My late mother-in-law proclaimed, many times, that being a grandmother was the best role she ever had. It didn’t take me very long, once I stepped into that role myself, to agree with her.
It may surprise y’all to learn that, as a parent, I was a world class smart-ass. I was! I didn’t consciously become one, either. I think “smart-ass” was my default personality mode when the stress of life—that special combination of children, job, husband, and financial challenges—combined together and got to be too much.
Some of my zingers caused a great deal of eye-rolling and moaning among my kids, but I have to tell you, looking back at those comments even now, I chuckle. I realize that some of my responses weren’t my own originally crafted words. They’re just the words that emerged from my mouth when the moment was right.
There are a couple of instances and exchanges that particularly come to mind:
Kid: But you SAID I could have that! Me: I most certainly did not. Kid: YES YOU DID!! Me: (sighing). I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Kid: I don’t get it. Me: Precisely.
Then, of course, there’s the universal-kid response when you are trying very hard to get them to comply with your parental will:
Kid: You can’t make me, because this country is a free country. We live in a democracy! Me: This country might be a democracy, but this family isn’t. It’s a benevolent dictatorship. However, if you don’t toe the line and do as you’re told, the dictatorship isn’t going to be so benevolent.
Of course, inevitably, came the time when out of my mouth, despite all my previous vows that it would never happen, came my mother’s words:
Kid: But why do I have to do it? Me: Why should I keep a dog and bark myself?
Then there was my middle child, who thought he was equal to his father and me—and he actually stuck to that tenet from the time he was about twelve, for the remainder of his life.
I explained to him, gently, that he wasn’t our equal, and never would be. I would never be an equal to my parents, and he would never be an equal to his. That didn’t work. So then I tried another way, and this one I’m pretty sure is original. I told him that the world was comprised of us versus them—and that he was a them, not an us. This was a constant back and forth between us during most of his teen years. And then he became a father, himself. That was a humbling time for him, and I know that at the bottom of everything he loved his children with all his heart.
One day, he came over to visit and he grinned and grinned, because, he asserted, he’d finally figured out that, being a father he was finally an “us”.
I grinned right back and told him, that no, he was not an us. He was still a them. He was always going to be a them as far as we were concerned. But that baby of his? That baby was definitely an us.
Grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies against a common adversary, after all. I think it’s an immutable law of nature. And being a grandparent is…well, pretty grand. And because the law of sowing and reaping is another immutable law of nature, we parents are given great rewards when we become grandparents.
Number one kid as parent: Mom, you wouldn’t believe it! First this kid did that, and then that kid did this. I tell you, I have the children from hell!
Me: Oh, don’t be silly, sweetheart. You couldn’t possibly have the children from hell. I had the children from hell!
Then, another time:
Number one kid as parent: Mom, you wouldn’t believe it! I was in a hurry, picking up my spare pieces of lumber from the kitchen floor after making that repair—and I nearly threw my back out when one piece wouldn’t budge. He’d nailed that piece of scrap wood to the kitchen floor!
Me: Oh, dear, sweetheart, that’s horrible. Horrible! Your father and I never had that problem. You must be doing something wrong. (A special note here. Number one kid is also a world-class smart ass. He just rolled his eyes and laughed.)
Yes, being a grandparent is grand indeed. I’ve been a great-grandparent now for three years, but that role isn’t as hands-on fun as the simple grandparent role. In fact, I’m almost certain I have the progression of roles finally figured out.
We are an us, our kids are a them, their kids are an us…and yep, our kids’ grandkids are definitely a them.
At least they are to us.
Love,
Morgan
http://www.morganashbury.com
http://www.bookstrand.com/morgan-ashbury
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Wednesday's Words for September 28, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Volcano’s Angelic Headline Forecast ~ The Golden Monkey *Gamechanger*
Reign of Divine Creativity
*Versus* Now the Year of the Red Fire Monkey Explodes Into Worldwide Flames As the *Dirtiest Laundry* of the King-Kong Psycho Elites Is Aired Before the Public At Large
That Is, If You Dare Look For the TRUTH. Across the Planet, the People Are Not Happy, and Whistleblowers Arise Like Phoenixes
***WISDOM FOR THESE TIMES***
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Richard Buckminster Fuller
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***MORE GIGANTOR REVEALING*** OF THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM, A BLACKHOLE FOR TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ... HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE JUST GET NOTHING BUT SCREWED BY THIS BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION ... AND, THE NEW NORMAL, THE PARANORMAL
Meanwhile, CERN Opens Another Dimensional Gateway On 9/28 and Planet X Is Here According NASA ... what now???
Article Snippets from Exopolictics.org ~
***SECRET HISTORY OF RAND CORPORATION IN REVERSE ENGINEERING ANTIGRAVITY UFOS
WRITTEN BY DR MICHAEL SALLA ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
The RAND Corporation traces its origins to a research and development project created inside the Douglas Aircraft Company to study UFOs secretly retrieved by the U.S. military after the February 1942 Los Angeles Air Raid incident, according to former Douglas Aircraft employee, William Tompkins. Tompkins further reveals that in 1943 he began delivering briefing documents from a covert Navy espionage program, which had learned about antigravity craft created by Nazi Germany, to the Douglas research and development project that later evolved into the RAND Corporation.
RAND CORPORATION PART OF ALIEN PROXY WAR INVOLVING USAF & NAVY SECRET SPACE PROGRAMS
WRITTEN BY DR MICHAEL SALLA ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
In a September 19 phone interview, William Tompkins said that in addition to two generals, two admirals were in the Douglas Working Group created shortly after the February 1942 Los Angeles UFO incident, which ultimately led to the formation of Project RAND in 1945. The RAND Corporation website, however, only mentions two generals, Curtis LeMay and Lauris Norstad, in the creation of Project RAND. There was no mention of Navy admirals involved in Project RAND, even though according to Tompkins, the Navy was a major player in the study of antigravity craft both during and after World War II.
GENE RODDENBERRY BASED STAR TREK ON SECRET US NAVY SPACE FLEET
WRITTEN BY DR MICHAEL SALLA ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
September 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Star Trek science fiction series that began in 1966. There is significant evidence that its creator, Gene Roddenberry, did not simply come up with the idea of Star Trek on his own. Instead he was encouraged to create the series based on classified information surrounding the development of a secret U.S. Navy space fleet that would build a broad extraterrestrial alliance. This led Roddenberry to come up with the idea of a United Federation of Planets, with its military headquarters in San Francisco.***
Massive New Hangar Completed at Area 51
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Mentioned by blogger RPJ three months ago, the completed hangar is now ready for service. — The Drive
Article: The real-life X Files: UFOs, flying saucers and the woman from Venus
Monday, September 19, 2016
Author Jack Womack has pulled together 257 favorite items from his collection including grainy photographs of UFOs, and diagrams of alien spacecraft. — The Telegraph
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Warning!!! The global elite [New World Order] does not want *you* to read this book. See ~ Powerful Dreams at my Kougar Kisses blog.
WHEN A GOOD ANGEL FALLS
~~~ Where angels fear to tread, 2012 Earth ~~~
World weary and worn out, the incarnated angel, Sedona, who believes she is merely human, has three choices after her old van breaks down.
Let the Nazerazzi squad of the North American Union capture her and force her into a FEMA concentration camp.
Walk out into the Arizona night desert, let the wildlife have a good meal with the hope her death will be quick.
Or does she dare trust the mysterious stranger suddenly before her?
Handsome as sin and all in black, he emerges out of the darkness.
Sedona wonders if the stranger on a superspeed motorcycle is her savior from the brutal endtimes.
Or, is he a roving cult member of the New World Order, hunting his next blood sacrifice?
***
It’s only a few days before Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012 ~ The end of the Mayan Calendar.
Sent from heaven to help Sedona save humanity, Zerr Dann knows the Divine is playing its last card on Earth.
He also knows Sedona is about to find out Christmas miracles still exist.
[Angelic Fantasy Erotic Romance]
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~~~ EBOOK & IN PRINT ~~~ a former #1 on Siren-BookStrand’s bestseller list
Author Discovery by BookStrand author, Lindsay Townsend.
~~~
~ HAVE A MAGICKAL WEEK ~
Kisses from Savanna Kougar...
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When a Good Angel Falls ~ In Print
[Winter Solstice 2012, Book 1]
Murder by Hair Spray in Gardenia, New Atlantis ~ In Print
[New Atlantis Trilogy, Book 1]
Her Insatiable Dark Heroes ~ In Print
[Chrontropolis, Book 1]
Stallion of Ash and Flame ~ In Print
Branded by the Texans ~ IN PRINT ~ A Siren-BookStrand Bestseller!
[Three Star Republic]
Kandy Apple and Her Hellhounds ~ What happens when two of Hades’ most mission-accomplished Hellhounds find just the right witch for Halloween? ~ Ebook and In Print.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Wednesday's Words for September 21, 2016
I couldn’t help but notice, as I made my way to Indiana at the beginning of this month, and then home again, that not only were the trees still all vibrantly green, but the sky still held that deep, summer blue it gets in July. I mention this today because that trip was not so long ago.
And then, just last Wednesday—a week to the day after I came home from my trip—I was driving to have lunch with a friend who lives in a rural area not so far away from where I grew up. And as I drove, I noticed the trees were beginning to turn to their autumn colors. Some had traces of orange, some of yellow and red. But it was more than a couple trees here and there, and it was for the entire 25-mile drive.
There are a lot of things I don’t understand in this life. I don’t understand how the days can be slow and fast at the same time. And I don’t understand how the trees can begin to go from vibrant green to twinges of fall colors in so short a space of time—especially when we haven’t even had a frost yet.
The sad truth is that the older I get the less I realize I know.
I truly enjoyed my time away the first week of September. Despite the glitch of having to get a new battery for my car at the last minute, I consider my solo excursion to have been a success. The lady in the box, aka my GPS, got me there and back without a problem. As for the visit itself, I was so happy to reconnect with a woman I greatly admire. Other people talk of being brave and exuding dignity, but my friend, author Kennedy Layne lives it every single day of her life. She’s overcome challenges many can’t conceive of, and now, having done so, has found her happy-ever-after, and is reaping the benefits of having lived and walked in faith.
That’s not to say the challenges have ended. The truth is that life is a series of challenges for us all, challenges that exist for the sole purpose of our overcoming them. We never know when or from where these challenges will spring. But they’re certain to find us. Our growth as human beings—our growth in character and our growth in faith—relies on these challenges being a constant factor in our lives, and in our efforts to face and surmount them.
A life lived in a bubble, with nothing to challenge the mind, the will or the soul—in short, a life without challenges, would be boring in the extreme. Living our lives day by day, where one day is the same as the next and the next, would seem long, and a punishment of sorts, were it not for the challenges that appear before us, from time to time.
Life can be hard. It can sometimes seem as if you can’t catch a break, or even as if no one knows or cares what you’re going through. There may even be days when you break down in sobs so soul-deep, so wretched, that you think nothing will ever be right again.
But it will be, I promise. It won’t be the exact same as what was, because along with challenges, the other constant in life is change.
Things will get better. Because the truth is that while challenges come to you, and to me, and to everyone, they don’t come to stay.
They come to pass.
Love,
Morgan
http://www.morganashbury.com
http://www.bookstrand.com/morgan-ashbury
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Volcano’s Angelic Headline Forecast ~ A WORLD-ALTERING CELESTIAL MONKEYWRENCH IS BEING THROWN AT HUMANITY
... THAT IS: ET/ALIEN EXPOSURE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE
Versus the MONKEY-CRAP FLINGING WARS NOW HAPPENING MORE FREQUENTLY AROUND OUR PLANET
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LAND CHANGES: All Heck Will Break Loose On Several Fronts As the Year 2016 Comes To a Close ... This Will Involve Huge Earthquakes, Explosive Volcanoes, More Incredible Flooding, and Superstorms Never Seen Before, Including Sandstorms/Dust Storms ... There *Could* Be Several Hurricanes That Destroy Parts of Coastlines ... Also, Tsunami-type Waves Will Cover Inland Areas, Thus Causing Migrations ... As Well, There Will Likely Be More Sinkholes In Big Cities ... With the Coming Shaking of Planet Earth, Bridges Will Fail – The Timeframe Is From Three Months Hence, and Forward ... Plus, Rainstorms, Hailstorms Intensify In Power, and Tornadoes Spin Where They Have Never Been In recorded History ... Important: Prepare For the Unexpected and Expected Climate Emergency ... Finally, Watch Out For Those Rogue Asteroids, Fireballs, and Comets
SINKHOLE HEADLINE: Heads up Florida residents: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aquifer
https://gma.yahoo.com/florida-fertilizer-plant-sinkhole-reportedly-leaks-215-million-205305504--abc-news-topstories.html
Headline: Hell opens: An increase in seismic activity and an eruption of gases 1,000ft high at the Turrialba Volcano Costa Rica
Headline: Popocatépetl spews volcanic ash to 7.3 km (24 000 feet) a.s.l., Mexico WITH ALL THE ASH AND EMISSIONS GOING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET USE TO WORSENING HARVESTS AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ~stevequayle.com~
Headline: 'Ghost forests' appear as rising seas kill trees ~ By John Upton ~ September 18, 2016; 5:16 AM ET
...Bare trunks of dead coastal forests are being discovered up and down the mid-Atlantic coastline, killed by the advance of rising seas. The "ghost forests," as scientists call them, offer eerie evidence of some of the world's fastest rates of sea level rise...
~accuweather.com/en/features/trend/ghost_forests_appear_as_rising_1/60124207~
Headline: First an incredible supercell and then giant hailstones fell on Artesia, New Mexico on September 17, 2016.
http://strangesounds.org/2016/09/amazing-supercell-and-large-hail-artesia-new-mexico-pictures-video.html
Article: Cosmic Triple Header! Asteroid on Uncertain Path w/Earth! Incredible Lunar Eclipse Coincide w/Harvest Full Moon & (Videos) CONTRIBUTOR: Due Diligence. 9-15-16 Is this the cause of the severe weather and quakes lately? After the solar eclipse, another big celestial event is set to take place in September. This Friday, sky gazers will be treated to a penumbral lunar eclipse and it will coincide with Harvest Moon...
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ET/ALIEN EXPOSURE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE ... At This Spinpoint, ***Likely*** Within a Month's Time, There Will Be the Recognition of ET/Other Races ... However, There Is a Behind-the-Scenes Battle Over Who, and Which Country, Will Begin This Mind-Blowing Revelation
Further note: Currently this is a 90% possibility. HOWEVER, this *new world order criminal* strategy to save their psycho-despicable hides, IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
*TRUE, OR NOT TRUE, YOU BE THE JUDGE*
VIDEO: Egyptian Pharaohs Were Extraterrestrial Origin and Were Giants
Friday, September 16, 2016 2:35
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2016/09/egyptian-pharaohs-were-extraterrestrial-origin-and-were-giants-2477282.html
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Warning!!! The global elite [New World Order] does not want *you* to read this book. See ~ Powerful Dreams at my Kougar Kisses blog.
WHEN A GOOD ANGEL FALLS
~~~ Where angels fear to tread, 2012 Earth ~~~
World weary and worn out, the incarnated angel, Sedona, who believes she is merely human, has three choices after her old van breaks down.
Let the Nazerazzi squad of the North American Union capture her and force her into a FEMA concentration camp.
Walk out into the Arizona night desert, let the wildlife have a good meal with the hope her death will be quick.
Or does she dare trust the mysterious stranger suddenly before her?
Handsome as sin and all in black, he emerges out of the darkness.
Sedona wonders if the stranger on a superspeed motorcycle is her savior from the brutal endtimes.
Or, is he a roving cult member of the New World Order, hunting his next blood sacrifice?
***
It’s only a few days before Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012 ~ The end of the Mayan Calendar.
Sent from heaven to help Sedona save humanity, Zerr Dann knows the Divine is playing its last card on Earth.
He also knows Sedona is about to find out Christmas miracles still exist.
[Angelic Fantasy Erotic Romance]
~~~~~~
~~~ EBOOK & IN PRINT ~~~ a former #1 on Siren-BookStrand’s bestseller list
Author Discovery by BookStrand author, Lindsay Townsend.
~~~
~ HAVE A MAGICKAL WEEK ~
Kisses from Savanna Kougar...
~ Run on the Wild Side of Romance ~
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All Shades of Blue Paradise
[World of the Blue Pearl Moon, Book 1]
When a Good Angel Falls ~ In Print
[Winter Solstice 2012, Book 1]
Murder by Hair Spray in Gardenia, New Atlantis ~ In Print
[New Atlantis Trilogy, Book 1]
Her Insatiable Dark Heroes ~ In Print
[Chrontropolis, Book 1]
Stallion of Ash and Flame ~ In Print
Branded by the Texans ~ IN PRINT ~ A Siren-BookStrand Bestseller!
[Three Star Republic]
Kandy Apple and Her Hellhounds ~ What happens when two of Hades’ most mission-accomplished Hellhounds find just the right witch for Halloween? ~ Ebook and In Print.
Monday, September 19, 2016
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Hot summer rain. That was the scent that drew me. The soulful amber-green eyes that begged to be loved kept me. One look and I knew I wanted Lany Harris to be mine. Convincing him of my good intentions might prove to be harder than trying to convince my superiors that someone was out to get us.
I was obviously insane.
Cinnamon and whiskey had a delicious scent and it was S.W.A.T. commander, Lt. Salvador Delvecchio. I wanted to roll in that scent, sink into it, and never come out. I wanted to be consumed by everything that was the lethal man who had rescued me and decided I belonged to him.
I was a hot mess.
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Níximon Aeglos is a thief, and he makes no apologies for it. He has done what he has had to do to survive. When he spots a handsome warrior walking through the marketplace, he sees an easy mark and a purse full of coin.
Stealing from the Captain of the Royal Guard of the House of Elvellon was never in his plans—but revenge is. When Mael takes without asking, Níx decides to teach the man a lesson. When it backfires on him, Níx can't decide whether to protest or ask for more.
Maelon Hatholor is proud to be an elite solider in the king's royal guard. He is even more proud of his restraint when a sexy, little thief tries to rob him. When Níx comes back for more, Mael is all too willing to give him what he wants...over and over again.
When soldiers come for Mael, it's up to Níx to use the less than lawful contacts he's made over the years to help Mael discover why the king is after his head before they lose whatever is growing between them.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Wednesday's Words for September 14, 2016
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the Ashbury’s—news junkies who generally could be counted on to know what was going on in the world at any given moment—were clueless. It was a different day for us, because it was the day we went to the travel agent and paid for a vacation we were about to embark upon with our son, Anthony, and his fiancée, Sonja. We were taking a 7 day cruise to the Bahamas, out of Fort Lauderdale, leaving the first week of December.
I’m not sure why we didn’t have the car radio on as we drove, first into the city and then off to work. We left the travel agent, and I took my beloved to his job, and then I went on to mine. About ten minutes away from my destination, I turned on the car radio for the first time that morning and fell, with the rest of you, into a most terrible day.
That wasn’t the first most terrible day I’d lived through; I still recall the day President Kennedy was assassinated. But this time, I was an adult, with an adult’s understanding and an adult’s tendency to worry about what might happen next.
Twenty-six Canadians died alongside so many more Americans on that most terrible day. Though we do not carry the depth of the wound to our national soul as our neighbors to the south do because of this attack, we have mourned. We have stood with you, because we are good neighbors. We opened our homes to you when all air traffic over our continent was grounded, and some of you were stranded. Although sometimes it is forgotten by both of us, the truth is, we have your backs to the best of our abilities, just as we know you have ours.
That day fifteen years ago fundamentally changed us all—individuals and society alike. Some of those changes were positive, but not all of them were. The one change I regret is the degree to which we, as a society—a North American society—have allowed fear to enter into our lives and control us.
Fear has encouraged us to surrender some of our freedoms, payed for in blood and bone and sinew by our ancestors. Fear has made us regard those not like us not only as being different, but as a being a possible threat to the common good. Fear has lain within the dark recesses of our psyches and in some cases, sadly, grown into gross hatred.
The legacy of this most terrible day must never be left to languish in the annals of history. We must never forget those who died in New York, office workers trying to flee downstairs and rescuers racing upstairs toward peril. We must never forget those who died in Arlington, airline passengers and soldiers alike. We must never forget those brave airplane passengers who, upon discovering events of just moments before, rose up and challenged murderers and died heroes’ deaths in fields of Shanksville.
Plain and simple, above all possible political rhetoric, we must never forget.
Love,
Morgan
http://www.morganashbury.com
http://www.bookstrand.com/morgan-ashbury
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Volcano’s Angelic Headline Forecast ~ What Free and Fair Presidential Election? The Monkey-Chattering, Monkey-Frantic Mainstream Media Will Continue Shooting Itself In Each and Every Foot
Versus Reinvigorating Humanity With Real Freedom ... This Is One Epic Facet of the Aquarian Age Renaissance ... FREEDOM!
Another Epic Facet: The Aquarian Age Heart Opens, Blooms, and Flowers. For, Many More Now Speak From the Heart, Regardless of the Circumstance or Issue, Even As MAJOR LEAGUE *ABSURDITY* SOCIALLY RULES THESE TIMES LIKE THE JOKER IN BATMAN
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LAND CHANGES: Explosive, Mother Earth Goes Explosive At This Spinpoint in History/Herstory ... Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Superstorms ... Lightning Storms Rage Over the Planet, especially next year ... Windstorms Increase In Frequency and Strength, especially over the coastlines all across the planet ... Likely, There Will Be a Few Major Tsunamis From This Point Forward ... Super Weather Catastrophes Will Strike, Likely In the Middle of Next Year ... Killer Sinkholes Will Continue ... Firestorms Are Being Used As a Covert Weapon of War ... Also, there will be several asteroid crashing into the planet in the near future — although, most should be 'lessened' by Protector White Hats ... Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Wherever you are on our blue marble world.
In the meantime ... BLAMING HUMANITY FOR GLOBAL WARMING ... NOT THE RISE IN VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ON THE SURFACE AND UNDER THE OCEANS OF EARTH
Article: Klyuchevskoy erupts spewing ash up to 11.2 km a.s.l., Aviation Colour Code raised to Red
Klyuchevskoy volcano, located on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, erupted at 20:30 UTC on September 6, 2016, spewing volcanic ash up to 11.2 km (37 000 feet) above sea level. Ash cloud was moving to the southeast at 9.3 km/h (5.7 mph), the Tokyo VAAC said. ~thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2016/09/07/klyuchevskoy-erupts-spewing-ash-up-to-11-2-km-a-s-l-aviation-colour-code-raised-to-red~
Headline: The Piton de la Fournaise volcano Reunion Island has erupted spewing lava and hot gases
HEADLINE: Record level for lava lake at Kilauea volcano:Kilauea Volcano continues to erupt at its summit and from its East Rift Zone. The lava lake at Kilauea’s summit has risen to its highest level since May 2015 in tandem with continued summit inflation
Headline: A magnitude 6.3 - 189km ESE of Nikol'skoye, Russia is the 2nd major quake of September:August weighs in with 14 major quakes including the deadly quake of Italy which killed 300
Headline: A mag 6.0 - 51km N of Moyobamba, Peru: Earthquakes in diverse places-mag 5.9 kills at least 13 in Tanzania
Article: 11 earthquakes hit Skopje within 32 hours, over 100 people injured - Macedonia CONTRIBUTOR: The Watchers. Between 04:58 UTC on September 11 and 12:19 UTC on September 12, EMSC registered a total of 11 shallow earthquakes under Macedonia's capital Skopje. The strongest was mb5.2 at 13:10 UTC on September 11, 2016. More than 100 people have been injured and sought medical assistance.
Article: Oklahoma, EPA shutter 32 wells in new earthquake-prone area
By SEAN MURPHY ~ Sep. 12, 2016
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A 5.8-magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller aftershocks in Oklahoma led to the discovery of a new fault line and stoked fears among some scientists about activity along other unknown faults that could be triggered by oil and gas wastewater that's being injected deep underground.
State and federal regulators on Monday said 32 disposal wells in northeastern Oklahoma must shut down because they are too near the newly discovered fault line that produced the state's strongest earthquake on record on Sept. 3
Headline: Massive, Mysterious Ice Avalanche in Tibet Observed From Space --'Scientists Baffled'
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/09/massive-mysterious-ice-avalanche-in-tibet-observed-from-space-scientists-baffled.html
Meanwhile, the Climate Change Emperor Screws the People Once Again ... Article: Paris Agreement on climate change, Obama did not even go through the motions. He bypassed Congress altogether
Obama Uses UN to Bypass Senate’s Treaty Consent Authority
~canadafreepress.com/article/obama-uses-un-to-bypass-senates-treaty-consent-authority~
Meanwhile, How To NUKE Mother Earth While the World Burns ... Article: Alert: Typhoons cause failure of ‘ice wall’ around Fukushima reactors — Highly radioactive water flowing into ocean — Structure 'critically affected' 'The plan to block groundwater is failing' (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/alert-typhoons-failure-ice-wall-around-fukushima-reactors-highly-radioactive-water-flowing-ocean-structure-critically-affected-fears-multiple-sections-barrier-thawed-expert-plan-block-grou
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More Huge-Miracle Monkey Wrenches Will Be Thrown AGAINST The Dark-side Globalists, and Their SkyNet Technocratic Slavery of Humankind
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Warning!!! The global elite [New World Order] does not want *you* to read this book. See ~ Powerful Dreams at my Kougar Kisses blog.
WHEN A GOOD ANGEL FALLS
~~~ Where angels fear to tread, 2012 Earth ~~~
World weary and worn out, the incarnated angel, Sedona, who believes she is merely human, has three choices after her old van breaks down.
Let the Nazerazzi squad of the North American Union capture her and force her into a FEMA concentration camp.
Walk out into the Arizona night desert, let the wildlife have a good meal with the hope her death will be quick.
Or does she dare trust the mysterious stranger suddenly before her?
Handsome as sin and all in black, he emerges out of the darkness.
Sedona wonders if the stranger on a superspeed motorcycle is her savior from the brutal endtimes.
Or, is he a roving cult member of the New World Order, hunting his next blood sacrifice?
***
It’s only a few days before Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012 ~ The end of the Mayan Calendar.
Sent from heaven to help Sedona save humanity, Zerr Dann knows the Divine is playing its last card on Earth.
He also knows Sedona is about to find out Christmas miracles still exist.
[Angelic Fantasy Erotic Romance]
~~~~~~
~~~ EBOOK & IN PRINT ~~~ a former #1 on Siren-BookStrand’s bestseller list
Author Discovery by BookStrand author, Lindsay Townsend.
~~~
~ HAVE A MAGICKAL WEEK ~
Kisses from Savanna Kougar...
~ Run on the Wild Side of Romance ~
Siren-BookStrand Author of ~
All Shades of Blue Paradise
[World of the Blue Pearl Moon, Book 1]
When a Good Angel Falls ~ In Print
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Wednesday's Words for September 7, 2016
I am what is often referred to as a “grammar Nazi”. It has occurred to me that perhaps this is not a complimentary term at all. However, since the meaning behind the name is to imply that I am a person who likes proper grammar, I choose to accept the title and wear it proudly.
As Shakespeare famously said, “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet”. Although between you and me, lately, roses don’t seem to have an odor any more, sweet or otherwise. But I guess that’s another topic.
Even though I can be a stickler for proper grammar, I do commit errors of both syntax and spelling all the time—especially in the first draft of my manuscripts. Most of them are rooted out in my second draft, but my editor could tell you I really do need her services. In my defense, I will only say that I do try to get it right, but sometimes, I fail.
A few years ago, at a time when e-book authors were first coming into their own, and complaining because they were treated like “hacks” in the publishing world, I once wrote an essay, the point of which was: if you don’t want to be treated like a hack, then please, for the love of all that’s grammatically correct, be careful what you post on line. Check your spelling, check your grammar. Edit to the best of your ability.
I got very badly burned over that essay, as I recall. Apparently no one believed I was making a general observation. Several people—people whose online posts I’d never actually read, mind you—all thought I was of course talking about them. I was even temporarily booted from a group where I posted my essays because someone thought I had made a personal attack on someone else in the group—the prime definition of “flaming”.
That was several years ago, and I still don’t really understand what happened in that fracas. I don’t make personal attacks, even if I have been the recipient of same. The personal attacks that bother me are the ones I don’t understand. If I understand where the vitriol is coming from, I can generally deal with it. If I’ve screwed up, I’ve found the best thing to do is to immediately accept responsibility, and then apologize and move on. If I haven’t screwed up, I’ve found the best thing to do is apologize and move on. The willingness to offer apologies regardless of culpability might be because I am Canadian. Who knows?
But apologies don’t cost very much, and the more you use them the more familiar you become with them. That’s not to say they’re not sincere. They are. I’m always very sorry when someone has taken something I’ve said to mean something I didn’t intend. Hurt feelings are always a cause for regret, and therefore I’m always sorry for them.
I’m reminded of that incident because I’ve discovered that lately, I’ve been becoming less picky about the grammatical errors I’m encountering on line. Mostly, I suppose, because there are so many of them, and I feel somewhat overwhelmed by all I have to do in that medium to begin with. But while I don’t actually point out errors, or necessarily even talk about them specifically, my inner imp is always quick to mock them.
In response to any “thank you” I might give, I’m told, “your welcome”. My inner imp says, “my welcome what? My welcome presence? My welcome smile? It can’t be my welcome example of good grammar, because if it was, you might have said, “you’re welcome”, instead.
Sometimes, people agree with me. They do! And they let me know that by telling me, “I think so to.” My inner imp perks up. “To where? To the train station? To the airport? Or maybe, you meant, “I think so, to make things better.” But if you wanted to make things better, you might have said that you “thought so, too.”
That damned inner imp lives, I believe, just to get me in trouble. As I’ve said, I’m not that picky anymore, when it comes to conversational posts on the internet and I do keep my mouth, or fingers, shut. I can’t help but notice them, however, because that is the way I am. And I’m even coming to believe that most of these errors are caused by the authors of same having too much to do in too little time and therefore sometimes relying on spell check—just like me.
However, these kinds of mistakes—any mistakes, really—in a book are still just as unacceptable to me today as they ever were. They still pull me out of the story, an experience that ranks right up there with bumping into an unforgiving and unexpected wall, and landing on my butt.
Love,
Morgan
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Volcano’s Angelic Headline Forecast ~At This Epic Spinpoint In Time, The Divine Throws a Huge-Miracle Monkey Wrench
Versus the Global Descent Into Economic Collapse and Monkey-Shrieking Madness
This, While the Whole World Tilts At Crazy and Confusing Angles
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LAND CHANGES: The Waters of Mother Earth Are Sacred ... Now, Humankind Begins Standing Together To Stop the Pollution, To Save Our Planet Home ... This Stand Will Spark, Then Become a Worldwide Phenome ... More Major Earthquakes Shake, Rattle, and Roll the planet in the upcoming days ... Volcanic Ash Becomes More of a Problem As the Year Ends, and There *Could* Be Eruptions in the Pacific Northwest ... Hurricane Activity Keeps Threatening the East Coast ... All Types of Superstorms Ravage the Planet At This Time ... Also, the Covert Weather Wars Ramp Up ... This Will Result In More Massive Flooding and Extreme Droughts ... Prepare For Some Savage Snowstorms This Coming Winter, Especially In the Eastern States, and the Upper Midwest ... Likely, There Will Be a Significant Increase In Asteroids, Fireballs, and Comets ... And Sol, the Sun, Will Act Up and Act Out In Unusual Ways ... This Causes Dramatic Shifts in Weather, and Weather Patterns
Article: M5.6 earthquake in Oklahoma felt across the entire midwest, from North Dakota through Houston- That’s a 1,300 mile stretch!
A M5.6 earthquake struck near Pawnee, Oklahoma on September 3, 2016.
According to press reports the quake was felt virtually across the entire midwest, from North Dakota through Houston. That’s a 1,300 mile stretch!
At 7:02:44 am local time, a major, M5.6 earthquake hit 14km northwest of Pawnee, Oklahoma. It rattled a swath of the Great Plains, from Kansas City, Missouri, to central Oklahoma. It was the strongest quake to hit Oklahoma in years...
...People in Kansas City, Missouri, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Norman, Oklahoma, all reported feeling the earthquake at about 7:05 a.m. Saturday.
***Another M5.6 quake rattled 103km W of Ferndale, California on September 3, 2016 and a M3.1 tremor hit Nevada a few hours later.***
Something big is coming in. Get ready for the worse to come!
http://strangesounds.org/2016/09/m5-6-earthquake-in-oklahoma-felt-across-entire-midwest-north-dakota-to-houston-texas.html
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The Divine Throws a Huge-Miracle Monkey Wrench... Straight From the Heavenly Realm ... Watch and Wait
The ascension vibes are destiny-increasing for humankind and Mother Earth. This is a celestial race toward GOODNESS. Tune in with your Spirit. However, do not lose track of reality. For, Spirit must convert-transform the *reality* of these troubled times.
In the meantime ... CERN TIMELINES INTERWEAVING AND THE MANDELLA AFFECT [Some recall Mandella's death in prison. Yet, much later he shows up alive, as discussed-revealed on the Art Bell radio show in the 90s.]
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Warning!!! The global elite [New World Order] does not want *you* to read this book. See ~ Powerful Dreams at my Kougar Kisses blog.
WHEN A GOOD ANGEL FALLS
~~~ Where angels fear to tread, 2012 Earth ~~~
World weary and worn out, the incarnated angel, Sedona, who believes she is merely human, has three choices after her old van breaks down.
Let the Nazerazzi squad of the North American Union capture her and force her into a FEMA concentration camp.
Walk out into the Arizona night desert, let the wildlife have a good meal with the hope her death will be quick.
Or does she dare trust the mysterious stranger suddenly before her?
Handsome as sin and all in black, he emerges out of the darkness.
Sedona wonders if the stranger on a superspeed motorcycle is her savior from the brutal endtimes.
Or, is he a roving cult member of the New World Order, hunting his next blood sacrifice?
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It’s only a few days before Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012 ~ The end of the Mayan Calendar.
Sent from heaven to help Sedona save humanity, Zerr Dann knows the Divine is playing its last card on Earth.
He also knows Sedona is about to find out Christmas miracles still exist.
[Angelic Fantasy Erotic Romance]
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