Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Horror of the Congo ... The future proves the past...


Originally published almost a decade ago...  the Newshour, it was reported that people in the Congo walked for miles in the rain to vote, and when their names did not show up at the polling place, they walked for more miles from place to place to vote.
How can one not admire the Women of The Congo?


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/world/africa/congo-election-board-may-annul-tens-of-thousands-of-votes.html?_r=1

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/1129/A-brief-history-of-Congo-s-wars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5226772.stm

The atrocious violence in the congo is just about the worst:
more HERE:
 http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/congo-rape-and-theuninvolved-un.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/npr-interview-congo-mass-rape-and.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/rape-in-congo-womans-body-is-worth-less.html


"The Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo
have shown incredible bravery in the face of unbelievable atrocities, as evidenced by the photographs assembled in this exhibition. These women, along with their families, have survived a litany of atrocities: oppressive dictators; the violent passage to democracy; economic crises; and an ongoing struggle of regional and tribal warfare which has found its end far too slowly and with far too much bloodshed. These challenges have been accompanied by a devastating lack of both general and reproductive healthcare, HIV/AIDS, and the common occurrence of rape and extreme sexual violence against women and girls of all ages. For those who survive, support is often unavailable..." the tour HERE

Marcus Bleasdale: (and Orchestra in Congo HERE)

Monday, October 1, 2018

Sunday Farmcats

Farm cats stretch out and live well.
  



The Holly and the Ivy Printable Lyrics page

Lyrics to this song will give your heart that thrill you like
 as Christmas nears.





wiki say "The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. Holly and ivy have been a mainstay of English Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they were mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts (Roud 2004). Holly and ivy also figure in the lyrics of the "Sans Day Carol". The music and most of the text was first published by Cecil Sharp.[1] Sir Henry Walford Davies wrote a popular choral arrangement that is often performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and by choirs around the world..."




The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
FOR PRINTING
the Holly and the ivy click to view large


The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flower
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the morn.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly and the ivy
Now both are full well grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ

Sweet singing of the choir





more Christmas joviality

click here and also click HERE






Tuesday, September 18, 2018

A Message from St Michael the Archangel?


translated from Spanish


First Mystery Speak San Miguel Arcángel:

 Remember us, the Angelic Hosts, invoke us when you believe you are lost, we are with you, it is our task at this moment, to protect the souls that want to return to the Kingdom of Heaven .

  
Yes, my little ones, certainly, I am to serve Our God in His Most Holy Trinity and, also, to serve you all, all created souls.

I, being the primary Archangel who protects you and who is at the service of Our God, I can also take you to His Sacred Heart.




Angels were created to serve Our God in His Most Holy Trinity, but not only for this, my little ones, but to love Him, love Him intensely, because we are Pure Spirits and from there, that our power of Love is immense. You, still, for the body that you possess, your soul can not love and serve Our God as you would like, which you can do when you are, already, in the Kingdom of Heaven, when your soul, purified and can enter to enjoy of 
what Our God Jesus Christ accomplished for you,
 to open the Gates of Heaven that were closed.



In the history of Creation, there have been multiple occasions in which we defend, what we have created.



You remember, only, the Great Battle, in which I defeated Luzbella, but he, already turned into a demon, from that moment in which he opposed to continue loving and serving Our God, has tried to destroy everything created and especially the souls of the children of Our God.



Therefore, we, in Heaven: Angels, Archangels, Dominations, Powers, etc., certainly have each of us a task to fulfill, but in addition, we take care of you continuously against satanic attacks, because within the ranks of satan, There are angels of all denominations and you are too small to be able to fight against so much satanic, negative force against you.



You yourselves leave the doors open to satan so that he attacks you and easily overcomes you, because you have turned away from prayer, from the life of Grace, of Love, which you can only obtain from Our God.



The deceits of satan are tremendous, you do not realize their power against you and, on the other hand, you do not want to listen to the warnings of Our God and of the Virgin, the Ever Virgin Mary, our Queen. You are constantly being warned that satan deceives you, leads you through bad, negative ways that make you lose Grace and, above all, separate you from Love. You have been told that Love is the Divine Essence and in His Kingdom, only Love lives among souls.

  
Satan knows perfectly what Heaven is, knows the joy that exists there and all the spiritual gifts and abilities that the soul will recover when it reaches the Kingdom of Heaven and that is its great envy, not being able to be there anymore.

  
It attacks you continually, it lies to you, it diverts you from the Truth and you believe everything it tells you and, little by little, you go, you, losing your right to return to the Kingdom of Heaven, where you came from.
  


Your evil has increased considerably and you yourselves do not do much to try to recover all that spiritual life you must have to fulfill your mission on Earth and be able to return to the Kingdom of Heaven.



Foolishly you have turned away from the celestial beauties and not because you stand helpless, as many of you say, not ! , Our God does not look away from you at any time, continuously, caring for your body and your soul. But you, foolishly and arrogantly, withdraw from His cares.

  
You are seeing how the World is being handled in these moments, and I want to ask you something: Are your lives, your World, being handled with Virtue and with Love? Do you have a close relationship with souls, as if to help you? one another, right?

  
Do you love one another as My Lord and My God, Jesus Christ, asked you? No, my little ones and so I could ask you so many things, in which you should live, to be an example of Virtue and Love, but that is what is lacking in you, in the relationships of one with the other and mainly in the relationship of your God, in His Most Holy Trinity, with you.




If you have left Grace, if you have allowed yourselves to be handled by satan, what are you complaining about? If you have not put your part to stop the powers of satan, for not living in Grace, which can only come from Our God, what do you complain about?


 If you are not living in the Virtues and in everything that can make you grow for eternal life, what are you complaining about?


You have let satan into the World. Certainly, the Original Sin caused it, but you have separated yourself from the life of prayer, from the fulfillment of the Commandments that were given to you and, above all, from the action of loving one another, to take care of oneself to the others of satan's attacks, and you do not.
  


What do you expect, then? What is all right, when you are working in evil?
  

You are seeing the governments of the Earth, are they watching for you? They cause wars, cause famines, persecutions, cause you so much pain, only see for your personal interests and what do you do ?, you only get angry, you speak ill of them, but you do not use Wisdom or intelligence, to be able to overcome all that evil that surrounds you and that is annihilating you.

  
Do you join in groups and pray? Do you do penances, fasts, to potentiate your prayer and thus be able to overcome the forces of satan? No, my little ones, you do not do it, then, what do you complain about?

 If you want to build a house, you have to work. You give in full to be able to build and enjoy the end of the construction, where you put all your effort, all your love, your taste, because you were thinking of a final goal that would please you and your family; but, now, you are not even defending something that is bigger than a house, and that is, your soul.


You have put aside all that can make you grow and, as you grow up, be able to help your brothers and you, thus, win the Kingdom of Heaven. But you do not give due importance to the growth of your soul.




You prefer to use other ways to achieve the goods of the Earth and to have a good time, when you should be fulfilling your spiritual mission.

  
You allow yourselves to be manipulated by satan, making you believe that you need much of the World and you steal from one another; you kill, in order to obtain what you did not work. Certainly, those who live a spiritual life, continually ask us for help, these souls receive heavenly help and that is when we enter into action, directly, towards a soul. We are constantly defending you against the forces of satan, which most of you do not see, nor do you realize, because, at all times, the satanic forces are giving you an infinite number of obstacles to turn you away from the Grace of Our God and, above all, for you to lose the Faith in which you have a True God, a God who loves you Infinitely and who forgets that a God gave Himself for you and poured out the last Drop of His Blood for your salvation.




That satan is dedicated, mainly, to you forgetting what your God, in His Most Holy Trinity has done, is doing and will do for you.



Your God never forgets you and you complain about it when it goes badly for you; The first thing that comes out of you is to say that your God no longer helps you, he does not listen to you anymore.



What fools you are, my little ones! When you perfectly understand the Love that is given to each of you in the Kingdom of Heaven, you will be immensely ashamed of not having appreciated so much Love that is poured out for each one of you, for each of you!


  


You were created by Our God to live in the Good, to enjoy the Good and the perfect, that only Our God can create and you prefer to live in the imperfect, in the lie, in the error, in the falsehood. You prefer to live in the dark, in the lies that you tell each other, in order to get what you want and that, most of the time, is sinful.



You live in great corruption and you see it normal in your life, when that leads you to greater sins. You Do not try to fight against yourselves, to prevent that evil from entering into you, destroying, little by little, all your spirituality.


And this is how satan works, does not ask you to do bad things, that can be seen, that can be noticed, but that leads you, little by little, to do bad things, in which you yourselves do not realize them and so you accept, in your life, those deviations and when you realize where it took you, the vast majority of you can no longer change and try to live in the Good, because of shame, so bad that you have done to your around.



Satan knows each of you perfectly, by your actions, by your words, by your actions, against God Himself, and against your brothers.



And that's where we, the Angels, enter, especially when you ask for our help and, generally, you remember Heaven, asking for desperate help when you are in dead ends and almost on the verge of suicide.



What fools you are, my little ones! Having an Almighty, Omnipresent God, a Creator God, a Savior God, a God who watches over you at all times, and you allow yourselves to be guided by a fallen angel.



There is no point of comparison, satan is a fallen angel and you put aside a God who loves you so much, who only wants your good and your spiritual growth so that you reach your perfection and can easily enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Instead, you pay attention to a fallen angel who only leads you to sin, to evil, to your spiritual destruction, to the destruction of everything that Our God created for your good, in that material World in which you are, but above all, that seeks your good and your spiritual growth, which has some Powers, that clearly, satan does not allow you to know them, because you would easily defeat him and, the main power, is Humility.


If you realize, my little ones, that's where your spiritual fall begins. The arrogance, he fell, satan fell for pride and he, despite having the powers he had, fell into pride. You, who do not have that spiritual life that he had, very easily fall, and fall because you move away from the Source of Life that emanates from Our God, in His Sacrosanct Trinity. You move away from the One who can protect and grow if you ask.




Satan deviates you with his lies and promises and you know perfectly well, that everything that comes from Our God, requires a specific time and a job and, at times, that work is difficult, painful, but, in the end, you enjoy it, so My Lord and my God, Jesus Christ, said that the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven is a narrow door and the difficult path, stony and thorny, but, for this, you must trust in His Grace and His Love.


Even if you fall, He will raise you up, if you are attacked strongly, He will protect you, but you must go forward, do not let yourselves be defeated, He will always be at your side.




And this I tell you, my little ones, because you are living moments of great change in the history of Creation, and Creation is what you can see and what you can not see in your World and in the entire Universe. Everything has to change for good, there will be a lot of pain, but also, a lot of Love will be poured out on those who love Our God and Lord.



Certainly, we, all the Angelic Hosts, are taking care of you, we are protecting you, have full confidence in what Our God and Lord has dictated for these moments in the history of mankind. Fill yourselves with His Love, be obedient to His Will, enjoy these moments, where you are promising a radical change, very good, for those who have learned to love, and very bad for those who chose the path of satan.




Remember us, the Angelic Hosts, invoke us when you believe you are lost, we are with you, it is our task at this moment, to protect the souls that want to return to the Kingdom of Heaven.



The Love of Our God, in His Most Holy Trinity, is great, it is beautiful, it is beautiful, trust, My little ones, that soon will come this great change that you yourself already feel that is approaching. Trust, all of Heaven is protecting you, but above all, the Love of Our God and Lord in His Most Holy Trinity.


Thank you, My little ones.

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The vision of Pope Leo, the 100 years of satan, and the St. Michael prayer

https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/b009rpMichael.htm

https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/roman-catholic-church/item/the-vision-of-pope-leo-xiii



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Thursday, September 13, 2018

I'm not sure yet

For Alex.


http://youtu.be/rtfu12b9yCE
https://youtu.be/rtfu12b9yCE

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Koko the gorilla dies...

Koko has passed... our loss.
/koko-gorilla-famed-for-using-sign-language-and-crying-over-pet-kitten-dead-at-46/

Here is a reprint of an earlier article.


Koko was sad when told that Robin Williams, an acquaintance of hers, had died....What? was TOLD? Yes, Koko knows sign language.  (video below)...
Apparently, Koko had become despondent over the death of a life-long friend. Robin Williams managed to make her laugh for the first time in 6 months.


When i was young,
 i learned about Koko. It was a fabulous thing. (Thank you, wise teachers...)
This Gorilla painted pictures of things she liked!
This is a picture of a dog who ran and played with her:





She picked out out prospective mating partners from videos, like a dating site...
She ran and played with kittens and dogs, forming interspecies relationships -- other than her relationships with us humans.
Her own pet kitten --tailless--
she named All Ball.

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 Here she is playing with her own little kitten pet.
Warning--
 there is deep emotional moment here.





Robin Williams and Koko







Koko made the news tonight.

Here is the story and video of Koko adopting two kittens.

http://wtvr.com/2015/10/15/adorable-video-shows-koko-the-gorilla-adopting-two-kittens/

many pics here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3273726/Meeting-mummy-time-Koko-gorilla-adopts-two-baby-kittens-cuddles-fondly-heart-warming-footage.html



Now. If you can bear it-- watch this very short video of what gorillas do to us, and what we do to gorillas.


 long version here

https://vimeo.com/87866211





Baby Mountain Gorilla





Endangered Silverback Gorillas

One of the most heartbreaking and horrifying acts committed by humans
 is the torture or killing of 
sentient beings. 
Animals such as elephants, horses, all the higher mammals--, who have memories, emotions, families---
that we can treat them so despicably is beyond bearing at times. That we treat even the lower animals poorly reflects on us as well. We all walk about manifesting ourselves. ( The one minute at the end of The Urban Gorilla above--especially in light of the first minute--shows very clearly that the human being, capable of the highest good, is also capable of the most deplorable evil. )

However, to treat such tender and loving animals as, say, elephants, who exhibit deep family ties, who mourn their dead, who are traumatized by loss-- as if we are monsters, and they are nothing--or really, as if they are our hated enemies!
 --surely will be one of our greatest shames we will bear before God the Creator Almighty, when all things are bathed in Light.



This is merely a prelude to ask you to look at the destruction of Gorillas in the Congo. Yes, The Congo is surely in the crosshairs of Satan:  http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/search?q=congo

Nonetheless, if you will spend two minutes researching what happens to gorillas there you will drop to your knees and pray for ....something.  Peace?  Destruction?
That all things be made new...

You can start here:

Destruction of the Giants


Warning.
 If you google:, Congo Gorilla Slaughter  and hit Images, you will weep for a long time.
















The situation with elephants HERE:





Here is a large collection of respect for animal life quotes, with some wonderful pictures.



We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922 

Mahatma Gandhi: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"


From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men. ~M. Frida Hartley







more respect for life

puppy: Here       Whales: HERE


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Humans HERE

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

The Story of Stumpy Golden Eyes

What does it mean to be wild? What does it mean to be free...
 yet...
 one can see there is something...some warm light, some comfort over there?
Let me tell you the story of Stumpy GoldenEyes,


 who fathered most of the kittens in a mile or two or three (or seven?) radius of a little hamlet in the Flint Hills of Kansas....




The Land of Stumpy Golden Eyes

There was a cat,
fluffy and wearing a black and white tuxedo. He was here before me, in the grasslands and prairie and hills and farmland. He ranged the miles around my little farmhouse, going here and there as he pleased. My guess is he sired many many of the ferals and not-feral cats in the area. I think I own one of his kits.
He did not come close enough for me to get a real good look at him. But I would see him pass by
 and he would see me see him.




As the years passed
he might have tangled with my big marmalade boy. He might have flirted with my Konza Prairie Dog. You never know what goes on behind the cloak of night. (Except that in Catland, some things do go on….)

Then something happened, which changed me and elevated my spirit through pain.
Stumpy, who had naught but a 2 inch stump of a tail, (the rest of which was most probably lost in a farming accident or wildlife encounter) began to come close to the house and sit. I got out my zoom camera and discovered the magnificent Golden Eyes which were deep as the river and bright as the prairie.

Stumpy Golden Eyes! I love you! Come let me meet you!



As he came closer each day that week, I got a better picture.

My heart sank.
 He was covered in big fatted ticks.
 His black and white long hair was missing in patches. Oh StumpyGoldenEyes I want to comfort you.
I asked the old farmer across the way,
who said Stumpy had always seemed to have been around. He didn't know how old he was, but certainly more than 10 or 15 years. All the kittens in the area were black and white. He was only seen from a distance. He did not linger but was like a shadow.

No one had ever touched Stumpy. He did not come to eat or drink or sleep on the big hay bales.

He walked alone.

I put out premium nourishment for this elder feline of the flint hills.
 I went and sat a respectful distance away; he came! He ate! He drank! And he came every day. By the end of the week he allowed me to sit within feet. I put out my concealed cat carrier near the food.
I touched him; his scabied, parasite-attacked body shivered and shrank.
 The next day he allowed me to lift him, ease him into the carrier.

I took him to our shelter, a warm country place with a huge grassy yard surrounded by tall trees. I told them the story. They saw his pain and dis-ease. They said, he could never be adopted. He is old and worn out. He is wild and fierce.

I asked them to clean him, to make him feel good, and they did. They took all the critters off of his noble body and made his skin and fur soft and supple. They fed him good things and he was at ease—for four days. I went each day and was able to pet him and give him company. And then his good humor wore off.

“Where are my flint hills? Where is the sky? I am Wild Cat!”

They told me, he should be put down now. He has few teeth, and is unable to eat well, especially in the wild.
He had been starving.
 ...He came to you because he needed help to go, they said.
He had come to me to help him cross the Rainbow Bridge.

He had come to find the warmth, to help him ease out of this tight broken shell into his new life!
I wept at the honor.
The shelter woman and I wept. We were not in a hurry and we held each other for a moment.
I asked her for a favor.
 I told her
Stumpy had never been inside anything but a barn. Could he please go outside?
Could he have his morphine outside, under his Blue Konza Prairie Skies?

The Wise Wonderful Woman of the shelter stood quietly and her heart and brain battled the Way Things Always Are. She wrestled The Way Things Are Done.
Then she said Yes.
My heart broke with gratitude. I still have a scar.

Stumpy GoldenEyes crossed the Rainbow Bridge out in the breezes of the Flint Hills. Perhaps he saw a mouse in the grass as he passed, or heard a birdsong.

They told me upon post- examination of his gums that he was at least 20 years old, but probably older.
When my number comes in, I am donating to the shelter an outdoor Passage Portal, a bridge and little cottage for those animals who loved or lived in the wild.
And a lifetime supply of Kleenex and chocolate for the shelter women.



Stumpy Golden Eyes of the Thunderpaws Tribe














can you see me?










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addendum... all the cats of mine (such as ,  HERE,  and here, here, here, and HERE  are rescues from our shelter.)