Bohemian Valhalla: Controlled, Weaponized & Manipulated ~ Dystopian Times

I've now got a Week's worth of Unpublished Posts that will last thru the 20th, and it's only the 13th in Real Time!! Other than that I've been in a Motivational Stall again, dammit. My Birthday is the 16th, I know, I've mentioned it before, but, it's been on my Mind, since I haven't really contemplated what I wanna do for it, if anything? I probably won't do anything, since Finances are tight this Month. So much happened that was expensive and unexpected, but had to be a Priority. It happens. And you get to where you don't mind a quiet passing of another Year around the Sun. Old Age is a Privilege not afforded to many, so I don't mind getting Older at all, never had any Crisis about it Emotionally or Mentally. Every Day above Dirt is a Good Day I figure and beats the Alternative. I do Wake every Day with Positivity of Attitude. Until someone else might Wreck and Derail it. *Bwahahaha and Le Sigh* Above and Below is a SULLEN Tee I got from SAVERS, Love the Graphics and low Price I Paid for it, fits me like a Dress, but I like loose big Shirts now.

Of coarse by the time this actually Publishes I'll be another Year Older and can then Blog about whatever it is I did or didn't do. *Winks* Princess T is the only one who thus far bought me early Birthday Pressies and Surprised me with those NINE Fuggler Keychains she knew I liked and couldn't Find anywhere Offline. She made her Boyfriend Rusty drive around to several locations to Score them for me, Bless him, he must feel like her Personal Uber Driver sometimes? *Awwww and Smiles* Her Buying me an Instant Collection was a Rush, I kept pulling one after another out of the Gift Bag and it seemed each was Uniquely a Favorite. She said since she couldn't choose a Favorite either to Buy for me, she just Bought them ALL. *Bwahahaha, she is a Chip off the ole' Block like that!* Even with Finances she is like I was, she Hoards Savings and what she Earns, she is exceptionally disciplined about Money, almost Miserly. *Smiles*

The Kiddos get a kick about how I now hung those Fuggler Keychains all over the House, it makes everyone Smile, with their Goofy Faces with Big Realistic looking Human Teeth and Eyeballs that made them a Fad. They're not for everyone, and so, that's why they Appeal to me, I like the Weirder and Wonderful or stuff that Creeps most people Out best. LATER: We went down to the River and River Dog hasn't been back so I'm really very relieved and would Imagine someone took her Home with them now. That's what I Hoped for her, or mebbe whoever owned her came looking for her from one of the Farms/Ranches nearby, you just never know? I'm thinking the former, rather than the latter, since, clearly she'd given Birth to Pups, but, didn't have any with her. And I couldn't Imagine her abandoning her Litter, tho' they might have found Homes for her Puppies, or they didn't make it, I just don't know? I like to think of the more Positive Outcomes tho'.

We stopped by the Antique Mall to Tidy Up my Spaces, they weren't too disheveled coz The Sale had not Stimulated any Trade, which, I was skeptical it would. They should have just had 20% Off Everything, not just items over $25, which I only Sold One Item before the Sale that was over Twenty-Five Bucks, most Sales are Smalls that are less expensive and why nobody is making Bank, becoz nobody is Buying higher Ticket items hardly at all anymore. We have another rotation of Vendors leaving and new ones coming in constantly, retention is bad now. Not like the Old Days where we all had been there for the Long Haul, knew each other and formed Friendships and camaraderie. Now I don't even bother to remember their Names, no Point, they'll be gone before their Names set in enuf I'll not forget them. *LOL and Le Sigh*

I took some Pixs of Inventory in one of my Friend Michael's Booths and one of my Friends Jeff & Cindy's Booths. They both Rent a lot of Space and have great Merch. Cindy used to also be The Man's Nurse at the VA Clinic in Sun City before she Retired. And Michael is a Male Nurse for Palliative Care Patients. Michael always says it annoys him no end when folks in good Health complain constantly about all kinds of nitnoid trifles, becoz he finds that people with Serious Illness, intense Suffering, or even Dying, rarely complain at all. I am in Agreement and you see that with Socioeconomic demographics as well. The Poor won't complain nearly as much as the Affluent, who tend to Bitch and Moan all the time about so much, in spite of their Privilege, spoiled Comfort and Abundance!!! The same when you go to 3rd World Countries and don't hear complaining about serious Problems, not nearly the level of 1st World Problems complaining going on in 1st World Countries.

I sometimes have to remind myself that most of our Problems are only 1st World Problems for the most part. Yes, with this Administration things are regressive and threatening to undo all the Progress and Sacrifices that have been made over many Decades, to make us a once enviable 1st World Country. The ruination of what was Good about America is what I grieve most about. When we fail to be Good, we fail to be Great. So, we're NOT making American Great again with what's going on. It is the antithesis of Greatness to be Cruel, insatiably Greedy, and take a Country backwards into Archaic Times and erode Freedom and Rights of Citizens that were hard Earned and Fought for. Great Men and Women are easily recognized as such, the present Leadership has none.

The Kiddos and I have Collected some interesting looking River Rocks becoz The Daughter is doing that Project for me in some areas of the Property to lay down Sand and do a River Rock setting Mosaic of sorts into the Sand. We want to do that in front of our Wall, since the Gravel isn't working anymore, too much stray Grass and Weed keep springing up there and looks messy. So I'd rather have pretty River Rocks set in Sand, to look neat and tidy. We got some of the prettiest River Rocks, Wishing Stones and Hag Stones when out Rock Hunting Today. The Daughter, Mando and I brought about 100 Lbs. of them Home we'll use in our Rock Garden Mosaic Projects. I'll make Natural Hag Stone Necklaces out of those with the Natural Holes in them. Wishing Stones are like those Pictured Below, which aren't mine, but I have several very much like them I've Collected:

Hag Stone have a Hole in them and you can make Natural Jewelry of them. In Folklore, Hag Stone, sometimes called Adder Stone, or Glain Neidr in Welsh, have Mystical and Magical Qualities and can Ward Off anyone with Bad Energies so are used as Amulets for Protection, Luck and to Ward Off Evil. I am an avid Naturalist and my Naturalist Collections are Important to me. I enjoy looking for them and just about all the Kiddos enjoy looking for them too and Collecting Rocks, Stones, Crystals, Shells, Minerals, Sea Glass, etcetera. The Man's Parents did that too, so he understands a lot about various Minerals, Stones, Crystals too, even before he met me. It's great Family Time to do together and doesn't have to cost you anything. Tho', if you're a consummate Collector of such things you can Buy them too. We have some Rock and Crystal Vendors at the Antique Mall with fabulous Specimens.

I just found out via Social Media that the Guy that Murdered my Church Friend Truly in 1998 was just found Guilty of another Cold Case Homicide in Utah that had been Unsolved since 1991!!! So, apparently he is a Serial Killer, and if they'd Solved that Murder Case, perhaps my Friend would still be Alive. He's on Death Row in Arizona and I do Hope one day they execute him for what he did, which was one of the most brutal local Murders of the 1990's. She was Delivering Food Boxes from the Church to his Family, which had Four Children who Witnessed him Assault, Torture, Rape, Stab and Murder my Friend. His Wife was an Accomplice and she was supposed to receive a Life Sentence, but got Paroled, I think she only Served a Decade. She and the Husband were Crackheads, she went back to Utah to live upon Release. Utah is where that Cold Case Murder happened to another Woman!!!

I used to work the Food Ministry with Trudy, but I was in Vegas with my Welsh Uncle when she got Murdered. I never would make Deliveries, unless I personally knew the Client very well, like if it was an Elderly Parishioner from our Church who was now Housebound and couldn't come to get their Food Box. I never thought it was a good idea to make Deliveries to perfect Strangers. Many people are in desperate circumstances because of many reasons, you can't always know what the reasons and Back Stories are. Or what the people are really like and the Choices they have made that led to desperate circumstances like Food Insecurity and reliance on Charity. Desperate People can do desperate things. And a lot of Predatory Type People will view Kindness for Weakness and Target Good Samaritans, they can be expert Manipulators and Deceivers. We'd hand Food Boxes out at either the Church or other Secular Food Banks too, which felt Safer for the Volunteers, and that's how I participated.

To now know that the Monster who brutally Murdered her had done it before just 7 Years Earlier, and who knows how many other times they haven't discovered yet, was Chilling. And what if the Wife was an Accomplice then too, you just never know and she's back in Society now, where the other Murder occurred!!! One of the Young Son's DNA was also found in the Home of that 78 Year Old Victim's Home on some LEGO Blocks there, along with Sansing's DNA that finally Solved the Cold Case and linked it to the Arizona Case. He confessed to that Murder too and clearly brought at least One of their Four Children to that Victim's Home, mebbe even when he Murdered her too?! So, he and his Wife, Kara, were together then too... so I have to Wonder if the Investigation cleared her or being a Participant in that Homicide as well as Trudy's? Deeply disturbing. When any Crime(s) could have been prevented if the Perp had been Prosecuted for earlier Crimes, it's deeply disturbing.

That's what bothers me about the Epstein Sex Trafficking Case too, Decades earlier Victims had reported to the FBI what he was doing, he could have been Investigated then and stopped. He was given a Sweetheart Deal even Decades later, just like Maxwell has been given now, Why? I'm Guessing due to powerful Clients they were providing their Victims to, or who were also involved in the Trafficking or complicit in other ways, whose Names would be Named. It all reeks of a Coverup and I'm glad Pressure is being put on heavily now, it should have been Decades ago. Perhaps Hundreds of Victims could have been Spared. Perhaps influential People involved would have been Prosecuted and Locked Up for their Crimes and the Stigma of what they'd done ruin them. Of coarse we know adjudicated Sex Offenders are in this Administration anyway... so, clearly some Voters don't condemn Sexual Predators and will still loyally Support them and put those kind of people in Power.

Anyway, they Live among us so we've got to find a way to co-exist. Tho' it's quite evident their side would like to Purge America of all of the rest of us if they can find a way to without much, if any, pushback. I don't know that Harmonious co-existence is even possible when one side is so dead set on NOT being Harmonious? But, some might be more inclined to realize it's in everyone's best interest if America is United and not Divided? A House Divided against itself will fall. Only in Unity can we remain a UNITED States of America, otherwise, we're finished as a Nation. And we'll then be finished as a Globally Respected or Trusted Ally to anyone decent on the Planet. Few will want an Alliance with a Nation that cannot be Trusted or Respected, and who really wants to become a Global Pariah like Russia or North Korea due to their Leadership?

China has managed to remain a vital Global Trade Partner by providing what the rest of the World Needs, and inexpensively, regardless of Leadership. But America doesn't Produce enuf to be at an Advantage like that, we're Consumers not Producers, and what we Produce never comes at a Bargain to anyone. Well, except what we Produce that has Immigrant Workers Producing it at a lower Cost. And we can see the direction THAT is going by the wayside with Mass Deportations, mostly being done Illegally, and the discouragement of even Legal Immigrants and those on Work VISA's feeling Safe here anymore. Economists are sounding the Alarms loudly now but so few are paying attention of listening, becoz they either can't handle the Truth or are in Deep Denial and Believe the Spin and the Lies coming out of this White House. Yeah, keep Believing Tariff Taxes are good and Americans aren't actually Paying them. And that Big Business isn't being Extorted and Shaken Down to get granted Exemptions or delays granted in implementation of them. *Huge Eye Roll*

It's as if so many Americans are like Sleeping Infants oblivious of their surroundings and the World around them, and everyone is afraid to Wake them up, coz fussy Babies are inconsolable sometimes. But even Awake, an Infant is still oblivious of the World around them, becoz they haven't Matured enuf to even be Aware. So I don't really know how you'd get a Grown Ass Adult whose acting like one, to be Woke enuf to be Aware at a level of Understanding that they should be for their Age? I used to try to have the Adult and Civil Conversations to offer Explanations of what clearly was misunderstood, or with people running with low information. So they could try to find more reliable Sources for their information and Educate themselves out of ignorance or of being purposefully misled by unreliable Sources they were relying upon, usually exclusively. There are folks who still get all their News from Podcast Bros, Faux News, or Extremist Sources.

So, it turned out to be mostly pointless to expect to have any meaningful Dialogue... you cannot Educate someone unwilling or unable to Learn and who'd rather not accept Truths, becoz, well, mebbe they can't handle the Truth? And Need to therefore live in their Alternate Reality? Or are fully now Indoctrinated? Or have Extremist leanings themselves and so they are completely All In with Extremism, an Authoritarian Leadership, and Fascism? They want Democracy to be replaced and that is their Goal too? Who knows?

Mind Control is an insidious tactic. And some people are more easily Controlled, Weaponized and Manipulated, than others...