Month: November 2023

I Bet, You’ll Laugh!

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For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope today will be kind, peaceful, full of love & happiness, and a hearty meal or two or three.

I’m so thankful and grateful for this life to live, and I hope and pray that I’ll be given more of it to share love and spread joy to others.

Now … a little laughter-inducing Instagram reel for your holiday enjoyment!

An Update About My Eyes & A Poem

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I had my follow-ups yesterday for my eyes.

For those of you who do not know, I have keratoconus.

Not good news, but not horrible news, either from each visit …

So, my right eye is getting progressively worse; the focus will be to move forward with a non-invasive procedure called Corneal Collagen Cross-linking for it and reassess my left eye over time.

I go in for another follow-up in March and on that date, we’ll start preparing to get scheduled for the procedure.

The procedure will not cure me of my disease (it is lifelong), but it is supposed to stop my right eye from getting much worse.

I went to my optometrist afterward so she could go over what my ophthalmologist reviewed and had more testing done, and she confirms my right eye is an issue. I had another prescription done for my glasses and another set of scleral contacts ordered.

I’m tired from it all, but there’s no need for me to not do the procedure. I am terrified because of course, these are my eyes we’re talking about, but I don’t want my right eye to get much worse over time, either.

I’m not happy about having to have this procedure, but I’d rather it be this one than a cornea transplant (Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like!).

I am taking all of this in stride as best as I can and I am hopeful that next year will render better results for me. I will keep you all updated as to when the procedure date will be and how everything goes afterward (after the recovery and my eye heals up enough to do so, of course).

I still have some time before one last recheck, so I am going to bask in that fact and try not to make myself insane thinking about it all. Lol!

And now, a poem. A Tanka, to be precise:

Pictured Poetry created by Tremaine L. Loadholt

Right Is Right and Wrong Is Wrong.

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And when wrong has gotten out of control, people speak up!

Breaking things down professionally and respectfully.

When we are money-hungry and crave power over humans’ actual existence and well-being, many countries suffer; many people suffer. Death knocks on multiple doors and takes its reward.

Google Sudan. Research the recent occurrences in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Look up the history of Haiti. Your mind will be blown away.

Greed breeds power. Power breeds evil. Evil breeds the death of many to get back to greed.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has imposed sanctions on 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other “Russian terror”.


Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that the armed forces shot down 29 of 38 drones in an overnight raid. More than 400 towns and villages in the south, south-east and north of the country were affected by the drone attacks, including an oil refinery that was hit in Odesa.


Ukrainian troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnipro River, the military has said, a day after Ukraine claimed to have secured multiple bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.

The Guardian

I’m extremely over the overlord of Russia and his expectancies and over-elitist actions and presence, and he needs to be taken down several pegs.

It’s been nearly two years. I’ve one thing to say to him and any minions at his disposal, “Ain’t y’all tired yet?!”

Where is peace when you need it? Where is justice when it’s overdue? And why must so many fight to obtain both?! Why–because they’re tired, too. Doing right really isn’t hard.