Among the Wildflowers

I died during childbirth. The reason I’m alive today is because a resident defied orders and continued the efforts to revive me…and I was brought back. Everyone else had given up. 28 years later he was present at my daughter’s birth.

Accidentally sent an email to a school about "Drunk or treat." Whelp.

HOA is evil

I'm over this week.

How do you explain this to youngsters today?

After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment declared that the right to vote could not be denied because of race. Yet a constitutional amendment wasn’t enough. Democrats played a major role in passing and enforcing Jim Crow laws, particularly in the Southern states. They found ways around the amendment to push black Americans away from the voting booth. Poll taxes. Rigged literacy tests. Grandfather clauses. Every trick imaginable to keep black Americans from the ballot box while allowing other Americans to vote. People lost their jobs, their homes, and sometimes their lives simply for trying to register to vote. They faced beatings, bombings, threats, and lynchings. But many refused to give up. Ordinary people showed extraordinary courage, knowing that demanding a basic constitutional right could cost them everything. My mother was a teenager when the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. In my own mother’s lifetime, many Americans were still fighting for the right to vote without racial discrimination. That history is not ancient. It is not distant. It is just one generation away from me.

FIND HIM.

AI. AI. AI. AI. AI.

Fall foliage has finally arrived in my corner of the world. 🍂 I need to get some apple cider in my tumbler and drive around to take some pictures.

Happy birthday ❤️

As the days grow shorter and the winter darkness settles in, maybe we can learn to see this season not as something to endure, but as an invitation to slow down. Winter is a season of calm. A time to rest without guilt, to savor the simple things, to make the soup, light the candles, read the books, and linger a little longer in the warmth of home. It’s a time to stock the pantry, gather what we need, prepare for the colder days, and tend to the quiet things that make life feel steady and safe. Nature doesn’t bloom all year. It retreats, rests, and restores. Maybe we’re meant to do the same. So let the darkness come a little earlier. Let the evenings be slower. Let there be fewer plans, softer lights, full cupboards, warm blankets, and permission to simply be. - Love, Judi Ann -

It’s 1992, and everyone in my family is still alive. We’re eating KFC and watching Unsolved Mysteries. I remember it like it was yesterday. And tonight I am wishing I could go back and tell myself just how precious those ordinary days really were.

In 1775, British troops marched toward Concord, Massachusetts, to seize the colonists’ weapons and ammunition. The result was armed resistance, bloodshed, and the beginning of the American Revolution. The colonists had learned a hard lesson. When a government fears its people, one of the first things it may try to do is take away their ability to resist. When the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, they had lived through that struggle. They understood the danger of placing all the power in the hands of the government. The Second Amendment was shaped by a fight for freedom and by the determination that the American people would never again have to depend entirely on the government to protect their rights. It holds the line between tyranny and freedom.

"Approved by FDA" means "we got paid enough money to pass this..."