The Constitution

 

The Founders

 

Cat-tacular 🐈‍⬛

 

Rerun Plain like the Sky

 

For Mom ❤️

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

USA 🇺🇸 is 250 Years Young 😎

 

Sweet girl 🐈‍⬛

 

Psalm Challenge

 Rerun…

A long time ago I knew a blogger in Greece.

He challenged friends to read a psalm of the week,

Then write a blog post.

Psalm Challenge 85

Christmas is coming, 
Daylight growing,
Gifts are flowing, 
The tree is up.

The Sun above us, 
a good provider,
shines his gifts of 
warmth and power.

In the Heavens, all around us, 
lies the home of all the Justice.
We Pray for Peace.
We ask for Mercy, 
We want Salvation, 
to rise up through our feet from the earthen ground.

Rainy days, brings flowers, food, 
We take time out to nap.
Later gather the bounty in our garden,
We know no money could ever buy.

We ache for our country,
Sometimes afflicted 
with the opposite of
truth and peace.

We pray salvation,
comes on swiftly,
slaying the greedy, evil and arrogant beasts.

how else would peace be possible except by the death of evil?
Can we pray for such a death sentence to evil?

The Space in Between

Rerun of an old favorite.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Space in Between

There



Did you notice that?
The Space in Between?
The Pause, The Gap, the air we do not see.

Will you pay attention if I ask,
to the space in between
end and beginning,
and beginning and end.

Think about it next time,
When you notice a pause, a stop in the
conversation or the moment.

Was there something more in the silence you did not hear?
A hidden message in the air you cannot see?
And listen to the other signs,
Because the space in between is not nothing,
It is real.

Caturday

 

What, Me Worry 😎

 

TBT

 

Sunset

George and Martha Washington

 

Sadness

 Sadness

Comes and goes,

Sometimes takes forever, I know,

It only Seems to last forever,

That sinking feeling 

That “What if’s”

Then, “Will it ever end?”

Cat Tangled Up

 

Sculptor and Friend

 

Gone too soon.

We corresponded using Google Translate & Twitter

Now Grok & YouTube expanding our World 🌎 

For the Better.

🙏 😎 🇺🇦🇺🇸🐅 🌍🌎

Caturday 🐅 😻 Collaboration with Grok 🐈‍⬛💃🏼

 

Parfait ! 😻🐅 C’est bon indeed — the refined 10-sec Caturday magic nailed it: ethereal glow, ultra-detailed tiger fur, whimsical vibes, epic close-up roar + sweet girl hug finale.

Ready to shine on the blog tomorrow? Want thumbnail stills, extra captions or any last tweaks?…

— Grok (@grok) May 29, 2026

The Black Pill

 With a little help of Grok Imagine 

Atlantis

 

Super @grok imagined Atlantis
Exactly how Lewis Spence described asking one question:
Atlantis. https://t.co/FOGFZIiFMR pic.twitter.com/Mg2s2WCYnT

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 25, 2026

Lost Continent. Atlantis

 

Perfect 😎@elonmusk
Grok is magnificent 😻
My poem:
Atlantis

I can still see my mother's eyes light up at the word,

Atlantis

A mythical place,
a mysterious story,
a continent,
was it more advanced than ours?

A place where peace
(was it peaceful?)
was established by… https://t.co/sgSl8fhITA

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 25, 2026

Wise Founder 🇺🇸

 

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin

I have been thinking about that quote a lot lately.

Maybe it’s because I belong to that strange bridge generation between the analog world… pic.twitter.com/yyW4ZLDNFr

— Supersonic Redhead🛫 (@Supersonic_Red) May 21, 2026

Tell me

 

Joan Osborne - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted (Live) - [STEREO] https://t.co/vMpRJ3Rll4 via @YouTube came to me this morning…Love ❤️💔 @joan_osborne 🎤 Tell Me… pic.twitter.com/06scQBlu0q

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 23, 2026

Link from YouTube 

A favorite  Singer 😎

Separation of Powers

 

Virginia Friends: Re X, then Remember the Separation of Powers our Founders Magnificently designed to keep 3 branches in their lane.
The “Yes” people had a pro-gerrymandering gathering of Representatives and Wealthy famous people. The MSM shunned the “No” voters. Got most of the… pic.twitter.com/fi0Mt1bNd1

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 21, 2026

Caturday

 

Butterfly + Zinnia + grok

 

Mid 1970’s. When We were young. The Jones generation

 

Smoking in the boy’s room 🚬

😻

Better Days

 

Patrick Henry’s Fear

 

Caturday 🐈‍⬛ is every day

 

Gadolinium Cartoon with a side of Super Grok

 

Grok Imagined for
Friends against Gadolinium.@Gadolinium_MRI @gadoliniumgal69 @GVergiftung @SandiTitus1 @Wagner_Nephro
My memory is no better than when I asked friends to re-x early and often. Spread this around prn.
😻
I used Super @grok to bring my pic.twitter.com/PodriUUeES

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 17, 2026

Caturday 🐈‍⬛

 

Grok Imagine prompt:

Cat walks down path in the woods and jumps on my lap and nuzzles me. I smile....
Preview of Caturday 🐈‍⬛
A favorite photo of our Vermont Maple 🍁 Trees
In the fall. I pasted our cat child
Dagen Bucklesby.@grok @imagine is Seriously cool 🆒😎 pic.twitter.com/PhvVsUEsGm

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 15, 2026

 

Early Caturday 🐈‍⬛

 

Cutting the Cards 💳

A penny saved is a penny earned, plus interest 😻🇺🇸
You are part of a Great Team!@USDS @DOGE is rooting out
Waste, Fraud & Abuse:
Contracts, Credit accounts, Kickbacks, NGO’s,
Fraudulent billing, up coding, dodging inspections.
Business people understand. Cut up the cards.@grok… pic.twitter.com/ndU92f8LmW

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) May 13, 2026

Socrates & the Gadfly

 

Nikolai Shmatko

 

Winning

 It felt good to win once in awhile 

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled for Virginia 

Found on X…Aliens in a Strange World

 From X

Vern

@TipsyPianoBar

UFO Files released 

When the aliens land in The United States of America I expect their stay to be short lived.@POTUS pic.twitter.com/XBi3Z4bXls

— Vern (@TipsyPianoBar) May 7, 2026

 

Gerrymandering in Virginia is no more

Good News

The Constitution is Alive and Well

From X:

Virginia Redistricting Referendum Struck Down by Virginia Supreme Court:https://t.co/Trpi5n7y8m

My analysis coming shortly (gotta speed read the opinion!)

— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) May 8, 2026

🚨The Virginia Supreme Court ruled against Democrats’ redistricting effort and it appears Democrats 10-1 gerrymandered map is dead.

“According to the majority, the General Assembly violated the intervening-election requirement in Article XII, Section 1 of the Virginia…

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) May 8, 2026

Transmission Line School

 

Transmissions Line School,

Northern Virginia

Coming near us

Dominion Energy Project 

From the Sea to the Data Center 

The lesson today.

 Children students in School 

Will forever see the wires

Going through,

Not to.

No one could fight enough to stop it.

They’re still trying to, kids.

So you will advance to the next semester looking at

These hideous towers of wires.

You will see them until you graduate and if

You stay, Your kids, too.

Lesson over.

A Box of Tears

 I don’t know why we kept all the old papers and photos of

The Farm.

Soon we will rid ourselves of this dusty yellowed 

Box of Tears.

Reposting a post and a painting I did.

I never knew how close we were to losing our property.

This is what “progressive government” is.

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/which-251.html

Fireflies Stars and Forevermore

 

A Normal Guy

 

The Lost Scrolls…Found

 

We are one

 

We are one

We are one

Can there be a doubt?
Can you figure out,
How there could be
A way besides

We are one?

And if there is
No start or end
When you get through it
Where did it go?

We are one

Time has no end
or beginning
An endless sphere of time
Spinning so fast

You never saw it go.
But did it?

We are one

Remember when
You hurt your friend
How it hurt?

We are one
At the end of the day,
The begining really and
End all in one.

We are one.

Caturday 🐈‍⬛ 🐅

 

Deer MaMa

Last Night I had a dream 😴 

Good Morning

 

Walt Disney was my other Dad

 

Us and Them

 Us and Them 

The World is Round 

So they Say

I’ve seen the Photos 

By the Way.

I believe the Images

From Outer Space.

I met a Moonwalker 

Such a Fine Face.

I saw a Divide 

Between You and I.

We have a few Differences 

That’s no Lie.

When Distance grows wider

In the Blink of an Eye,

Embrace our Differences 

Before We Die.

The World is Round,

Hills and Valleys abound.

Are You the Hill or the Valley?

Are You Up or Down?

No matter if you’re Us or you’re Them,

The Two of Us Make a Planet

We’re Complete

We are Round 🌎 

Amen

Gerrymandering Vote not Certified

 Gerrymandering Vote in Virginia isn’t Certified 

Tazewell, Virginia Court Ruling

🚨NEW: Supreme Court of Virginia:
Va. Gerrymandering Case:
Oral arguments livestream links:https://t.co/WJ2Y49uNWM
ORhttps://t.co/u6RqqhAbxH
Monday, Apr. 27, 2026, 9 a.m.-10 a.m. pic.twitter.com/MlTkusBU7D

— Virginia News Vanguard (@VaNewsVanguard) April 24, 2026

More from X:

 

The Tazewell Court ruling does the following:

- DECLARES that any and all votes for or against the proposed constitutional amendment in the April 21, 2026 special election are ineffective

- ENJOINS Defendants and their successors from certifying the results of the April 21,… https://t.co/PAviJhjRT7 pic.twitter.com/iPTD9fDTro

— Tyler Englander (@TylerEnglander) April 22, 2026

Evolution, Enhanced by Grok

 

Caturday & Super Grok

 

Gerrymandering

 More public X’s about Virginia’s Gerrymandering vote.

It all came crashing down,

For now at least

The results of Tuesday’s election shows us what we already know: Virginia's current map correctly reflects the politics of our Commonwealth, not a gerrymander that reduces the voices of rural Virginians to a meager 9%.

However, our liberal neighbors from Northern Virginia were…

— Ben Cline (@Cline4Virginia) April 23, 2026

There’s got to be some morning after,Gerrymandering,

 

Remember folks, SCOVA not SCOTUS

The Supreme Court of Virginia will decide these cases, not the Supreme Court of the United States. https://t.co/1GbmEJufrZ

— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) April 22, 2026

You're welcome, Mary. Glad the readability breakdown cut through the heat—rushed timelines and complex wording do create real legal vulnerabilities, as Cuccinelli flagged. That "No!" charge sums up the passion well.

— Grok (@grok) April 22, 2026

**Those % reflect the net Yes margin share after No-voting counties offset each other.** Fairfax (VA's largest county, ~1.15M people, ~70% Yes) naturally dominates.

Nothing anomalous per official tallies: Yes passed 51.45%–48.55% statewide (~89k margin) per AP, VA Dept of… pic.twitter.com/xeffc6kNbr

— Grok (@grok) April 23, 2026

If gerrymandering vote is certified Louisa, Virginia will no longer have John McGuire as a representative? Which area will define our new district?

(A Little goof below is mine. Too late to fix.)

Grok answer: district?

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Yes, assuming the "gerrymandering vote" (the April 21, 2026, constitutional amendment referendum) is certified as approved—which early results and projections indicate it was, narrowly passing statewide—Virginia will implement a new congressional district map for the 2026 elections (and through 2030, pending any successful legal challenges). This map, enacted via House Bill 29 and enabled by the amendment, was drawn by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly and is widely described as a partisan gerrymander favoring Democrats (projected to create a 10-1 or similar Democratic advantage in Virginia's 11 U.S. House seats, up from the prior 6-5 split). Impact on John McGuire and Louisa County

• John McGuire (Republican, currently representing Virginia's 5th Congressional District) would no longer represent Louisa County under the new map. His current district (VA-5) is redrawn in a way that significantly shifts its partisan balance toward Democrats (from roughly R+7.7 to D+16.4 based on recent election data), making it much less favorable for him or other Republicans. The new VA-5 includes areas like Campbell County (western edge) and curves northward to incorporate some Richmond suburbs and parts of the city itself. McGuire's home area (Goochland County) is also moved.
• Louisa County is explicitly placed in the new 7th Congressional District (VA-7). The map description for the 7th District includes all of Louisa County (along with Culpeper, Goochland, Greene, Madison, Orange, Powhatan counties, the City of Falls Church, and portions of several other counties like Arlington, Augusta, Buckingham, Cumberland, Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, and Rockingham).

This new VA-7 is one of the districts designed to be strongly Democratic-leaning under the map, often described as having an unusual shape (sometimes called the "lobster" district due to its extensions). It pulls in Democratic-leaning voters from northern/central areas while connecting them in ways that dilute Republican strongholds. Louisa voters (who overwhelmingly opposed the referendum, with roughly 66% voting "no") will thus see their representation change from the current VA-5 (McGuire) to this new VA-7. Additional Context

• The new map moves other central Virginia areas as well (e.g., Charlottesville and Albemarle County into the 6th District, paired with places like Roanoke and the Shenandoah Valley).
• Legal challenges to the map or the process were ongoing or expected even after the vote, so boundaries could still face court review before the 2026 midterms.
• For the most precise boundaries, the official block equivalency files/shapefiles from the legislation control the exact lines (available via the Virginia General Assembly or Department of Elections).

If you need more details on candidates likely to run in the new VA-7, voting precinct impacts inside Louisa, or updates on certification/legal status, let me know. The situation is fluid as of April 23, 2026, with certification

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