Quit for Peace

First, let me say that even though I don’t know you, I probably will never meet you, I do, with all of my heart, love you. This is why I want you to live, not die, nor to live a half-life filled with regret and hatred of yourself, nor for you to kill other people. I, too, once believed in the greatness of the United States. I believed with a fervor that serving in the military was the highest calling I could imagine. I proudly served my country, until I started to see what was really going on.

I served on active duty from 1992-1996, during what I thought was peace time. I have never been so wrong. The United States military, along with NATO and the UN, had been engaged in 15 military campaigns in 4 short years. Some of these were humanitarian campaigns, but most were out and out shows of force and bombings of sovereign nations.

I started to realize the US Government tricks people into believing that nationalism is good and dying for your country is the highest honor. Is dying for a flag and leaving behind your family really the highest honor you could give? How about staying around to take care of your parents and/or children and wives/husbands? Who really benefits from your death? The US war machine does and it is the only one.

Young men and women, please quit for peace. You do not know how murdering others will haunt you for the rest of your life. Do you really want to murder someone just because they look different or sound different than you? All governments seek to divide people, this is the way they keep us under control and domination.

Older men and women, you also can quit for peace. You may know the difficulties presented when you believe you have to kill someone. You know the stress this places on you, which in turn places stress –on your family, your friends, and your colleagues. Save yourselves and the countless others that find themselves ground under the boot of the US war machine.

YOU do have a choice, you can choose to quit 4 peace. Make your stand and stand up for peace. We can achieve peace in our lifetimes if you take your place in history and Quit 4 Peace! Do it now, do it for yourself, do it for all humanity!

Movement for a People's Party Platform: Economic Bill of Rights

I have recently joined the team of Movement for a People's Party (MPP) and want to share with you the People's Party platform in a series of posts. This first post in on the Economic Bill of Rights. This was first posited by FDR as he asserted that we have a Bill of Rights that guarantees us certain rights, but that it is increasingly evident that to ensure actual security and happiness we need to add an Economic Bill of Rights. The MPP has incorporated this into the party platform.

The platform explains all of these key items in detail and I urge you to take a look for yourself at the MPP website  to read the platform in its entirety.

• Shorten workweek to 4 days
• Universal Basic Income
• Federal Jobs Guarantee
• Work and Retraining
• Repairing and modernizing infrastructure
• 21st century energy system
• $15 minimum wage indexed to inflation
• Ensuring paid maternity, paternity, family, sick and vacation leaves
• Guarantee affordable housing and rent control for all
• Reverse the consolidation of industries into trusts and monopolies
• Lift the cap on taxable income into Social Security and extend solvency to 50 years. 

* Medicare for all has its own platform section

Americans are in desperate need for a viable 3rd party that truly seeks to give us what we all want and need as we venture into this unknowable future. With your help we can get there. Note: this is an all volunteer organization. Thank you! 

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Caravan walking from Central America to the USA

Hello all my darlings! Yesterday I was challenged by a friend to put my money where my mouth is and try to help the refugees walking to the USA. So I rose to the call and started a group and a fundraiser on Facebook. I am hoping to expand this to a website and raise as much money and a network of people that will provide shelter and transportation to help these refugees. The group on Facebook is called Mutual Aid and Homes for Caravaners located here: Mutual Aid and Homes for Caravaners   It is a nascent group, and I have contacted several media outlets in the hopes of getting some publicity for the group. I also need a contact information for people at the border to help coordinate transportation, shelter and food, medical supplies, etc. This is a huge undertaking, but with all the loving people out there in this country, I know we can make it happen. Please join the group and join me on a Facebook live discussion on Monday, November 5th at 6pm PST. Lets show the Trump administration and the trumpsters that there are Americans with compassion and love for we are all one family, the Human Family!

Sorry for the Absence October 27, 2018

Hello all my beautiful people out there! I have been away from the blog for awhile. I was absent due to some situations that I have been trying to prevent. I found out a few months ago that the cancer has metastasized to my bones as well as to my heart. I took some time away to deal with the trauma of this news and now I am back after having to make some major decisions. Some dreams had to be let go of and some had to be borne anew. I have let go of my life coaching business as it had become too demanding to constantly try to find clients and build the business here in California. I may resurrect it again some time in future. I have decided to focus most of my time to Life with Metastatic Cancer. I truly feel that this is where I can help the most.

Back in September I had decided to do a month long juice fast program to try to stem the growth of the cancer, but it made me too sick from detoxing and I almost ended up in the hospital again. I had to realize that after the plueral effusion debacle, that I was still too weak to put my body through so much detoxing.  Plus my heart was overcome with anger and sadness while watching the Kavanaugh hearings. It brought up so much trauma for me in regards to sexual harassment and rape. I felt all consumed with rage and sadness for a few weeks. Seeing so many people I had respected come out against Dr. Ford really sent me around a bend. I expressed my feelings on Facebook live videos but could not write about it at the time. Thankfully with the help of my therapist and some lovely women I know, I was able to overcome the rage and sadness. There is still a lot of healing that needs to happen and forgiveness that needs to be done. I have lost much of my way since losing my marriage and moving to California.

Then there is the stress of my health and out financial well being. I ended up getting a part time job because we needed to buy a new car. Well, the car buying happened way sooner than we expected and that was a stressful couple of weeks. We did get a newish car, a 2016 VW Jetta.

Life with Metastatic Cancer #4 Medium

California Update

Hello my lovely darlings! I have been here almost one month. Today and yesterday have been murderously hot! I have been getting headaches from the heat, so I have not been able to do a lot of blogging and such, plus I have been busy buying furniture, trying to secure healthcare (such a different VA system here in Cali) and dealing with social security. But, we finally got internet and cable installed last weekend, so life is certainly getting better and better. And it was just in time for the World Cup! I have World Cup fever! I also went to my very first cancer support group meeting last Thursday. I was the youngest person there but what can you do? It helps to see others struggling as you are.

I have some projects that I am working on that I will reveal at a later date. So excited!

Update on playing soccer: had to postpone the training regime as I am weaker than I had anticipated and the move has kicked my butt more than just a little bit. I have other things I must work on, like getting used to the heat again, before I can proceed with the training regimen. Plus I need to get an update on my health situation as well.

Look for a new blog post weekly starting on Friday. I will be writing about a variety of topics, so check back regularly as things are about to get interesting!