🎆 2025 July FROM MY PERSPECTIVE

🎆 It’s kind of scary when the weatherman is the closest one to telling the truth on the news these days.  I don’t watch the news very often because I don’t know what is really the truth or the embellishment of someone’s imagination.  I’d like to find a media which tells the truth about what is happening.  

Everyone has a contribution to give our society, especially a contribution of enlightenment.  I was chastised for helping a man had AIDS.  He needed help with his mother who lived with him; the help was to keep her company so he could go see a friend or take a walk, or go to the store.  She could not be left alone.  I learned a lot and had an enlightening experience.  I had students who were gay and treated poorly in school, not only by other students, but by some teachers.  For some reason they felt safe and accepted with me, they told me.  More enlightenment and life experience.  The world and its people have so much to teach, if one would choose to learn the lessons. 

I found this somewhere and want to share it with you.  “You will never be good enough for everybody, but you will always be the best for someone who really appreciates you.”  I’ve found in all my years, and they are many, that statement is so true.  Have you done or said something thinking it will improve a situation only to be criticized or scoffed at?  It’s deflating and defeating.  Then, later on, you do or say pretty much the same thing to another and they tell you it “made their day” or “that’s exactly what I needed”?    Don’t let the “grumblers” dictate to you what you feel is good to say or do.  Someone will appreciate it.  “There is never a wrong way to do right.” 

Well, May 7, 2025 has come and gone and the federal government has commanded all those who choose to fly in an airplane to have a REAL ID with a gold star in the upper right corner.  I’ve decided I’m not flying anymore (I didn’t like it, anyway).  I noticed my hardware store was having a sale on brooms.  I’m tempted to rescind my choice of not flying, anymore. 

I was reading Snow White to a child.  Remember the wicked witch gave her an apple with poison in it?  If I were Snow White, I’d never be able to be killed with an apple.  You’d have to poison me with a crème-filled donut, or a cinnamon roll, or a MOUNDS bar, or mashed potatoes.  But, an apple?-----oh puleeze. 

“Laziness has some people believing they have an unfair life.  If you do nothing, you will get nothing.”  That can be argued, but reality does happen, eventually. 

There was a sign at an awards ceremony.  It said, “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES ARE A JOKE.  TEACHING CHILDREN HOW TO HANDLE WINNING AND LOSING IS A VALUABLE LIFE SKILL!”  I have a friend who believes that is exactly correct; I do, too.  He mentioned those who came up with that idea must have had their head up their butt.  I told him, “They have severe ‘cranial-rectal inversion syndrome”.  He mentioned something about not able to see for something or other. 

Folks, there is no “teacher shortage.”  There are thousands of certified, qualified, experienced teachers who are no longer teaching.  There is a shortage of appropriate compensation, respect, and allowing teachers to actually teach.  There is a shortage of administration support.  There is a shortage of not accepting disrespectful behavior and verbiage from students AND parents.  THAT is where the shortage is!!! 

Dandelion season is waning.  These plants are valuable, especially to bees.  The dandelion is the first food for them to gather pollen to make the honey most of us enjoy.  They are the “flowers for mom/grandma/friend from a little, earnest soul.  They are a sea of gold which turns to a sea of white wishes.   Every part of a dandelion can be eaten or made into wine.  These plants teach resilience, determination, and perseverance (ever try to kill them off in one application of spray or pull an older one out of the ground?  They have a ‘grip’ which would shame a body builder.)  My neighbor told me to get rid of them.  I put a sign out, “FREE DANDELIONS, THE FIRST FLOWER OF THE SEASON.  HELP YOURSELF.”

Arrogant people are really insecure people.  They hide their insecurity, because they don’t want another to know it and possibly use it against them.  So, they inflate their importance and value.  They inflate their strength(s), but y’all, it catches up to them.  Then, one of the things from others they fear happens---they are laughed at or called on their failure. There are reasons for arrogance which include: insecurity, upbringing, social status, fear of vulnerability, and lack of empathy.  About the upbringing---I know a couple who praised their child on everything the child did.  Seldom let the child know they had done or were wrong.  They constantly told the child how important and smart they were.  Well, the child took the inflated attitude and thoughts they could do no wrong to school.  Let’s just say there were some significant rude awakenings delivered by other kids and teachers. 

I stopped by Aint Daisy’s for a little refreshment of pink lemonade and whatever she’d baked that day.  She bakes every day and shares her delicious fare.  “Whalll, lookie here who’s come to pay a visit.  Come on up here and set yerself down.  I’ll get us some drinks and pie.”  She returned with a silver tray balancing two glasses of pink lemonade and two plates with cherry pie topped with a mountain of homemade whipped cream on the top crust.  “Oh Aint Daisy!!  You brought out my favorite pie and your delicious lemonade.  Thank you so much,” I drooled.  “Haint nuthin’, chile.  ‘Glad to share what I’ve got.  Lemme tell you about that pie.  Ye’ve heard people say they’re rubbing elbows with the ‘upper crust’ folks.  I chuckle when I hear that.  The upper crust of a pie hain’t as important as the bottom and the middle.  Th’ bottom supports it all.  So’s it’s gotta be verrry strong.  The middle, whall, it makes the pie what it is.  Now, the top crust is o.k., but not as important as the other two.  In fact, there are pies which haint got no top crust an’ they’s just as delicious as ones ‘at got all three parts.  Now, haint they?  So’s jest remember when somone’s a-talkin’ ‘bout the upper crusts are so important, ye know they haint that much.”  Ahhh, more wisdom from the Lady of the Holler.

On the BORED TEACHERS post on Facebook, there was a statement:  "Teaching is saying  'I just need to get through this week for 30 years until you retire.’”  I used to tell myself after a particular rough day, "Orange is NOT your color, honey, and you don't like it, anyway."  Or, "Although black and white together is chic, the stripes make you look bigger, sweetie."

I think it's funny when people think they are champagne in a crystal flute when they are actually sloppy mud in a used paper cup.  My beloved used to say, "They think they are big shi* on a board when they are actually nothing but a fart on a splinter."

"Walk away from people who put you down.  Walk away from fights that will never be solved.  Walk away from trying to please people who will never see your worth.  The more you walk away from things that poison your soul, the healthier you will be."

On a social media site, a stranger made flattering remarks to me, and then asked me where I was from.  I'm very savvy about those questions which can reveal more about me than I want.  So, my response was, "Third planet from the sun."  I haven't heard from him, again.  Perhaps he's trying to figure out which one it is.

HONEY is a fabulous substance.  It contains a substance that helps the human brain work better.  It is the ONLY food on earth that can sustain human life alone.  A teaspoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours.  It is a natural antibiotic.  It has no expiration date.  Only non-metal spoons should touch honey because metal destroys some of the enzymes.  Honey put on a burn will stop any scaring which may occur. (I personally have done this to a second-degree burn on my leg.  There is no scar or indication where the hot bacon grease burned my leg.)  Bees are the ONLY insect which produce food for humans.

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." That sounds like something Doc Holiday would say in the movie TOMBSTONE.  Shakespeare had some doozies, though. “He has not so much brain as earwax.” —Troilus and Cressida, Act 5, Scene 1. “I do desire that we may be better strangers.” —As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2.  “There’s small choice in rotten apples.” —The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, Scene 1.  "That kiss [your concern] is as comfortless as frozen water to a starved snake." (Titus Andronicus)  “I am sick when I do look on thee.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 2, Scene 1)

Until next month, Peace and smiles to you.  Trudy :)