@seeker4 you are a beautiful woman with so much love and zest, age is just a number. I adore you my friend.
As for the image you posted I had a similar image/vision of Biden when I was visiting the national parks; every time I looked at a mountain peak I saw his smiling face and it brought so much calm and healing.
share the love and light
@seeker4, So THAT's why I've been nodding off each day around 3pm! I turned 68 in July.
But multi-tasking? I was never good at it. Now I've read a couple of studies that claim no one is actually good at it. It's just accommodating the crazy way we sometimes have to live.
@deetoo agreed, I’m so bad at multi-tasking. I can’t even hear what my husband is saying if I’m concentrating on something else. Hence I’ve always been mindful of completing one thing at a time otherwise I’m all over the place.
share the love and light
I share this same sentiment and have always felt the same way about Biden and his mission to help women come into power. He's truly a lovely soul. I don't personally expect anyone, even the President to be perfect. I admire when someone has made mistakes in their life but they strive to evolve and grow and change and have done what they can to be a better person and citizen in their journey.
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@jeanne-mayell, apologies for the misunderstanding. I think I stressed I wasn't talking about Joe Biden dying or anything? That was not the intention of sharing my vision. My point was that I think he was going to do one term and that that would be hard on him, but the effect he would have would be great and filled with light.
I am bit confused on where the lines are drawn, since many people also talked about Trump being ill. There are predictions about that, which let to the stroke thread. Can you point out to the explanation of the rules/fine print there? Just so I understand?
@moonbeam. You are right that the policy has been confusing and not evenly applied. You are a beautiful soul and I'm grateful to you for posting here.
Still, that rule is clearly stated in the rules. If it is not evenly applied, that is my fault. It's a huge forum and I don't always read all the posts. That rule also has been evolving as has this whole forum and myself. Back in 2017, I had no rule about it. I didn't remove people's visions of his demise. It didn't occur to me to have a rule about it back then.
In the case of Trump, he is now ill. People speculating about his illness is reasonable. He has a life threatening illness that especially takes the lives of elderly men with preexisting conditions. Still I have asked that we not predict his death. It is tricky because he has serious illness which people want to write about and intuit.
The rule evolved because over time, I realized predicting someone's demise could contribute to it. You realize it is wrong when it is someone you care about rather than when it is someone who harms millions of people who you wish would go away.
As for the Stroke thread, it was not started out of a prediction of his demise but the result of photographs of a weak hand that looked like it was paralyzed. The hand concern also followed his unscheduled hospital visit. So we had reason to wonder if he had had a stroke. That is different than sitting here and posting an imagined vision of him having a stroke. But it certainly possible that some of us did make some predictions back then and I didn't moderate it.
Then when Biden started his campaign, the trolls, as well as well-intentioned people, predicted his demise. It has taken on a life of its own, which is what the Right and the Trolls want. In the last week, those predictions have increased. They did it to Hilary too. With Hillary it started with the trolls, and one time when she was tired and her hair was messy and she had bumped her head, psychics also started posting that she going to die. And the Right did it mercilessly to RBG for years.
@deetoo Not sure about those studies, but Candace Pert, a brain researcher at NIH, now retired (I think) explained the differences in brain development between men and women. Men tend to have a more developed right or left side, while women tend to be more balanced between the right and left. The center area: cerebrum (I think) is more developed in women. The theory being that men tended to be more focused on one thing: hunting, farming, or warring, etc. Women had to multi-task: take care of the children, cook the food, make the clothing, weave, create pottery, and much of it at the same time. Thus, the theory was that the activities that belong to one side or the other get more "shooting back and forth" for women who have to do multiple tasks at the same time. Now, this was back in the 90s so a lot of research may have occurred since then that challenges it. It made sense to me at the time though. Apologies for a very rough description of a complex issue. But, I definitely knew when I was multi-tasking back in the day and felt quite competent. Not any more though.
@share Thank you so much for your kind words. I'll agree to having a lot of love. Zest--not so much anymore, but walking calmly through the rest of my life is a good thing too. Holding these beautiful images in my heart and embracing so much about Biden having been divinely, perhaps, picked for a mission of bringing calm and healing to our country. Sending love and light to you too.
Three hours ago, Joe Biden tweeted, "One month until we can call Dr. Biden our First-Lady Elect."
What a glorious day that will be!
@seeker4, I've heard of Candace Pert. That's interesting about male/female brain development. I can't recall where or when I read the research I mentioned, but I remember it made me feel good; I no longer felt like a failed multi-tasker, LOL!
So, i will admit I made day 30 and Day 25 right after posting day 35, which was before the Fascist in Chief ended up in the hospital. I don't think 30 or 25 are in bad taste, but I will change course if things take a turn for the worse this week.
First, having been a single parent of two and male... I anecdotally believe women can multitask. What does Bill Mahr say, "I don't know it for fact... I just know that it's true."
Saying that Pert is actually correct in the overall concept, I am not sure how it breaks down by the sexes, or if it breaks down along lines that might have evolutionary reasons.
The term itself is usually applied to computers. Computers, like the human brain - though not nearly as efficient - basically switch out one task for another. It gives the illusion of multitasking.
The funny thing... the appearance of multitasking boils down to something like 60 bits a minute and how a person deals with it. The background noise of all our senses, external stimuli, internal organs and the like is about 1.3 MB a second or over three terabytes a month, and the part that is us in a sense is a mere 20 MB a month. ( this is a crude calculation )
Think about that - the brain is an amazing thing!!
I've been writing unfinished "rant" limericks on Twitter, so for the 20s I'll share those with you on non-picture day.
There once was a woman named Kayleigh
Who lied to Americans daily.
Those lies that she spread
Soon went to her head
And she got COVID-19 because like her boss she couldn't bother to sport a simple piece of fabric on her face or recommend that others do so too.
28 Days until we VOTE!
I saw a great yard signs today:
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID
BUT
YOU CAN VOTE IT OUT
============================================
AND:
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
BLACK LIVES MATTER
WOMENS RIGHTS
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
SCIENCE IS REAL
LOVE IS LOVE
K I N D N E S S
IS EVERYTHING
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
There once was a V.P. named Pence
Who watched this whole mess from the fence
As a practicing Christian
He refused to listen
To science. He refuses to listen to science. How many more of these do I have to do!? vote them out!
27 DAYS!
Another from my Limerick tweet storm yesterday. It's actually quite fun and these things tend to spew out of me fully formed in seconds.
He tweets out of passioned resentment
The drugs just can’t bring him contentment
The fascist in chief
Is beyond all belief
Let’s please invoke the 25th amendment.
OR...at the very least, watch with smug satisfaction when he's voted out in 26 days!
Today a picture AND a limerick!
This one was written after the tapes leaked about her talking about Christmas. As you may remember, the Obamas never once celebrated Christmas (sarcasm) and were regularly browbeaten for it by the media (honest to god fake news)
First lady, Melania Trump
Thinks the house that she lives in’s a dump
She complained about Christmas
While growing more listless
What a well dressed, but still useless lump.
This is a simple photo job with an abstract background added for attention. If the smaller letters are hard to read they say "The best part of waking up is drinking from this cup" - We aren't allowed to wear candidate masks or display any election paraphernalia at our ISD (never mind the army of Trump stickers on people's cars in the lot or the Trump masks I've seen on a few students over at the career tech center) - and my Biden mask was vetoed. But this cup - they can't stop me from drinking coffee - and drink it daily I do!