I like the horn. It sounds beautiful. For some reason.
CAKE - "Never There (Official HD Video)"
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Painful to feel like too many people don't care enough about others' experiences.
"‘Unending nightmare': LA family details 120 days in ICE detention in Texas
Maryam Tahmasebi, a professor at Los Angeles Pierce College, her husband Eissa, who is also an educator, and their 16-year-old son — all permanent residents of the U.S. — were detained by ICE in April"
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-family-120-days-ice-detention-texas/3929904/
What makes some people choose to be so callous?
I think there must be something about being traumatized by the Patriarchal Culture that makes some people behave in certain ways, as though they really want to feel like that's the best they can do, and lately, I feel like I really just can't believe that it is, because it just feels like it's not.
At least some people are interested in what's happening to others, and they can express it, too.
"A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported"
"This was an incredibly hard read"
riseabovejusticemovement
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcJojN0stq_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-teens-left-ice-deported-parents-rcna592908
O Humanity....
People can be better.
"My opinion. Yours may vary."
mainandvine
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKOI98COts/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"This is heartbreaking and absolutely should not be happening"
agirlhasnopresident
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKgKM9xGQJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
So many other choices...
Why do some people still choose meanness when they have so many other choices available to them?
Monday, August 17, 2026
Feelings at the bottom of a shaved ice cup.
I did enjoy the dessert, but I don't enjoy feeling let down when I can see the potential of how humans can be, and then I start to believe it's going to be that way, and then it becomes clear it's not going to be that way right now cuz people need more time, but I can't tell what they need - days, months, years or lifetimes.
There's still a few minutes of daylight, so maybe I should go outside!
"She can pick your grapes, but..."
karipinenimd
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJwszNPWL1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Have a great day, comrades!"
custom.made1968
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbQitn8hrIy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"An update on my nephew"
kurtbraunohler
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcHug0SsnXK/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
How come an unwell Patriarchal Society has harmed so many people?
Because there are actually some men and women who do fit in better with the standards of the Patriarchal Society.
And some of them decided it felt easier or more empowering for them to just go along with certain groupthink dynamics and cult mentalities because that brought them a measure of security and comfort and self identity.
So, some of the "good" people ended up going along with stuff that ended up being pretty harmful to a lot of other people in the long run, just because they got short-term gains from going along with it.
They decided not to have very much empathy for other people who didn't fit in so well with the system.
It's good that not all people had the ability to go that way, though, because that is really not a sustainable way to live or to treat other human beings.
Patriarchal Society is NOT well.
"I got a hold of the manual for the shock gloves"
icrochetfrogz
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcHttp-FPB5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"No. Like. Nope."
k.w. bogen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKB3nBqSen/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Man math > boy math"
stay.at.home.tom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJlRrRxzwZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
54321 time to go outside
"Me being super helpful"
conversationsfromtennessee
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9SNdcBpxe/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"this is sadly not a made up story"
kandycocktail
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaD0UBiBZNY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"She doesn't speak South Jersey"
short_legs_4_u
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DanFtp0xE7h/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Please don't do that."
sirarthurmeows
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbh0ZtwCGvQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"i'm not leaving"
9gag
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXVZJBckaW6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Getting older...(To the tune of "Getting stronger 🎶"?)
"come see my show"
mollmclea
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DST1NBNk4-u/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"how terrible 😥😥😥"
jessb__716
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbgKNTHsog0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Blinked and suddenly I'm in my Señora era"
daliaelichavez
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da0p3-qQdSL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Throw is being inflammatory again.
"Sorry queens I'm reposting this"
mollmclea
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKSVMbjPZaS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oops! I meant to say thorough.
Tho rough is being inflammatory.
Thoreau. Is dead. So maybe it's a spirit.
"Best known for Walden"
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbygtUKDiRj/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Ha! Ha! Ha! 😂
"Based on a true story."
girl._.stahp
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbOXYU8uf5X/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Evolutionary biology"
mollmclea
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ0m8xMSipE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"please don't"
letsdoubledutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXULS9HCCco/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What a something something something.
"stable people hate me"
westofkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJH2oWuKoD/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Hello fellow human"
westofkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJhg_rOm84/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"At least I mopped grandma's sidewalk"
westofkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJ2MYwpYLg/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Don't feel so bad about perimenopausal weight gain in the mid 2020s.
Just see it as being pregnant with the ghosts of the terrorized.
So weird to switch between something almost a bit humorous like this, and videos of another woman getting kidnapped by ICE.
" Giving my husband the 'Girl Training' I got."
"If he had been carrying the keys between his knuckles..."
kelsewhatelse
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbwRw_8KrIy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Lock the door"
kelsewhatelse
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0xrWRKqQq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I don't care if it was daylight"
kelsewhatelse
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcHyW-8Kfv4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
They are very good to those of us in human bodies sometimes.
Time to reunite with some of the healing properties of the water elements.
Food Mood. Having access to healthy food is important.
"30-Day No-Sugar, Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plan for Beginners"
https://www.eatingwell.com/30-day-no-sugar-diabetes-meal-plan-for-beginners-12037459
What happens in Part Four?
Part One:
I think the way you treated me was discriminatory and sexist.
Part Two:
Patriarchal people who hate talking about problems react by getting more discriminatory and sexist.
Part Three:
A housekeeper gets kidnapped!
Seriously, why not? Especially if housekeepers get harder to come by.
If you're one of those men who've been pampered more by this patriarchal society, why don't you get some male and female friends who aren't always catering to the patriarchy?
I know I've been a man before in another life.
"And may I say it's been a great honor to experience this particular body and this lifetime, so I know exactly how you treat people when they're not born into the kinds of man's bodies that you're always acting like you prefer, because that's what the patriarchal society trained you to do."
This is somebody's daughter or mom or babysitter or sister or friend or other category of human being.
She does not deserve to be kidnapped in broad daylight with your tax dollars. She deserves better.
"THIS..."
jcfrias
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcH-OM8tri8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Apparently, this is what happens when people get bad at thinking of others.
"'We're not busy anymore'"
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/yDhnSCg73e
"Trump: I don't think about..."
@CNN
https://youtube.com/shorts/6Ha2aiYMoNA?si=wNEQyfTEd7pBRMkw
Bleach! Okay, get it out, I guess.
"These are the kinds of people my cult trained me to discriminate against and dehumanize more."
"This is how you should act if you want to trigger my discriminating against and dehumanizing other human beings response patterns."
Sometimes, it's not worth it to "fit in" better with other people.
But apparently, I'm not supposed to care, just because some privileged people are too uncomfortable with looking at / acknowledging what's going on?
Kindly grow up.
"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than 'politics.' They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters."
Quote by Naomi Shulman: “Nice people..."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8201162-nice-people-made-the-best-nazis-my-mom-grew-up
Just another step on a Healing Journey.
Inner Voice:
"And this is why the movie 'Escape from Sobibor' traumatized you so much in middle school, and you went home sick and didn't come back for days, and you started being able to tell that a bunch of people at your school were the kinds who could become like Nazis or like accomplices to people who were similar to the Nazis."
Quote by Naomi Shulman: “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up...”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8201162-nice-people-made-the-best-nazis-my-mom-grew-up
I feel like I've got to remind myself to get more curious.
Wow! What would things have been like if you had been born into a different set of dynamics or circumstances? What would things have been like for you? If you had been born into a different body, how would Society have shaped you? What would you be like?
But that's okay because maybe something new and better is on the way. We'll see if we get to it in this lifetime or not, but it's coming at some point!
If you have to abandon so many people in order to feel safe and good inside your bubble then you've got a very fragile setup and it's not going to last.
Well, what happens to everyone when the bubble bursts?
I guess people who want to join cults don't want to know the truth because they want to live inside of a little bubble.
So much punishment, just for trying to get the truth out to people!
"ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him into Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days behind Bars with a Festering Wound."
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/
Well, my opinion about some eldest daughters paying more attention to kidnapped housekeepers is this...
Maybe some of the eldest daughters were trained to pay more attention to the kidnappings of housekeepers because if all the housekeepers get kidnapped, guess who's going to have to do all the housework???
But anyways, I really don't know, cuz most the time we didn't have housekeepers when I was growing up. But after my mom married my stepfather, sometimes they did hire some people to clean the house. It was just a few times that I can remember.
Well, you know what I think about this saying...
When I heard a proud mom proclaiming that she had "made her daughter from scratch..."
You certainly had access to a lot of resources, didn't you?
So if there's witchy women, and you know that there are, are there also witchy children?
Have the "witchy" women and / or the "witchy" children gotten equal access to any of the cookies lately?
Why did the old-fashioned villagers have to act like that?
Why is the "witchy" woman such an easy one to pigeon hole or to treat as a "bad" person?
I think it's patriarchal training that got put inside of so many brains at impressionable ages and never got completely examined.
Humans deserve better. Tell the snobby people they do. It's just a fact.
"Bay Area asylum-seeker returns home after nearly a month in ICE detention"
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-asylum-seeker-returns-home-after-ice-detention/
Making protein shake discoveries. 😊💪🏾🥤
It's very expensive to buy a big container of protein shake mix. So I decided to try some sample packets which come in grams. On the bigger container, it says to add one scoop to your drink. Well you know what one scoop is? It's like a quarter of a cup! That's a lot of product. So if you want it to taste like it tasted in the sample packet, you probably have to add a quarter of a cup of the product to the liquid.
Do any of these look fun to make?
"20 Low-Calorie, High-Protein Dinners Ready in 20 Minutes"
https://www.eatingwell.com/low-calorie-high-protein-20-minute-dinners-12034538
Maybe the higher realms think our egos are very funny.
The little meanies.
I mean, not only was it not appreciated when I was trying to get a message from a higher source to other people, but mean little things were said about it too.
Sigh. That's the block I'm dealing with.
Tranquil in a good way thoughts...
Sometimes, some people are better at seeing the things you're going through and all the information you're sifting through. Sometimes, those people are spirits, too.
The styles and colors are cute.
I like clothes a lot more this year.
I like flowers in fields.
Very nature-y.
Very creative.
Perhaps everything is very guided.
People can learn much from certain kinds of lessons. Maybe the lessons are not mistakes at all.
Spirits are more relaxed than anxious little humans are.
Maybe in the spirit world, a couple of years feels like a couple of weeks or something.
I bet people could make vegetarian or vegan versions of these sandwiches, too, these days.
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Violet Mersereau"
https://moviessilently.com/2017/08/31/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-violet-mersereau-sandwich/
"This sounded like a fairly acidic combination. I tried to ascertain whether Americans ate more green or black olives in 1915 and found this article stating that the east coast was obliged to eat green while California enjoyed black. The reason for this? The east coast imported their olives from Europe and unripe green olives traveled better. (At least according to the article, I have no clue how to transport an olive further than from the grocery store to my home.) California was an olive-growing region even back then and the shorter transport time meant that ripe olives were easy to obtain.
With that in mind, I decided to be historically accurate and as I live in California, I opted to use black olives. (But do read the olive article, which puts the existence green olives down to a conspiracy by Latin nations.)"
"California Cultivator"
A Tale of Multiple Realities.
"La Jolla Restaurant on the Water" | The Marine Room
Enigma - "Sadeness - Part i (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw&si=uaPGlJTDy0tLNls8
"JUST TERRIBLE. AMERICA IS NOW A DICTATORSHIP"
mortensivertsen262
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcGOw_1MaNc/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"If anyone recognizes this woman..."
officialarturoo
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcB0d_DzAyD/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I think food is a very important experience that can be collectively appreciated. That's one thing. Know thyself.
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Violet Mersereau"
https://moviessilently.com/2017/08/31/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-violet-mersereau-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Lillian Gish"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/10/15/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-lillian-gish-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Theda Bara"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/07/10/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-theda-bara-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Beverly Bayne"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/09/03/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-beverly-bayne-sandwich/
Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: Clara Bow’s Vanilla Marlow – Movies Silently
https://moviessilently.com/2016/12/08/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-clara-bows-vanilla-marlow/
"You can make any flavor"
bdylanhollis
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCrC8fOiwZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
CAKE - "Never There (Official HD Video)"
What do I really need to do?
I feel like just telling me what I need to do in order to be listened to more by certain kinds of people is a good starting point. What do I need to do?
Another brave soul triumphs over the systemic patriarchal oppression. Kidnapped housekeepers no longer living in La Jolla are next...
"'I had to learn how to be a feminist’:
Greg Dulli on surviving grunge, shunning misogyny, and Afghan Whigs’ glorious return
With a soulful sound and soul-baring lyrics, the Afghan Whigs rode the post-Nirvana boom to the big leagues. Their frontman explains his exploration of the male ego – and how Usher got the band back together"
Something positive is possible.
If you let go of the possibilities that seemed so appealing yesterday, you make room for new possibilities!
Because their choices and their actions and their words say a lot
"Who do you think is a worthwhile type of person to consider and how did you come to that conclusion?" is a question some more people could ask of themselves.
I want to go back to sleep but this is my coping mechanism right now.
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Violet Mersereau"
https://moviessilently.com/2017/08/31/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-violet-mersereau-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Lillian Gish"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/10/15/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-lillian-gish-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Theda Bara"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/07/10/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-theda-bara-sandwich/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: The Beverly Bayne"
https://moviessilently.com/2015/09/03/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-the-beverly-bayne-sandwich/
The cat maybe had a hairball and wanted to go out and she doesn't want to come back in yet. I'm yawning and I have very watery eyes and I need to go back to sleep now.
Oh, I think I want to try making this recipe.
"You can make any flavor"
bdylanhollis
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCrC8fOiwZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: Clara Bow’s Vanilla Marlow"
https://moviessilently.com/2016/12/08/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-clara-bows-vanilla-marlow/
"Cooking with the (Silent) Stars: A Modern Look..."
https://moviessilently.com/cooking-with-the-silent-stars-photoplays-cook-book/
It's just more processing of stuff that's coming up, okay...
"Pay attention to why groupthink punishes certain people. Please pay attention to how groupthink punishes certain people."
I fell asleep drinking tea made of blue lotus flowers.
Now I'm drinking the remnants and it tastes like burnt marshmallows.
But maybe not you; maybe somebody else, instead?
"Sometimes I feel really gate kept by yooou..." 🎶
"But it's just me. I'm gatekeeping myself, maybe?"
Just gotta process some more feelings from some situations again.
I'm never as good as the crowd you want to please. I'm never ever ever as good as the crowd I want to please. (What is this about. I am being so silly.) Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum...
CAKE - "Never There (Official HD Video)"
Cheerleader style repetitive stuff.
Why can't you talk with me? Why can't you listen? Why can't we talk about these things? Why why why?
I feel alarmed about what's happening, and my feelings seem reasonable to me.
"JUST TERRIBLE. AMERICA IS NOW A DICTATORSHIP"
mortensivertsen262
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcGOw_1MaNc/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And sometimes the worst thing is how easy it is for life to make it harder for people to talk to one another about important things.
Sunday, August 16, 2026
I need grounding.
About to go up the mountain and feeling like I need more stability to not feel dizzy and nauseous. Grounding. Good.
To the mountains! I might be thinking about this off and on all day.
"It is so weird to me..."
fiona_travels_solo
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_BHHhtg4b/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's weird. I can tell it's weird...
Sometimes I feel most interested in what actually happened with some people's moms rather than in their forgiveness of her or their feelings about their suffering or their artistic abilities to express themselves about their experiences.
Too much Sadeness.
"If anyone recognizes this woman..."
officialarturoo
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcB0d_DzAyD/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And only sometimes, mind you. Not all the time!
Was it bad to be more interested in some people's mothers than in their feelings, sometimes?
"International Woman's Day and Mother's Day..."
dinam1kh3y3v4
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcFQv5HRNyv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I believe in karma."
catladiesforamerica
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcFhlozykP7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I want to see this show in real life someday!
"Video of the Week: 'Willkommen' from Cabaret!"
@olneytheatre
My dreams were very weird.
"Norm Macdonald Make-A-Wish Funeral Story"
kylecan4418
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rf3FXXAesu0&si=YsPCSbx0XPExfjz6
My dreams involved kittens going down holes, screaming help and people couldn't seem to rescue them, so they threw treats down the holes at them and eventually the kittens stopped screaming. That was not very comforting. But the people were still trying to do something nice for the kittens, so I guess that was good???
A staying at home mindset envelopes.
When you get invited to go up to the mountains for the day, but maybe you'll stay home and lie in bed in the fetal position, rocking back and forth occasionally. Oh and press your palms into your eyes while you're doing it. That's even better.
I felt like someone dressed herself up as a nun and yelled down, Hey you can be quiet. You don't have to do so much.
"Eyes that make mine..." 🎶
"La Vie En Rose"
kmyaclarinet "Clarinet x Guitar"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCJOr_Sd2K/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Not yet...not yet...but perhaps someday...
A half hour of this Allison character, and a half hour of that Allison character.
"Kevin Can F**k Himself" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Can_F**k_Himself
"A Good Person" - Wikipedia
My cat is being very relaxed and cute and stretchy.
Flaunting her exquisitely balanced nervous system that hasn't gotten traumatized by any of the humans she lives with. Like she knows how to do all the stretching and napping and kitty cat yoga that she needs.
Humans have bodies and reactions to situations and words and thoughts and feelings.
Experiencing difficult situations in a human body can very humbling.
It's totally different than when you read about something in a book, and you think you know exactly how you would react.
I have an August 2025 missing person memory coming back to me.
I remember that at some point last summer in August, a helicopter was flying around with a voice talking to the neighborhood on a loudspeaker and my husband said they were looking for missing elderly woman. And it really got under my skin. I was very freaked out about it. (And now I think I might know why.)
And the reason I remember it was that I was telling somebody about it a few days later, and then they told me about this other missing person situation that had been happening locally:
"San Bernardino County sheriff's searching for baby boy reported missing in Yucaipa" | abc7news.com
And that was one that got more famous. But I never heard anymore about a missing elderly woman again. My husband believed that a missing elderly woman was being spoken about when the guy was talking from the helicopter.
So, since I never heard anything more about it, I thought, well, the missing elderly woman must have been found.
It's amazing the effect that a little bit of fear can have on human beings and their bodies, isn't it.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
These things happen because people are insensitive. Pray for them.
"Wife of US soldier released from federal immigration custody
Maisa Lopes Eliaser said she is still struggling to sleep and is afraid she will be sent back to the detention facility, where she said she was treated like 'an animal.'”
Ah, the glory of experiencing your own humble human existence!
When you feel like things have been messed up for quite a while, and then you feel like things are starting to finally come together, and then you just feels like everything's messed up again.
Oops, that was an accident.
A new way to be hard on clothes.
Must have been some ash fallen from an herbal smoke that burned a hole. I bet my ancestors did this.
Mean people, l guess.
"Salvador Ramirez Arevalos had never attended an online immigration hearing, so the session, held on Google Meet, seemed official to him.
His purported immigration attorney, a man named Mariano Fernandez Hidalgo, the one he’d been paying thousands of dollars to help him land a “green card,” was there, wearing a gray suit, yellow tie and black horn-rimmed glasses.
Then there was a young-looking man in a goatee and mustache, wearing a black judge’s robe and sitting in front of a large seal of the U.S. Department of Justice. Speaking in Spanish, the robed man identified himself as the “consular official in this legal process, Eduardo Cruz.”
With an authoritative tone, the man told Ramirez, 30, a Mexican immigrant with family ties to Sonoma County, that he was in the final stages of his legal immigration process.
After years of working in the United States with a restrictive but legal visa for agriculture workers, Ramirez had invested his hope and hard-won savings as an orchard worker in the prospect of finally becoming a legal permanent resident.
In the end, it was that hope — and the isolation that makes so many immigrants vulnerable targets for fraudsters — that blinded him to what he has since been told was an extensive and elaborate scam.
In all, he lost about $18,000 — money he paid to Fernandez for legal help that never, in fact, materialized. And, more difficult to quantify is shattered trust in the process he’d begun to gain permanent legal residency in the U.S. The experience has left him feelings waves of depression."
~ Martin Espinosa and Raquel Issenberg
"Nightmare scam for farmworker with Sonoma County ties underscores dangers immigrants face seeking legal help"
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/08/sonoma-county-immigrant-scam-dangers/
Who does this?
"Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar"
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-scams-complaints-doubled-ice
Be aware that if you're not doing exactly what the cultural paradigm expects or wants...
a very hostile experience may await you, even to the point where they would rather hear lies.
Very very challenging physical realm experience.
I think it's easier for spirits to be patient and wait for people to be ready for information or ready to wake up more than it is for a human being.
Things are weird. People need to nap more.
Started having little smatterings of memories about some places.
RPI in NY. I went there!
I was looking up orphanages cuz I remembered seeing one. But I was in a car. Some adults pointed at a fancy building and said, that's where the orphanage was.
Because they've got enough on their plates to deal already, eh?
If artists have to be "monsters" in order to be successful artists, then maybe the oppressed people don't need them.
"I'm Really Good at Flirting" | Milan Patel
Or maybe they just need some artists who aren't monsters to help.Patriarchal society is just so incredibly selfish sometimes.
I feel like when more people get better about talking about different kinds of topics that they still don't really want to talk about, fewer women will be relegated to the "mad woman in the attic" sphere.
Not exaggerating.
Literally I've been relaxed and tranquil and then suddenly something breaks through and I hear a bunch of children screaming and I'm like, Oh, I think that's coming from a Detention Center. I think they're anguished.
Lists...
"My heart goes out to the people inside"
joycehayashidtla
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_o6s_SLIO/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
People who don't ever hear kids screaming about the awful living conditions psychically have easier lives.
"Wow, what a disgrace."
i.am.neiko
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcDmy9aqwi1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Crappy men..."
stay.at.home.tom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db82hB8uWen/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"All the customers must be staying home"
rearseatrobert
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db5zybTAHeO/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I think some people's friends are more charming when they're not acting like this! Creeps!
"'Devastating’: bulldozers plough through Big Bend national park as Trump’s border work pushes ahead" | Texas | The Guardian
"Donald Trump, 80, Thirsts Over ‘Young, Beautiful Girls’ in Creepy Rant"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-80-thirsts-over-young-beautiful-girls-in-creepy-rant/
"Trump shows no sympathy for USS Lincoln sailors" | READER COMMENTARY
"Sade, dis-moi." 💘
Marcello Hernandez - "White people feel sad about immigrants being thrown over the wall 😂🤣"
https://youtube.com/shorts/JFWMlbGvnI0?si=LTowQzpCrDkcp3jM
Enigma - "Sadeness - Part i (Official Video)"
I think this documentary about grief looks very interesting to watch.
"Sara Bareilles: Good Grief" Documentary Trailer
Peter moved in this month! No wait. Sorry, that was last month.
This AI summary is inaccurate and does not match the diary.
"Full text of 'Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl'"
I had a mashup moving visual media thought when I was swimming peacefully yesterday.
A half hour of this Allison character, and a half hour of that Allison character.
"Kevin Can F**k Himself" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Can_F**k_Himself
"A Good Person" - Wikipedia
I can't believe I just keep on living.
My front tooth got knocked around. My #8 crown is wiggly now, and I don't think it's fair.
Moonstruck (5/11) Movie CLIP - "Ronny Lost His Hand"
Being musical.🎼 😇🎶🏆🪽
💖🌠
😻🎵🤩
"Feed me your data"
gordonmitch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_kXhaBzc9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Please stop apologizing for having the best features"
devondaymoretti
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db_Ac2ft4nA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"sometimes the habits you're frustrated with now actually make a lot of sense"
heal.with.irene
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcCA8o-ATgc/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"My heart is heavy"
anoushkalucasmusic
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcDoX5TtZ2Q/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What is PCOS? It's a syndrome that's gotten a new name recently.
Well, I'm glad that my tall thin blond European heritage friend and her shorter and also thin Mexican heritage friend and myself of the PCOS not thin heritage had fun the other night. Like, the witchy in a good way and getting chills kind of fun. That was really very fun!
You can die an ego death without dying an actual physical one.
You can have the spirit of someone who's died in a physical form be more friendly to you than a human being who hasn't died yet. Weird, huh?
Friday, August 14, 2026
Maybe it will be fun to tune into a Golden Girls episode one of these days...
I keep trying figure out when it's a good time to try to travel to South Carolina. I want one of these elephant ear bird baths my sister made. I don't know if I could fit it into a suitcase. It seems too big.
The hospice in home (or apartment) project in Michigan sounds like a big endeavor to oversee, requiring the coordination of many people who didn't always find it so easy to get along in the past, but it sounds like they're getting along better now.
The water element has been very calming and balancing today.
I asked the universe to help me believe that more benefit will come out of having a calmer nervous system. It's been so enjoyable this afternoon to be able to swim, and I will also eat some Hawaiian BBQ with aloha salad, and learn ukulele.
The tomfoolery...
"the REAL reason why"
norahdechant
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8i_ynOHVQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
So costly!
"Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets | Donald Trump" | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-catapults
Oh... 🎼🌧️❤️
The Beatles - "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight"
@N3WS4I
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b1q5sn21ZkQ&si=JJfaDCGYJU18hTn2
"beatles Piano Kit Walker Julia"
@juana2212
What could be great about grammatical errors?
Human beings (not AI) can correct them, and it will make them feel good about themselves!
This is my Friday morning passage to ponder!
"Historians believe the Holy Spirit tradition began with Joachim, a monk born in Calabria circa 1135. He was the abbot of a monastery in Fiore, Italy. He came to believe that the Trinity -- the Father, Son and Holy Ghost -- represented different ages for humanity. The age of the Father was in the past. They were living in the age of the Son, and ahead was the age of the Holy Spirit, according to Joachim's reading of scripture. He foretold that in this new era there would be no separation between everyday life and the sacred. The Empire of the Holy Spirit would bring peace, justice, equality, intolerance. The idea of such a utopia on Earth took hold with many people including Dante, who placed Joachim in paradise in his Divine Comedy."
~ Diana Marcum
Page 205 - 206
"The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores by Diana Marcum" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39975783-the-tenth-island
"The Feast of St. Joachim"
Off to start my day with a healthy breakfast.
"The token gringo"
isabelhaygood
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db62rLKu747/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"the REAL reason why"
norahdechant
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8i_ynOHVQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Pops deserves an Emmy for this one 🏆"
savvygirlfriend
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbqai6KufHe/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm just still evolving as a person.
I just think it's funny how some people seem to respect certain kinds of deaths and disappearances more they respect other types of deaths and disappearances, and I think maybe it's because of the programming they received at a very early age.
It's a collective thing.
"The 'Land of the Free' is no longer..."
riseabovejusticemovement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBSRpRM9Ts/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Is this real? 📯🎺
Did he say these instruments are a national security threat; I can't even tell anymore.
"the government said this is a problem so..."
jgover_210
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db7OLQ8Cveh/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Now I'm going to watch a new one and an old one together.
KATIA POJIDAEVA - "CAPITALISM (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=foOttOKke5A&si=mGcUEZaRG7BhEnDD
Grimes - "Dream Fortress (Official music video)"
I just wonder how many more interesting stories I'm going to end up hearing about.
She told me that one time, she met this girl who whose mother had died and it was really crazy because you know how the mother died? The girl's brother killed the mother! And the girl whose mother had died was like, what should I do? She was close with her brother, and then her brother killed her mother. Her brother was on drugs, and the girl had also started taking drugs when she was younger, but then she chose a different path. The brother was on drugs when he killed the mother. And you know what the mother, who was deceased, said. She said, would you believe I'm not even mad? And then the girl was like, yeah she would say that. So anyways, what happened was the brother, when he looked at the mother, he saw love and he couldn't deal with it because he was so filled with loathing over his drug addiction and he ended up feeling like he was being judged by the mother for his drug addiction and it was so painful he couldn't stand it and he killed her, but it was him judging himself. And after her death, the mom wasn't even mad about it. Anyways, the task for the girl whose mom had died in that way was to find other people who had been killed by family members. And right about it too, I think. Write. Maybe.
She's talented, too.
Grimes - "Vanessa (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-aWEYezEMk&si=D7FGcAu6osq9JHjc
Grimes - "Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream"
It's cool.
This is the kind of writing problem, I mean prompt, that could apply to multiple kinds of children with multiple kinds of mothers in multiple kinds of situations.
"If you don't like it, maybe you should have picked a different mom. Ha - ha!"
Who's being sensitive? Who's sensitive about what and why? Who's being sensitive?
Off in the distance, a rooster crows. A tune seems to be coming back.
Taylor Dayne - "I'll Be Your Shelter"
These things are normal, you know.
I just fell asleep like normal. I didn't feel like any of the spirits were trying to get into bed with me or anything. I guess they could see that I was kind of burned out. I have to watch my diet better because I think the inflammation gets to me when I'm sensitive.
Auuuuugh! Anyway, this book is interesting 😇.
The woman who wrote it said that after her brother died, she was able to start communicating with his Spirit really really quickly. People in her conservative family couldn't do it but she could.
"You Are A Channel" by Sarah Landon
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/199457100-you-are-a-channel
Ha ha ha. I don't know why, but this universe is still funny.
"I'm awesome." Message received.
Aerosmith - "Dream On (Lyric Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kR4zpS-ky9o&si=u76lnmbPmR076YqY
Because I went to the farm and the house in Michigan every summer, I was always kind of sad that I never got to take any of my friends there. But there was one exception, there was one person I took out there, and I remember when he went out to the farm, and my grandfather was all attitudinal with him and he was trying to help by moving a board or something, and my grandfather was like, do you think that's helping, gee, I could have just done it myself, and it was embarrassing my grandpa was like that, but it's also really funny to remember it right now. My grandma was very sweet though!
Dream on!
What's next? "How to worship your twin friend like a cult leader?" LOL, no way! I understand that you've been able to develop certain talents in this life that I haven't developed yet, but vice versa, man.
Cycle of life and all that...
I feel like I was having lots of fun the other night. You know. And I felt awesome, and I felt like oh this is so cool that I get to have fun talking to Lucy. I am so lucky! It's really different from that other kind of feeling I've gotten which was like, I don't understand why I have to be outcast for being different. That's not a fun feeling. Anyway. My friend's roommate with the psychic abilities also wrote down Michigan and was like, oh my gosh I wrote down Rajneesh. I didn't know that was Osho!
Thursday, August 13, 2026
It's back to getting calmer and helping myself.
Living in a body can be very humbling. I feel like my body thinks I should get quieter and better at taking care of myself and do not eat and drink rebelliously right now because it's asking for more healing than that.
I think there's going to be some shooting stars visible tonight?! 🤩🌌💫🌠
"After I stopped recording she told me..."
jeffritogringuito
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9Z4VkBKHi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's raining men 🎵"
"Why do you think they responded like that"
vicbrugger
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db05ACJKMsQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Reno, Nevada"
thesidewalkschool2
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcAJv_rhCOS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Calm, quiet feminist writing club.
The first rule of calm, quiet feminist writing club is that you take the prompt seriously. Consider the following!
What evidence have you seen in your lifetime that Your Patriarchal Society would like:
for the men to have better access to more resources
for the women to treat the men better
for the women to treat other women with less respect than men
for the women to treat other women as competition for men's attention
and which men have you met who seem to like it better when things are still that way?
Cycles...cycle.
My friends friend said she wrote down the word Michigan and got out the map and she was looking at it. My father's wife in Michigan went into hospice care today (for cancer.) A lot of people have that when they die.
Close eyes for peace.
Think of what will bring you the feelings of tranquility and peace and balance...
I've had to stay in today and just listen to my body.
For sensitive people with certain genetics it is better to learn to relax more and not overdo it in one area. Otherwise it really can take a toll on certain bodies with certain genetics. This is sad to experience, but it is just the truth.
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