Untitled.

 

I couldn’t think of an appropriate title for this post to relay all of my feelings, so I left it untitled.   You’ll see why later. 

For my birthday this year I asked if some of my Facebook friends could send me some birthday cards to commemorate turning 55.

My friends totally came through and I got the most amazing cards. I’m planning on making an album out of them.  Here are the latest cards I got from my friend Shari and from my Seester. 

How beautiful is this card from Shari!

It’s a pop up card and laser cut.  I love it. 

And this snoopy one from my Seester.  Love snoopy.  

I loved all of my birthday cards.  Each and every one.  

Here’s some of the others:

For some reason, my sister even got a birthday wish from Ed Sheeran!  I was so jealous! lol. 

But my very favorite card was from Joe.  He picked it out especially for me. He says it reminds him of the time we went to Sweetheart’s  night at Disneyland a couple of years ago for our anniversary. There was a photo op there from Tangled and we held lanterns above our heads while they took our photo. The photos turned out beautiful. I’ll see if I can find it.

Over all I had a wonderful birthday.   55 is going to be great.  

I was going to preface the rest of this post with “caution…..political post ahead”, but then I realized it isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human rights.  It’s about the right to live one’s life, without fear of dying in the street at the hands of our own government.  

Besides, I don’t need to caution anyone about anything. This is my space, and it you don’t like it, don’t read it. No one is forcing anyone to read this.  Scroll on by.   

In the last six months I have been completely staying away from the news. Like, totally ignoring it.  See something on Facebook or Instagram relating to politics?  Quickly scroll on by.   Political news on the radio or TV?  Turn it off immediately.  A sales establishment playing Fox News?  I leave.  I don’t frequent businesses that play that channel on their televisions.  I left the line at the store where I was checking out a couple of weeks ago because they had it on.  It’s a hard stop for me.  

I’ve been living in somewhat of a cocoon. Or bubble. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.  

Why do I do this?  Because it’s the only way I can stay sane and get out of bed in the morning.  The horrific things happening in our country, being led by a narcissistic repugnant thug impact me in ways I wish they didn’t.  

I become sad. I become angry. So angry. The anger consumes me so much that I don’t know what to do with it. 

So I’ve been staying away from it.  

But then yesterday, an innocent woman executed in broad daylight by someone employed by our own government. 

I didn’t mean to watch the video. I wasn’t going to, and suddenly there it was in my Instagram feed and I felt compelled to watch it.  

Once I saw it I couldn’t stop.  I’ve watched multiple videos of it, from multiple angles. 

That person was not trying to run over that agent.  She was trying to drive away from him, probably fearing for her life.  With good reason.  He shot her in the face as she was driving away.  The car wasn’t even facing him. 

It was murder.  That man murdered that woman, and it was caught on tape. 

And then to have people claim otherwise, in the face of such EVIDENCE to the contrary. 

Disgusting.  Revolting.  Sickening.  

If you feel that woman deserved to die, or feel like the killing is justified, remove me from your friend’s list.  

You have no redeeming qualities to me as a human and I don’t want you on my friends list.  If your views are that diametrically opposed to mine, I don’t know why we are friends anyway.  

This post is dedicated to 

Renee Nicole Good.  

Say her name. 

She did not deserve to die.  

I am so heartbroken.  And furious. 

And we all should be too. 

To those people who claim that the Ice “officer” was just doing his job, and that being murdered in cold blood, in broad daylight was the consequences of her actions, keep telling yourself whatever you need to in order to sleep at night.  

Also, you might want to turn off Faux News.  

Well that took a dark turn, but I have cried myself to sleep over the killing of this poor woman. Now doesn’t seem like the right time to be silent about such things. 

And so I won’t.