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      "body": "![IrishMan.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTmbPwi8yezk6g1gWFruZpVF3u1o2nazfj8ypgctEKvgz/IrishMan.png)\n\nAs I struggle with understanding of why I have such a strong attachment to Ireland, such a small island in the Northern Atlantic, but one with a deep, long, rich ancient history and culture, I am inclined to think, as many have suggested, that it is in my DNA. I not only inherited the talents of my ancestors, and their mental and physical attributes, but it appears that I inherited, on an unconscious level, their traumas of living through the agony of such wretched, wicked, and evil times, resulting with many of my Irish families being forced out of Ireland, with the added trauma of starting over in a new country, where often they did not fit in.\n \nBut, of course, not all the Irish left. I must have many, many distant family lines still in Ireland. Sometimes I wonder if their DNA is still holding on tightly to the trauma of those ghastly times, or, because they stayed, were they able to heal much of the trauma stored in their DNA? The descendants of those who stayed eventually started experiencing and seeing Ireland flourish again; that alone feeds health into the soul, and can help heal the unconscious ties of past traumas.\n \nCould it be that those of us with ancestors forced out of Ireland may still have parts of our unconscious, and our DNA, still locked into what happened in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s? Those of us whose ancestors left did not see, first hand, nor experience, Ireland heal and flourish. It could be we have not had the opportunity to heal our unconscious memories, and DNA from those traumatic times. For many, perhaps, these traumas remain buried in the unconscious; festering in ways that are not understood.\n \nMy children have incredible lives. They are world travelers and couldn’t possibly relate to what happened to their ancestors in Newfoundland, or Ireland; and I am sure it is that way for many Irish children as well. But, are the Irish children living their lives with a healed unconscious, while some American children, with strong Irish DNA, are living their lives with unknown unresolved issues festering under the surface of their consciousness? They all seem to want to go to Ireland? Why? Do all Irish children want to go to America? Probably not; at least not with the same amount of driving force as many Irish Americans seem to, in my humble opinion.\n\nLife, indeed is complex, as is the study of family history, as some of us try to figure out how we landed where we are in life. In a spiritual group that I belong to, we started thinking of ways to honor our ancestors during the Halloween season, and not just to have it be about taking the children out trick or treating, which, of course, is always fun. Some of us would visit an ancestor’s grave and energetically bless the site with salt, herbs, high pitched bells and singing, with the intent and hope that whatever trauma was unresolved in their life would be released permanently. Now I am thinking that perhaps next Halloween season, I might suggest to the group that we recognize there are past traumas stored in all our DNA, in one form or another, and it is not our ancestors’ traumas that need to be healed, but the traumas that are stored in our own DNA that we inherited from them. And perhaps, when those with Irish roots visit Ireland, their unconscious mind can see and experience for itself how Ireland has healed from those times and has flourished; maybe then, their DNA inherited trauma will be released and permanently healed….Happy St Patricks Day.",
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It is called family wealth.\n \nThese hard working people often weighed options such as: “should we use our saving this year for a vacation, or would building the screened porch be a wiser investment of our money for our future comfort and pleasure?” They carefully directed their money to build future family wealth for themselves. They wanted to pass on, to their children and grandchildren, what they had worked for so hard for most their lives; the security of owning a mortgage free home. However, that is not allowed for long for the non rich. Building family wealth, for the middle income families, is usually taken away from them, eventually, because of the government.\n \nIt appears that middle income people are not allowed to live in the nicest places for long, if that is where the wealthy decide to move to.   Is it right that we be controlled like that? Why is it that our hard work, over the decades and generations, doesn’t count in the eyes of the government? Why is it that the government doesn’t protect our life long investments in our homes? Not only does the government not acknowledge the blood and sweat investments we put into our homes, often for decades, they actively put us in positions of forcing us to lose our homes, in favor of the rich, or because of greedy or political government spending.\n \nOver the decades, the once off the beaten path, family ocean front homes became attractive to the wealthy. Then the wealthy soon built their large summer “cottages”, mansions to us normal folks, in the neighborhood.  This forced fisherman and other normal, income folks to sell their beach front homes. Even though the normal folks were the first to arrive, because they were not of the elitist financial class, these regular folks could not afford to pay what the town now decided their family home, of decades, were now worth. Only the rich were now allowed into their neighborhood; people, who often didn’t even stay over winter, were the ones forcing year round middle income folks out of their family homes.\n \nMaybe their family just paid $5,000 for their home, decades ago. It was their  dream to own ocean front property. So they moved north, where they could afford to make their dream a reality.  The house became a treasured, family legacy for this average income family. Then suddenly, because of new rich neighbors, their homes that had been in the family for fifty to hundred years now had a  yearly property tax bill of $25,000 or $30,000. Most Americans don’t even make that much money annually. Some of the better off ones, tried to hold on to their family legacies, often spending up to three quarters of their income or more to keep their homes by paying the government their proclaimed “due”  of an outrageous property tax bill. The government drove many of these hard working people into poverty, until they were forced to sell their family home. How ironic that the grandparents thought their descendants would be more financially secure in having a mortgage free home. Little could they foresee that the town would demand more money than the bank ever did, and would force their descendants out because they couldn’t afford to keep their mortgage free home because of rich people moving in next door.  Is that the American way; to steal the wealth of your parents and grandparents, because the rich wanted what you had worked so hard for over the decades?\n \nShould the rich have that much power against average income Americans?  Should property taxes be raised so outrageously high, that it drives out hard working people out of their family homes?  Is ocean front property now just for the rich, who often only live there in the summer? Why do the fishermen, who make their living from the sea, have to live inland, even though their families once owned ocean front property when no one else wanted it?\n \nDo the people actually ever own their homes even when they pay of their mortgage? What is wrong with state and local government that they would take people’s homes because they couldn’t afford to pay highly outrageous property taxes? In some places they have rent control, perhaps with towns there should be property tax control so people are not forced out of their homes.\n \nThe state is not any more responsible of handling the People’s money than the federal government is. Who is not aware of the monstrous government spending wasteland, and is just getting larger. And those in power  feed that financial wasteland by bleeding everyday people dry, including taking people’s homes, when they have nothing left to give. Is that right? When will people’s home, their roof over their head, the basic need of every individual become sacred and untouchable by the government, so life can be preserved and not harmed.\n \nMost people don’t earn over thirty thousand a year. Many, especially, those retired earn much less. So what exactly should the average tax bill be for one’s mortgage- free home that average people worked so hard for all their lives to “secure” for their family?  These families worked hard to pay off their mortgage so that they could have a little economic security of having a roof over their heads in their declining years, while proudly passing on the fruits of their hard labor and sacrifices in obtaining that asset onto their decedents, only to have the government bully come along and make it impossible for them to keep.  Is that a form theft? Should the government, on any level,  be allowed to steal from the people, or force people out of their homes? And yet they do. Why is that okay? 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Yet, knowing human nature and what power does to humans, the American People wanted added reassurance of keeping the power of the government in check, by adding “further restrictive” clauses to the Constitution so that it would be clear that the Federal Government could not trespass on the People’s Natural, Innate Rights.\n \nThe American Government did not give us the right of free speech. Free speech is an innate right we were born with. The government’s job is to protect that Innate Right. “Congress shall make no law….,” is how the First Amendment starts.  The American People told the government what it had authority over and what it did not, not the other way around. The wording of the First Amendment by The People told the government they could make “NO LAW” concerning the People’s free speech, religion, assembly and redress. This is what the American People told the American Government that they created.\n \nThe American People also told the American Government in the Second Amendment that:\n“……for the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by the federal government.”  In some state constitutions, the language is even clearer using the words…. “ the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall never be questioned.”   Since many state constitutions, which we still live under today, were written before the Federal Constitution, if one wanted to know what the founders thought about fire arms, one might want to read what those constitutions say about the right of the average American to bear and keep arms.\n \nThe body of the Federal Constitution lists twenty areas of power given to the Federal Government. No where in the Constitution was the Federal Government given authority to decide matters, or make law concerning our right to keep and carry guns; although, the second Amendments clearly tells  the American Government that We, The People, are keeping our rights to keep and bear arms.  Again, as the founders themselves described, the powers given to the central government, are narrow, limited, few, and well define. The reason for that was to prevent tyranny from developing, so Americans could remain free and proper while staying in charge of their own lives.\n \nUnderstanding that not all people are ethical, all of the time, especially those holding  power positions, the founders strived to put clear and straightforward language into this Constitution to avoid as much political misinterpretation as possible, because of bias and greed. It was written in a simple way so that all Americans could understand its meaning. However, being students of human nature, the founders knew that many who attained powerful positions in this new government could have unclean ethics. People, who disagreed with what was clearly written down, would try to fudge words, or ideas, while creating loop holes to break through the chains of the Constitution. The chains of the Constitution that people refer to, is the clear language written for the purpose of limiting the authority of the Federal Government, so those in power would remain public servants to the People, and not become their masters, which was a great fear of the People who had just fought a bloody revolution\n \nThese early Americans stressed the importance of  keeping control of any government they created by limiting it range of power to a few specific areas that they had any authority over. It was through the language of the Constitution, that We The People tied the hands of power, of  all future government officials and workers, by limiting their authority of power to what the Constitution said they could do. By restricting the government to just twenty well defined areas of authority, they believed this would keep tyranny from raising its ugly head as it had done before and devouring the innate  freedoms of the average human being.\n \n The chains of the Constitution were the restrictions and power limitations that We The People gave to the government. However, even with limiting the government’s authority to just twenty areas of concerns written into the original body of the Constitution, most Americans were not satisfied that those chains would be strong enough to hold tyranny at bay; so the Bill of Rights was offered as a further safety- net for our Innate, freedoms trying to make it crystal clear what the limitations of Federal Government Powers were.\n \nOn purpose or not, or through ignorance or not, few schools teach the preamble of the Bill of Rights. This preamble is important because it states the purpose for the Bill of Rights. It states:\n \n“The Conventions of a number of states, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to PREVENT MISCONSTRUCTION OR ABUSE OF ITS POWERS, THAT FURTHER DECLARATORY AND RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES BE ADDED…..”    It is interesting how the Founders were seemingly trying to “help” the courts avoid any “misconstruction” by adding this additional information on the chains of government restriction of what the government can and cannot do. And notice the words: “that further declaratory and restrictive clauses be added…” What does this tell us what was on the minds of Americans while forming this central government?  Did they think they were receiving their rights from this new government, or is it quite clear they were trying to preserve the rights they already had by trying to curtail anyone who might have governmental power arrogance, or inclined to abuse their power.  Hmmm… how many, serving in power positions in Washington D.C. become so much wealthier after working in these positions for several years? Power is mostly always abused on some level. That is why we have to watch carefully those we give power to. Those in power seldom are actual public servants. Mostly they all scratch each others backs, harvesting the wealth, unethically, from those they were elected to serve.\n \nIt is often said that the “chains of the Constitution” have been broken. They have been. So how are we going to take our power back?  How are we going to force those in power  to walk the straight and narrow? How do the People force those in power positions, on the national, state and local level, to be ethical and not to overreach the power that was given to them? Today, America is America in name only. Our rights have not been protected by those given authority to protect them. From Members of Congress, to the local police officer, everyday people in power positions are trespassing on our rights.\n \n Many people, in governmental position, over the decades, not only ignored and trespassed on our “protected rights”  but have actively and, systematically, stripped away, our rights by government overreach, and the weakening of the American intellect by  diluting the teachings about our Constitution, and fundamental principles of our country  in our schools. This ongoing increase of the government power, have turned the tables on The People so they are no longer the masters of the government but its servants, and that is called tyranny.\n \n \nAll positions of power: Congress, the State Department, the Treasury, the Department of Justice and many others, including local police took an oath to uphold the Constitution. If one takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, then repeatedly fails to uphold it, what is that called? \n \nWhy is it is okay for the FBI to lie to you, but if you tell even a white lie to the FBI,  you go to jail….. hence Martha Stewart’s issue. Some officials, perhaps many officials, who take the oath, will, some of the time, perhaps all of the time, choose to ignore it. Does that make them criminals?  I think so. It should be a high ranking crime for anyone in public office not to uphold the Constitution. Some, perhaps many, fail to uphold it do so out of ignorance.  Therefore, I think, in order for the People to keep track of the People’s money as well as keep the chains of the Constitution strong, before anyone can take an Oath to uphold the Constitution, they should first have to pass a public test to prove that they know what it states, especially about the restrictions that it puts on the government.\n \nCould your local police chief, state representative, Congressperson, senator, governor, town council member pass a standardized test on the Constitution?  Could you?  And that is a big problem, because that wide spread ignorance of our basic laws and rights is how Americans lost control of their government and contributed to the economic mess bearing down on middle income Americans. Through keeping the masses in the dark, those in power  easily broke through the chains of the Constitution, and harvested your wealth, while destroying your freedom and your privacy, and that of your children’s and grandchildren. \n \nDo you want your children and grandchildren to keep their privacy, freedom and wealth?  Then start studying and reading the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. Read your State Constitution. Read the Declaration of Independence.  If reading the Constitution with Webster’s Dictionary by your side is too dry and boring for you, pick up a copy of W. Cleon Skousen text book: “The Making of America. The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution.” Have your kids read it over summer vacation. Give a copy to the school board, your children’s teacher. Test yourself in your own knowledge of what you actually know about how your government is supposed to run.  Go online and read the Grand’Pa Jack’s series on teaching children about their government and their natural rights that their government is suppose to protect. Knowing the Constitution inside out\nmakes it harder for those in authority to pull the wool over your eyes. Instead of helping government overreach through your ignorance, you can keep the government in line through your knowledge,\n \n This very real issue of officials not upholding the Constitution appears to be coming to a fine line of contention that will soon explode in all Americans lives.",
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      "body": "![watch steen=mit.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSDN78PbwMvAi57i1dL28Cne5W6Txw8fb9tHEjHrmxK6j/watch%20steen%3Dmit.jpeg)\n \n \nThe talk, presently, is intense about the transition into a new economic system that will more than likely wipe out the wealth of the middle class. For those getting closer to retirement age, will they be able to pull themselves up by the boot straps and start over as their retirement funds vanish forever from their reach. And for those not thinking about retirement, will sudden, vertical rise hyperinflation end the average American’s ability to put food on the table and keep the power on?\n \n \n Life in America is not truthful. The founders of America tried to make it trueful, but alas, greed always wins out. Fiat currencies are an asset to be manipulated by the well connected making those who own and run the banks rich and powerful while putting most people, the ones who actually work the gears of American society getting the day to day business of living done, cornered into ruiness debt and control, by limiting their choices.\n \nI don’t know what is going to happen. When the American monetary system went completely fiat in 1974, many predicted the down fall of our economic system within thirty years; but instead, those who control the monetary system came up with never before new financial instruments making those who run the system richer and more secure and those of us who are trapped into this dishonest monetary system, working harder while getting poorer.\n \nNow it is being said those who run the monetary system no longer have any more ideas or any more slight of hand tricks on how to keep the rigged monetary system going. So it will now implode, not just in one country, as it has been in the past, but a worldwide economic meltdown. So no one is safe. How will your family do in riding out this crisis? \n \nSome believe it will never happen. Some think people are just crying wolf again and they are, except this time, the wolf is actually here. How secure is your life, or are you living credit card payment to credit card payment. The average person on the street wants to believe that the system will keep on going and if there is a change, like before, it will not affect the average person’s ability to pay their bills. But all monetary systems end, and the fiat ones end with a lot of hurting, unsuspecting people. It is said the average fiat system last about thirty to forty years and ours is now well over forty years old actually pushing fifty. So what would you do if you did not get paid this week?  How would you buy your food and pay your rent/mortgage?  What would happen is you didn’t get paid for two weeks….three weeks… a month?  How long could you keep a roof over your head with no regular income?  Are you one of the lucky ones who worked hard and was able to set money away for a rainy day?  Is it in the bank?  What happens when they tell you the dollar is being replaced and your dollar no longer has any purchasing power but you can convert to the new currency and offer you ten cents on the dollar?\n \n How are you protecting yourself, and your family? Or, will you, like millions of blue and white collar Americans, young and old, high school diploma or PhD, end up in Tent City? It is always the ones who believe that it could never happen to them who are the hardest it. What is your plan to be as independent as you can be from the monetary system during this unprecedented time of  America changing from one monetary system to another?",
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      "body": "\n                                ![buidingssnow.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPsYWAAsKTCGH51NG5RozqFjjRKqeo3rhdNy9D4JjqBWJ/buidingssnow.jpeg)            \n \nThe charm of Jane Austin’s writing is partly how polite her characters interact with each other, in contrast to many Hollywood scriptwriters today who seem to prefer their characters’ interactions be laden with witty put-downs, and rudeness. Many of these TV characters today remind me of the behavior of schoolyard bullies who love to torture their younger classmates both physically and emotionally. In my humble opinion, people can be mean enough in our everyday interactions without watching that same rudeness and meanness on situation comedies.\n \nWhen riding on the highways and byways of America, as we enter and exit lanes, and cross intersections, all of us are going different places, at different speeds, for different reasons as we go about our lives. We all know driving a car can kill other people and ourselves, therefore, most of us, most of the time respect the rules of the road for the safety of all. We all, if we are smart, and want to keep our families safe, drive defensively. Driving defensively means we are watching what the other driver is doing. We can’t assume that the other driver is sober or paying attention. The other driver might be out-of-control with anger or road rage, or is lost in fear as he drives without caution to get to a hospital or other life or death matter. So paying attention to what the other driver is doing contributes to keeping everyone safe on the road. We honor the rules of the road, and drive defensively to stay alive.\n \nOur social interactions are similar to these issues of driving on the public roads. We all are going about our lives taking different paths, at different speeds, for different reasons or needs, with different competencies, mental states and challenges. Each day we encounter strangers, acquaintances, associates, friends, enemies and family who have various complex issues going on in their lives. Some of these people we are neutral about, some we like and some we don’t like. But as we travel life’s emotional byways, in the course of living our daily lives, what is it that keeps us all safe in this matrix of complex human interactions? Your first thought might be the law of the land, like there are laws to driving on a road. I think that is part of it. But like we choose to drive defensively on the road for our safety, the counterpart to that in our everyday interactions with others in order to prevent conflict and harm is called good manners while acting and speaking respectfully to each other. From the Governor to the paper boy, from the stranger on the street to your associates, from your child to your parents, from your spouse to your sibling, from your friends to your competitors or enemies, if you want to live as safely as possible, good manners, with all of them, is one solid strategy for achieving that.\n \nNo one can deeply or even superficially understand another human. Generally, people do not know what another, especially a stranger, is presently struggling with, or just went through, or has gone through. No person is privy to another’s strengths, weaknesses, sensitivities, challenges, or any set of: emotional, mental, physical, social, legal, spiritual, financial or political circumstances that they may be juggling with, or drowning in, Therefore, to avoid petty conflict with others, for the safety for all, society, decades ago, constructed a behavior of etiquette called manners. Good manners are the foundation of preserving peace among people from different backgrounds, as well as similar backgrounds. And sometimes good manners can even do more than keep the peace; it can be a fleeting moment of unexpected pleasure for someone otherwise going through a rough time. Everyone deserves respect for the simple reason that we all are living human beings. And, as living humans beings, like it or not, we all are in the same boat.\n \nThe practice of good manners, meaning respectful speech and actions, aids greatly in the odds of  contributing to everyone’s well being by keeping the harmony of  peace and good will flowing. Yet, good manners seem to have fallen out of fashion since I was younger. I sometimes wonder how that happened when I see people, young or old, who seem to delight in their rudeness to another person.\n \nDo you practice good manners with everyone you encounter?  If not, who are you choosing to be rude to?  Why? How does choosing to be ill mannered, rude, and disrespectful to anyone improve the situation?  Or, when choosing to be rude, are people trying to cause harm instead of contributing to the good of all in their community? Do people ever think how deeply, on many different levels, rudeness can undermine the physical or emotional safety for any community, large or small?  When someone doesn’t choose to practice good manners, do they ponder the consequences, and the adverse domino- like effects on other people’s lives, or don’t they care?\n \nDo parents reflect on how their own chosen behavior is molding their children’s future behavior to either mostly contributing to, or undermining relationships in their communities?\n \nPerhaps some people disagree with the concept of good manners promoting a safer society? Perhaps some think not everyone deserves respect? Perhaps some people reserve their good manners only for people they favor, or want something from? Perhaps some think of their good manners as a gift to people they like, and their rudeness as a punishment to people they don’t like?  Perhaps some people were never taught by others, or learned on their own, the value and importance of good manners for the safety of all.\n \nIn my humble opinion, the bottom line for me is that good manners and respect are important for everyone’s safety, because without showing respect and good manners conflict arises or is inflamed greatly if already there. It’s the reason why family, or neighborhood feuds start. It’s how people stop talking to one another. It’s how some accidents happen, it’s how some people get hurt, emotionally or physically. It’s how some people get killed. Road Rage and general rudeness are birthed from the same energy.  The roads of life can be dangerous, both on the streets we drive on and the emotional roads of human interactions. Driving defensively keeps everyone safer on the road, just as choosing good manners over rudeness contributes to keeping human interactions safer in your communities.\n \nWatching a baker offering a young child, in her shop, a free cookie is usually followed by hearing the parents coaching of: “now, what do you say?”; and right on cue the child will look at the adult, who gifted her the cookie, and say, “thank you.” Young parents seem to be quite diligent in wanting their child to know how to say, “please” and “thank you.” but good manners extend way beyond the words “please” and “thank you.”",
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      "body": "![Girl with Hat.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYXvZsQpzkPTDRP6yTMG9SQtXVj7cVssg8gqnALkDnsvw/Girl%20with%20Hat.jpeg)\n \n \nWhen I was in graduate school, a professor made a statement that forever changed how I looked at people. It was an abnormal psychology course that I had to take for course requirements. After several classes of how to identify various mental health issues, I asked where are all these mentally, unbalanced people kept. Looking at me with an understanding smile, he answered, “They are not kept anywhere. They are walking on the streets beside you, in the elevator, driving your cab, in the library, in the supermarket, and may even be teaching your children, or be on the local police force. Most of them may appear normal, like some functional alcoholics, until an emotional trigger, or chemical imbalance strips them of their social mask of “normal behavior”.  Clear as day, as the years pass, mental health seems to be getting progressively worse in our country.\n \nSpeculating why, I am wondering if it is because the family unit is crumbling. The once strong family unit no longer exists. Children and teens pay more attention, and relate more to a screen than they relate to their parents or others.  Unfortunately, the safety net of a healthy family unit is hanging by a thread. The structural unit and power of the family has been slowly weakened over the decades, ever since we completely went off the gold monetary standard in the early 1970s. Going completely off the monetary gold standard, and moving everyone into a debt base monetary system, where more and more debt, not savings, needs to be created each year in order for it to survive and was the foundational basis for how the powers-that-be weakened the family unit. Because of this financial change in our monetary system, our time needs were changed and had to be prioritized, and unfortunately the needs and emotional health of our children and our family were not on the top of the list. In the early seventies, after the monetary change, two full time jobs were now needed to make ends meet in order to support the family.  The eliminating of a full time parent, at home, to supervise their children’s everyday life and needs aligning with their family’s values and concerns, eliminated the safety net of the very much needed emotional support of the developing child.\n \nAbout twenty years ago there was a big push in the “self help” arena to get back to family dinners, where the family could bond, relax, socialize, learn about each other’s day while subtly, yet consistently  reminding each other that they all look out for one other, that there was unconditional love for each other.  The slogan was to have a family dinner every Sunday. I thought how strange. Why are families not having family dinners each evening like it was before our monetary system was changed in the early seventies?  How did society change our personal lives so drastically that we no longer had time for family dinners each night?  How was our time and choices stolen from us that American families were no longer having a family dinner each evening?  Did that improve the quality of relationships?\n \nThere was a tragic school shooting in Florida. Some public officials are blaming the FBI for it. And since the FBI was told about this troubled teen and his intentions weeks ago, I too will blame the FBI.  But then I hear the chanting of some people demanding it to be the fault of our Second Amendment. President Trump correctly identified it as a mental health issue, not a Second Amendment issue. There was a time when there weren’t school shootings. There was a time when teens would bring their rifles to school and leave them in the cloak room with their coats and boots. What has happened to society when at one time teens could bring their guns to school, and today, emotionally and unbalanced individuals do not have the safety net of a strong family unit that included nightly family dinners with loving adults, which help guard against such tragedies.  It is well known that isolation, and loneliness that can contribute to, or even trigger emotional breakdowns, that can lead to tradegies.\n \n \nI read that today’s generation will be known as the glass generation, where they grow up with a screen and pushing buttons, or an app, to learn about life and ease their emotional issues just as alcohol can sometimes temporarily ease someone’s feelings.  The glass screen can give the illusion of having friends and social relationships, when in reality, the more one is on the screen, more and more isolation and loneliness takes over their lives.  The glass screen then becomes their best friend, which can, among other not so good results, program violence into some people’s already unbalanced nature.\n \nHow many friends do you have? And I don’t mean the 500 friends on FaceBook because  no real, normal, functional human being could socially and emotionally, in any effective or healthy way, interact that closely with that many people. How many friends do you really have that you could call when you needed a hand to move a chicken coop, or an ear to bounce your ideas of off, or bring you chicken soup when you are sick, or even notice if you are missing?  How many times have human bodies been found dead in their house for days or even weeks or more because no one noticed that they were around any more?\n \n \nWho is nurturing our children, our teens, our young adults…. FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter, the latest shoot them up video game like Halo?  Do you and your children actually have real friends and not just virtual friends?\n \n \n It has been noted that people learn: about ten percent of what they read, about twenty percent of what they hear, about fifty percent of what they see and hear together, about eighty percent of what they discuss with others( hence the value of family conversations at the nightly dinner table), and ninety-five percent of what they teach.  How is your child learning?  How are you learning?  What are you having your children teach others? What is your child learning so they have something of value to teach others?  In larger families, the older children often taught skills or tutored something to their younger siblings.  Church and community organizations often had helpers to teach others to garden, to shoot, to fish, to sew, to build a shed, or even play a musical instrument. What are you supervising your child to learn so they can have something of value to teach others, instead of being so emotionally isolated or insecure that they choose instead to hurt or bully others? How are you teaching your child to value life and relationships?  How are you teaching and helping your child make real friends who are in alignment with healthy values?  How are you contributing to the mental health of your family and your community?",
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I lives hundreds of miles away, but I call her regularly. She doesn’t complain and she doesn’t talk about being old, alone or dying. She talks to me about what we have always talked about, politics to human nature, our children to scientific discoveries, philosophy to what my latest adventure has been. I have noticed, in the last few months, that she seems to slant the conversion more often to the question of life after death. I repeatedly suggest she have her son help her sign up for Victor Zammit’s weekly newsletter, “A Lawyers Guide to the Afterlife”. It always contains videos that she could listen to by doctors and mediums talking about near death experiences and communication with those who have already passed on. It is an interesting newsletter and he has a forum where all sorts of viewpoints and mediums share there thoughts as well as their latest books. It would be interesting and entertaining for her. Victor Zammit is a retired attorney living in Australia. He has an annual world wide conference in Phoenix on communicating with those who have passed on.\n \nThere is a product that one of the members on his forum is promoting that a University of Arizona professor is in the process of developing. It is called a “Soulphone”, which one can use to talk directly to the other dead. There are several versions. The first one is just a (Yes or No) switch which is activated by light I think. He said it should be on the market next year, swiftly followed by a device to text the dead, and them you. Within a couple of years, he hopes to have on the market a television monitor  he is developing in which  loved ones, and other people who have passed, on can actually be seen while communicating with them. This is Dr Gary Schwartz PH.D, author of, “The Afterlife Experiments.\"\n \nMy friend’s interests seem very peaked by this. She is not religious. She is not overly sensitive. She is quite pragmatic and yet, she is one of the kindest persons I have ever known. She is very prim, and proper and one would never guess her interest in the Theosophical Society; and yet, she was drawn to it because of all her prophetic experiences she quietly had all he life that she could not explain. She has no answers about this topic, and has drawn no conclusion. Yet now, as she sits alone, in the quietness of the day and the night with her thoughts and her failing body, her mind ponders the purpose of what her life has been. “Surely there must have been a purpose to all this?”… meaning her life and all she went through, she  asked me recently. Yet, her most burning question now appears to be, “is there life after death of the body?” When I tell her of what some cardiologists and other medical doctors have experienced with their patients, and the survival of consciousness she gets keenly interested, especially when I explain how they seem to think that the personality of the individual survives.\n \nShe is not one to share her feelings or her pain, as I said she never complains, and yet, I can sense a feeling of disappointment in her life, and not achieving what she had hope to, whatever that might have been.\n \nShe never seemed to have too much of an interest in life after death, but now she does. I suppose we are all rather in shock when life is ending for us. Some get a warning and others don’t. I don’t know which is better. But she has time, all her time to ponder that all that gave her pleasure is over. She is alone as she waits for death to come…. be it tomorrow, or ten years form now. What does she look forward to….. a passing phone call? What is she capable of doing, except thinking? I told her I loved listening to her stories about her mother’s life in Sweden, about her living through the bombings in London, her adventures in South America. She was an artist, a writer, an educator among many other things. She raised a family, and had her own school at one point. She was and is a wonderful human being and yet she is alone, trapped in a body that is failing her. I suggested that she get a tape recorded and record all those wonderful stories for her great grandchild and pass on as much family history for him as possible. She seemed excited about the project and yet she never got the tape recorder. Money is not an issue for her.\n \n She has lived longer than many humans and yet for the past seven years her passions, her independence, her ability to read, or even surf the net is beyond her ability. When her last dog died, whom she loved so much, that is when I noticed a sharp decline in her quality of life. She has adult children, grandchildren and even a great grandchild and yet they all have their own lives. Her oldest son visits her weekly to take her shopping, but then the door closes, and once again she is alone with her thoughts until the phone rings.",
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      "body": "![Coffee cup.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSJX26GXAhVXmgXj9woqwTVK2ZfKBdgkMXwCX3ywNm8Ca/Coffee%20cup.jpeg)\n \nShockingly, I heard a Hollywood celebrity, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, say she would never retire as she didn’t see any pleasure of just going to the golf course everyday. Having had the privilege from the time she was a child to get all her needs met, while doing whatever she wanted with her time, she never had the stress of wondering how to keep a roof over her head especially if she couldn’t trade her time and energy for dollars in order to do that. Obviously, this celebrity didn’t see clearly how most of us look forward to retirement. Most of us don’t want to play golf everyday, we just look forward to  finally having at least some of the freedom that she enjoyed all of her life…… to do what we want, with our time, and according to our energy level and not to the dictates of another.\n \nRetirement, to most Americans, represents a time to stop being a slave, no matter how well paid of a slave they may be; and finally having complete control over their time and lives. This celebrity didn’t need to retire from a nine to five job, plus overtime, to take charge of her time and do her heart’s desire. Most of us have to trade our time for money to put food on the table, and to keep a roof over our heads and that of our family. If this Hollywood actress got sick, she could afford to hire people to run her household, and take care of her. She would just have to concentrate on healing. She didn’t need to trade her time for dollars. But what happens to the rest of Americans who get sick and cannot work nine to five, even for a short while? Where does the money come from to run their household, to put food on their table, to keep a roof over their head, pay the bills, buy medicine and hire the medical assistance they need, and help to care for them? So was this Hollywood actress just blinded to the realities of how life is, or was she just accepting that it was okay that the majority of people didn’t have, or were not given a strong opportunity to acquire the most basic security of having a roof over their heads should one not be able to work nine to five? Most people work hard, often too hard, at making someone else rich or comfortable. Most people have no safety nets, and so they over work. Is that the American way?  I once heard  George Bush Jr. laughing as he told of  someone he came across who was working three jobs. He thought that was amazing that anyone would do that. But he didn’t question why, in America, anyone would have to do that.\n \nSome people can manage to find work that they enjoy, but even if they enjoy the work, and it is financially rewarding, they still, usually, can not control the stress and time schedule that the job demands. So most people, those who were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and never obtained a silver spoon, look forward to retirement….. not to become idle and play on the golf course everyday…. but to have the freedom to do with their time what they wish for the first time in their lives without an outside force structuring and dictating their time for them. Some people want retirement so they can have the time to learn a new skill, or open up a new business adventure that they could not risk before retirement. Some want the time to write the great American novel. Some want start a news publication. Some want to develop their artistic side and paint. Some want to travel. Some want to work with the poor and or the young. There is not one person I know who wants to be idle in retirement. They want to be free to direct their life without someone else dictating how their time and daily schedule should look like.\n \nThere is a lot of work to living, besides the major part of earning currency. People born with a silver spoon in their mouth have no idea that raising a family and running a household is more than a full time job leaving little time for one’s self, or their dreams without also trading their hours to work full time so they can feed their family and keep their home. So people retire for freedom to do with their time what they wish. They luxuriate in the thought of having full control over what they do with their time, and the control over the pace they live so they can protect their health: physical, mental and spiritual.\n \nSome people are forced into medical retirement because their body can no longer keep up with the pace, stress, politics and wear and tear on the body from doing the work they do. To live, they must retire, so they can live life to their unique pace that they need without their body failing them. But has their lives been set up and supported by society to have that choice to retire so that they can physically live? Or, does society drain us of our choices while we are working hard contributing to the needs of society while getting  our own needs limitly met…… because of how society is set up? Why is it that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and at whose expense is that happening?  Remembering who has most of the power of educating, or perhaps a better word would be indoctrinating our young, how can we  best educate the young so that this unjust and controlling cycle that has been promoted for so long gets broken?\n \nI laugh when I read they want the retirement age to be seventy. Athletes retire at thirty. Should a carpenter, or roofer, or anyone in manual labor work till seventy… can their bodies take the stress? What about the sixty-eight-year-old school teacher, or librarian, should they really be shoveling their driveways, and driving on icy roads to get to work in order to keep their jobs? Can they fight off germs of the flu and other illnesses as well as a younger person? How much mental, and physical stress, compared to a younger person can the average sixty-five-year old, let alone seventy-year-old take?\n \nOlder people can work and continue to contribute to society, but few can work at the pace of a fifty-eight year- old, and not have dire consequences that they might not recover from. Or, is it part of the plan by the powers-that- be, to push retirement later to keep the many in the rat race, beyond what many of them can keep up such a pace, so they will die early and never experience the time and freedom to control their own life?\n \nMany young people put retirement on the back burner, as do many mid-lifers because the majority of them are living paycheck to paycheck.\n \nWhy are Americans not encouraged and supported in striving towards being as independent as they can be? Why is society set up to enslave the average American by setting up their life style so they can’t have the time and money to do what they desire to do, and instead are being forced to work to age seventy before they can retire, if they live that long?\n \nWhy is it that people are not encouraged and supported by society to plan out how to own things outright instead of financing necessities like a roof over one’s head?\n \nWhen one doesn’t have to pay rent or a mortgage their overhead of living a decent and comfortable life becomes much more affordable and secured. Even if one loses their job, or has a medical, or personal issue forcing them out of their primary job, at least they will still have a roof over their head and not be homeless. Owning one’s own home, in a safe neighborhood, makes people more secure and independent and freer to do what they want to do or need to do. Why isn't that made possible?  Is is simply because of the greed of the now corrupt financial system that transfers the wealth of most hard working Americans to the rich? \n \nHow did if become acceptable to pay a bank several time over in interest the value of the house?  Why is this system of enslaving our young accepted instead of finding a way to free them with more security by helping them own their home outright earlier so they can have more control of where they direct their money to? \n\nThe retirement issue is similar. What are we as a society doing so older people, who have contributed so much to society by having the majority of their time and energy controlled by an outside force, finally be able to have the time they need to control their own time and pace of life while their bodies are becoming lower in energy and strength? Why is society set up to control everyone’s life from cradle to grave instead of helping people get the freedom and strength they need to direct their own lives?  \n\nWhy is it suddenly okay to retire at seventy?  Do you think your parents, your grandparents, your spouse, your siblings and you will have a better chance of having an old age if forced to work in the rat race to age seventy?  Perhaps if one is like President Donald Trump where all the everyday tasks of  living life is taken care for him, then maybe they will. But most of us have to first take care of all the many task demanded by of our own living needs before we get started at our working hours. There is a lot of work to living before one gets to the office, and it takes us longer to do the older we get. Does the average seventy-year-old have their own chauffeur to get to and from work, or chef to shop and cook their food, a housekeeper to make their bed, wash their  clothes and floors, a handy man to shovel the snow, mow the lawn, and paint the kitchen, a personal assistant to take care of all research and correspondences acting as a gate keeper, lawyers on hand to deal with legal matter that eat up time and emotional energy, and the demand goes on. Does the average sixty-eight-old have all the living support that Donald Trump has in order to be able to get to the office everyday?  In France retirement age use to at sixty.... but now they want to slowly increase it to sixty-seven. Why is that? So in this high tech society we are living in, is the average human being getting more or less control over their own life?",
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      "body": "![lighthouse-night-sea-coast-7.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY9tGkeajLv71axAPiCBW9gX3nKQT7h4Abt8mfdJHFdyL/lighthouse-night-sea-coast-7.jpeg)\n \n \nFreedom was called out loudly by the Scottish leaders to the Pope, who had recognized the King of England as having rulership over the Scottish people and their land. So in standing up for themselves, and their country of Scottish inhabitants, on April 6, 1320, the Scottish leaders signed their Declaration of Arbroath.  It implored the Pope to recognize Scotland as an Independent and separate country from England, as they, the Scottish, would never surrender their land and freedom to the English willingly.  It was written in the Declaration that “ … never will we under any condition be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”\n \nFreedom is the fundamental, innate right that all humans are born with, instinctively fight for, and many have died for. Isn’t it that respect for our fundamental freedom, that our governments are suppose to be protecting and supporting, that America represents and models to the world?\n \nThe Scottish people were not the first to speak of this fundamental freedom, while refusing to being lorded over by another nation, or abusive government that lies to them and steals their wealth. By time Thomas Jefferson wrote the American Declaration of Independence, the Unalienable Rights he wrote of was hardly a new concept. It had worn heavily on humans throughout the centuries, as their Unalienable Rights were not recognized, but abused, limited, and stolen from them.\n \nThe founders of America were well read on history, law, and philosophy. They, like many before them, understood the fundamental concept of Unalienable Rights. And so in their fight for American Independence they were actually fighting for having their, Unalienable rights protected by any future government that they would create. They would create a government that the people would control. They would create a government that would answer to the average person by protecting their natural rights, by supporting them in owning and controlling their own lives. The Government would not be allowed to lie to the People. There would be due process of law.\n \nOur American Constitution was almost not ratified because of the strong fear Americans had of losing their freedom and their many Unalienable Rights over time, should they subject themselves to a strong central government. They feared a central government would get too big, and be too far away, for the average American to control or have an influence over.  Americans had just been through a bloody war. They had real life experience of knowing that no government is honest without the People having the means to protect themselves against any government, while also having the means to carefully watch over their government. State governments were easily accessible to the People. A central government hundreds of miles away would be  prohibitive to most Americans in trying to watch over it and control it, let alone be heard.\n \nWithout ratifying the Constitution, Americans only had their smaller state and local governments to watch over, which they had already established control over. They could easily oversee the work of state and local government officials, making sure that they were protecting the People’s best interests and freedoms. There is not one state constitution that does not recognize Unalienable Rights; as well as the People’s right of Jury Nullification in the courtroom where they can ignore laws that abuse and trespass on the People’s Unalienable Rights.  Essentially, Jury Nullification gave the People the last word on any law that the legislative passed.  The jurors could make any law useless and void of power, that they felt did not honor Unalienable Rights and other human applications simply by continuingly finding defendants accused of law not guilty. It was an easy fix that would correct any law that the legislatures passed  that the People felt  was stepping on their Unalienable Rights.  The American People finally had control over their governments, why would they give it up to a central government?\n \nAfter long discussions and debates, many about Unalienable Rights and whether to list them in the Federal Constitution or not, a deal was finally reached to ratified the Federal Constitution. The first task of Congress would be to add to the Constitution a Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments.\n \nSo how is your government doing on the: federal, state, county and local level in protecting your Unalienable Rights? How is your child’s school doing in teaching, deeply and in detail, the concept of Unalienable Rights? How many Unalienable Rights can you list; Or, were your teachers also not taught properly concerning what our freedoms are? Ignorance makes everyone easier to control and to steal from.  If you don’t know what Unalienable Rights are, how do you know if the local police, the state police or federal agents are respecting them, and honoring your freedom or any official for that matter at any level?\n \nMost Americans are afraid of their governments. The founders of America did not set it up that way. How did that come to be?  Do you just do what you are told, while often being lied to; hoping your cooperation in giving up your rights will save you from injury from the government?  How many people do that everyday which often leads them to situations of losing their basic rights to protect their securities, themselves, their family their assets, their privacy and their property?\n \nHow well have you been schooled in your Unalienable Rights? How well have the officials been schooled in their knowledge and understanding of the fundamental Unalienable Rights under which this country was founded? How many officials may understand  them but because of most American’s ignorance of them, won’t honor your Unalienable Rights so they can get what they want or need  from you?\n \nUnalienable Rights at the time of the founding of America were known and acknowledged by all people and by all our governmental levels in order to protect  private Americans from any form of government abuse. How much control do you have over your governments today? Or, do you jump through any hoop they demand without questioning, hoping your cooperation , in doing what you are told, will protect you from their power to lie to you, and their power to kill you, should stand up for your rights?\n \nThe American Founders knew that the two most important factors for the average person’s safety,  wealth, and well being, in order to flourish against governmental abuse and from private abuse, was having security in their privacy and private property. With both of these being honored and supported by governments, they knew the People would prosper, and build family wealth. Without the government supporting and honoring the People’s privacy and private property, the People would remain vulnerable and weak, like they are today with the majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, one crisis away from becoming homeless, or two paychecks from wondering where their next meal is coming from. Is that any way for Americans to be living? And yet they do.\n \nWithout the government protecting the privacy and private property of the average person, the few prosper, while the many would live in fear of their government’s power and never build wealth.   Do you live in fear of your government? Is that what America is modeling to the world? When you are celebrating on the Fourth of July, what exactly are you celebrating? Because all your freedoms that the government is suppose to protect, all your privacy the government is suppose to protect, all your private property the government is suppose to protect, and all your wealth, as an average American not the one percent, has  already evaporated or soon will. And if you happen to still have a nest egg, still have family wealth to pass on to the next generation so each generation can stand on the shoulders of the one before, it won’t be long before its gone, because that is the new “American Way.”  \n \nIf you live in fear of your government, on any level, and your government is not doing what it was created to do to protect your Unalienable Rights so you could build wealth and  live as you wish while harming none, then you are not living in the America that our Founders created.",
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      "body": "![Bridge leaf .jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdKsBHzXeqKRWoGNH2CVG1QeVobtgobsHLHFSVwWmcu6f/Bridge%20leaf%20.jpeg)\n \n \nIt was when I saw my great, great, great, great grandfather’s tombstone, way before many detail records of average folks were kept in Newfoundland , that I got some answers that I was looking for. His tombstone had recorded when, where and how he died. It was a watery grave for him. He drowned, along with his brother, in the Narrows of St John on September 19, 1846. This was the date of the “Great Gale” that took the lives of so many along the East Coast of North America, from Florida to Newfoundland . In Newfoundland there are ballards from 1846 describing the storm and the destruction of homes, schooners and lives lost. My  great, great, great, great grandfather was in his prime; his first and only child was eleven months old.\n\nAnd another tombstone, recorded the town, in Ireland , that another set of great, great, great, grandparents were from. It also had meaningful details of the family that created bridges of solid clues for me to dig deeper into the family tree. How grateful I was to have come across these tombstones, and I was enthusiastically ready to seek out more of them. Then a historian burst my bubble by explaining how lucky I was that I had ancestors with the financial means to have these tombstones, as all tombstones had been imported from Ireland or England . He explained how many people could not afford that and how many graves were marked with simple wooded crosses. He told me that he lived in a town, where even today, most of the graves were only marked with wooden crosses. How long would they survive? How long before the graves became forgotten?  How many of my ancestors have been forgotten because of wooden crosses. How much of my family history have I lost to time and the elements?\n \nIn my hometown, cemeteries are now going out of business as no one is being buried. The old cemeteries, with  tombstones of a few hundred years old, are trying to sell their cemeteries to the town, or the historical society. Cemeteries are just not profitable any more as cremation seems to be the choice these days along with a memorial service.\n \n \nOf course now we have digital records. Have you ever lost digital records? We like to think that they are permanent, but are they? We like to think we will always have access to them, but will we?\n \n I am creating hard copies of my family trees, while I have access to online data.  I am collecting as much information from tombstones and non online data while I can:  dates, stories, historical connections, autographs, correspondence, work done, photographs, maps….. so my descendants will know their family history, both the good and the bad.\n \nWhen we lose our past, we lose many treasures. Will you and your treasures be forgotten with time or deleted?  Will your descendants seek out who and how you lived your life to help and explain who and what they are?\n \nThe following poem is by an unknown author\n \nDear Ancestor\n \nYour tombstone stands among the rest neglected and alone.\nThe name and date are chiseled out, deeply on polished stone.\nIt reaches out to all who care, as it’s too late to mourn.\nYou did not know that I would exist, as you died, and then I was born.\nYet some of us are cells of you, though your flesh and blood are gone.\nOur blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.\n \nThe space you filled, dear Ancestor,\nmore than a hundred years ago,\naffects us today as much as those,\nyou left behind who loved you so.\nI wonder if you laughed, and loved.\nI wonder how you lived?\nI wonder if I smile like you,\n or have inherited with your wit?\nI wonder if you knew somehow,\nI wonder if you cared\nthat one day I would  find this spot\nand come visit you a bit?",
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      "body": "![Time and Coins.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX94tf66XGDa64bXChyjzAYwT2MJAZCDMqUVqDg1ouYk2/Time%20and%20Coins.jpg)\n \nAs wonderful as life can be sometimes it can also be unbearable, like when you lose your spouse to death.  It is not easy being a widower, so many deep wounds and suffering, many which may never reach the surface and yet be felt and come into play one way or another. I don’t think anyone can ever be the same after losing a love one from cancer, or in any way. Yet sometimes one must see through their grief and do what is right. I celebrate those who are suffering so and yet choose to ask questions, dig in and find the truth about the cancer industry. With all the propaganda about the cancer industry,  I am always so grateful when people decide NOT  to donate to cancer research which often just helps contributes more to the deception of that cruel and dishonest industry.\n \nI think people want, maybe emotionally need, to believe, when they are vulnerable after being told they, or a loved one has cancer, that the money behind the medical world  is pure and good and will do right by them.  It is always such a shock to find out otherwise; and it is often hard to explain to people, under their horrendous circumstances, the truth until they are strong enough, and willing enough to do the research themselves. People often are not strong enough to hear the truth, especially when it is the opposite of what they have always believed and just never questioned before.\n \nOther industries are just as bad too, except the consequences of other deceptive industries are not as dire as when you are fighting for your life, or that of a loved one. Yet  I often find the same issue in the grieving industry as I do the cancer industry, a lack of ethics….. in taking advantage of a person’s fear, vulnerabilities and ignorance by believing what they have been told.  I support those who have strong ethics and do what is right. I do not support people who deceive or steal from others.  Sometimes when people lose a loved one to death they are desperate for communication with them and are often drowning in their grief especially at the beginning when it is all so raw.  And there are people who will choose to take advantage of these vulnerable, grieving or desperate humans under the umbrella of grief therapy.  But instead of helping these people find their way, these people offering grief therapy by communicating with their loved ones who have passed over, instead, simply help them spend money they often don’t have.\n \nThere are groups in the grieving industry as well as the psychic medium industry who do help people in need, but there are more humans who will take advantage of a person in a vulnerable situation. Every one deserves to earn a living but at what cost to the majority of people in their communities? I resent “professional mediums,” who, sometimes, in my neck of the woods, will charge up to $350 or more for a half hour consultation with a grieving person. To me, that is stealing someone’s blood money. How long did it take that person to earn that money by trading their hours for dollars? The facts are, almost eighty percent of Americans are living pay check to pay check; so how many Americans can actually afford that type of fee….. be it a: doctor, lawyer or a physic medium’s fee? Are these professions only marketing to the twenty percent of the population who can really afford them…… unless they enjoy fleecing those who can’t afford them and yet desperately are seeking out their services? How vulnerable must one be, how deeply hurting must one be, how scared must one be who is so vulnerable that they are dishing out an outrageous sum of money from their budget or savings, if they are among the few that have any, in desperation for a half hour consultation with a psychic medium? I remember one Medical Doctor at a conference setting laughing, as he drank his wine and ate his cheese stating, “I can charge whatever I want because, as my colleagues all know, a cancer patient will always come up with the money somehow.” His fees were outrageous, and people mortgaged their houses, and that of their families in order for his consultations. Is that morally ethical? I once had a young college student tell me he didn’t need ethics because he was going into business and then politics. He said he just needed smarts and charm.\n \n I do think, if we have ethics, that it does matter how we earns a living. I personally don’t think anyone is worth $350 for a half hour consultation: not doctors, not lawyers and especially not psychic mediums.  When one’s fees are so much higher than what the majority of people earn in your area can afford, is your soul shining brightly for taking half ,or even all of what it takes them to earn in a week, for an exchange of a half hour of your time?  Everyone always rationalizes what they charge. A chiropractor will claim they need equipment for their office, a psychic medium might claim their work is emotionally draining on their bodies, and of course the oncologist gets…. what percent of all the chemo drugs they prescribe to their patients?  He so enjoys his $50, 000 vacations, yet never goes to the funerals of his patients who made those vacations possible for him.\nTruth, honest money, and an egalitarian respect for people’s lives, time, assets and work… will never shine brightly when almost eighty percent of Americans are living pay check to paycheck without having as little as $400 set aside for an emergency, while the few others will charge fees that the majority can’t afford,  feeding off the vulnerabilities of people who are sacred, vulnerable and desperate.",
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      "body": "![GirlonBench.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWn8mJkP7hbhbudLwHB36WdWHXsKJcHGK4dzTvPiY8wbC/GirlonBench.jpeg)\n \nOver the decades, I have listened to people speak of their feelings, hurts, and frustrations through their own eyes, needs and experiences, hardly ever, if ever, broadening their view of how their views, statements or actions affect other human beings. Most humans, from my observations, much of the time, are very egocentric. This is one reason, in my humble opinion, why there is endless conflict and perpetual war between some nations as well as within families, neighborhoods and churches\n \nI think most humans understand, to varying degrees, that living on earth is about balancing the complexities of life and all the relationships that are entangled in their life: from family, to enemies, to pets, to the environment, to conflicts of interests, and even to other dimensions. Life, and especially relationships and how one feels about themselves, is complex. I believe there is a time to be egocentric; a time to focus on oneself in order to heal, get clarity and get strong. But once one is healed and strong, it’s time to be more generous, compassionate and understanding by seeing situations through other people’s eyes. If a person never matures enough to get out of their egocentric vortex, and chooses to stay in their egocentric view and vortex of self focusing, life for them will perpetually be out of balance. It will lock them into an emotional prison of their own narrow view of life and situations that initially forced them into retreating into their protective shield of egocentric focus to begin with. Sadly, this perpetual mental prison they created for themselves, in an attempt to balance their emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical or perhaps even financial survival, starts to have the opposite affect. It is kind of like the premise that a little medicine will heal but too much of the medicine can be lethal.  \n \nA simplistic example, though still a very damaging one, could be the parent and adult child relationship.  Over the pass few decades, it has become more and more  an issue of how children, especially adult children, are showing less and less appreciation and respect for their parents. Often listening to these adult children of: 25, 35 or 45 years-of-age,  can be shocking to me, as they seem stuck in their egocentric vortex field of  the “me, me, me”  focus. On some issues, these adult children don’t appear to ever get strong enough, at least emotionally, to see life through their parents eyes. Some seem stuck at an emotional level of an eight or eighteen –year- old, brooding about some perceive or sometimes real injustice done to them that has sometimes been blown way out of proportion through the years. Memories are not always accurate, and at best can often be  very one sided and subjective.\n \nIt is indeed true that some parents have abandon their children, sexually, or physical abused their children, or did not provided their children with the basics needs of: a warm roof over their heads, food on the table, medical care when needed, an education, social opportunities, and letting them know that they were, and are loved. But most parents, at least here in America, did, and do provide these basic needs for their children; sometime at great sacrifice to one or both parents.\n \nSometimes the issue for the adult child seems so petty that I have to put on my kid gloves and take each step ever so carefully as to not step on a childish landmine of the adult child. An example might be when a thirteen-year-old girl reacts disrespectfully repeatedly, sometimes violently while calling her mother a whore, and how her mother doesn’t command respect because the mother would not buy the child a new outfit. This adolescent behavior is bad enough, but not to be shockingly outdone by the thirty-seven- year-old daughter who still holds on to “resentment” for the mother who refused to buy her new outfits when it was not needed, nor could not be written into the budget. A healthy adult grows into the understanding of why outfits demanded by them and other demands, in their teenage rage and meltdowns were not purchased; yet sometimes, shockingly, the adult child never matures to the level of coming out of her “egocentric me vision”  to realize the affect her disrespectful actions and rudeness had on her overworked mother. A mother, especially a single mother, who probably was trying to get the mortgage paid, the electricity paid, the phone and cell bills paid, the computer paid for, gas in the car, food on the table, car repairs, house maintenance, insurance, dental bills and a myriad of other bills, while juggling car pools, fighting children and figuring out how to be in three different places at the same time to meet her children’s desires and needs. Most parents, especially single parents deal with all of that, and a lot more while trying to carve out a little breathing time for herself, out of her 24/7  responsibilities making life safe for her children.\n \nShockingly for some, children can be bullies to their parents. It is not always easy being a parent to an out-of-control child, or teen. Parents are tested everyday to remain as calm as possible while their children have meltdowns under the most inopportune moments. How many times has a parent said no to their child only to get sass back and be reproached by their teen, as the teenager goes into attack mode for not getting what they want then and there. The amount of anger I have seen thrown at parents, relentlessly by some teenagers is scary, and yet, these same teens complain about the parents because their parents finally broke down under the pressure, and yelled back at them…  not a good thing, but understandable considering the circumstances as parents are human.\n \nMany of the stories I hear today are not what is familiar to me and my generation. Many times when these grown women complain about their parents, especially their mothers, not always, but often enough, I conclude that these adult women with “mother issues” are dealing with their own mental issues by refusing to grow up emotionally and see life outside of their own egocentric world. If the teen was a bully to their mother, one would hope by age thirty or forty, the adult child would not continue to be an emotional bully to their parent. Yet, how many adult women refuse to speak with their mothers or have limited contact with them simply because they have “childhood resentments” that may or may not be the parent’s issues but their own issues of expecting too much, or bullying their parent because they did not get what they wanted, when they wanted it?\n \n \nWhen my siblings and I were in our early teens, we were expected to take on more and more responsibility for ourselves each year as we got closer and closer to adulthood, and that included figuring out how to take care of ourselves. If we wanted anything extra beyond the necessities, we had to earn the money ourselves: yardwork, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, babysitting, pet-sitting, cleaning houses, and when we were old enough to hold down a part time job, we got a job. And the money we earned was used to buy what we wanted that was not in our parents’ budget. My parents may have gotten me shoes and sneakers each year, but if I wanted more expensive shoes then what was budgeted for, I saved my money until I could buy it myself. I would never throw a fit because my parents said no to me. I understood my parents worked hard, and that that their money went just so far and there had to be a priority for everyone’s safety on how it was spent. Some of my friends were lucky enough to get an allowance that they could save and use to purchase any extra clothing, electronic equipment or hobby equipment they wanted, but we never got an allowance. It was not my parents fault; their money just didn’t stretch far enough to give us an allowance. We understood that. We did not sass, insult, or talk back violently to our parents when they said no.\n \nMost parents work hard. Most parents will stretch their financial and emotional limits to give their children what they want, beyond what they may need. Sadly, there are some parents who drink too much, do not handle money well, are egocentric and would choose to take a vacation for themselves without considering, let alone first meeting, their financial obligation for their children’s basic needs; but gratefully those parents are in the minority. For the most part, most parents are responsible to their children and would walk through hell for them. The question becomes, do the children appreciate it? Do the children act in a respectful manner to their parents? I understand that the often tumultuous teenage years, and sometimes through young adulthood, children cannot see beyond themselves. Some have not learned how hard their parents worked to provide for them. They have not learned compassion, empathy or understanding, and are often stuck in the “me vortex” of resenting their parents for petty things, or for refusing to look at the parental frustration that they caused their parents.\n \nChildren can act out. Some children can more than act out and behave in violent ways. There have been children who have pulled a knife on their parents simply because the parent told the child to go to their rooms for being rude. Yes, that is an extreme case, and obviously there was some emotional instability in that child that needed professional intervention. But when adult children are still complaining about their mothers to me, generally I find the parent was doing the best they could in loving and meeting their parental obligations, and the angst that the adult child continues to feel toward the parent, is basically because the adult child, on some levels, emotionally never grew up; or they wouldn’t continue to blame and hold so much resentment toward the parent.\n \n So how much do you value your parents? How much do you understand what they went through for your benefit? How much do you understand what they sacrificed for you that went beyond their parental obligations? Were you a gentle child? Were you a difficult child… perhaps a little of both? Did you sass your parents? Did you insult your parents? Did you ever physically threaten your parents? Did you steal from your parents…lie to your parents… stay out after curfew? Did you ever make your parent worried sick because they didn’t know where you were? Did you refuse to get out of bed and go to school,… did you skip school, did you repeatedly refuse to do your homework? Did you ever forge your parent’s signature on a check, or make a call pretending to be your mother to get out of a class?  Did you do your chores regularly and help out around the house and yard? Did you ask your parents daily what you could do for them?  If you had pets, did you care for them, and clean out the litter box? Did you ever come home drunk…  smash up a car, or destroy their property?   Did the police ever knock on your parent’s door because of your actions? Did you use drugs?   How easy or hard did you make parenthood on your parents?  Most parents always forgive their children and never give up on them. Your parents took a risk and brought you into the world. You came with no instructions. The world is not an easy place, and your parents were responsible for your well being and development no matter the circumstances.\n \nRaising a child is the most important job in the world and the most demanding under the best of circumstances.  Factor in poverty, losing a job, medical issues, or single mothers chasing down father’s for child support, or the long list of other potential issues, and raising a child becomes exponentially harder. If your parent was sober whiling put your needs first, kept a roof over your head, food on the table, kept you in clothes and pointed out opportunities for you, consider yourself lucky. Look at the childhood you had and how many children in the world would have loved to have what you had.\n \nParenting is not easy, and sometimes a lot of guilt can come with parents when they feel they are providing a less than ideal childhood for their children. At one time, when I was working with young mothers of an affluent status, their biggest guilt they would confide in me was that they “yell and scream at their kids too much.” It is the exception to the rule of a parent not yelling ever at their kids, unless the parent only saw their kids for limited time periods. When I worked with parents, who had financially challenges, they too felt guilty for yelling at their kids too much. But if those kids were in a safe neighborhood, had sober parents, rich or poor, the kids would generally be fine. The ideal childhood does not exist.  The kids I worried about had parents who were drunks, addicts, sexually perverse,  put their needs first before their children’s, lived in a neighborhood that was not safe,  had limited access to food and appropriate clothing for their child, did not follow through on the  medical, educational or social needs of their child. So when adult children complain to me about their parents and their childhood, I look at their childhood for what they had, not for what they didn’t have and we go from there.\n \nChildren can’t be blamed for their actions as they grow up while trying to figure themselves and life out. But if you are thrity-five, or forty-five-years old, and you still have childhood resentments towards you parents, then maybe the issue is you, and not them? The majority of parents, especially the mothers will generally do anything for their children, while loving them unconditionally. Have you learned to love your parents unconditionally? Or, do you still need more help in emotionally growing and maturing to the point where you can have appreciation, respect, empathy, compassion, and understanding for your parents and what they went through to raise you?  Once you get out of the “me vortex” of viewing life, especially your view of your parents, you will find yourself living a much more balanced life, where you can receive more, while contributing  more to the world at large by bringing more love, understanding and compassion into a world that isn’t so nice to many people. If you can’t find it in yourself to love your parents, at least figure out why it’s emotionally healthy for you and everyone in your life to at least respect them. They gave up a lot to raise you.  And your Mother…..your mother sacrifice so much of her life for you, not the least was putting her health on the line to birth you.",
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