the end is the beginning

We were in Tennessee camping during the total solar eclipse seven years ago. Yikes on bikes, how much has changed in seven years. I read somewhere that when the next eclipse happens in April it will have been six years, six months and six days since the one in 2017. I didn't do the math, although it is definitely in that vicinity of length of time.  Precept upon precept. I learn something just in time to learn the next thing that I wouldn't understand without having learned that first thing. Ever since I learned about the  Book of Miracles I have been giving a lot of thought to the idea that sky anomalies happen shortly before catastrophic events happen. And events on earth directly impact events in the heavenly realms and vice versa.  Total solar eclipses are not uncommon, but any given area might only be in its path every 100 years, so while common, your chance of seeing one might be rare. That being said, the chance of two total solar eclipses intersecting is even mor...

Where do bad folks go when they die? They don't go to heaven where the angels fly. They go to the lake of fire and fry. See them again til the fourth of July. Are you familiar with the Donald Marshall clone story? It's a doozy and Donald Marshall claims to be a tortured mk ultra clone who should be credited for writing most of yesterday's and today's top 40 hits. He says he has sort of a supernatural gift with music and has been a cloned slave who has been forced to write songs since he was a small boy. This all began when he serenaded an evil Queen Elizabeth with the lyrics to 'Lady' by Kenny Rogers that he apparently wrote on the spot. They say music soothes the savage beast.  I'm only mentioning this because Donald says whenever a song doesn't make much sense it is only because he couldn't think of anything to rhyme, like 'fry' and 'fourth of July.'  This is actually all totally irrelevant to what I'm really thinking about. Bas...

Ahoy mateys. I'm noticing a pattern here. Patterns....one of my specialties, although I can sometimes be oblivious when they come to myself. I looked back the last few months and recognized a chunk of between 3-5 days around the 20th of every month where I never posted anything. Because there is less than normal firing in my brain and really not much stream of consciousness going on. The lights are on but no one is home type thing. Last night I got sucked into a now deleted reddit post by someone who had been scammed and bought tickets for  Willy's Chocolate Experience , which was supposed to be a Willy Wonka themed experience, but turned out to be a warehouse with dollar store props. I found a news article about the  event  here. It is worse than you think. But after looking at the Willy's website, it is clear it was all made by AI. There are various grammatical errors and things that flat out don't even make sense. The more you look, the stranger it gets. Like maybe s...

*Was Mary Magdalene actually 'Hairy Mary' the  wild woman ? Certainly puts new context to her washing Christ's feet with her hair. I don't know if there is any legitimacy to this, but there was definitely an interest in  wild people  during the Middle Ages and a lot of references to MM as a very hairy  lady . *3.6 million dollar vessel goes missing under Antarctica's  doomsday glacier . *California and Nevada have been hit with almost a thousand  earthquakes  in less than a week. *WHO chief warns that  Disease X  is a 'when' and not an 'if.' *A pregnant  stingray  is thought to be pregnant by a shark. *Zombie  fires  are burning at an alarming rate in Canada. *Trump hawk's super gaudy golden $399  sneakers . *Japan to launch first  wooden satellite  to combat space pollution. I don't know why, but that headline actually made me laugh out loud.  *Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patient numbers expected to doubl...

Oof, that didn't take long. Owsley always flips it to TikTok radio as a joke, but I screamed a little on the inside when I actually saw this on the radio for the first time. Pay no attention to my very dusty screen. This is how it goes...I only notice it is dusty when I'm driving and it is dangerous to wipe off. Or I might try to wipe a bit off with my finger and it just changes channels on the touch screen, so I say 'forget it.' And then I truly do forget all about it. And when you don't care about much...it's hard to care about much. My brain is not wanting to make complete thoughts this morning, although it has cooperated this week in letting me read lots of ancient texts. So maybe it has just crapped out on me from overuse. It is trying to tug me down though, making me focus on the part of me that is missing. I'm trying to pull myself out of it, but sometime you just have to settle in and just let it ride out. On top of that, I have come to newer conclus...

Scripture says that unless we become as little children we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Screaming, bossy, entitled, selfish and bratty. Ah, the kingdom of heaven will surely be amazing. Actually.....I think perhaps those 5 year old sephora boss babe babies didn't exist back then. "My 5 year old doesn't play with toys. She only likes skin care products." Mama, stop. That is NOT the flex you think it is. (I don't ever want to judge anyone on their parenting, but why, oh why, are we telling 5 year olds they need to be using beauty products? A blind person can see this is a bad idea.) When I think of little children in biblical times, I think of total dependence. No electronic devices to babysit back then. These babies, toddlers, and small children depended on their parents for everything. They weren't weaned until they were three or four. They relied on their mother for all their sustenance, just like we should rely on the Lord. Paralleling how Christ ca...

I wanted to write about something that happened on Friday before I forgot about it. The mother-in-law of our preacher had passed away and we were at the memorial service. They had it where we attend church. Many people we attend church with were there and we were sitting in the row behind where we normally sit, so it felt like we were at a church service.  I was not sad at all. I was feeling nothing, like normal. This woman had had dementia the last few years and her death was not a surprise. When she continued to be a daily bible reader as her mind was failing (they said she read it 5x last year!?!), she was an encouragement to me on days when it was hard for me to read. She was a very prim woman, who wouldn't have looked out of place as a librarian. My favorite memory of her was when Owsley was probably four (and really wild sometimes) and randomly whacked her on the butt as he ran out the door of the church building. The look on her face was priceless. Anyway, so I was sitting t...

I am he as you are he as you are me, and we are all together. Step right up and welcome to the Big Top! God's faaaaaaavorite nation,  America, where our true father comes only to steal, kill and destroy. Don't forget to vote and stay up-to-date on all your vaccines! Grab some beer and pretzels and pull up a chair folks, because tonight is the Super Bowl. Forget about the radiation poisoning going on all around you. Drop all those cares about your finances and the future. Get ready to be blasted with propaganda and delta waves used to induce hypnosis. You never know what deepfake celebrity might show up in a commercial about world peace and inclusion. What a perfect time to be an American! * Man on plane dies after a liter of blood erupts from his mouth and nose. *Hawaii's big island is struck by a 5.7  earthquake . *In war simulations, the  AI  says, "oh, we have nukes? Use 'em." And sometimes they come to this conclusion seemingly out of nowhere. * Atlantic ...

It has been a minute since I had to wrap up my head like this. A few times I have given serious thought into getting an eye patch because some days would be easier if I just kept my left eye closed all day long. I'm in a good mood, but my head has been a bit of a disaster since Wednesday. I watched my nephew all day and he was great. He is talking in full sentences and is so much fun to be around. After I dropped him off at my sister-in-law's school, I accidentally took a double dose of my tegretol. I didn't even realize what happened until my legs began to feel like sand and I decided it was time for a long winter's nap. If I took as much of this medicine as I was supposed to, my head might not ever hurt, but I also might not ever be able to move. I am sure the dose would eventually titrate up in your body, but I would rather be in a little pain and have more of what's left in my brain.  Lots of these stream of consciousness posts lately because all of the same thi...

Last week was a good week. The latter half of the week had amazing weather, the kind of weather that gives you spring fever. Owsley wanted to go to the park and ride his one wheel, and Gage had been wanting to return a library book, so on Friday Gage and I got new library books and sat in the park while Owsley rode. It felt like old times because I actually finished a book in two days. I sat outside both Friday and Saturday reading. It was beautiful weather and I momentarily thought about how great it would be to go on a walk after dinner, forgetting that it is still dark by 5:30.  I checked out a random psychological thriller because those seem to be the easiest for my brain to process. By page 11 I thought I had figured it out. "She has a multiple personality of her dead sister that maybe she murdered." By page 34, "Oh, she was a conjoined twin and has a split personality with her dead sister." I told Peppy I was going to finish the book just to see if I was right...

*The wording is a little odd to me in  this  headline. Makes it sound like the US has already been discarded. I guess this is a headline for the potential future generations to look back on. *China reveals it's rival to  neuralink . *New  planets are shaped more likes smarties candies, so in an essence...they are flat.  *A pig  brain  was kept alive for five hours while it was separated from its body.  *After more than 1000 days of  drought , Catalina and parts of Barcelona extend water restrictions.  *Interactive map shows numerous sunken  underwater cities  all over the world.  *Ok...you won't hear another word about this from me, because  Trump  has officially declared a 'holy war' against Taylor Swift. So here's your neon orange sign that this is a *say this in the Don's voice with me* huuuuuuuuuuge distraction. There is absolutely nothing holy about Donald Trump. *Colorado republican representative calls fo...