https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/Recesses; ancient, modern - in a chapel or cottage, grass hut or palace..hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/707679The days of remembering love, peace and goodwill be upon us, but when I absorb the world noise and slices/slivers of such, I fear the bad guys are winning - hate and his bitter sides - prejudice, hypnotic ignorance, war...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/707288As the seemingly solo progressive and a once active blogger, feels a bit chilly around here nowadays. (exceptions - wonderful and real folk such as Kabu, Wiley, Sam, Ariala, FSI, TAPS, CC, BCA and Amanda) There isn't much appetite for debate on this site. A few take the efforts personally, though...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/707124Invasions, occupations theft, repression, slaughter of the innocent gives rise to hatred and extremism an arc sunless, soulless, hopeless frozen in a power to devour us all but I fear not, angst no more - there is peace of truths seen through the vision of a strength creating each day-star, lunar...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/706858Amy is home, feeling some better but not back to normal yet. Waiting on results from a couple of tests - could be her gallbladder (good call, Doc Ariala..:) I am a bit run down, breathing fair, blah emotionally, probably from being out too much in cold, dreary rain - the sky has been blanched...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/706600Asking for thoughts and prayers for my beautiful daughter, Amy. She has been having stomach pains and nausea for a couple of months, went to her doctor and was told it is nothing serious. She had her appendix removed several years ago, so we know it's not that. She got really sick yesterday,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/706402Thankful, that I've never had the inclination to be filthy rich. I have sought not having to worry about money - but to crave wealth to the point of deliberately harming others, over and over again is a sin I've escaped. Then I learned there are worries and there are real worries - such as having...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/706269Not a cent of my money is tied up in the stock market or under the control of the big institutional gamblers and never shall it be again. The get rich quick aspects of stock trading are for the most part illusionary; short term gains are enticing and exciting but can be erased overnight by the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/706091I agreed with the basic and beginning ideas behind the Tea Party movement - that the U.S. is in destructive debt because of the reckless spending habits of those who were in power and our current, business-as-usual leaders -wars which should/could have been wrapped up a long time ago but they...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/705978Censored, confused and hurt today, nearly packed up and went away then you appeared just before I closed the door as you do when I need a mirror (chin was low...)) and reminded me why I am here and shall never leavehttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Raye09/705941The Republicans don't have serious or viable candidates for the presidency because when government is finally drowned in that fabled bath-tub (per Grover Norquist - neo-conservative, arch anarchist, whose agenda most, if not all Republicans support and have signed onto - literally) there will be...