Thoughts and musings

Nana's girl is growing up

and

still a delight!

A week in the D.C. area

and oh the sights and memories

along with the energy of the city!

Now back home to the sun,

the little 4 legged

who bark a nothing

but

to them it is everything!

The emails need answering,

a new program for the next speaking venue is under way,

and

I am ready to abandon listening to the news

and have my own

"media black out for awhile"

as I almost cannot bear one more story.

Prayers are going up to those

in California at the school

where chaos erupted

and a man with his gun

went berserk,

killing and harming students.

Another tragedy that appears to have happened

in a hot second

when people were just living their lives

in a building

a building that provides education.

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What is wrong with people?

This question has appeared more often in recent blogs and my mind than I can ever remember.

Here in Florida

we continue to await justice

in the

Trayvon Martin murder.

The world is standing up,

many are arguing, many are debating,

many more are fueling hatred, and spewing words of anger.

The stories are getting skewed,

the media is out of control,

and

now we are hearing more and more about how the laws of

"Stand Your Ground" need to be reviewed, need to be changed, need to be challenged.

While all that may be true or not true,

it seems that is not the issue at hand.

It seems to me the issue at hand

is the mismanagment

of a crime

from the beginning by that

Sanford PD

and

now that zimmmerman is in hiding and continued consult with attorneys

we still await

Justice.

With photoshop and editing abiliies

it appears that one should not be looking anymore at revised tapes and photographs.

Where is the justice in that?

...

But then again

a friend of mine has been writing her blogs

on

issues of disability

and those who "bilk a broken system" and begs the question of

"what has happened to the moral compass" of people.

I cannot help to wonder at times the same question, and yes for years I have also seen those who somehow slip through the system, receiving full tilt disability when they are no more deserving of those benefits than I am.

Yet I can full remember patients and friends who were truly disabled and yet were denied disability not once, not twice, but three times

as the emotional stress, the spiritual stress

contributed to their health and increased their pain and suffering.

There is something horrendously wrong with a system and those who manipulate it

to recieve a check. After being given benefits they then abandon their canes and enjoy the benefit while walking around town and goin up and down stairs when they could and should be working for a living.

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Chronic pain?

Most folks in the world have pain,

but is it the pain that takes you to your knees

and makes you think that you would have to feel better to die pain?

Many who suffer chronic pain

know that feeling, and most mentally healthy people would rather do anything than go through the rigors of attempting to get disability and live a life

that is restricted by illness and disease progression in order to claim and recieve disability.

For a profound read, I invite you to this blog

and my friends words,

I believe you  might be amazed.

Just click the link below,

subscribe to her posts, you will find her to be one of the most inspiring women you have known lately!

http://workthedream.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/have-people-lost-all-morals-and-honesty/#comment-3108

It certainly gave me pause,

and touched me deeply.

A complex topic

but one that is clearly worth getting riled up about.

I am hoping YOU are doing well today,

that

YOU are paying your gifts forward,

getting excited of all the possibilities and realizing that you have a voice!

Sing, dance, find your passion and exert it!

I've read where our

Oprah is again backing our President Obama this year,

but has said she is doing it from a distance,

as she is "busing saving a network" as in OWN her network!

If she would just holler at me, maybe I could help her with that... Oprah darlin, you have to get and keep it real out there in CA...

Anyone see those country music awards on t.v.?

What in the world?

Bring back the good ole' days

and the country music awards for goodness sakes.

After all it was Emmy Lou Harris' birthday

yesterday,

so maybe they should have made the

country music awards

all about

COUNTRY MUSIC?

Just sayin...

Now that is

country music at its finest.

And yet that little girl Taylor wins yet again?

She only made 34 million dollars last year,

and still all her songs sound the same.

go figure.

And at last we have those politicians

and if that is not enough to make you just

wanna listen to music vs. the news I just do not know what would.

Money/Religion/Smear Campaigns/Lies/Deceit

rather sounds like a soap opera

and yet it is the next leaders

of our country.

How bout,

JOBS/HOMES/GAS/TROOPS HOME/HEALTHCARE/SECURE/EDUCATION/TAXES

pOLIticians out of womens vaginas?

I mean c'mon now...

This is 2012

and really,

do you really think we need a man in an office to tell us what we can or cannot do or choose for our lives?

And why are they preaching at us?

Stop preaching at me,

and while at it,

tell your people I am on the

DO NOT CALL LIST

so stop blowing up my phone.

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I hear there is a fierce snow fall in

Colorado today

while here in Florida the sun is beautiful

the warmth and spring is on!

So now that I've shared my thoughts and musings,

I'll leave you with a vision of beauty to fill your most remarkable brain!

....

Oh yes, I can tell I have to have a media black out for awhile.

Take best care friends,

don't take any

"wooden nickels"

Walk in Beauty,

DRSES

www.sherryeshowalter.com

for speaking inquiries

I look forward to hearing from you.

"Oprah, I'm still waiting for YOU"! LOL