant in their childish reactions. Nah,nah,nah.@vademocrats new bill-banning paper ballots.
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) March 11, 2026
Gerrymandering… pic.twitter.com/gru9jgjyrl
Proud To Stand With Trump Since 2016
— Rafael Shmatko Jr. (@rafshmatko) March 9, 2026
Nikolai Shmatko: "I just looked at his face, and the heavenly powers told me that he – Donald Trump – would become the President of the USA"https://t.co/AztxZXNBVm
Drunk on power. https://t.co/HhEqxnuq31 pic.twitter.com/5f3D00IQuv
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) March 9, 2026
Nothing about the April 21st referendum restores fairness or levels the playing field.
— EllyKayUSA (@EllyKayUSA) March 7, 2026
Virginia Democrats are selling their unlawful power grab as the exact opposite of what it truly is, and they feel no shame in lying to voters.
What they're doing is wrong.
VOTE NO! 🚫 pic.twitter.com/hNlyFVr1wL
Yes, the first famous gerrymander shown was actually attempted and passed in 1812. Massachusetts' Democratic-Republican legislature redrew state senate districts to favor their party. Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed the bill, creating the salamander-shaped district that coined the…
— Grok (@grok) March 6, 2026
Yes, former President Obama released a video message yesterday urging Virginians to vote YES on the April 21 ballot measure amending the constitution for temporary new congressional districts. He described it as a response to mid-decade redistricting by Republicans in states like…
— Grok (@grok) March 6, 2026
Stick Season
A Dreary time
Panoramic image
Not quite perfect
Soon to be a Beautiful Green Hill
Once only an odd word that meant nothing to me.
Now it threatens my representation in Congress.
Grok animated this drawing from
The Boston Gazette 1812
Lessons in History
Gerrymandering
Named for Governor Gerry
@grok and I are talking about gerrymandering.
Blue Virginia wants the most lopsided representative ratio in the country.
Happy 250th Anniversary of the Founding. pic.twitter.com/oY2s6vp5rM
— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) February 22, 2026
The judge's TRO holds: the Jan passage violates Art XII §1 timing (early voting <90 days later), and ballot language ("restore fairness") is non-neutral advocacy, not neutral question. VA Supreme Court appeal likely next.
— Grok (@grok) February 22, 2026
Trump urged red states to optimize post-census maps for…
Water is Everything to Humans
Early Americans Knew a Vital Rule for Health,
You never Defecate
Where You
Bathe, Drink, Cook, Save for later.
Code Brown.
Suffers:
Humans, Wildlife, Sea, Bay Life, Food.
Agriculture.
Is Science able to recover the damage done & being done?
🚨 YOU VOTED FOR "CHANGE" — NOW PAY UP! 🚨
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) February 19, 2026
Virginia families are **RAGING** as Dominion Energy bills **EXPLODE** — some **DOUBLED** or **TRIPLED** (200%+ spikes) under **Gov. Spanberger**!
Cold snap? Sure. But voters are screaming it's more than weather — and her RGGI carbon… pic.twitter.com/lDhE7RvIy2
My Version
Chapter 4 – Interview with a Clone
Dr. Susan Wolf stood before the packed U.N. chamber—aisles full, overflow standing—like no meeting in recent memory.
The crowd buzzed to see the “Girl Wonder,” age 27, who had mastered animal cloning.
She opened with “Good morning” in 87 languages.
Overhead, Georgia’s multimedia montage flashed: Susan flying, sailing, skiing, gardening.
Georgia, seated among the audience—friend, confidante, now agent—watched critically, already planning tonight’s edit for the next presentation.
In this ruthless world, success summoned equal parts demons and dragons.
“Take the bad with the good,” Georgia’s mother always said.
Susan scanned the room: relaxed yet razor-alert, reading faces, locking eyes where welcome, glancing away when needed. A natural intuitive—her “sixth sense” of observation, memory, and nature’s order.
The final slide: Corky the monkey.
After the 87th greeting, she paused.
Music faded. Murmurs died.
“Corky, my friends, is a clone.”
Video rolled—Corky in her arms, kissing, cuddling, loved and loving in return.
Five minutes of unbroken applause.
Georgia exhaled, eyes closed, small smile. This moment had already won 95% of the war: funding, approval, global reach.
When quiet returned, Susan continued.
“I understand language…” (applause)
“…and I understand genetics…” (applause)
Corky towered two stories on screen, music swelling, room awash in shared awe.
“Language and genetics are linked—complex, essential, intertwined.”
“I understand both.” (applause)
“I know the future of sustainable life—here on Earth, on Mars, on the Moon—a future many said impossible.”
She pointed to the screen.
“Corky here…” (applause—no translation needed, just his sweet smile)
“…is proof we will succeed in space travel and colonization.” (applause)
Near the bathroom door, Gigi Fairweather listened, pressed in the crowd.
A flicker of jealousy for her brilliant, now-famous former roommate from Air Force training and college.
Yet love ran deeper.
In that instant Gigi vowed: she would captain the first ship to Mars, join the first colony—and do it side by side with Susan.
Rafael Shmatko is selling busts of First Lady Melania Trump
Sculpted by His Father, My Friend, the Late Nik Shmatko.
Art evokes an Emotional Response
Great Art takes your breath away.
That’s what I feel when I see Nik’s artwork.
Knowing He survived in poverty in War Torn Ukraine made me sad,
Unable to do anything for Him.
Now His Son Rafael is raising funds for a museum of Nik’s Works.
Please Help Rafael,
For the Love of Art 🙏🏼
“Not everything that can be counted counts,
Not everything that counts can be counted"
Albert Einstein
Google versus Apple
Hope I remember tomorrow,
By then today will be
Yesterday 🤦♀️
No?
It is the Reward
