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I feel that two things are essential being able to see and changing your mind

Also March is Women’s History Month...

“Watch for the signs That lead in the right direction Not to heed them is a bad reflection They'll show you the way Into what you have been seeking To ignore them you're only cheating” ~ Getaway by Earth, Wind and Fire @Cynique wow, gteat stiry! I wonder how often the Universe conspires to work with us and we don’t listen! Maybe the world is the garden of eden... and we humans just don’t fit.

i was hanging out with my daughter, and my grandson, driving around returning from what we thought was going to be a showing of "Us" the highly touted horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele and opening this week-end. A big bust, because my daughter got the times mixed up and the show wasn't coming on util 4 pm instead of 3, and my grandson had to be at work by 6pm, so we headed back home. But first my daughter wanted to stop and pick up some food. i noticed that there there was Lottery sign in the window of the mini mart across from the restaurant where my daughter stopped. Playing on the car radio sirrus station was an old honky tonk song by R&B singer Johnny Taylor. i hadn't heard the song in years. it was an one about a guy asking to borrow 2 dollars because his girlfriend had lost all their money at the Casino. He repeated the phrase again as my grandson and i got out of the car to go buy some lottery tickets for the half billion dollar PowerBall Jackpot game. "Casino" was the last word i heard before i slammed the car door. After we entered the store and i brought $10 worth of tickets from the swarthy Arab sales person, my grandson, the street wise one with 3 baby mamas, decided he wanted to buy some instant scratch-off tickets. He'd gotten paid the day before and because the only tickets left in the machine were 10, 20 and 30 dollars ones, he decided he would splurge and buy a $20 one. Looking over the selection, he was trying to make up his mind which game to play. The winning pay-off on all of these tickets were all high, between $25, 000 and one million dollars. The first ticket that caught my eye was a game called Casino. "Look at that!" I exclaimed. We were just listening to Johnny Taylor sing a song about he and his girlfriend being at the Casino. Right next to this ticket was a game whose jackpot payoff was a million dollars. My grandson was immediately excited. In my head i heard the word "Casino" being repeated by Johnny who died years ago. "Play that one!" i urged. "Naw," he said, i'm going for the million bucks!" "Noo," i pleaded. "Play the Casino one." He ignored me and selected the million dollar game which turned out to be a total loser. Why am i boring y'all with this long anecdote? Because my gut feeling tells me that had he bought the Casino one, my grandson would've won a lot of cash! He couldn't hear Johnny's voice, but i could. Loud and clear. But - we'll never know.

An Australian man travelled to New Zealand and killed 50 Muslims and mentioned Trump and how he was protecting the future of White people. We are in the midst of huge geopolitical shifts for the next 5 years.

((three months later)) Well shit....that was a pretty short conversation, lol.