Watching “Guardian” on Prime with Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner with opening scenes of a raging sea are precisely the reason I will never go on a cruise or boat on the ocean. 😂

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it empty! Not a single note or paper, or photo was there. It even looked like it had been vacuumed out! What the dickens? I looked around the room for clues as to who might have absconded with your private drawer items and then it hit me. You were serious! Then I walked into the foyer and saw your suitcases and you standing there with an “I told you so” look on your face. The taxi arrived and you were gone.

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Julie decided she would make her point to Sam the only way he just might, miracle withstanding, understand what she was saying. After a five year live-together relationship, she still felt empty. She went over the “should have” thoughts in her ever depressing mind. She should have set an ultimatum earlier. Two years was her thinking at the time but now, three years later to still not have a feeling of permanence? What did Sam want and why was he always suddenly too busy when she tried to talk about it? Enough is enough she thought and maybe he needed a visual aid. Thus the doctored photo of her in the meadow.

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https://christinebialczak.com/2022/06/21/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-06-21-2022/#like-16730

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June 21 (Reuters) – Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia’s last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine.

All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with the World Refugee Day on Monday, will benefit UNICEF’s humanitarian response for Ukraine’s displaced children, Heritage Auctions, which conducted the sale in New York, said in a statement.

Muratov’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, fiercely critical of President Vladimir Putin and his government, suspended operations in Russia in March after warnings from the state over its coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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I started the title and the word peeve ended up perve as my fingers made mistakes.

However it is fitting as I read emails of fellow bloggers and see perve worthy ads and many of them!😡. It’s bad enough for our poems and stories to be interrupted by ads but these ads? Some are sickening, some are rude, and some R rated. What the heck is going on with WordPress? 😳😖It is very irritating and extremely disappointing.

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https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/tmp61-sunburn/

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Endless, it seems, ignoring rights

Actually listening without prejudice

Everyone has some bias

Endless reasons for their opinion

Interpretation of the “rules”

Is there a “”golden” rule we can all agree on?

We may never learn if there is one

Or will we in the finality of death?

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http://godoggocafe.com/2022/06/21/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-june-21-2022/

Human vs Neanderthal

jilldennison

Jun 20

In ordinary times, you would likely never have known the name Adam Kinzinger unless you happen to be from his home state of Illinois.  But, today I think it’s safe to say that at least 85% of the adults in the U.S. know who Adam Kinzinger is.  In case you’re one of the 15% who don’t know, a brief summary …

Adam Kinzinger is a Republican legislator who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011.  Kinzinger became known for his vocal opposition to Trump’s claims of voter fraud and attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Kinzinger was one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment, and one of only two Republicans to vote to create a select committee to investigate the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, to which he was subsequently appointed.  Due to the open hostility from members of his party, Mr. Kinzinger announced last October that he will not run for re-election in November.  In 2006, Kinzinger was named the Wisconsin Red Cross “Hero of the Year” for wrestling a knife-wielding man to the ground and disarming him after the man had cut the throat of a woman on a street in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Adam has a wife, Sofia, and one son, Christian.

A few days ago, Mr. Kinzinger’s wife, Sofia, received this letter …

I found breathing impossible as tears welled in my eyes when I read that … I could feel the evil, the hate emanating from those words.  For the rest of the evening, I felt on the brink of crying, felt that if I let it start, I would never be able to stop.  There are many people — politicians and religious leaders — whom I despise, whose faces I would spit in given half a chance, but never in my wildest thoughts would I even consider threatening violence against them or their families.  This, my friends, is the difference between a human being and a gun-toting neanderthal.

THIS, my friends, is who we are becoming.  The political divisions in this nation are leading to murder, to corruption, to destruction, and to widespread violence that I believe is inevitable in the coming months.  We the People have allowed politicians, have allowed our own greed, have allowed our sense of entitlement to bring us to this place.  We have forgotten our humanity and somewhere along the way have lost our sense of compassion, of empathy, of caring for others.

When we value our guns more than our children, when we pretend to believe the lies our politicians tell us, even though we know better, and when we believe that somehow one person is better than another because of skin colour, religion, gender affiliation, or any other criteria, then we are contributing to the kind of behaviour that cause this maniac to send this letter to Sofia Kinzinger, contributing to the likes of the teen who went into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, aiming to murder Black people just because their skin was darker than his.

I hope law enforcement officials are able to track down the writer of that letter and that they will have the guts to prosecute and imprison him, for he does not deserve the privilege of walking on the same streets as the rest of us.  However, it’s more likely they won’t find him, if they even look, and that eventually he may carry out his threat.  And worse yet, he is only one of many such creatures who believe that violence is the solution to their problems.

This nation is rapidly losing its humanity, is becoming a violent banana republic overrun by people who care only for their own fortunes and to hell with those of us who cross them in caring for the greater good. This letter-writer has convinced me that, while I know there ARE good people in this country, there is no longer a collective good, no longer a majority of people working toward a greater good. R.I.P. former United States.

Thanks for this post, Jill!

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June 21, 2022 at 5:14 AM EST begins the summer solstice for earth’s northern hemisphere.

spring buds blooming now

sun’s heat intensifies them

now fully displayed

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http://dversepoets.com/2022/06/20/haibun-monday-6-20-22-solstice/

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