#on the day of we all submitted our individual exercises and they were like thanks so much for saving us

[barbie-roberts-is-a-goddess]

my dilemma of the day: should I tell my friends that what they did pissed me off or should I just let it slide

[advancedthetapractitioner]

TGIWednesday: More chess than checkers in the new year

TGIWednesday News

Hard to believe we’re in 2024; man did it fly by.  I hope this note finds you well and that you realize that time, and yes even the calendar, are a construct we’ve come up with to measure, mark and even propel us into and through our lives. I’ll always remind you that life is more like chess than checkers; we’ll make a little move and then wait and timing is everything!  So if you're considering on embarking on a new exercise routine or weight loss program be it Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Carnivore, Paleo or cardio, weights or group classes in 2024 and you're unsure of which one tests best for you, reach out and get on my schedule today because together we can figure it out and co-create a dynamic plan to improve your life! View Calendar First, Then Pay and Schedule 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins | Appointments Lots of cool new stuff launching this year so stay tuned and be excited for what's next!  We want to take a moment to thank you for your participation, your support and loving kindness that you’ve shown to me and our crew throughout the years and in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, “The best is yet to come.” In case you missed the new year energy healing video with Marla and me from Monday's email, here is the link to watch the video here. 

TGIWednesday Video Download

 ~ VAST MIRACULOUS IMPROVEMENTS ~ I believe, think, know and feel that as fast as the negative came upon me in these past years that it can also be banished off of me here and now through the grace of God.  I am ready, willing and able to make the necessary changes that will facilitate profound and miraculous changes in my life!  I know, when, where, how and why to be still and allow that soft whisper of guidance to seep in and show me and tell me the simple way here and now.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.  Know that making simple changes and daily progress will allow the rest of your life to be the best of your life! 

Featured Audios 15% OFF in January

MyBeliefWorks™ for Being Your Ideal Weight & Healthy Diet, Digestion & Exercise MP3/PDFs  

There are over 220 targeted statements in this combined Audio MP3/PDF package.  Purchased individually at regular price these audios would retail for $114.  Buy them together & you'll get an hour of transformational clearings and strengthening statements "fished" for you!

Buy the combo package for $82

or buy each individually for $48 and save 15%

Click below and ADD TO CART and the discount is shown at Checkout

Get both Audios for $82 - Click Here

Upcoming Zoom Event

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31ST 7:30PM ET/ 5:30 CT/ 4:30 PT (30 mins) Pre-register at Calendly for $22 (includes reminders and REPLAY)  👉 https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/jan-zoom-ywr1

THEME: TBA We'll be announcing the topic of this month's Zoom in the coming days and hope you will join us this month.  **Please know that if you were a Darius YWR Season 26 Package B buyer, this call is INCLUDED in your special offer and you have the link on your download page.  Reminders will be sent out so check you email in the coming weeks so you can submit your Top 3.

Pre-Register Here - $22

FREE Live Appearances

Watch and listen to hundreds of Radio Show replays for FREE here in the archives from the Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show.

https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

From the Fish Box

  That session was stellar Jimmy! I am actually taller now. Spaces are opening up between each vertebra of my spine as the energetic currency flows. Currency. Flow. The words of water and money...interesting! Much love to you and your family including kitties for a blessed Christmas!" - Suzanne / Canada

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack Own this e-book so that you can read inspiration every day!

JANUARY 3RD "Just for today: Be true to yourself; be true to who you are. After all, the only person you can truly change is you. And if you do this, you will find others acting and reacting differently towards you in a more positive way."

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Looking for a new job?  Going through a court proceeding? Upcoming surgery scheduled for you or a loved one?  Need help selling or buying a property? Troubled times in your relationship? These are just some of the life at the crossroads events that are ideal for My Daily Prayer program. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.

30 Days of Daily Prayer (single month) - $99/month This $99 service is for ONE SINGLE MONTH of 30 DAYS ONLY.  Click here After the 30 days, you will receive an email from Jimmy and have the opportunity to renew for an additional month plus update your list, but you are under no obligation.

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

**NOTE: Most clients save money and choose the auto-renew option listed below so they do not miss a single day of prayers PLUS they take advantage of the cummulative effects of this service over time. Monthly subscription - $95/month on auto-renew 

Use PayPal for subscription Click here 

Use Stripe for subscription Click here. 

*Anytime prior to your next scheduled payment within the 30 days, you can cancel or pause this service via email request.

---------------------------------

Could you use a private session? Are you feeling extra-crispy?  If so, you can now  Book Appointments... View Availability First, Then Pay 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins  

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

​Visit our ​O​nline ​Training Center "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" - Lao Tzu

All are welcome to create a FREE account to access the NEW and IMPROVED MLF Basic Training Course and also know that the Anchors Away, Life Force Energy Masterclass and both Mastery & Practitioner courses have been UPGRADED with new information & lessons!

   Visit now, Click Here!

The Fish Market

Below is list of over 35 titles in the MyBeliefWorks Clearings audio series, monthly Zoom clearing call replays and Guided Energy Processess. Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better and we are ALWAYS working on the next one. Don’t forget… you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Receiving Abundance Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark Discovering Your Destiny Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Crossroads -Decision Making 👉 15% off Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Empowering the Empath Enthusiasm for Life Financial Windfall Gold Coin: Money in All Forms Healing Family Relationships Healing Body Disorders High Cotton Abundance Joy of Money

IRS Stress & Taxes Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Lucky 777  Finding Love & Romance Mental Stress Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward from Past Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Pro$perity Unlocked Traveling with Ease Treasure Chest Work & Career Success 👉 15% off Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality

View Full Zoom Replay Collection  The 5 Anchors Process The Purple Rain Process The Magical Golden Key

Healing and Grounding Mats for all occasions Yes even Lily my cat uses the pet one!   View Grounding Mats here Use code: MyLiquidFishfs for Free Shipping

**We are NOT involved in the sales or shipping process of the 3rd party items, please contact them directly. 

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TGIWednesday: More chess than checkers in the new year

TGIWednesday News

Hard to believe we’re in 2024; man did it fly by.  I hope this note finds you well and that you realize that time, and yes even the calendar, are a construct we’ve come up with to measure, mark and even propel us into and through our lives. I’ll always remind you that life is more like chess than checkers; we’ll make a little move and then wait and timing is everything!  So if you're considering on embarking on a new exercise routine or weight loss program be it Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Carnivore, Paleo or cardio, weights or group classes in 2024 and you're unsure of which one tests best for you, reach out and get on my schedule today because together we can figure it out and co-create a dynamic plan to improve your life! View Calendar First, Then Pay and Schedule 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins | Appointments Lots of cool new stuff launching this year so stay tuned and be excited for what's next!  We want to take a moment to thank you for your participation, your support and loving kindness that you’ve shown to me and our crew throughout the years and in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, “The best is yet to come.” In case you missed the new year energy healing video with Marla and me from Monday's email, here is the link to watch the video here. 

TGIWednesday Video Download

 ~ VAST MIRACULOUS IMPROVEMENTS ~ I believe, think, know and feel that as fast as the negative came upon me in these past years that it can also be banished off of me here and now through the grace of God.  I am ready, willing and able to make the necessary changes that will facilitate profound and miraculous changes in my life!  I know, when, where, how and why to be still and allow that soft whisper of guidance to seep in and show me and tell me the simple way here and now.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.  Know that making simple changes and daily progress will allow the rest of your life to be the best of your life! 

Featured Audios 15% OFF in January

MyBeliefWorks™ for Being Your Ideal Weight & Healthy Diet, Digestion & Exercise MP3/PDFs  

There are over 220 targeted statements in this combined Audio MP3/PDF package.  Purchased individually at regular price these audios would retail for $114.  Buy them together & you'll get an hour of transformational clearings and strengthening statements "fished" for you!

Buy the combo package for $82

or buy each individually for $48 and save 15%

Click below and ADD TO CART and the discount is shown at Checkout

Get both Audios for $82 - Click Here

Upcoming Zoom Event

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31ST 7:30PM ET/ 5:30 CT/ 4:30 PT (30 mins) Pre-register at Calendly for $22 (includes reminders and REPLAY)  👉 https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/jan-zoom-ywr1

THEME: TBA We'll be announcing the topic of this month's Zoom in the coming days and hope you will join us this month.  **Please know that if you were a Darius YWR Season 26 Package B buyer, this call is INCLUDED in your special offer and you have the link on your download page.  Reminders will be sent out so check you email in the coming weeks so you can submit your Top 3.

Pre-Register Here - $22

FREE Live Appearances

Watch and listen to hundreds of Radio Show replays for FREE here in the archives from the Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show.

https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

From the Fish Box

  That session was stellar Jimmy! I am actually taller now. Spaces are opening up between each vertebra of my spine as the energetic currency flows. Currency. Flow. The words of water and money...interesting! Much love to you and your family including kitties for a blessed Christmas!" - Suzanne / Canada

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations��- by Jimmy Mack Own this e-book so that you can read inspiration every day!

JANUARY 3RD "Just for today: Be true to yourself; be true to who you are. After all, the only person you can truly change is you. And if you do this, you will find others acting and reacting differently towards you in a more positive way."

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Looking for a new job?  Going through a court proceeding? Upcoming surgery scheduled for you or a loved one?  Need help selling or buying a property? Troubled times in your relationship? These are just some of the life at the crossroads events that are ideal for My Daily Prayer program. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.

30 Days of Daily Prayer (single month) - $99/month This $99 service is for ONE SINGLE MONTH of 30 DAYS ONLY.  Click here After the 30 days, you will receive an email from Jimmy and have the opportunity to renew for an additional month plus update your list, but you are under no obligation.

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

**NOTE: Most clients save money and choose the auto-renew option listed below so they do not miss a single day of prayers PLUS they take advantage of the cummulative effects of this service over time. Monthly subscription - $95/month on auto-renew 

Use PayPal for subscription Click here 

Use Stripe for subscription Click here. 

*Anytime prior to your next scheduled payment within the 30 days, you can cancel or pause this service via email request.

---------------------------------

Could you use a private session? Are you feeling extra-crispy?  If so, you can now  Book Appointments... View Availability First, Then Pay 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins  

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

​Visit our ​O​nline ​Training Center "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" - Lao Tzu

All are welcome to create a FREE account to access the NEW and IMPROVED MLF Basic Training Course and also know that the Anchors Away, Life Force Energy Masterclass and both Mastery & Practitioner courses have been UPGRADED with new information & lessons!

   Visit now, Click Here!

The Fish Market

Below is list of over 35 titles in the MyBeliefWorks Clearings audio series, monthly Zoom clearing call replays and Guided Energy Processess. Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better and we are ALWAYS working on the next one. Don’t forget… you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Receiving Abundance Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark Discovering Your Destiny Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Crossroads -Decision Making 👉 15% off Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Empowering the Empath Enthusiasm for Life Financial Windfall Gold Coin: Money in All Forms Healing Family Relationships Healing Body Disorders High Cotton Abundance Joy of Money

IRS Stress & Taxes Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Lucky 777  Finding Love & Romance Mental Stress Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward from Past Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Pro$perity Unlocked Traveling with Ease Treasure Chest Work & Career Success 👉 15% off Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality

View Full Zoom Replay Collection  The 5 Anchors Process The Purple Rain Process The Magical Golden Key

Healing and Grounding Mats for all occasions Yes even Lily my cat uses the pet one!   View Grounding Mats here Use code: MyLiquidFishfs for Free Shipping

**We are NOT involved in the sales or shipping process of the 3rd party items, please contact them directly. 

TGIFunny

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TGIWednesday: More chess than checkers in the new year

TGIWednesday News

Hard to believe we’re in 2024; man did it fly by.  I hope this note finds you well and that you realize that time, and yes even the calendar, are a construct we’ve come up with to measure, mark and even propel us into and through our lives. I’ll always remind you that life is more like chess than checkers; we’ll make a little move and then wait and timing is everything!  So if you're considering on embarking on a new exercise routine or weight loss program be it Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Carnivore, Paleo or cardio, weights or group classes in 2024 and you're unsure of which one tests best for you, reach out and get on my schedule today because together we can figure it out and co-create a dynamic plan to improve your life! View Calendar First, Then Pay and Schedule 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins | Appointments Lots of cool new stuff launching this year so stay tuned and be excited for what's next!  We want to take a moment to thank you for your participation, your support and loving kindness that you’ve shown to me and our crew throughout the years and in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, “The best is yet to come.” In case you missed the new year energy healing video with Marla and me from Monday's email, here is the link to watch the video here. 

TGIWednesday Video Download

 ~ VAST MIRACULOUS IMPROVEMENTS ~ I believe, think, know and feel that as fast as the negative came upon me in these past years that it can also be banished off of me here and now through the grace of God.  I am ready, willing and able to make the necessary changes that will facilitate profound and miraculous changes in my life!  I know, when, where, how and why to be still and allow that soft whisper of guidance to seep in and show me and tell me the simple way here and now.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.  Know that making simple changes and daily progress will allow the rest of your life to be the best of your life! 

Featured Audios 15% OFF in January

MyBeliefWorks™ for Being Your Ideal Weight & Healthy Diet, Digestion & Exercise MP3/PDFs  

There are over 220 targeted statements in this combined Audio MP3/PDF package.  Purchased individually at regular price these audios would retail for $114.  Buy them together & you'll get an hour of transformational clearings and strengthening statements "fished" for you!

Buy the combo package for $82

or buy each individually for $48 and save 15%

Click below and ADD TO CART and the discount is shown at Checkout

Get both Audios for $82 - Click Here

Upcoming Zoom Event

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31ST 7:30PM ET/ 5:30 CT/ 4:30 PT (30 mins) Pre-register at Calendly for $22 (includes reminders and REPLAY)  👉 https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/jan-zoom-ywr1

THEME: TBA We'll be announcing the topic of this month's Zoom in the coming days and hope you will join us this month.  **Please know that if you were a Darius YWR Season 26 Package B buyer, this call is INCLUDED in your special offer and you have the link on your download page.  Reminders will be sent out so check you email in the coming weeks so you can submit your Top 3.

Pre-Register Here - $22

FREE Live Appearances

Watch and listen to hundreds of Radio Show replays for FREE here in the archives from the Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show.

https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

From the Fish Box

  That session was stellar Jimmy! I am actually taller now. Spaces are opening up between each vertebra of my spine as the energetic currency flows. Currency. Flow. The words of water and money...interesting! Much love to you and your family including kitties for a blessed Christmas!" - Suzanne / Canada

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack Own this e-book so that you can read inspiration every day!

JANUARY 3RD "Just for today: Be true to yourself; be true to who you are. After all, the only person you can truly change is you. And if you do this, you will find others acting and reacting differently towards you in a more positive way."

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Looking for a new job?  Going through a court proceeding? Upcoming surgery scheduled for you or a loved one?  Need help selling or buying a property? Troubled times in your relationship? These are just some of the life at the crossroads events that are ideal for My Daily Prayer program. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.

30 Days of Daily Prayer (single month) - $99/month This $99 service is for ONE SINGLE MONTH of 30 DAYS ONLY.  Click here After the 30 days, you will receive an email from Jimmy and have the opportunity to renew for an additional month plus update your list, but you are under no obligation.

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

**NOTE: Most clients save money and choose the auto-renew option listed below so they do not miss a single day of prayers PLUS they take advantage of the cummulative effects of this service over time. Monthly subscription - $95/month on auto-renew 

Use PayPal for subscription Click here 

Use Stripe for subscription Click here. 

*Anytime prior to your next scheduled payment within the 30 days, you can cancel or pause this service via email request.

---------------------------------

Could you use a private session? Are you feeling extra-crispy?  If so, you can now  Book Appointments... View Availability First, Then Pay 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins  

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

​Visit our ​O​nline ​Training Center "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" - Lao Tzu

All are welcome to create a FREE account to access the NEW and IMPROVED MLF Basic Training Course and also know that the Anchors Away, Life Force Energy Masterclass and both Mastery & Practitioner courses have been UPGRADED with new information & lessons!

   Visit now, Click Here!

The Fish Market

Below is list of over 35 titles in the MyBeliefWorks Clearings audio series, monthly Zoom clearing call replays and Guided Energy Processess. Find a topic that addresses your issue(s), click on the link to read more. We had a lot of help downloading & channeling these over the years & they keep getting better and we are ALWAYS working on the next one. Don’t forget… you can share these with your immediate friends and family.

Freedom from Abuse Overcoming Addiction Receiving Abundance Body Scan: Head to Toe Healing Bountiful Harvest Igniting Creative Spark Discovering Your Destiny Daily GPS Reset Releasing Dark Energies/Fears Crossroads -Decision Making 👉 15% off Diet & Exercise Support Education & Learning Support Empowering the Empath Enthusiasm for Life Financial Windfall Gold Coin: Money in All Forms Healing Family Relationships Healing Body Disorders High Cotton Abundance Joy of Money

IRS Stress & Taxes Relieving Holiday Stress Increasing Intuition Lucky 777  Finding Love & Romance Mental Stress Positive Money Mindset Moving Forward from Past Chronic Pain Relief Pet Healing Support Improving Sales & Success Improving Sex Improving Sleep Pro$perity Unlocked Traveling with Ease Treasure Chest Work & Career Success 👉 15% off Weight Loss Support Restoring Youth & Vitality

View Full Zoom Replay Collection  The 5 Anchors Process The Purple Rain Process The Magical Golden Key

Healing and Grounding Mats for all occasions Yes even Lily my cat uses the pet one!   View Grounding Mats here Use code: MyLiquidFishfs for Free Shipping

**We are NOT involved in the sales or shipping process of the 3rd party items, please contact them directly. 

TGIFunny

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TGIWednesday: More chess than checkers in the new year

TGIWednesday News

Hard to believe we’re in 2024; man did it fly by.  I hope this note finds you well and that you realize that time, and yes even the calendar, are a construct we’ve come up with to measure, mark and even propel us into and through our lives. I’ll always remind you that life is more like chess than checkers; we’ll make a little move and then wait and timing is everything!  So if you're considering on embarking on a new exercise routine or weight loss program be it Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Carnivore, Paleo or cardio, weights or group classes in 2024 and you're unsure of which one tests best for you, reach out and get on my schedule today because together we can figure it out and co-create a dynamic plan to improve your life! View Calendar First, Then Pay and Schedule 15 mins  | 30 mins  | 60 mins | Appointments Lots of cool new stuff launching this year so stay tuned and be excited for what's next!  We want to take a moment to thank you for your participation, your support and loving kindness that you’ve shown to me and our crew throughout the years and in the immortal words of Frank Sinatra, “The best is yet to come.” In case you missed the new year energy healing video with Marla and me from Monday's email, here is the link to watch the video here. 

TGIWednesday Video Download

 ~ VAST MIRACULOUS IMPROVEMENTS ~ I believe, think, know and feel that as fast as the negative came upon me in these past years that it can also be banished off of me here and now through the grace of God.  I am ready, willing and able to make the necessary changes that will facilitate profound and miraculous changes in my life!  I know, when, where, how and why to be still and allow that soft whisper of guidance to seep in and show me and tell me the simple way here and now.  I am asking in all languages and throughout all time lines and so it is.  Know that making simple changes and daily progress will allow the rest of your life to be the best of your life! 

Featured Audios 15% OFF in January

MyBeliefWorks™ for Being Your Ideal Weight & Healthy Diet, Digestion & Exercise MP3/PDFs  

There are over 220 targeted statements in this combined Audio MP3/PDF package.  Purchased individually at regular price these audios would retail for $114.  Buy them together & you'll get an hour of transformational clearings and strengthening statements "fished" for you!

Buy the combo package for $82

or buy each individually for $48 and save 15%

Click below and ADD TO CART and the discount is shown at Checkout

Get both Audios for $82 - Click Here

Upcoming Zoom Event

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31ST 7:30PM ET/ 5:30 CT/ 4:30 PT (30 mins) Pre-register at Calendly for $22 (includes reminders and REPLAY)  👉 https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/jan-zoom-ywr1

THEME: TBA We'll be announcing the topic of this month's Zoom in the coming days and hope you will join us this month.  **Please know that if you were a Darius YWR Season 26 Package B buyer, this call is INCLUDED in your special offer and you have the link on your download page.  Reminders will be sent out so check you email in the coming weeks so you can submit your Top 3.

Pre-Register Here - $22

FREE Live Appearances

Watch and listen to hundreds of Radio Show replays for FREE here in the archives from the Jimmy Mack Healing Radio show.

https://thejimmymackhealingshow.com/

From the Fish Box

  That session was stellar Jimmy! I am actually taller now. Spaces are opening up between each vertebra of my spine as the energetic currency flows. Currency. Flow. The words of water and money...interesting! Much love to you and your family including kitties for a blessed Christmas!" - Suzanne / Canada

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell the Fish - 365 Daily Inspirations and Affirmations - by Jimmy Mack Own this e-book so that you can read inspiration every day!

JANUARY 3RD "Just for today: Be true to yourself; be true to who you are. After all, the only person you can truly change is you. And if you do this, you will find others acting and reacting differently towards you in a more positive way."

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

Looking for a new job?  Going through a court proceeding? Upcoming surgery scheduled for you or a loved one?  Need help selling or buying a property? Troubled times in your relationship? These are just some of the life at the crossroads events that are ideal for My Daily Prayer program. Your name will be added to a special VIP Prayer list where Jimmy will use his intelligent computer software, src4you which runs 24/7, to delete the negative and increase the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of favorable outcomes for you.

30 Days of Daily Prayer (single month) - $99/month This $99 service is for ONE SINGLE MONTH of 30 DAYS ONLY.  Click here After the 30 days, you will receive an email from Jimmy and have the opportunity to renew for an additional month plus update your list, but you are under no obligation.

You can add yourself and those living in your immediate household and yes you can include pets! Merely include everyone’s names and Jimmy will add them to his daily prayers.

**NOTE: Most clients save money and choose the auto-renew option listed below so they do not miss a single day of prayers PLUS they take advantage of the cummulative effects of this service over time. Monthly subscription - $95/month on auto-renew 

Use PayPal for subscription Click here 

Use Stripe for subscription Click here. 

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Old School X is a project interviewing X-Files fanfic authors who were posting fic during the original run of the show. New interviews are posted every Tuesday.

Interview with bugs

bugs has 40 stories at Gossamer. They mostly focus on Mulder and Scully, but there are also some goodies featuring Reyes and Doggett. I’ve recced some of my favorites of her fics here before, including The Link. She also co-ran WhyIncision, a fun, smart X-Files mailing list that dissected fics like a book club. Big thanks to bugs for doing this interview.

Does it surprise you that people are still interested in reading your X-Files fanfics and others that were posted during the original run of the show (1993-2002)?

Not really. While I was still in high school, I started watching the then 20 year old OG Star Trek and became a Trekkie of a sort. Starlog magazine, James Blish novels and the other novelizations, and while I was working as a library page, I found fanfiction one day among the periodicals.  Who knows how fanfiction ended up as part of a library's materials, but there it was, this tattered mimeographed collection. The fic that had the most impact on me was one where Nurse Chapel wrestled a giant alien snake to save Spock's life.

So when I got into XF, one of the first things I did was look for fanfic, knowing somewhere out there, Scully was wrestling a big snake for Mulder.

That experience showed me the power of fandom, that even without the internet, how the second generation of Trekkies joined the original group to advocate for the franchise to be revived. I remember sitting in the theater for that first awful Star Trek movie, choked up with what we'd done.

Tragic backstory way to say, no I'm not surprised that a well-produced show like XF would beget future generations of fans, and that they'd be chewing their way through the fanfic archives still being maintained.

What do you think of when you think about your X-Files fandom experience? What did you take away from it?

I'm so grateful to the fandom. Literally formed the life I have today through the confidence it gave me. Many of my friends to this day are 'pocket friends' from the various fandoms I've been in, and the longest friendships were formed in XF. I learned how to write, both technically and finding my voice. I learned how to think analytically, more than any college courses.

The two most important things I took away were, write for yourself first and always, and shit ain't that damn important. In the end, it's a TV show.

Social media didn't really exist during the show's original run. How were you most involved with the X-Files online (atxc, message board, email mailing list, etc.)?

YIKES.  I came in at the Fight the Future summer hiatus, so the waning days of ATXC, then we moved to mailing lists, right?  Yahoo Groups was in there somewhere. Finally message boards. Live Journal rose up at the end of the run which began to fragment the fandom even before the show ended, along with the migration off our individual websites to Archive of Our Own, fanfiction.net and such. We went from group discussion platforms to 'come look at my blog for my thoughts'. It was different and I didn't particularly like it, but in the end, when I came back to fandom for a new show....I had to get a Live Journal. That's the most interesting part of fandom, that a platform doesn't mold a fandom; we use the platform and when it's no longer useful to us, we abandon it en mass.

What did you take away from your experience with X-Files fic or with the fandom in general?

I've touched on that a bit, but to elaborate, I'm glad I started in the XF fandom. It had such high standards and I hope that I maintain those standards for myself to this day. These days, I don't usually have a beta reader, but that took a couple hundred posted fics to get to that point.

Having seen the same exact flamewars and divides and squabbles over and over, seen how the taste of 'fame' can drive someone to be rather unpleasant, has given me a much more 'whatever' attitude. It's sort of comforting when joining a new fandom to know what's going to happen next in its natural progression.

What was it that got you hooked on the X-Files as a show?

There's a meme "I have a type," and XF definitely had that type, but it just took me a while to get there. I was away at college then working on the road when the show started, and wasn't home on Friday nights most of the year. My mother has always been a big sci-fi fan, so she actually was watching before me. I don't like scary things, and would leave the room if it was on when I'd visit her. I was home for Christmas when Christmas Carol/Emily aired and I remember standing tentatively just inside the room so I could flee if necessary, and watched Scully go through the wringer, and ranting, "What the hell is this? Why are they putting that poor woman through this!?" I also saw how the show was doing the big ship tease, and I was like, uh, I don't have time for this. Even by my 20's, I'd been done wrong by so many shows that I'd become bitter. But the first film trailers suggested they were actually going from UST to RST, so I figured I could give 2 hours of my time for that.  And yeah...but I was hooked, and WENT TO BLOCKBUSTER AND RENTED THE VHS TAPES TO CATCH UP....this interview is making me feel very old.

What got you involved with X-Files fanfic?

I've always been a shipper and have no shame in that, as I think forming and maintaining a relationship is the most conflict-ridden enterprise humans can attempt, and thus is the most challenging thing to write about. Like many fanfic writers, I'd 'told stories in my head' ever since I can remember about the characters from books, shows and movies. It was just a matter of then writing it down for the first time.

After I was sucked into the show and it was still the summer hiatus, I got on my first computer, dialed up that screeching modem, and went on Netscape to search for that fanfic I knew had to be out there from my Trek experience a decade ago. Like many people, after inhaling much of the delicious fics out there, I decided I can do that. I'm someone who's very methodical on my approach to something new, so I studied what worked/what didn't, the expected formatting, got a sense of the culture I was entering, acquired a critical beta reader, so when I actually submitted the first chapter to AXTC, I was calm and confident.

What is your relationship like now to X-Files fandom?

I watch from the sidelines, with a vague little smile on my lips.

Were you involved with any fandoms after the X-Files? If so, what was it like compared to X-Files?

Yes, I have. Battlestar Galactica had a lot of Philes, but it was still a big step away from the very organized fandom in X-Files. Plus, with so many characters, there could be lots of little groups focused on their favorites. Same in the Downton Abbey fandom. Just a different dynamic.

On the other end of the spectrum, one of my most popular fics is in the Silence of the Lambs fandom which I've never been involved with any other fans or their fandom, if it exists. It just sits out there on fanfiction.net and chugs along with the reads. My current fandom is The Doctor Blake Mysteries which is tiny but mighty--the saying is, we're six people and a shoelace. It's shown me that it's not the size, not the 'fame' possible, but the passion that makes a fandom.

Sadly, at least at this time, I don't think there will ever be an experience like The X-Files heyday. It was such a golden moment of the rise of internet and home computer use by the general public, a large generation of educated women having the time to participate in fandom, and there wasn't the amount of 'noise' that is distracting us all now. I'm so glad that you're doing this exercise to record our thoughts. We've already lost so many of the OG folks. My first beta, Janet Caires-Lesgold; Trixie, way too young; Shari, also too young; Brandon D Ray, leaving his family too soon; and many more.

(Posted by Lilydale on March 9, 2021)

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well i intended to go for a nice evening walk, ended up having a panic attack, ordering a couple of cocktails at the bougie bar, joining a jam session with a bunch of old hippies on the logan green (one of them gave me a handpainted wooden medallion which seems to be carved out of tree bark, strung on a length of yarn???), met a crustpunk train-hopping dude in town for the month (& his dog, in a leather-studded harness) who's lived in 45/50 states & a 44 yr old guy everyone called "the wizard" wearing a tattered, patch-covered robe who shares most of my parents' conspiracy theories & considers himself a latter-day prophet, he bought us sorbet & ice cream, wound up hanging out with them & staying up all night at their indescribably eclectic, cluttered, blood-spattered (!!!) apartment, belonging to 44 yr old guy's art curator father & decorated accordingly, smoking m*th & listening to music & talking (or rather listening to them rant/rave/recount stories from their incredibly wild lives), i gave them advice on applying for unemployment & medicaid & how to appear compliant enough w/ carceral psychiatric intervention so they won't section you without actually submitting to forced medication or institutionalization, especially if they assign you a case worker & do regular "wellness checks." also how to pass off certain aspects of behavioral dysregulation as executive dysfunction, get them to pay for an adhd evaluation, get an adderall IR scrip, sell the 30 mg pills (cite body weight, high doses of other psych meds as reason for higher dose; look sincere; play to systemic biases toward cis white men, unfortunately), & use the cash to buy m*th, if they'd prefer to keep doing that. you can also pass positive psychotic symptoms--agitation etc.--off as severe anxiety, especially if you have a history of trauma, & they will give you benzodiazepines. it is in their best interest to keep you docile, i.e. tranquilized, particularly if your past convictions & involuntary institutionalizations revolve around a pattern of aggressive behavior, & that's On The Record/there's a paper trail. (e.g. one dude got arrested trying to keep cars away from an injured bird on the road, some genre of raptor i think (???) by threatening them with a shopping cart, not hitting them, but like, running at them as if to collide then feinting at the last minute so they'd swerve out of the way. not the safest or most effective maneuver, lotta reckless endangerment, but the motivation was admirable. probably put the fear of god into some drivers, though. he doesn't seem to have, like, impulse control.) it's a lot easier & you have fewer run-ins with the cops if you game the system & appear cooperative. they gave me this coat, which "just showed up in their apartment one day," like i did. 44 yr old guy walked me back to apartment, stole a street sign & tore down a real estate sign en route, lori lightfoot did indeed take down the pride flag in front of her house on july 1st & replace it with an appropriately patriotic american flag, i walked past the idling plainclothes cop car & another marked police vehicle with their Mayoral Guarding Detail inside at like 4.30 am smoking a menthol cigarette (not inhaling), high on m*th, draped in a neon anime jacket, in the company of a visibly insane, unshaven & unshorn middle-aged man in a technicolor patchwork trenchcoat, holding a lit cigarette in one hand & an upside-down traffic cone in the other, which he was using as an ad hoc amplifier for a noise track playing on my phone. he was also carrying the stolen real estate banner &, inexplicably, a stack of mail. i gave him my old backup phone (no SIM card & doesn't hold a charge long, ancient, but still works), since neither he nor the other dude have phones (cops took them), also one hybrid edible for each of them, as a thanks for the m*th & the kindness. their hearts are in the right place but they have some fucked-up beliefs about "reverse racism" being real, while also saying in the same breath that you can tell our country is irredeemable by the way it continues to

treat black people. we were discussing medical weed for seizures on medicaid & 44 yr old guy mentioned one of his close friends, a black epileptic woman, whose seizures were frequent & severe enough they prevented her from working. then he added, in apparent bemusement, they she hadn't spoken to him in some time, & he wondered why. a little while later he relayed their last conversation & i was like "my dude, i can say with 100% certainty she is not talking to you because you said some *appallingly*, jaw-droppingly racist shit & did not even realize it was racist." then i, comma, a white person, explained to this man that he literally thought of their exchange as, like, an abstract argument over insignificant ideas, a theoretical exercise, & therefore considered it simply a smug gotcha to "counter" hotep theories about egyptian origin by claiming that "if that's true, american slavery & the oppression of black people in america are divine retribution for the enslavement of the jews in ancient egypt, an eye for an eye & a deserved punishment." like, first of all, what the actual fuck, if i were that woman i would also never speak to you again, second of all there's the collapse of historical time & mythical time, history & exegesis, an assumption that rests on spurious claims of biblical literalism (zionist colonization logic, btw! him: what's exegesis? what's zionism? me: never mind, not the point. exegesis is the interpretation of religious texts in a religious CONtext, in this case what you would likely call the hebrew bible.)--but most importantly it is 100% irrelevant to this discussion whether or not black americans are Actually Factually descendended from ancient egypt! you just told this woman to her face that the ancestry she claims, of which she's proud, is the reason & justification for SLAVERY & BLACK SUFFERING--not only that, but that if it WERE true, than black people would DESRVE to suffer, by DIVINE DECREE. you are trying to force her to abdicate her claim on this heritage by putting her in a position where she'd be forced to concede complicity in her people's historical & present-day persecution, oppression, & essentially the existence of structural racism. & using The Figural Jew as a rhetorical cudgel to bludgeon her into this corner. what a despicable thing to say. like, he hadn't considered it from her perspective at all, & once he groked why the comment itself was, like, unforgivable (idk, maybe she's more forgiving; she has a virtue-name), i started socratic-method-ing him through why it was particularly unforgivable for *him* to say to *her*--the individual is not responsible for the systems from they benefit, but they are imbricated in them, they are implicated when they actively perpetuate & uphold them, even with speech acts. & finally gave the same "there is no such thing as reverse racism because racism is not an individual act, it is an institutional, systemic phenomenon, & it is an ideology, one which individual acts can bear out or be in accordance with, & to which individuals can subscribe (this bearing it out in their behavior, in their institutional roles, in their interpersonal interactions--here i gave & solicited examples of each) or be subject (also gave & solicited examples). m*th makes me very good at Explaining clearly & he was surprisingly receptive--like, it was astonishing that it had not occurred to him??? but it hadn't, the same way it hadn't occurred to my mother, & she interpreted it as "reverse racist" when their next-door neighbor called her the "white devil" for disputing their property line, & i had to be like "ok but if you called in a random third party to mediate in lily-white [city], oregon, where white supremacists openly drive down the street in pickup trucks with swastika armbands, whose side do you think they would take, statistically speaking, in your property dispute. that's why racism is systemic & institutional, & your rude neighbor calling you a name over a disagreement does not constitute 'reverse racism,' because 'reverse racism' by definition cannot

exist." now this dude wants to like, read books, so i gotta get him some entry-level Intro To Racism primers??? how did i end up here, but better me than his black epileptic (ex-)friend, i guess??? jesus christ. both of these guys have the most chaotic, reactionary politics in a potpourri with these deep commitments to abolition & mutual aid & a kind of proto-anarchist consciousness, none of which would be called by those names, but all of which is borne out in practice & in the politics of everyday life. they remind me a LOT of my parents. i'm loath to imagine how they'd internalize my stepdad's rambling, street-preacher-style libertarian lectures. probably go out & buy guns & invest in gold on the stock market & double down on the conviction that free speech is being curtailed & individual rights are in jeopardy because you can no longer unleash a barrage of harassment against some guy on the street because you think he looked at you funny. these claustrophobic convictions, like the space to express oneself is getting smaller & smaller every day, *other people* are taking it away from you, suffocating you on all sides with their offense demanding your silence, they are *making* the walls close in--when in fact it's more like a holodeck. you're a member of the Hegemonic Group, afforded the privilege of the default, so you don't question the vast verdant expanse that is your domain--ah, Free Speech, the sun never sets on the empire of ~uncensored expression, you can say whatever you want whenever you want without facing consequences because you control all the organs that mete out consequences & you have also determined that those groups who might be adversely affected by your words--emotionally OR materially--are not, well...of consequence. but of course the vast verdant domain is an illusion, photons & forcefields, held together by the all-encompassing TOTALITY of the dominant group's hegemony, power, etc. once that power begins to redistribute throughout the system--however unevenly, however incrementally, however slowly--as even the smallest pieces are appropriated by those deemed inconsequential, who have endured years of systemic, material, institutional violence that allowed the dominant group to become dominant & retain its dominant position--once those 'inconsequential' groups speak up & say "actually, these words bear an indelible imprint of the violence enacted upon us, these words are the legacy of that violence, these words are a tacit endorsement of the ideology behind that violence, which classifies us as subhuman, & even if *you* can't hear those echoes, the words broadcast on two historical frequencies, so now that we're able to broadcast on a frequency *you* can hear, we request you find other language, & consider the implications of the words you've been using for years." well--once The Subaltern Speaks, the dominant group loses its 'innocence,' & becomes aware the vast verdant expanse of language is an illusion of infinite space, aware of the four holodeck walls pressing in behind the simulacrum of the horizon, & suddenly "what one can say without negative consequences"--largely social, sometimes, rarely, if social media goes viral, professional--feels much more claustrophobic. so they get angry. & some of them are just bigots, obviously, but some of them--like my parents, &, even, this weirdly well-intentioned m*thhead who said one of the most shockingly racist things i've heard in my life & *honestly didn't understand why it was racist*, is really riled up about free speech & individual rights, hates the government, hates "FANG" (facebook amazon netflix google) & has a bunch of dystopian conspiracy theories about data harvesting & personal information that only miss the mark in that they get too nefariously biopolitical (billionaires want to put microchips in everybody for surveillance to monitor our movements & sell us more stuff; they don't need to, they already use our phone location & browsing habits to generate the algorithm & sell the information to ad companies lol, it's digital& cast a

single illuminati figure in the role of comic book villain, controlling the operation behind the scenes like an evil puppetmaster (classic conspiracy fare; again, we gotta take that energy, that suspicion, the understanding that they are being taken advantage of & tricked, the idea that power & capital & resources are concentrated among a very small number of people, however it's not an individual wealthy villain with a desire for world domination who wants to turn Free Americans into microchipped drones, it's a *class* of people--or rather several classes, but *who those people are as individuals does not matter*. if you guillotined bill gates, another billionaire would take his place. bill gates qua bill gates is not the problem. it is classes of people who control the means of production & own property & profit enormously from exploiting the labor of a desperate, rapidly increasing underclass, i.e. from the system as it is. therefore it is in their interest to maintain the status quo, because it serves them. 'the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.' the middle class gradually ceases to exist. if you want to compound it by race, consider the GI bill as an example - you learn about it as the leg up that enabled thousands of WWII vets to buy houses, enabling them to enter the middle class. hundreds of thousands of third-gen middle class white americans still reap the structural, socioeconomic benefits of their grandparents' initial upward mobility, including,, very tangibly, those selfsame houses, which can be inherited & then rented out as a second property if the children or grandchildren accrue enough money to buy their own properties. but only about 100 black vets got approved for homeownership loans, despite the staggering numbers of black soldiers who enlisted & applied through the GI bill. anyway! the impulses are there, & they're only being funneled into conspiracy thinking because that makes intuitive sense on a narrative level. these guys have a high school education; so does my stepdad. their reading habits are...eclectic, sporadic, pretty much dictated by occasional recommendations & like, little free libraries around the neighborhood. it's both interesting & frustrating to see like - hey, here are these people, we agree on a lot of things, they're earnest & open & want to learn & would give their neighbor the shirt off their backs as a matter of principle. they'd give a *stranger* the shirt off their backs; they'd share whatever they had. even what chores there are in their collective--they live with two other guys--(dumpster diving, walking the dog, tidying up the apartment) are allocated by ability & inclination. they made advance plans to look after the dog & their roommate with War PTSD on the 4th of july if the fireworks upset them, jokingly called the dog an emotional support animal. you give them the tools, the reading, talk to them like normal people with a stake in society--like, imagine a society that would have a stake in people like you instead of criminalizing you & consigning you to the margins! that's already *political imagination* because anyone who occupies a marginalized position will have their existence politicized, whether they want this or not, so better to become a self-aware, self-reflexive political subject, no?--talk *with* them because tbh i am them, i'm just better at situational masking & also i am very very afraid of cops so i only damage property in groups during planned political actions (not spontaneously, because i feel a flash of rage at my neighborhood gentrifying, & simply do not have a superego, so i tear down the real estate sign for the fancy new apartment complex in a fit of pique, because in this house we believe that spontaneity can & should be developed into class consciousness, again, the seeds of which are there in the initial trigger for the spontaneous reaction, i.e. anger at gentrification. not opposed to a little direct action, but they're just gonna put up a new sign tomorrow, it doesn't advance your agenda or hinder the gentrifiers' progress. now, if

you sabotaged the construction site for the new apartment buildings & painted a few potent symbols + graffiti'd a pithy, written statement expressing your opposition to gentrification generally & these apartments specifically? in a prominent place, large font, eye level, visible & legible from oh, a block away? maybe as a member of a collective, your neighbors, perhaps? & you could sign it "[neighborhood] or [block] residents" to pack more of a punch, the power of a crowd speaking in unison to say "not OUR home, you predatory developers"? that's no longer spontaneous, impulsive, affective violence, & it's also no longer an individual--acting alone leaves you vulnerable. again--i didn't just *intuit* that he tore the sign down because he was mad about gentrification, i asked, in a genuinely curious tone, not at all accusatory, no hint of reprimand or censure, just...interested, "why did you do that?" & he was like "it made me fucking mad." & i was like "what about it made you mad? the apartments? how come?" & he thought about it for a minute & explained. i'm not sure *he* necessarily made the conscious connection until prompted. idk, i know people talk a lot about the fact that breitbart & drudge report are free while NYT & "all the news fit to print" is paywalled, & q-pilled covid hoax sites are free while "reputable" pandemic coverage & public health guidelines & explanations of mRNA vaccines for a lay audience are paywalled & that's true but also We Live In A Society & if you talk to the wingnuts who AREN'T that way because of any far-right ideology, a lot of them are just...autodidacts without much formal education but a lot of raw intelligence that leads to analyzing The Big Picture & trying to deduce a pattern, find a framework that explains why the world is the way it is, profoundly frustrated, deeply aware of American society's, universalized & figured as the world's, exceptional unfairness & cruelty, & *that can be redirected* with reading, discussion, prompting critical thought, introducing community connections, & perhaps most importantly for this genre of person, getting them to see patterns at work in terms of systems & structures rather than individuals, letting go of American individualism's explanatory power & belief in its liberatory potential (see: the sort of ad hoc libertarianism that goes hand-in-glove with much conspiracy thinking, both stemming from 1) mistrusting the government, & 2) ultimate freedom of the individual as the most sacred value, therefore it is what all enemies want to take away), outlining positive, actionable goals rather than just ambient suspicion & anger at authority, & figuring out how those goals can be accomplished more effectively by an organized collective (but this will ultimately benefit the individual). If the world isn't run by a shadowy cabal, if you begin to understand the structures responsible & how they manifest even on the scale of your block (e.g.!!! predatory developers buying up properties during a pandemic, tearing down affordable housing to build expensive condos on the lot, or giving old buildings a "spit and polish" so they can double the rent, pricing all the current residents out, not to mention all the little local businesses, almost all mexican & run by the mexican families who live here, that give our block its culture & will get pushed out by boutique coffee shops & the like, catering to a more affluent & almost certainly whiter clientele)--you can, in fact, change the world, something both of them repeatedly referred to as their purpose on earth. it may not be as a maverick figure, one against an army, but strength in numbers is an aphorism for a reason.

anyway! thse guys were also really weird about jews, in the philosemitic way conspiracy theorists of a certain stripe often are. the itinerant vagabond guy gave me one of his drawings; it's really lovely. i'm going to give them "are prisons obsolete?" & "the wretched of the earth" & some david graeber. 44 yr old guy has this idea that society is atomized & people aren't connected to each other & have lost the willingness or the ability to communicate with each other, also that the overreach of authority has driven some people to violence, & that makes the world feel unsafe to everyone else. he feels guilty because he is acutely aware that language, when wielded adroitly & intentionally, always has the capacity to manipulate; he is afraid of succumbing to the temptation, because he senses the coercive power of language within himself. the other guy was mostly quiet but said 44 yr old guy is one of the best friends he's ever had. he thinks animals are able to sense emotions and to heal, & he thinks they can mediate between people who have become too isolated, who have forgotten humans' innate ability to forge connections, approach others as social creatures seeking to bond instead of mistrustful, apprehensive, rejecting overtures of friendship because they expect subterfuge, or propriety has evolved to deem such overtures inappropriate outside of strictly delineated, artificially orchestrated contexts. deviation from the norm is not permitted. & back again to policing. they have an idea called "the omega family," omega for the end, a group of like-minded people who come together, who encounter each other serendipitously (predicted through auspicious auguries & recognized on sight through a constellation of signs & wonders, because of course we are all psychotic here, it was nice to just be psychotic & discuss these things like they were normal lol), & serve as catalysts to each other's "personal truth." anyway this is why i don't go out when i'm crazy, i always end up in situations like this, see also: the last time i did m*th, in a pizza hut bathroom in tallinn with an art student from glascow named muhammad ali (he went by ali), the son of white muslim converts--we thought it was c*ke but it got lost in translation & that's how i figured out i had adhd. later i got [redacted] by a filmmaker from kazan & he gave me his business card afterward for some reason, which was extremely funny. thankfully these dudes were better behaved. one of them even gave a speech about how men shouldn't rape people??? & also how our society shouldn't construct women as universal victims because in doing so it makes victimhood almost compulsory & shoehorns women into a victim role as part & parcel of womanhood? i was like yes my dude you are almost there, read the essay "abject feminism." (i did not tell them i was trans bc i wasn't sure how that would shake down, to be honest; couldn't get a read on it. did tell them i was gay & they respected it, though one did say he dated a lesbian once, & i explained that many men feel compelled to interject with an anecdote relating an exception to the rule or insist that they will he the exception to the rule, & it's really just bad manners, not even getting into the bad politics. he took it on the chin & talked about how the girl in question came home to find her partner dead of an overdose & his wife had just died of MS, so their relationship was more about grief & comfort than sexual attraction. i was like that's really, really sad, & it's wonderful that you were able to be there for each other at a time of such staggering loss, & i am a person who totally understands what you mean to communicate, but if a lesbian tells you they're a lesbian & you reply that you once dated a lesbian & they get offended & instead of responding with contrition or correction you elaborate on the tragic backstory of the relationship as though that explains the circumstances in which a self-proclaimed lesbian would date a cis man, other lesbians *will* deck you, or at the very least not take you, an unwashed white guy in

his 40s who isn't neurotypical & sits way too close for social convention in a way that could easily be construed as a come-on, in good faith.) tl;dr made some new friends, did some good drügs (i much prefer smoking m*th to snorting it, basically like purer, more potent adderall, & as such will not be doing it again for a LONG time, because i enjoy it FAR too much; slices through the brain fog & the chronic fatigue & the joint/bone pain, makes me able to pay attention, follow the thread of a conversation, actually be *interested* & want to ask *questions* & expand, build, encourage my interlocutor to elaborate, place more kal-toh pieces until the conversation shimmers into a three-dimensional shape, instead of being listless & exhausted & disengaged & *bored* all the time, so obviously i would get addicted immediately if given the opportunity, & i've known this forever lol)--now going to hydrate, refill pill case, write some emails, & meet C at the beach! not how i expected to reboot my brain, but it works! also putting them on limited facebook view because i try to keep some groups of people in my life quarantined from each other & that includes 1) my relatives & my academic ~colleagues (ne'er the twain shall meet), 2) my exes & my family, 3) my relatives, colleagues, & uh. a couple of lovely, but extremely psychotic dudes with very long criminal records i met while doing hard drugs

[lgcmanager]

ACTING MISSION 005

SCHEDULE TYPE: TRIMESTER SCHEDULE RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be paired with another trimester schedule, unless stated otherwise

on JULY 26, HEO AECHA has summoned all the CURRENT ACTORS, old and new. it’s early in the morning, yet the woman seems fully present and watches on her grown assembly with motherly warmth. “if this isn’t my beautiful bunch!” she says, amused. “some of you are new here, so let me introduce myself properly; i am the head manager of LGC AGENCY, i oversee the careers of not only the company’s actors but also other talents. which implies that i’m a busy woman and we won’t meet all too often, unfortunately. i know in the past we typically have certain managers take over to take care of the main and lead actors, but this won’t be the case for this trimester, especially that we are now smaller than before. we have other plans in store so for now all of you will be looked over by the usual managers; one for the girls and one for the boys.” she stares at each of them one by one. “i have lots of subjects to touch up, so let’s get to it!”

DORMS

“as per usual, we’ve already sorted out the dorms, so for those of you moving in, you may move in to your new dorms today or if you’re moving out, you can also do that starting from today. as i remind everyone though, just because you’re moving out does not mean that you aren’t under watch 24/7. if i hear of any poor behavior from any of you, you will be immediately sent back to the dorms. just because you have your own space doesn’t mean you can just fool around with your friends or hide your relationships from us. please keep that in mind,” she notes sternly.

SNS

“sns is important for exposure for our actors. however, it’s not absolutely imperative, so the rules haven’t changed. you’ll be permitted a PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT after meeting certain conditions. first, you must have completed a full trimester in this path and second, you must have at least 6 posts on the legacy entertainment account already. this just gives us comfort that you know what is or isn’t appropriate. for those of you who are eligible for an account, the information will be provided to you shortly. again, as with the dorms, this privilege can be taken away if you decide to do some funny business.”

DEBUT CONTRACT

“for those of you who are new or who just transferred paths, your acting debut is right around the corner … well, some of you might have had some smaller roles in other projects, but never mind that. anyway, there are new legal grounds to cover and so please review your new contract that will need to be signed and returned as soon as possible. i’ll let you read over them on your own.”

( this is just an ic note, there is no need to submit this ooc )

ACTING MISSION 001: COMEDY

“actors need to be versatile in different genres so for this period, we will be focusing on comedy. for some people, this should be an easy topic while others might struggle a bit, which is why everyone will be attending COMEDY AND IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS. these workshops are hosted by some of our acting coaches and will be held 5 days a week until AUGUST 20. for the individuals participating in LGC GIRLS SUMMER, you will only be able to attend 3 days a week while everyone else is encouraged to attend all 5 days. from AUGUST 23-27, all of you will be auditioning in front of three important judges. have you heard of GAG CONCERT? if you have, now you know that the ones judging you are the staff members from that popular show.  practice diligently and your hard work will pay off!”

for the workshops, actors will be joining with the people from the modeling path. these lessons consist of lectures with a mix of improvisation exercises. on the day of the audition, each actor will be working with one other person (whether it’s another muse in the acting path or npc is up to you) and they will be asked to randomly pick their scenario from a box. for ooc purposes, we’ve listed the possible scenarios that were in the box, so just choose one.

muse a enters the salon and is about to get their hair done and muse b is the hairstylist.

muses c has just finished decorating the house when muse d comes home and doesn’t like the color.

muse e confronts muse f about their barking dog.

muse g accidentally spills their drink to muse h, who is their boss.

once they find out their scene, the actors have 10 minutes to act out the scene and humor the judges. when the time is up, the judges will give their thanks and dismiss the actors. evaluations of the performances will be discussed at a later time.

ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

afterwards, aecha notifies everyone about the lgc girls summer and modeling opportunities that the actors can participate in if they wish to do so. there are requirements for both of those opportunities so please read through them and make sure that your muse meets those requirements if they want to join!

REQUIREMENTS

make sure to use the hashtag lgc:actingmission for everything related to this event. you have until AUGUST 28, 2021 11:59 EST, to complete the following requirements

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS: write a 4 replies (minimum 8 lines) thread with another actor or model about the workshops or practice sessions for +8 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE ! ** you may claim this requirement two times. characters participating in lgc girls summer can only claim this once.**

COMEDY AUDITION: write a 300+ words solo or a 4 replies (minimum 8 lines) thread with your partner about your audition for +5 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE ANYWHERE + 3 NOTORIETY !

to validate your skill points and collect your notoriety points, please submit the following form ONCE on the points blog before AUGUST 28, 2021 11:59EST.

TITLE: MUSE NAME ∙ ACTING MISSION 005

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOPS: +8 ( skill points distribution ) [ LINK ] ( ** can be claimed twice for everyone else except the ones participating in lgc girls summer ** )

COMEDY AUDITION: +5 ( skill points distribution ) + 3 notoriety [ LINK ] 

[reading-writing-revolution]

"Sent a message to Senator Rob Portman's office the day after the massacre in Georgia, this was the form letter I got in response. I asked him to do something to help me protect my daughter and this is what I get. I am a gun owner, but my owning a gun does nothing to protect my daughter when I'm not there, and the guns I own are muzzleloaders, shotguns, and a ruger 10/.22, I can't stand outside my daughters classroom with an 870 Express all the time."

"Dear Tyler,

Thank you for contacting me about the preservation of our Second Amendment rights.

As a gun owner, I firmly believe in the right to bear arms for defense of self, family and property – and remain committed to protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

I joined a number of colleagues in the Senate in co-sponsoring the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. (S. 446).This legislation allows individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in other states with concealed carry laws.

Additionally, I do not support recent proposals to ban semi-automatic firearms, which I believe amounts to an unconstitutional infringement on the right to bear arms.

I have also worked in Congress to implement commonsense, bipartisan legislation that can make a difference right away to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. Therefore, I co-sponsored legislation authored by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) entitled the Fix NICS Act. (S.2135), which has been signed into law by President Trump.

Information such as felony convictions, domestic violence, involuntary mental health commitment and dishonorable discharge from the military all currently qualify as criteria to prohibit an individual from purchasing a firearm. Unfortunately, as we have seen in many past tragedies, the perpetrators were able to legally buy a gun due to a failure of this information properly being submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

The purpose of Fix NICS is to push state, local, and government entities to follow existing federal law and step up their reporting of this information to the FBI that would disqualify individuals from passing a background check.

This legislation does not restrict gun rights. It does not add any additional classes of people that will be prohibited from owning or purchasing firearms, does not establish a federal gun registry, and additionally, does not change any laws related to the types of firearms that can be purchased.

Thank you for taking the time to contact my office. As a lifelong hunter and gun owner,I will continue to work to protect our Constitutional freedoms, and will be a strong advocate for preserving these rights and traditions for future generations.

For more information, I encourage you to visit my website at www.portman.senate.gov. Please keep in touch.

Sincerely,

Rob Portman

U.S. Senator"

<copy/paste>

One letter ain't gonna do it, people. We've got to elevate our game. Letters, phone calls, texts, emails, etc. "Take up oxygen," as Heather Cox Richardson would say. Make them hear you.

Hell, even be sure to tag things correctly. Send Tumblr posts on to Twitter for wider reach. To Facebook. To Instagram. And hashtag. @ people. Call on local and national groups that support your cause or need. Find partners to amplify your voice and amplify theirs.

Try ResistBot on text messages or Indivisible or ActBlue or whoever. We need more people working together. We don't need more canned email responses that don't do shit.

Follow me on Twitter if you like. @SJStone

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Wounded Angel (Finnish: Haavoittunut enkeli) (1903) is a painting by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg.

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THE COTTAGE

Wounding Words and Healing Ones

Use your words to defeat evil

Diana Butler Bass

This has been a tough week.

Immediately following Tuesday’s debate, I tweeted:

“I want you to understand that Trump just assaulted the nation, the process, the Presidency.  We were all turned into his victims.

Breathe. Pray. Light candles. Read poetry or scripture.

If you feel shocked and terrible, you are not alone.

Together we can overcome this evil.”

I almost wrote a piece in the hours after the debate. But I opted to reflect for a day or two, before expanding on this initial reaction.

“Assault” is a strong charge. But words are a powerful weapon. They cut the heart. They silence opponents. They force others to submit. The biblical wisdom tradition insists that words can nurture or destroy: “A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit” (Proverbs 15:4). And the wisdom writers also knew that words are a weapon, “Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor” (Proverbs 25:18).

Donald Trump weaponized words, intending to “break the spirit” of Joe Biden, of Chris Wallace, of those watching, and even of America’s democratic traditions. Not only was it mean and rude and unfair and cruel, but most of us intuited that the verbal violence was sinful. It was a purposeful exercise in evil.

That isn’t CNN analysis, and it isn’t something that can be published in the New York Times. But it is a Christian perspective on what happened. Trump sinned against America on Tuesday night. He violated our individual souls and our communal one. When I was younger (and attended an evangelical church), we called such things “spiritual attacks.”

These kinds of attacks wound on several levels, leaving immediate bruises and long-term trauma. In the short-term, they are like gut punches, taking our breath away. We are knocked off our feet; we feel confused and disoriented. Longer term trauma — sleeplessness, panic attacks, depression — can set in. On a deeper spiritual level, they unmoor us, undermining our capacity to love our neighbors, causing us to doubt ourselves and God.

It is necessary to name what happened on Tuesday night honestly — an act of verbal evil on the part of the President against his opponent, the process, and the American people. And, once named, we each need to tend to our wounds and the wounds of others to heal.

As we move ahead, worried about COVID and fearing the election, it is important to take care of yourself. Self-care does not mean checking out of work or activism. It means being aware of our own wounds, and being keenly aware of how other people in our lives are feeling equally pained.

The great Catholic writer Henri Nouwen once wrote that the most transformative works of justice arise from those who are “wounded healers.” As he said, “every Christian is constantly invited to overcome his neighbor’s fear by entering into it with him, and to find in the fellowship of suffering the way to freedom.”

We have a spiritual tool at hand to begin the work of mending: words. “There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,” says Proverbs, “but the tongue of the wise brings healing” (Proverbs 12:18). Overcoming evil with good means attending to the words we listen to, the words we preach, the words we use on social media, the words we offer to others. Good words are the antidote to having been wounded by words. “Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.”

Breathe. Pray. Read scripture. Say thank you. Refrain from returning evil words for evil words. Recite poetry.

Then get back to the work of being the beloved community. Use your beautiful words to defeat evil. Speak up for the sick and fearful. And vote.

INSPIRATION:

A soft answer turns away wrath,   but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge,   but the mouth of the fool gushes folly. —Proverbs 15:1-2

Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. — Mary Oliver

The tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. — James 3:5-6

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first. ― Philip K. Dick

people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to not turn their words into a knife and cut yourself ― Rupi Kaur

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. —John 1:1

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DIANA BUTLER BASS NEWSLETTER

THE COTTAGE

This edition of The Cottage was written and scheduled for publication before the news of Donald Trump and others at the White House being diagnosed with COVID-19. Please pray for the healing of those who are ill, for those who may have been exposed, for the healing of every person now suffering from COVID, and for all those who are mourning the loss of friends and family to the pandemic. Pray for healing of our nation, and for courage and resolve at this fragile and fraught time.

[crystalblueskie]

I got bored and wrote some jokes. Tell me if you like them.

So, to get started let me tell you a little something about my family. My mom is disabled and so she has a service dog named Callie Ann...that is such a country white girl name, Callie Ann, amirite? Anyways, so this dog obviously goes everywhere with us: doctors offices, grocery store, restaurants. Normal service dog stuff, you know? But for some reason, everybody stares at her like it's the weirdest thing they've ever seen. A dog wearing a vest walking around Target... I use Target because Walmart is too controversial. Walmart: EVIL!! Target: fair game. Walmart: Trump Target:...any other president. Anyways: dog wearing a vest walking around Target, a vest that blatantly say "SERVICE DOG" on it mind you and random people like to just walks up to us as we and the dog are minding our own business and ask "Is she a service dog?" *Stares bewildered* and every time I'm thinking in my head "I DON'T KNOW, WHY DON'T YOU ASK HER VEST!"..."no, no ma'am we just slapped a service dog vest on her so she can go everywhere with us. Thank you for asking. Goodbye. Have a nice day." Another thing about this dog, I love her to death I really do. It's fun we have a young dog in the house again, she loves to play with anything that squeaks or makes a weird noise, I'm getting exercise again! Yay! But my mother takes it to a WHOLE 'NOTHER LEVEL!! We'll out shopping...*whispers* at Target...and we'll walk past the dog section... I'm trying to walk past as fast as possible. My mom stops right at the mouth of the aisle and walks down it. Shit, I know how this goes. My mom and her dog happily trot down the aisle and her dog smells all of the toy until eventually she smells a toy for more than three seconds...my mom is ready. She talks in that annoying baby voice, you know the voice right? *in an annoying baby voice* "Do you like that toy? Yeah! You like that toy? You want that toy? I'm gonna get you that toy!" SHIT. Toy goes in the cart...We end up leaving the store with more dog treats and a goddamn dog toy. Ever. Single. Time. And I'm over here thinking, if I got a toy every time we left the house as a child, I would have more toys than my tiny, little, ADD-riddled brain could handle. Now a days I'm a old 24 years old. If you don't know what that means, it means I'm mentally 24 years old and physically 80 years old. I'll be walking around the house like this *walks around like an old lady holding my back* and my mom will be looking at me and ask "what the hell are you doing?" And I'll yell back to her "what does it look like? My back hurts!!" I look outside "Get the hell of my lawn, you mangy kids!!" Anyways that obviously means I am a young millennial, which basically means that I remember when Netflix was delivered to your front porch and when Blockbuster was a thing. Also, I was told I needed to go to college or I wouldn't amount to anything. Jokes on them, I still didn't amount to anything. I got a Bachelors in Individualized Studies which means I was indecisive about my major and when I graduated I got a piece of paper basically thanking me for my participation. After 5 years of college, I got a piece of paper thanking me for participating in college. Think about that. This is what happened, I was originally going to school to become a teacher, but to become a teacher you must first waste your time taking a bunch of bullshit teaching classes like "How to teach Math" and then after about 3 years you have to submit a portfolio answering questions such as "Why do you want to become a teacher?" Maybe because I need a job and I was told the only way to get one that pays well was to go to college and I like kids sometimes and I took a course in school where I was basically a teachers assistant for 2 credits a semester and this seemed like the easiest job to get at the rip old age of 18. WRONG!! I was so very wrong!! What my teachers and professors failed to tell me was that to even get accepted into my colleges teaching program is not only do we have to answer the portfolio questions is: you have to pass 2 tests. This is what the TAKS tests were really preparing me for. One test was on Math. At this point, I have not done basic Mathematics in 2 years. The other test was on English and Grammar. I have barely passed my English courses with C's my entire life. The cards were not in my favor. You get approximately 60 minutes to finish each test. They take you into this office and you get a little locker and a key in exchange for your Drivers License. You are expected to place your phone and your purse or bag in the locker. They then place you in a separate room with desks with computer lined up against the wall. And at the opposite end of the room, smack in the center is a person that is paid to sit there and make sure you don't cheat. That is their only job, to sit there and stare at you like this *stares around room* am I making you nervous? *whispers* good. Because that is exactly how I felt the entire 60 minutes. And the thing is they don't even give you scratch paper for the math portion, just a TI-84 calculator. You know the ones that cost like 250 dollars and were fucking MANDATORY in middle school? Little secret about those calculators, they have 4 games on them. Yup. Found that out really quick. I used to sit in class on my calculator and the teachers would be none the wiser as I played the same game on my expensive calculator for the whole hour. I still play on it to this day. Anywho, no scratch paper, just an expensive calculator that I can play games on but forgot how to graph on. And I don't know about you guys, but I can't do math in my head like some people, I'm not wired that way. So, I had to go up to the creepy guy paid to stare at us and ask him for scratch paper. At one point I got so involved in solving a problem that I kept getting answers that were not multiple choice options, that I ran out of time and automatic failed 8 out of about 50 questions. A month later I found out that I somehow managed to get a B on a test I didn't finish. *whispers* I'll take it. So, the first time I turned in my portfolio, I had the tests scores that they were looking for but not the detailed answers to their profound questions. I obviously did not get into the teaching education program the first time. A year later I was allowed to turn in my portfolio again. This time I got smart, I made my sister proofread and rewrite my answers for the incentive of 100 dollars of my financial aid. *whispers* I got in. Now at this point, you're probably wondering why I told you all of this and why I don't have a Bachelors in Early Childhood Education like I intended after I went through the torture of 5 years of college and my acceptance into the TEP and the answer to that is, I showed up to the TEP orientation to be told that I had to take 2 more years of teaching courses and at that point I had been in college for nearly 5 years and I was like "There is no way in Hell that I was going to graduate after nearly 7 years of college just to teach children how to count and what the primary colors are." That was probably my biggest mistake in life. Just FYI, all of your childhoods are a lie. Red and Blue are not Primary colors. Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are the true Primary colors according to the art wheel. To those of you that don't know Cyan can also be called Sky Blue and Magenta is a bright shade of Pink. We good? Good. The definition of a Primary color is a color that cannot be made by combining any two colors. They just exist in the world as is. Still good? Okay. Blue and Red by definition are not Primary colors because they can be made by combining two colors. Blue can be made by combining Cyan and Magenta. Red by combining Yellow and Magenta. They are by definition Secondary colors, colors that can be made by combining two primary colors. Look at that, you came out to have a good time and I tricked you into learning something, I am a teacher. I'm just kidding, I'm lying I didn't always know that. I always thought the Primary colors were Blue, Red, and Yellow just like all of you. I learned that how everyone learns things nowadays, YouTube. Anyways, moving on. The other day I couldn't sleep to save my soul, I had insomnia. And I noticed the weird way that I lay in my bed. It looks a little something like this. *walks over to a pillow and Petunia laying in the middle of the floor* One moment I'll be laying like this *places right foot on side of left knee* You think that ones weird wait until you see the next one. Next minute I'll turn over and be laying like this *place left foot on top of right knee* and then I'll turn over again and do this *pull legs up closer to my body and place them slightly apart* I don't know what this one is, it's like when Deadpool got ripped in half by Juggernaut in Deadpool 2, sorry spoilers. And his lower half has to regrow and he's standing there in front of the remainder of X-Force and Cable but his legs are that of a toddler. That's what this looks like to me, a grown ass person with baby legs trying to run away from something. And then I'll turn over AGAIN and do this *lays almost on front and places left foot of the side of right knee* know this one , this ones not even a sleep position, this is the fucking tree pose from my beginners yoga class. *Stands up and does the tree pose placing both palms together.* Just *hums yoga hum*. That's what that is right there. Haha. I got so bored one morning around 6 o'clock that I decided to clean the mess that was my closet. I had shoes thrown all over the floor of the closet and smack in the middle was a laundry basket that had all the clothes I had ever worn in 3 months. I opened the doors up *pretends to open doors* and I just screamed *screams* and then promptly fainted. Right in front of my closet. That is how messy it was. And the ironic part is that I have OCD. That mess was too much for my tiny, little OCD-riddled brain could handle at 6 in the morning. Which was ironic considering the fact that I had been living with it for 3 months and my OCD didn't seem to mind. But the minute my brain decided it wanted to clean that mess, suddenly my brain was overwhelmed. It took me approximately 2 hours to clean out the junk filled drawers in my dresser and put all of my spring/summer clothes away. Some of you probably noticed I said spring/summer clothes, that is because my autumn/winter clothes do not fit in my room anywhere. So they lay in a tote, a room away, until the temperature starts to drop, and then I would change them out. Men you don't realize this but every girl you know has more clothes than she can count, and some of those clothes, *whispers* she don't even wear. I have a half a closet full of skater dresses, that I wear once in a goddamn blue moon, just because I wanted to feel pretty that day. Interesting thing about switching clothes out, it's not even a new thing. Back in the 19-whatever's girls and women would have a hope chest that was filled with dresses for the spring/summer time when it was autumn/winter outside, and vise versa when it was spring/summer outside. I learned that story from my beautiful mother over there, because one day I pointed to her mothers hope chest and asked what it was used for. Interesting fact about me and my grandmother is that if you look at pictures of her when she was around the age of 13 sitting at the pool, my 13 year old self looked exactly like her, facial expression and all. My grandma unfortunately died of Breast Cancer 5 years after giving birth to my mother, her only surviving biological child. I say "biological child" because after my grandma had so many miscarriages and stillborns, she and my grandpa gave up and went to purchase a child *whipers* from Target. Haha. I'm just kidding, everyone knows that babies come from heaven and that storks carry them down in their beaks to a random families' front porch and leave the baby there to get stepped one when the Husband or Wife goes to check the mail. Probably the Wife, husbands are useless at running errands. You tell a man to go to the store to get 5 items and he comes back with 1 maybe 2 of the items that you had purposely written down on his arm so that he would remember everything. Do women have to do everything? Even figure out what's wrong with our own cars because we've been asking you to do it for 2 months and you keep saying "I'll take a look at it as soon as I have time." "As soon as you have time, bitch? That's right now!! You're sitting on the couch watching goddamned football and drinking beer. Guess what either you can record or pause your game for 15 to 30 minutes or you can sit there watching it and not have anything to eat for dinner, because I was so busy doing your "job", that I forgot to do my "job"." I put quotations around job because I don't understand why the cooking and the cleaning and the children-taking-care of has to be done solely by the woman and why yard work and fixing cars and sitting-on-there-all-day-watching-the-game-while pretending-to-take-care-of-the-children has to be done solely by a man. I don't work like that. Everyone can do any household job. For example, I have broken the side mirror of my moms car 2 times now. Do you think I was just like "Oh, well, I don't know how to fix a mirror I'll have to take it to Chris to get it fixed." Just FYI, Chris is a real person, he's my mechanic for things that I can't fix on my own. Hey, Chris! I didn't just give up, I did what every person in my generation do, I turned to YouTube and typed into the search bar "How to change the side mirror of a 2005 Ford Focus" *ding* Millions of videos pop up. I click on one, I watch it, I now know the basics for how to change a side mirror on a car, I took me exactly 5 minutes to learn it. How long did it take you Chris? Since then I have now replaced 3 of my mothers side mirrors. One on the drivers side that she did, and two on the passenger side that I did pulling in and out of the garage. Both times. YouTube has gotten ridiculous. Remember way back when when it was filled with music videos and people would post videos of them singing along to the songs. Nowadays, you can search anything on YouTube and find a video on it. For example type in "how to get mangy kids off my lawn" and you will most likely find a ridiculous video on how to keep children and dogs off your lawn. I love YouTube, I watch a lot of gaming videos, some Youtubers that I watch are Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, the GameGrumps (creators of the fabulous game DreamDaddy), The Fine Brothers or FBE, Graveyardgirl or Bunny, and Good Mythical Morning with Rhett and Link. Search any of these Youtubers and watch their videos, and you will not be disappointed. I love how there's a channel out there for any genre. Baking, Cooking, Make-up, Video Games, React Video, and ,my personal favorite, rant videos. Do you guys remember when Chris Crocker did the "Leave Britney Alone" video? He was ugly crying and I'm pretty sure wearing mascara and guy liner and he just keeps yelling into the camera for 30 seconds straight "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!! YOU *points at person* LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE AND YOU *points at a different person* LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!" And it just goes on like that for 30 seconds of a guy ugly crying over Britney fucking Spears. You thought girls where the best ugly criers, you were wrong, it's the gays. Gays overpower all girl powers by like a 100. A girl will be like "Look at my make up isn't it nice?" And a gay guy with jump out of nowhere add flawlessly apply FaceOff quality make up and be like "you look beautiful, do you like my sexy alien?". Anyways, I just love YouTube, I could watch YouTube video of people playing scary games that look interesting to me but I'm too scared to play *whispers * all day long.

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Natures Balance Keto

Natures Balance Keto Review

Discover YOUR Balance With Nature's Balance!

It's HARD to locate the correct balance. One of the hardest things throughout everyday life, we think! Regardless of what it will be, it's elusive the correct blend. We're continually attempting to accomplish balance. We make progress toward a work/life balance. We endeavor to balance our time alone with our time mingling. Notwithstanding adjusting our financial plans! So as to feel cheerful, we need to feel balanced! Also, when we're bearing undesirable weight, it's difficult to feel like our life is in charge! Be that as it may, consider the possibility that there was a NATURAL method to help your weight reduction along. Without investing huge amounts of energy at the rec center or huge amounts of cash on costly supper plans? There might conceivably be! What's more, it's called Natures Balance Keto pills! This progressive enhancement could be the key to RAPID keto weight reduction, without fixating on your weight reduction!

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What Is Natures Balance Keto Dietary Supplement?

Natures Balance Keto is an every day dietary enhancement defined to enable YOU to consume fat quicker than any time in recent memory. Regardless of whether you're not on the keto diet or practicing routinely! In any case, we do dependably suggest a keto diet and predictable exercise for the best outcomes! What's more, practicing is in every case useful for your general wellbeing. Usually, it can set aside a long effort for your body to enter the fat-softening condition of ketosis. In any case, supplements like this could accelerate that procedure! In creature thinks about, BHB ketones were found to animate ketosis! Would it be able to do likewise for YOU? We're prepared to discover! In case you're contemplating attempting the keto diet, you need a BHB supplement like Natures Balance Keto on your side! So submit your request for our #1 BHB supplement by clicking any of the pictures on this page today! In the event that you demonstration quick, you could even meet all requirements at SPECIAL DISCOUNT Costs!

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100% NATURAL INGREDIENTS

GMO FREE

MADE IN USA

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Are the makers of Natures Balance Keto your specialist? On the off chance that they are, at that point you ought to TOTALLY inquire as to whether their enhancement is directly for you. Be that as it may, we think more than likely your specialist isn't the individual who made Natures Balance. However, your specialist IS who you ought to ask before you begin taking ANY new enhancement. Normal or not! Indeed, even common fixings can have unsafe cooperations with specific drugs, conditions, or hypersensitivities! What's more, just your specialist has the learning of whether Natures Balance Keto is directly for you! So give them a fast call! You needn't bother with a medicine for Natures Balance, so there's no lounge areas and no drug store lines! It's actually quite basic!

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A Fast for Justice

With Ash Wednesday around the corner, and many Christians preparing to welcome a season of preparation for the life changing stories of Holy Week and the Feast of Resurrection (The Eighth Day!), we will hear a lot about the classic disciplines of Lent.

Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are included in the invitation to Lent proclaimed on Ash Wednesday.

As disciples of Jesus, we are called to a discipline that contends against evil and resists whatever leads us away from love of God and neighbor. I invite you, therefore, to the discipline of Lent—self-examination and repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love—strengthened by the gifts of word and sacrament. Let us continue our journey through these forty days to the great Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. - from the Invitation to Lent in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

While it is possible for these disciplines to focus independently or in parallel, I want to propose a Lenten practice for this year that actually links all three. This exercise will require some really honest self-evaluation, so I hope that you have both the spiritual support and accountability partners to begin this examination and to pursue it.

The first difficult step is to find a dimension of privilege or power that applies to you. I’m not saying that you can only participate in this exercise if you have a smooth running, problem free life. I am asking you to do some honest reflection on what it means to be white in a society that prefers whiteness, a man in a society that prefers maleness, high-income or a large personal net value in a society that prefers wealth, neurotypical in a society that prefers certain forms of thinking and experession, abled bodied in a society that prefers bodies that function perfectly, or heterosexual in a society that prefers straightness. This will be important, because part of this exercise will be to give to a person or community that is from a marginalized (not preferred) group of which you’re not a member.

With that discernment complete, I invite you into the prayer dimension of this exercise. If it helps, you can use a simple rubric for prayer that I teach to confirmation students: ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) For the purpose of practicing Lent, I invite you to:

Adore God as the maker and loving parent of people who are different from you. Let your awe and wonder in God move from awe and wonder in the neighbors God has made and then back to God at the center of all things.

Confess the negative thoughts, feelings and associations you have with people who are different from you. It will probably help in this season to focus on one dimension of difference. Confess the times you ignored the needs of others because the issue didn’t affect you. Confess the times you used your privilege to get something you wanted at the expense of your neighbor. Confess your unquestioning support of systems that frustrate, defeat and shorten the lives of your marginalized neighbors, even when you wished them no personal ill.

Give thanks for your community, for an opportunity to take just action, and for the resources (financial, social, power, etc) that you have that can be placed in God’s hands for loving purposes.

Ask for God’s help in all of these things, pray specifically for harms and injustices that are causing pain in the lives of your marginalized neighbors, ask for guidance on how to put your resources (financial, social, power, etc) in loving service to your neighbors.

This prayer practice, which should be continued throughout the season is intended to help you identify a fast or personal sacrifice that will free up some resources. Maybe it’s a traditional fast and you will turn your lunch money or extra grocery money into alms. Maybe it’s a fast from entertainment that keeps you comfortable and frees your mind from thinking about your neighbor’s situation. Those tickets, downloads, and other purchases could be given up to provide the necessary resources. Whatever you choose, discern carefully if it is something that you will genuinely miss, and how entwined in your life this item or practice is.

When your reflection has helped you identify a marginalized community, your prayer has opened your heart to their belovedness in God, and your fast has freed up some resources that you are going to give away as alms, I inivite you to give these alms as reparations. Recognize that your ability to find this extra wealth, (even if it’s the $1.75 from your daily coffee), is rooted in the preferential system that you live in. This extra is what the structures in which we all live gave to you instead of you neighbor.

To give this in faithful penitence to your neighbor is both to aid their survival and to push back at these powers and structures. There are lots of ways to do this. There may be someone in your circle of friends who needs this help. At the same time your circle may be so homogeneous that you need to look harder. There are reparations circles on social media. Search through sites like GoFundMe for individuals and families who need your help to survive. All I ask is that you not give to agencies and institutions with these particular alms. Far too often, requests of this sort end up being met by marginalized people desperately shuffling resources they need to others with the hope that some kindness may come their way when the bills come due.

My friend Jess Davis, a Christian Counselor and Teacher, has taught me that a great place to start is supporting indigenous/women of color who are doulas, midwives, or farmers. This sort of giving can literally help them bring other community members to life. One advantage to giving to an unfamiliar person or family is that it helps us to remember Jesus’ guidance that we give quietly, without strings, such that “our left hand does not know what our right hand is doing.” The goal is to submit privilege and give it away, not to gain a new upper hand as a do-gooder. These gifts are given in the spirit of penitence that they were taken away in generations past and are being returned in humility.

An exercise like this is probably best undertaken with two or three accountability partners, so you can share your process and your adherence to the plan. It’s extremely important not to lean on marginalized people for this work. For example, if you’re a white person giving alms to black families, lean on other white people as your conversation partners. I plan to lean on my cohort partner in the pilot group of the Emmaus Collective  for this support. I wish you a blessed Lent and pray that you find a discipline that helps you to transform your relationship to privilege, your possessions, and especially your neighbors.

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A message on this current insanity by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

A few days ago a lady, believing she appeared gifted with practical sense, said that it is necessary to submit to the use of the mask and social distancing not so much for their effectiveness, but to support our rulers in view of a relaxation of the measures adopted so far: “ If we put on the mask and get vaccinated, maybe they'll stop and let us live again, she commented. Faced with this observation, an elderly gentleman replied that some Jews, in Germany in the thirties, perhaps thought that wearing the Star of David sewn on his jacket would somehow satisfy Hitler's delusions, avoiding far worse violations and saving himself from deportation. Faced with this calm objection, her interlocutor was shaken, understanding the disturbing similarity between the Nazi dictatorship and the pandemic madness of our days; between the way in which tyranny could be imposed on millions of citizens by leveraging their fear, then as now. They have allowed themselves to be persuaded to obey, not to react to the violation of the rights of German citizens guilty only of being Jews, to inform themselves of the "criminals" in the civil authorities.And I ask myself: what difference exists between the denunciation of a neighbor who hides a Jewish family and the zealous reporting of those who receive acquaintances in violation of an unconstitutional provision that limits the freedoms of citizens? Are they not both respecting the law, observing the rules, while those same rules violate the rights of a part of the population, criminalized yesterday on a racial basis and today on a health basis? Have we learned nothing from the horrors of the past?while those same norms violate the rights of a part of the population, criminalized yesterday on a racial basis and today on a health basis? Have we learned nothing from the horrors of the past?while those same norms violate the rights of a part of the population, criminalized yesterday on a racial basis and today on a health basis? Have we learned nothing from the horrors of the past?

The voice of the Church invokes the divine Majesty to remove the " flagella tuae iracundiae, quae pro peccatis nostris meremur". These scourges have manifested themselves in the course of history with wars, plagues, famines; today they show themselves with the tyranny of globalism, capable of making more victims of a world conflict and of destroying national economies more than an earthquake. We must understand that if the Lord were to allow the supporters of the Covid emergency to be successful, it will certainly be for our greater good. Because today we are precluded, as if it were a fault, what little remained in our society that was still inspired by Christian civilization and that until yesterday we considered normal and taken for granted: exercise our fundamental freedoms, find ourselves praying in church, going out with friends , see us at dinner with our loved ones, be able to open the shop or restaurant and earn honestly, go to school or take a trip.

If this pseudo-pandemic is a scourge, it is not difficult to understand what are the sins for which Heaven punishes us: crimes, abortions, murders, divorces, violence, perversions, vices, thefts, deceptions, scams, betrayals, lies, desecrations. , cruelty. Public faults and faults of individuals. Sins of God's enemies and sins of His friends. The faults of the laity and the faults of the clerics, of the base and the top, of the governed and of the rulers, of the young and old, of men and women.

Those who believe that the violation of natural rights that we are undergoing has no supernatural significance, and that our share of responsibility is irrelevant in making ourselves complicit in what happens is wrong. Jesus Christ is Lord of History, and whoever would like to banish the Prince of Peace from the world He created and redeemed with His most precious Blood does not want to accept the inexorable defeat of Satan, the eternal loser. Thus, in a delirium that has all the traits of hubris , his servants move as if the victory of evil is now certain, while in reality it is necessarily ephemeral and momentary. The nemesisthat he prepares for them will remind us of the people of Israel after the crossing of the Red Sea, and that Pharaoh could have done nothing if it had not been permitted by God.

The Christian Easter, the true Easter of which that of the Old Testament was only a figure, takes place on Golgotha, on the blessed wood of the Cross. Of that perfect Sacrifice Christ was the Altar, Priest and Victim. L ' Agnus Dei , held up by the Precursor on the banks of the Jordan, took upon Himself the sins of the world, to offer themselves as human and divine victim to the Father, in His Blood restoring the order violated by our Progenitor. It is there, on Calvary, that the true Great Reset took place , thanks to which the inextinguishable debt of the sons of Adam was canceled by the infinite merits of the Passion of the Redeemer, redeeming us from the slavery of sin and death.

Without repenting of our sins, without the intention of modifying our life and conforming it to the will of God, we cannot hope that the consequences of our sins, which offend the divine Majesty and can be appeased only by penance, will disappear. Our Lord showed us the royal way of the Cross: " Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in his footsteps " (1 Peter 2:21). Let us each take up our cross, denying ourselves and following the divine Master. Let us approach Holy Easter with the awareness of always being under the gaze of the Lord: "You wandered like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls“ (1 Peter 2:25). And let us remember that in the dies irae We will certainly all have him as Judge, but thanks to Baptism we have deserved the right to recognize him as a Brother and Friend.

We ask the Supreme Judge, in the words of Sacred Scripture: " Discerne causam meam de gente non sancta, ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me ". To the Merciful Father, who in His divine Son has made us heirs of eternal glory, we humbly address David's words: " Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea, et a sin meo munda me ". We ask the Consoler Spirit: " Da virtutis meritum, da salutis exitum, da perenne gaudium ".

If we really want this so-called pandemic to collapse like a house of cards - as it always happened for far worse scourges, when the Lord decreed its end - let us remember to recognize him, and him alone, that universal Lordship that we usurp with every sin. , refusing to obey His holy Law and thus making us Satan's slaves. If we want the peace of Christ, it is Christ who must reign, and it is His kingdom that we must want, starting with ourselves, with our family, with our circle of friends and acquaintances, with our religious community. Adveniat regnum tuum . If, on the other hand, we allow the hateful tyranny of sin and rebellion against Christ to establish itself, the madness of Covid will only be the beginning of hell on earth.

Let us therefore prepare Confession and Easter Communion with this spirit of reparation and atonement, both for our sins and for those of our brothers, men of the Church and our rulers. The true and holy "new renaissance" to which we must aspire must be the life of Grace, the friendship of God, assiduity with His Most Holy Mother and with the Saints. The true " nothing will be the same as before " we must say by rising from the confessional with the intention of sinning no more, offering the Eucharistic King our heart as a throne in which he delights in dwelling, consecrating our every action, our every thought, our every breath.

May these be our wishes for the next Easter of Resurrection, under the benign gaze of Our Queen and Lady, Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of all Graces.

+Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop