Blue is the Color of Hope and Change

There are some amazing candidates that have given me hope that our country can overcome the cruelty of the current administration.

Their truthful words and positive messages have already changed our country.

The current administration assaults our country, other countries, and the people who live in our country and those who live all over the world. The assaults occur multiple times a day, every single day.

Stacey Abrams, “We must cease being participants in our own oppression.”

Beto O’Rourke, “At the moment that [these children] finally thought they had reached safety, refuge, were going to petition for asylum, they were taken from their parents, and are now in Tornillo with no idea of when or if they will see their mothers or their fathers on this Father’s Day again.”

Andrew Gillum, “I’m not calling him a racist. But the racists believe he’s a racist.”


Stacey Abrams quote can be found on the Black Enterprise site.

Beto O’Rourke quote can be found on Politico.

Andrew Gillum quote is from a recent debate. Can also be found on several sites including the Washington Post.


New Additions to My Garden Cost a Total of $1.62!

Farm Supply has shelves of plants with reduced prices. Often the plants are not pretty, they have gone through a bloom. May be leggy. May need cleaned up a bit.

Today I found 3 succulents on the clearance shelves for .50 each.

Plant 1 Became 3 Plantings in the Garden

Succulent 1

Succulent 1

Succulent 1

Succulent 1

Plant 2 With Buds

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Succulent 2

Buds This Morning April 28,2018
Succulent 2

Plant 3 and Cuttings for Possible More Plants
Succulent 3

Succulent 3

The Leaves for Possible More Plants
Succulent 3

Example of Leaves Growing More Plants
Succulent with Plantlets

I spent a total of $1.62 for my new plants!

Not exactly a rule, but I try to plant new plants the day I bring them home. I popped the succulents in the garden after dinner and before the cleaning up.


Don’t Give Power to Charlatans

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark


Trump Could Learn A Lot From Eleanor Roosevelt and Descartes

In Eleanor Roosevelt’s Book of Common Sense Etiquette she writes about Descartes’ Discourse on Method.

“There are four simple steps by which we learn to think logically and thus communicate clearly.”

The first step–

Accept as true nothing which you do not clearly know to be so; avoid hasty judgment and prejudice.


Trump Could Learn A Lot From Eleanor Roosevelt

I am reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Book of Common Sense Etiquette. This quote seems particularly relevant.

Perhaps even more discreditable is the practice of asserting as “facts” matters which have not been proved, or using as ”evidence” something that is the product of illogical thinking and the drawing of an invalid conclusion.

Wiretapping Tweet


Hillary Clinton and What Should Have Been an Historic Election

Last Christmas I received a copy of Humans of New York. Recently I became aware of the Humans of New York website. And there was Hillary Clinton. She told the story of taking the law school admissions test.

“I was taking a law school admissions test in a big classroom at Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only women in the room. I was feeling nervous. I was a senior in college. I wasn’t sure how well I’d do. And while we’re waiting for the exam to start, a group of men began to yell things like: ‘You don’t need to be here.’ And ‘There’s plenty else you can do.’ It turned into a real ‘pile on.’ One of them even said: ‘If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I’ll die.’”

Many women have been forced to endure similar situations. It is unfortunate but, women needed to figure out a way to function in these situations.

This is what Hillary stated in the same Humans of New York story,

“But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that’s a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don’t want to seem ‘walled off.’”

With each presidential debate I kept wondering how does Hillary Clinton, who is an accomplished person, share the stage with someone who claims to be ignorant by choice?

If Donald Trump had someone apply for a management position in one of his businesses and the person had no applicable experience and lied on his application or refused to supply proper documents, would Trump even consider the person for the job? No, should be the answer. But apparently Trump wants the American people to overlook his lack of applicable experience and vote for him like they would vote for the prom king.

This election should have been about Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments. It should have been about the historic event of Estelle Liebow Schultz casting her vote for the first woman for President of the United States. Why is her vote historic? She was born before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. The 19th Amendment denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.

Women’s Suffrage Time Line

National Archives

Hillary Clinton’s Website


Why 33,000 Is Not A Significant Number

Never underestimate the petty vindictiveness of those in power.

33,000 emails may seem like a lot, but it really isn’t. I am self-employed and generally my means of communication with folks is by email. I am not currently working on a project so my email count is lower than usual.

This is a spreadsheet of the number of emails on my new computer that was purchased in April and my old computer that I am primarily using in my studio.

Email Spreadsheet

I use the family private server. Yes, there have been attempts to break into it. We have protocols in place to update the security on the server on a daily basis, track hacking attempts, and monitor logins. While you can never be absolutely positive that your server has not been hacked there are no indications that ours has been.

I suspect that Hillary’s server has more sophisticated security than ours, since it is an obvious target for hackers. And if it was hacked, where is the evidence?

Those in positions of power should be using their time and our tax dollars on issues and policies that benefit all of the people of our country, not for their power-mongering pleasure.

The quote at the top of my post is from the BBC series Pie in the Sky. It is fiction, but the statement comes from a more rational place than most of the reasons used to support the never ending attacks on Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately Hillary is probably accustomed to attacks, as are many women.

What the power-mongering people do not seem to comprehend is while they are trying to hurt Hillary Clinton, they are harming all of the people of our country.