I have no clue who this guy is and I've never watched anything else from him, but my husband showed me this 3 1/2 minute video: Watch Family Guy DESTROY Woke Insanity in One EPIC Clip.
I don't watch Family Guy either, but this clip was brilliant. And it's about time someone said it.
I love books. Of all different kinds. Over the years, I've gone through phases of which genre I liked and read.
I've gone through the "academic phase" during college and grad school when I mostly read educational/psychology books.
There was the "gardening phase," which included LOTS of books on creating gardens, using food from the garden, herb gardens, fruit plants, etc. (I did an enormous amount of garden reading in the 11 years we rented, when we couldn't have a garden. That way, I was prepared for when we did finally get our own home and yard.) Currently, I am researching medicinal herb gardens - which herbs/weeds (not pot!) to grow and how to use them. Because ... well, because it's 2022 and the world's falling apart. Time to be prepared and take some matters into our own hands.
There's a song at the end of The Battle of the Five Armies (from the Hobbit trilogy) that's become one of my favorite songs. I feel this song, especially the line about "Many places I have been, many sorrows I have seen..." That's kinda been my last several years: many sorrows I have seen. Many trials. Many heartbreaks. (Everyone who lives long enough will have many of these.)
Most recently, I had the awful experience of being on the witness stand for three hours, giving testimony against my mom. And after nearly a week of trial, she was found guilty of ... well, of something really bad. (She insists she didn't do it, but we think otherwise. It's not exactly like the prosecution says, but close enough.) And now she will spend her life in prison.
Many sorrows I have seen.
I would like to dedicate the following song to anyone who is breaking down right now - like how I broke down this past weekend, sobbing to my husband about everything that's wrong in life and then vomiting uncontrollably for 11 hours because of tension in my neck that triggers my "throw up" button.
Is anyone else exhausted from trying to bear up under the pressures of this fallen, evil, upside-down, post-Covid world, from watching all their expectations crumble, from feeling like the future is just one big blackhole for you and your kids, from not knowing where to turn or what to do or how to do it anymore, and from knowing that you have to testify against a close relative in court very soon? (Okay, maybe that last one is just me. I've been dizzy every day since just hours before I got the subpoena to appear in court. I'm trying to figure out if it's from stress or something else, like a vitamin deficiency or something.)
Anyway, to anyone else who's breaking down too, I dedicate this song:
"Honestly" by The City Harmonic.
A 10-minute speech we all need to hear and take to heart, before it's too late:
And just in case social media decides to erase it, to silence her, I wrote out Tricia Lindsay’s phenomenal speech, as best I could. And here it is:
(Okay, I'm finally getting back to books. I already brought this up, but I'm doing it again.)
I admit it ... when lockdown happened last year (or was it two years ago? I can't remember anymore; it's all a big blur.), I freaked out and started "panic buying." Not toilet paper (well, a little ... okay, a lot) but a different kind of paper. You see, shortly after the world went on lockdown, our library closed for remodeling ... and all of a sudden, I found myself in a panic. A "what if books become unavailable" panic.
It's been a long time since I put any garden photos on this blog, and so I decided to post some favorites now (from my picture blog). Because I could use a little "pretty and pleasant" in my life right now. I took pictures I already had and put various filters on them, just to see what it would look like. And I like it a lot.
I was just driving back from the grocery store today, listening to a mixed CD I made, and as soon as one particular song came on, I went "Oh my goodness. If any song is the perfect anthem of the common people nowadays - a response to the heavy-handed, over-reaching governments of the world right now - it would be this one."
And so here it is, a song for the people:
We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister (Skip ahead to the 2:55 minute mark if you want to skip the talking in the beginning)
As one of the commenters in the comment section put it "You probably had no clue this would become the battle cry for freedom all over the world. Love it and it fits so well with the citizens being fed up..." (LPS Lizzy Studios)
So are you really sure that you're really going to get an FDA-approved jab next time you roll up your sleeves?
Read this (I have no idea what these websites are, I'm just sharing these articles) and see if you still think that:
FDA Does Bait and Switch with Moderna's COVID Vaccine, Fully Approved "Spikevax"
This sounds to me like the same thing that happened with the Pfizer jab.