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Louise is Elizabeth Hykes blog

by Louise Wiggins is Elizabeth

Rated: E · Book · Writing · #2044345

Writing about what I have been reading and encountering in the media.

WELCOME TO MY BLOG!
I comment on things I am reading, thinking about, encountering in media, and spiritual issues. I hope you will find something interesting. PS. I love feedback...

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Aug 21, 2023 at 9:07am
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My mind wanders from one thing to the other. I tend to see connections where others only see what they were told to see as a child. I'm no child; but, I lived in wonderment then... and still do. I don't allow my fingers or my pen to lead the way as much as I used to. Perhaps I should.

As for Noah... no rain today... yet.

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Louise Wiggins is Elizabeth

Feb 8, 2023 at 9:24pm
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Thank you Apondia! I'm glad you have found my ponderings interesting. I am sure you will find the book interesting.
Elizabeth

Apondia

Feb 8, 2023 at 4:04pm
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I've read several of your recent blogs. I wrote down the book and author because I would like to read it after reading your blogs. I can never understand how anyone can point to a specific person and say God said, "follow this man." Christians follow Christ. His wisdom and teaching never get old. I advocate the study of Christian History. In the Greek word Divolos = diabolical, comes the knowledge that a thought can be put into your head to turn you away from something you intended to accomplish. This is what is happening many times to ordinary Christians who are caught up with pandemic and politics. They need to get into scripture and discover the mind of holiness that was the Christ. It gives you a place to test your own thoughts about what God relates to us on a daily basis. I appreciate your comments. Write On. Sincerely Apondia

QPdoll

Nov 16, 2022 at 6:57am
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Lovely.

WakeUpAndLive️~🚬🚭2024

Jul 12, 2022 at 11:28am
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Since you are at WdC for a long time, I suppose you know about "The Poet's Place Library "

[E] with all the different useful links on poetry? I will try to find Ted Kooser's book via my own library. Thanks for sharing.

Happy Memorial Day 2024!

May 11, 2022 at 8:05pm
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I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend, and I enjoyed reading your nice words about him. He sounds like a person I would have appreciated knowing.

Jayne

Jun 7, 2020 at 6:35am
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I've had the same conversation and lost a friend over it.

"I know you don't want to wear a mask, but you don't know if you're a carrier and you could make a lot of people sick. You could kill someone."

"Then I guess frail people should just stay home or take the risk."

"I'm one of those people. You just implied you don't care if I die. Even if it's you who kills me."

*Crickets*

I saw them the other day. Still not wearing a mask.

Unfortunately, this type of thinking really does make quarantine a lot sadder for so many people, including me, because I know I'm going to be stuck here a lot longer than others.

Because, "freedom". Oh, the irony.

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Alexi

Jun 7, 2020 at 2:51am
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We should all have respect for one another, I and my other half always wear face masks and gloves, we disinfect and keep a bottle in the car, we social distance as a respect to others and to protect ourselves and we stay in unless necessary to go out and walk where it is less crowded.

Others infuriate me because they don't seem to get it. The Spanish flu from 1918 to 1919 lasted approx fifteen months and in that time 500 million people were infected about a third of the world's population at that period. The death toll was between 16 million to fifty million people.

Coming up to today 2020 7,000,000 million people have been infected already in a few short months and the death toll is around 400,000 and still rising. Common sense tells us to protect ourselves and think of others. Some have no thought for others and to me are very selfish.

This could go on for some time and our world has changed forever. Man is destroying this beautiful planet by his own ignorance and this is why the wrath of God is one day coming. Just as in the days of Noah.

Every soul that dies is on our conscience, this has got to stop, we have to look after our planet and look out to one another.

When will they ever learn?

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GabriellaR45

Feb 21, 2018 at 5:02pm
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Elizabeth,

This essay is articulate and beautifully crafted.
You make a good case. I appreciate your concern that
we stop giving up on kids who need help. So many of the
kids who shot and killed students and teachers felt
isolated and disliked, with nowhere to turn. They are
usually desperate and angry, having always been a fifth wheel.
In Rutland, Vermont where I live, the police had a
brainstorm. Instead of picking up and taking kids
or adults to jail for carrying or selling drugs,
Rutland invested in mental health clinics for individuals
who steal to get drugs or die, to be treated by
doctors who are qualified to work with these
unfortunate students and adults. As a result, the
percentage of drug dealers and users has been
slowly dropping, with a long way to go. It is
clear to all of us that treating the patient sure
beats going down the road to nowhere to
endure brutal conditions in a state or federal prison.

Thanks for caring, Elizabeth !!

GabriellaR45

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HWinB.C.

Aug 22, 2017 at 9:34pm
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I've talked about the problems with media for a long time. Do you remember the show, Network (1976)? Prophetic.

The last two years has shown a complete breakdown of our perception of reporting with integrity. If it ever existed.

Yes, to answer your question. it has bothered me for several years.

June 18, 2022 at 4:03pm

#1033964

One more day in modern America

I see that I have been neglecting my blog and its readers. I have been writing a lot, but not here. There were visitors, obligations, and old-fashioned procrastination involved. So here I am, ready to say something.

The January 6 Committee of the House of Representatives has televised 3 hearings. So far, they have presented witnesses, all Republican conservatives, and/or people from the Trump Administration and orbit. They have made a few key points:
1.) Donald Trump knew he lost the election.
2.) Donald Trump knew the Eastman plan was illegal and so did Eastman but they followed it anyway.
3.) Mike Pence was badgered and threatened by Trump to follow the plan to decline the Electoral College certifications.
4.) Mike Pence consistently refused to comply for a month but never told the public until he actually refused.
5.) Although VP Pence's decision was pivotal, it was not heroic in that he simply did what the Constitution required.
6) Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi would have been killed had they been caught, and Pence came to within 40 feet of being captured by the mob.
7) Eastman, Mayor Guliani, and Sydney Powell were the only close advisors who agreed to support the Eastman plan, but no one actually took action to stop it or to inform the public.
8.) The danger Trump and the Republican Party et.al. pose to American Democracy persists.

Meanwhile, here in Howell County Missouri, there is a front-page flap in the Howell County News about an employee of the Boys and Girls Club who identifies as gender-neutral and instructed 4th-grade children to use the neutral "they" or "Captain" when addressing them and each other without notifying parents that this was going to happen. The adult instructed the children they wouldn't be boys and girls, just kids this summer. One family withdrew their children from the program. Another asked that their child be placed in a different group. Subsequently, the parent who complained publicly has taken intense harassment and received threats.

I think this would have gone better had parents been informed ahead of time, but I think there still would have been a flap because people like to flap their jaws. So do I, but this is not worthy of the front page of any paper. It is painful and personal and a sign that our culture is changing in response to recent scientific discoveries, even here in the quiet out-of-the-way corner of America where people hate to change.

Happy Pride Month and Happy Juneteenth everyone! May our Constitutional Democracy survive to celebrate again next year.

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