How can he throw a big ugly party while incarcerating children and tearing innocent families apart?  I watched the videos of the women in the camps and listened to AOC recount the bullying behavior of the guards and cannot get it out of my mind. I weep even as I write this.

Happy Independence Day! May this be the day that things start to turn around for the better! 

I was starting to get a headache so I decided to meditate and see if I could stop it and got the following, among other things:

DC tonight - I sensed storms, soggy protestors, T with umbrella, wind, rain ponchos and celebrations cut short. T is furious. 

If the weather is bad, maybe it will depress the number of visitors. I hope this means that things will stay peaceful. That headache that I felt coming on was one of those that I get when the emotions of the collective are high. 

‘Whatever you are doing today, I hope that you are all able have some enjoyment with your friends and families.

I saw on the twitter feed the otherday that former first lady LauraBush issued an official statement calling the camps highly immoral.  I'm no Bush fan but I applaude the Mrs for speaking out.  But there again I don't know what kind of influence the Bushes have with the Rep party anymore.  I would like to see all the former first ladies band together and  at  least issue a strong statement. Maybe Melania can wear her I don't care coat again!

OK I have heard a lot of buzz around (ie take with a grain).  The deal with the VP being called back to DC.  I've heard two different theories.  One that moron wants to fire him and replace him with the plastic princess.  Too bad he doesn't have thepower to fire an elected official.  The secondwas more interesting.  The secondtheory was that the russia sub was on a mission to interferre with our power grid and something went wrong causing the accident.  The joint cheifs were at the WH and wanted moron to call putin and let him know we knew about this and it wouldn'tbe tolerated.  Moron blew the call and the chiefs were pissed.  I believe he wants to replace Pence because he's afraid he will call for the 25th amendment to be put in effect.  The joint chiefs don't seem to care for moron and all his posturing.  They don't want this stupid parade but have been "ordered" to attend moron.  There are veteran groups who are calling them cowards.  There a re a lot of vets who don't like moron.  One group is handing out "McCain" t-shirts at the parade to piss him off.  Good for them.  I have a feeling that this moronfeast of his is goingto back fire.  Either no one will come or his unofficial alt-right guards will start violence and ruin the whole thing.  MOron's grasp on reality is fast losing it's grip.  Someone in the press corp said he was yelling at someone the other day so loudly that the could hear it in the press room.

I hope eveyone has a nice quite 4th and lets all do something relaxing.  I plan to watch Wimbleton tennis then listen to the two new Springsteen albums I bought.

In closing I offer this prayer.  Dear GOd and all your beautiful little angels please release a biblical monsoon on DC this evening!

Jeanne, my eyes have literally been hurting the past few days -- like they're bruised.  Hurting and burning from what we all are witnessing on the border.  His July 4th celebration is obscene.   Weaponized patriotism.   The farce of July.  God is not blessing America; God is weeping for America.  And God is angry.  It's time to throw those money changers out of the temple.  

The pain we all feel can be overwhelming.  I read a quote somewhere that says, "Remember that good people still inhabit this planet.  You're here, aren't you?"  

It's important, now more than ever, to take care of ourselves, and each other.  We have work to do.

Yesterday while meditating, I saw  my Native American spirit guide.  His name is Singing Eagle.  He’s been speaking to me since I was a child. 

Back in the 80’s and 90’s he was standing up and would call to me during readings to tell me to tell people to stop hurting the earth.  

Now I only see him seated lotus style before a campfire in my backyard but in another dimension.   One time a beautiful psychic whose eyes were blind who was attending classes at my house saw him.  This was before I had told anyone about him.

Yesterday during my meditation he was seated in front of his campfire and chanting softly while rocking back and forth.  I could hear a distant drum beating.  The beat was accelerating.  

I’ve known for years that late 2019 would be the darkest time, a time of descent where we see the darkness that has been there all along.  The internment camps are the strongest sign.

I agree with those who say the darkness was there before,  only the privileged didn’t see it.  When I was a child I noticed a book lying around the house by Michael Harrington called The Other America. It was the early sixties and I flipped through it and saw the poverty in our country that had always been hidden from me. When I first visited NYC by bus we drove through the broken south Bronx before arriving in the gleaming center of Manhattan. It stunned me. 

Now the  dark will come into the light for all to see.  

Bless those light workers with the courage to shine the light on this darkness.  AOC and her colleagues.  Those in the press who tell the truth.   

I agree that we need to stay positive, as some have written here,  but not if we are averting our eyes from others’ suffering. I will not live in a bubble. I cannot.  

We need to stay Awake.   

Amen! Praying furiously for deluge here????

I grew up in a large metropolitan city.  I didn't live in a peaceful household, but we were well taken care of.   I went to good schools.   I never had to worry about my next meal.  About my safety.   

We didn't have a car and took public transportation everywhere.  As a small child I remember how stunned I was to see the depressed areas  in the African American sections of the city.  "Why do people have to live like that?" I always asked.  I felt my mother's discomfort, and never got an answer.  I remember traveling by train to see relatives in Oklahoma.  We never considered taking a plane, and I'm grateful that we didn't.  I remember witnessing in horror the extreme poverty as the train rolled through the countryside of the South.  It haunts me to this day.  When I was older, I took a metro bus to my high school, and still remember the burned out areas from the urban riots of the 60's.  Some of my relatives didn't understand and were full of opinions.  Although it all frightened me, on a gut level, I did understand.   I understood and felt their rage.  And then I would come home, flip on the TV and watch "Father Knows Best" or "Leave it to Beaver."  The sanitized version of life.  Deep down inside, I knew better.  And I always wanted to do something about it.

Maybe now, I will have that chance.

I used to live right near DC. Checked the weather forecast for tonight. There will definitely be evening thunderstorms, between 5 and 11pm. Even though the forecast says "50%" chance, I know from living there that at this time of year that it's quite likely. I remember attending local fireworks with an umbrella open, unable to really see the fireworks in the clouds, on more than one occasion.  So, yeah. Maybe those who are closer to that area can do a call to the rain and wind tonight?

Maybe in my meditation, the meltdown I saw was because of the Russian sub situation, I don't know, I couldn't make out actual words.

I also woke up with a headache, and even though I'm still recovering from surgery, the pain had completely gone by yesterday, so to have a return of it today I take as a sign to take it really easy today, which is what I will do. I'll keep bingeing Netflix (Stranger Things is back today!), avoid news sources, maybe throw a burger on the grill, watch spectacular fireworks from my own backyard, and call it a day.

Let's all pray for rain in DC, and that Cheetolini will not be able to announce anything horrific tonight.

#GoGoo (see my post on the Pence thread, lol)

Borowitz report: Trump’s Fourth of July Parade to Include Flyover by Russian Air Force

"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it “incredibly exciting news,” President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that his long-planned Fourth of July parade in Washington will include a flyover by Russian Su-24 fighter planes...."

Even knowing that Borowitz is a satirist, when his daily blog hit my email a couple of days ago, I thought it was true for about ten seconds. In a way, it is true.

CBS,NBC, ABC announce they are not covering the D.C. fourth. Mediamatters.com asked media not to cover it. I hope NPR doesn't cover it either. 

I called Boston's local NPR station  - WBUR.  They assured me they were not going to cover any part of the event live.