WAR MONGERING

Wow! It is 73.7 F and it is not yet 10:30. This is the warmest Morning so far this season. It is cool in the house. Our furnace went kaput last week and the repair man can't come out until the 22^nd. I am sure glad the furnace waited until now to do it. I hope it is something simple. We have a geo-thermal heat pump, there are not that many shops that repair them. The last couple Mornings I fired up the living room wood stove. I won't be doing that today.

I am still missing my little dog. She held down the corner of my bed so the sheet wouldn't pull out. It is not the same. The sheet gets all tangled up at Night. Ever since Jamie's bout with sleep apnea she has been sleeping on a reclining chair right beside the bed so the dog and I had the big bed to ourselves.

Also, since she has been gone the chickens have been making pest of themselves by coming up on the front porch. They did it once in a while before, usually on a rainy day, but now they have been doing it in the Sunshine. I don't remember her chasing chickens off the porch. She was more afraid of them than vice versa. Maybe the chickens are just coming up to see where she has gone.

Dogs sure have a powerful place in our lives. I will be expecting to see her around every corner for a while yet. I only had to give a dog away once before. A year or so after Donna and I got divorced, she decided to move out of the house and leave it for me. With the house came a dog. I was in private practice putting in many hours a week and I didn't want a dog home alone all the time. I gave the dog to a gentleman who wanted to train him as a bird dog. I didn't find out until 45 years later that one of my children had a strong attachment to the dog. It is amazing that I could have been so wrapped up in my own drama that I didn't realize that. Life on Planet Earth.

I have many dog stories and perhaps I will bring one up now and again.

It really looks like hell out there in the world, doesn't it? Every time one turns on the TV we are invaded by a geo-political situation that makes no sense. The war mongers are cranking up their calls for the destruction of another Middle Eastern country. Haven't we done enough? There are a certain number of people who go along and accept the propaganda and the demonizing of other countries without question. I don't judge them. It is sad. We should be able to accept the words of authority figures. Unfortunately we can't. They have led us into one destructive war after another for over a hundred years.

I rejoice that I see folks giving up the need for authority figures. I see folks thinking for themselves and questioning the idea of solving problems through violence. We learned that we don't need to do it in our personal lives, why should it be required in our geo-political lives? We have realized that violence is unnecessary and those that propose it, do it for schemes of their own. The lust for money and power are at the base of these shenanigans.

Yes, folks are waking up big time! We don't want the craziness anymore. We know it serves no good purpose. It may seem too difficult to resist the pressure from the military/industrial complex, they have been running things for a long time, but we can and we will. The only power there is, is the power we have as individuals. No group, whether we call them 'the bankers' 'the cabal' 'the deep state' or 'the industrial/military complex' has any power but what we have given them.

Be careful who you give your power to. Avoid belief. Avoid group think. Those waking up now outnumber the going alongers. We are creating a future based on love. When we choose love with every decision we don't give energy to the dark forces. The forces of darkness are squealing in agony, they want a war to save them. We won't give them one. We will give them peace, we will give them love. We will forgive them. We will no longer be in their yoke. We will be led by the light.

Happy Monday!

Love and Peace, Gregg