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“Yesterday, at the first-ever Board of Peace meeting, Trump’s team unveiled ambitious plans for Gaza’s coastline: high-end condos and skyscrapers. The president formed the group to oversee his ceasefire plan in Gaza. Trump announced that member states have pledged $7 billion for the area’s reconstruction, and the U.S. would commit $10 billion to the board. Some world leaders are raising concerns that the Board of Peace could upend world order.”**NPR

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People in the United States are hard put to pay their bills with this administration and now $10 billion is going to shove his trump towers into Gaza where the people can’t have basic necessities and place to live? It will be Trump’s name on everything, with gold crap filling the white house, armed dangerous thugs in neighborhoods, what in the wide blue f is he thinking and when is it going to stop? Americans need food, shelter and freedoms. Trump has dismantled all ideals of future order.

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Social Justice

Preview the photo

Predict your response

Precipitate your words

Preserve the poetry form

Preference in style

Present your efforts

Precept criticism your

Preponderance of text

Presumption of comments

Prevarication is prescient

Preconception avoidance

Prerogative employed

Pretention unfounded.

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 21, 2026

The chef in front beckons you to Shelly’s Cafe. She decided years ago to set up an establishment on the famous highway, Route 66. Every day of building, making sure the food supplies were delivered on time, the kitchen was immaculate and the servers well presented in the famous red and white uniforms. Every person who was employed by the famous chef had been screened for knowledge of the menus, polite behavior and how to make change as a cashier. That was in the fifties and has been a symbol of excellent service ever since. Route 66 is still famous.

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20 February 2026

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The first day of school

Look at that face

A hesitant smile, a moment of small grace

She picked out her dress

Her hair she combed, but the wind blew

Her mother was anxious, she was too

Standing stiffly

The photographer smiling

The little girl’s face, so beguiling

She held the pose

Even though her nose

Was itching badly

Dared not to move, sadly

Slowly she lifted her hand

The itching worse than it began

The photographer knew

Offered a hanky and she blew

Then all that remained

Was her posing again.

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Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 02/17/2026

The image is only a sample of religious texts, most agreeing although each claiming to be the original form of religion.

The Tao, 400BC studied in Chinese culture basic rules of living in harmony with nature written as the path or flow of life.

“Confucius says” a popular saying usually in joke form, but the book (one of many) “The Analects” written 475-221BC repeats the golden rule, kindness, sincerity, harmony righteousness in personal and governmental morality.

The old and new testaments, the Old Testament being the Christian biblical canon, primarily based on the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. It has 46, 49, or 39 books depending on which religion – Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant. This raises a curious question, why are there so many divisions for supposedly one rule, that there is one god, but… The Old Testament basic tenet is salvation, redemption, divine judgment, obedience, and disobedience, faith and lack of, strong emphasis…ritual purity which god demands. This includes evil, sexual morality, etc.

Do you agree with my view? The testaments do not simply say, treat others…but demand their version of rules and what is evil and punishment from a god they devise as a white old man in a golden chair? I will not compare this image to the current leader of my country, who considers himself a – I will not, hmmm…

In the Quran we again see the basic principles of justice, kindness to parents, honesty, ethical living, etc. Added is the absolute oneness of god, Tawheed. The ethics are similar to the first two books I present here but with the addition of the principle – submission to divine will.

I end here with the last text you see in the image, Hindu Texts, which includes historical literature related to Hinduism. Some texts are written in Sanskrit around 500BC and some were verbally passed on. Some basic tenets of Hinduism is that every living creature has a soul. This soul reincarnates into a new body depending on its life experience which reflects their karma, good or evil.

I have tried to offer a few words on my own views of organized religion and hope I have not misconstrued facts I may be biased on. I also hope I have raised a few questions on your own beliefs, but I am not criticizing your personal principles. My belief is in the basic golden rule which I think is the basis for most religions, even if some persons stretch this to ignoble ideas and actions.

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MTB: Poems of Questions (No Answers)

I do not have the talent for expressing ideas in an art form, but I do make the images in my mind. I have no love or admiration for anything “created” by AI. There are some graffiti artists that are extremely talented and I admire their bravery to do the unconventional. Origami? That takes a completely different set of hands to construct amazing items. I admit to watching some reels on Facebook. I recently decided to join FB mainly to reach relatives I missed. As far as my efforts in creativity, I have settled on writing, simply because my fingers and eyesight has deteriorated over the years. I used to use art, painting, sewing and handcraft mediums and I do miss it. I surprised myself ten years ago when I decided to try a blog. I find it enjoyable and will continue. The message I choose is the golden rule: love your neighbor as yourself with honesty and empathy. I think you will find this sort of thought in the basic tenets of any religion.

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #418

Jack Frost always a welcome visitor!

One-Liner Wednesday – Shape of frost

I have a moving picture frame that was gifted to me and it is a delight. The brand I have is Aura and my family and I can post photos, videos, etc on it. It is so enjoyable, because it holds memories and some old photos I might have forgotten otherwise. I highly recommend this frame if you have relatives or friends that are far away or no longer with us. Sometimes one of those memories will just make my day!

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