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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
728/730 Main Street, Downtown Pleasanton California -for (me!) sandra, tvgp
on the second floor: my home, with beautiful guest rooms for taryn and jack, and their future families; and other family/friends throughout the year
on the roof/two tiered: garden. green house. entirely window enclosed/temperature controlled; see out, but can't see in.. allows visual access to the outdoors/ sky day/night; all weather; all year
mural on side; elevator inside, parking lot used for fellowship/meals
balcony -parade views
magic, lights, sparkle, funk, eccentricity
walking distance to everything I love: book store, restaurants, library, firehouse theater, classes, aquatic center, fair, stores, barones, live music, entertainment, parks.. #firehouseartcenter
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Mermaid Bliss summer 2022 yard art by (sexy! & topps!) #bliss #haiku @writeousmom
Friday, May 27, 2022
You're Going To Do Great Things! (jack!) i love you ~writeousmom
Thursday, May 26, 2022
#filoli #haiku @writeousmom
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
love & healing prayers for hearts broken in texas from (us) #LHPart @writeousmom
#prayerart #texas singsabrokenheart
#Mondo -as seen by (me!) ~topps
~honestly... first discovered in pleasanton, california in 2015.. re-seen in san jose, california 2022, only weeks ago.. and has already made it to: twin lakes, santa cruz, california..
can mondo swim?
#mondo @writeousmom
Monday, May 23, 2022
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time to let the whole world hear MY song! (me!) ~tops #warriors #tooshort #christianizedlyrics @tooshort @writeousmom
original post aug 27, 2020 [also, a very fun CH, but presented in a way you don't even have to click.. -because what i wouldnt give to meet...] and p.s. "WAY TO GO WARRIORS!!" -you are so exciting to watch!
with love, for Too Short (todd anthony shaw!) from (me!)
-Blow the Whistle
Lyrics “Christianized” by (me!) Sandra Harrison Kay, AKA: WriteousMom
Backstory: we love this song! If a live band starts to play this song at a dance club.. my sexy would immediately give up his place as the next person in line for our cocktails, grab my hand, and we hit the dance floor
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It is on my commercial free shuffled playlist for our workouts, so I hear it often; love to watch how my sexy lights up when it comes on..
But me, I’m not so comfortable with the lyrics.. and, so.. I have been divinely inspired to, with love, truth & humor, Christianize them. And.. in prayer, I said to Jesus with a smile, I said,
-I want it so that even Too Short himself would be moved & get to laughing “Thank You Jesus!” amen.
*** if i had the means/resources i would have a music video made, but i can write now.. do this:
[video images of (me!) typing blog posts/excerpts from posts/stats]
I go on and on
Can’t understand how I write so long
I must have super-powers
Write 40+ years and 10,000 hours
Get a calculator, do the math
Wrote 5000 posts to help you save your ass
[me/sexy dancing; post c/ups’; songs/laughter]
And! For the last three hundred months
I’ve made thousands of posts with (me!) on the front -fist bump
Where you get your beats?
I heard ninety three people say a Christian like (me!)
Two singers and ten comedians
And I’m still gon’ post it every time you see (me!) in
Hmm, What’s a different word?
[failing to reach area in lower mid back to scratch it/grab wooden back scratcher/reach successfully]
Itch
Why my arm gotta be too short
Itch!
You know you can’t play on my court
Can’t hang with my Jesus posts
Pray on the porch
Blow The Whistle x4
[video images of speeches/JM, TDJakes, JO, Southgate YB, BA Degree, Bible, in prayer]
Where you get that from?
Grab the mic, post one, let me say it blunt:
Joyce Meyer, TD Jakes & that Joel Osteen
Keep preachin’ that bible til’ you too-B-lieve
President, that’s Southgate Baby
B.A. -that’s Hayward Baby
Pit to Palace -that’s Jesus Baby
Ain’t nothin’ but prayer these days -SHE
[c/u gun to head; c/u paralyzed w/fear; c/u praying]
My fragile mind got locked up
Cocked gun to my head, that fa-luck't me up
Change my luck, yes, -I had to pray
Jesus showed up & he lit the way
[bible, prayer, victory stance, dance club, Hayward pix, fake id]
Do you really wanna be like (me!)?
Conquer the world -know vic-tor-Y
Hayward girl, now VIP
Danced in the clubs with a fake ID
Blow The Whistle x4
[swish numb ritual]
My mind was gone
My brain was blazed
I was Terrorized for countless days
Swishin’ junk
went numb for real
Couldn’t stop.. just kept rollin’ down hill
Swish & spit, get more, sit back
Stay numb as you can -you can’t handle all that
Man, I’ve been healed so long
Time to let the whole world hear my song
[books, mags, journals, website(s), appearances]
Like (me!) my words get around
Leave the country, come back and hit the town
I’m in mags, and books, and time will tell
On walls, on stage, saw Dave Chappelle, about this scratch; itch!
Learned it from (me!)
At least fifty million dollars
-should be comin’ to (me!)
[remember them.org monument in Oakland]
But I’m pray-z and you wanna be like (me!)
Remember Them in Oakland and then ya get type-ing
Blow it!
Blow your whistle..
“itch!”
Writeous..
All my life baby
Blog post 4,915
Y’all can’t read all that…
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Miracles, Breakthroughs, Answered Prayers! #Mondo @writeousmom
now, the only thing i do more than write; "take pictures!" ~mamarazzi
and i have some 500+ from our recent travels, celebrations, family visits, sightseeing, hikes, meals.
so, will be a little bit before i can organize; edit; post
but WOW are we ever swimming in back-to-back blessings and gratitude. "Thank You! Jesus!" hallelujah & amen
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in the meantime; 2 recent CH (cerebral hyperlinks). -repeating myself i know, but with a 'trigger' it just opens; you can't chose .. (you can train to respond differently); with a hyperlink, you can chose.. you can bypass, or, choose to click and open and explore your own memories
CH! LOVE this one... i remember writing...
#mondo @writeousmom
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
"I have 74 Tweets!?!" (me?) @writeousmom
-so, sometimes, my dad will tell a joke over the phone, and we are smiling in response, and verbally say, like, "that's pretty funny"
but my dad will be audibly laughing the loudest at his own joke.
and i get it from my dad then, because.. i just now; only moments ago, while doing a little research, re-discovered that i created -74- tweets apparently, in 2009
and when i was re-reading my own tweets.. crackin' up at my own jokes.
-we are our own best audience.
***
contemplating whether or not to jump back in.. the character restrictions make for good writing exercise
H&A
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"Thank You! Jack!" -fix in progress... love you xoxo
Monday, May 16, 2022
If we too move to Idaho... #haiku
i will gather people, young and old, and i will take them on haiku hikes. -black bay park. we will marvel at all of God's gorgeous landscape, trees, sky, wild flowers, the lake, rocks...
we will learn together about each... about everything our eyes and hands land on. and i will encourage the best haikus out of people who have never even heard the word; who have never even imagined in a million years that they would read a poem, let alone author one..
and for a bit there, i was saying to friends and family, "if we moved to Idaho I would immediately become a naturalist and lead hikes..."
and then i was looking up the word -naturalist.. doing a little reading.. because, Lord only knows how many words I employ incorrectly.. connotation; denotation.. exaggeration...
but the name 'darwin' kept coming up.. really? one of the world's best and most famous 'naturalists'
-to me the word naturalist is synonymous with Christian practically.. every living thing evidence of and glorifying God's name..
something inside me always recoils when i hear his name.. perhaps unjustifiably; i don't know..
i know i am not a fan whatsoever of that icon depicting the so called 'evolution' of man.
-and sometimes we hold on to one thing so tight with both hands that we don't even know what would happen if we set it down and looked closer at it..
i believe..
i believe if i were to read his work.. point out what i have learned from my life experiences, and layer them together
well, i do believe I feel him smiling and winking at me write now, this very moment -from heaven.
***
it is not either/or; it is and. /where have i heard that before? i say with a big, tired smile..
now i lay us down to sleep; i pray the Lord our souls you'll keep
and when we wake from this nights rest; i pray you'll help us be our best
in Jesus name, -amen.
Driving in Idaho with California Plates (us!) ~sexy! & tops!
i admit to being a little nervous driving all around Idaho with California Plates. But, we literally never had a problem, and in fact, several people we spoke to were originally from, guess where: California. and they even said it out loud and in public and everything. Many people who have moved from California to Idaho light-heartedly refer to themselves as refugees
in light of the current war in ukraine, (and wars on larger scales in general) it seemed not write to use that word..
but then again,
i both understand and respect it as the current colloquialism. the combination of, and accumulation of homeless, drug addicted, mentally ill and released inmates is, in my opinion, and in fact, a type of natural disaster; a very real and ongoing threat to individuals and families
i will skip here, the economic impact.. but Californian transplants are high on the blame list for the high cost of housing in Idaho (and other popular run-for-your-way-of-life states like Montana.. Washington, etc.)
and from my perspective, experience, point of view -the only thing growing faster than the homeless, drug addicted, mentally ill, and released inmate population is -inflation.
but let us save that romantic and tender conversation for another time...
In Jesus is our light in a dark and broken worlds' name, -amen.
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good place to p.s. my favorite quote while visiting Couer d' Alene Idaho. It was gifted us by a young woman who, -surprise! left California for Idaho to unstagnant her life. Couer d' Alene, Idaho, if you have not yet been is a way beautiful, way clean, way safe.. spectacular place to live, to work, to visit, to hike, bike, fish, hunt.. long list here. and Idahoins' (sp?) work to, plan to, and are quite committed on the whole to keeping it just the way it is
the thing is, this young woman, like me, was from a part of the bay area which was -not the polar opposite of Couer d' Alene.. but let's say, a part of the bay area which was, and is, 'checkered' with
/stuck for a proper word.. let's skip to the quote
i said with a smile, i said to her, "yes.. i'm from the bay area too" -and my best guess is that she wanted to go out of her way to make me feel okay and welcome; -she seemed suddenly a little guilty about living in such a clean, safe.. and so she goes,
"but when i get home sick for the bay area, i go visit spokane where there is homeless and people dancing in the street."
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hallelujah & amen
DO NOT MAKE RESERVATIONS HERE says (me!) ~tops
what intrigues me is the online rating of 4.1 stars and the 1,644 google reviews.
i don't suppose this means ALL star ratings and reviews are unreliable resources; but the amount of digging and reading and researching you would need to do!
check my record.. i don't give bad reviews.. i praise whenever, wherever i can
-has to do with the bible passage in Philippians, and also, the starve what you don't want; feed what you do attitude; the shrink the bad, magnify the good mentality.
and, remember, i was born and raised in the bay area.. my tolerance for questionable transients, for homeless, for vagrants is not zero
but what happen here is that.. 'oh my an entire homeless encampment..
hmmm... group of potential gang... don't make eye contact... -is that guy breaking into that truck? is that guy over there.. mental illness? drugs?
and it did not matter what direction i looked in.. boarded up building.. a lot of unpredictable people and behavior
-wouldn't stay if the price was free. -danger zone.
and sad, sad, sad.. broken, broken..
even when we left for a safer location, -just getting back on to the freeway required lots of hope and prayer.. a fire was burning near the on ramp, vagrants in large numbers, litter, trash,
plain scary.
but it sounded so pretty initially and was, geographically, about where we wanted to land based on several upcoming visits with different family and friends.
Best Western Inn At The Meadows...
We chose a different, safer, cleaner, nicer Best Western -the cancel/new reservation process was quick and easy. but of course! of course it argues for space and attention in my mind
what type of leadership can return something that broken to its former glory? and in my imagination, -since we know no one is going to be staying there in the near future.. -what if it was repurposed for the homeless?
it just bothers me to no end that leaders are spending gazillions of dollars creating new buildings, new infrastructures for the homeless, drug addicted and mentally ill, when we have so, so many vacant, unoccupied buildings doing nothing but taking up space -buildings that already have the infrastructure; rooms, plumbing, garbage.. etc. repurpose! do not build new
and then i was like... what if they turned it into a church!? and then i wondered.. what did it used to look like? and if we came back two or five years from now.. what then?
it is entirely unignorable though; unshrinkable; unstarvable
the way the homeless population has increased in so many cities and states -crisis levels everywhere
i do not have or know the answer
most people who can are responding the way we did with the hotel.. relocating to different cities and different states; everyone looking for a safer, cleaner environment. those who can't afford to move their entire families, or who don't have 'portable/remote' jobs are just getting slowly engulfed..
part of me wanted to go back just to take pictures to share; but i assessed that as way not worth the risk.
as i mentioned before... sometimes i start going on like i have a doctorate on a topic i know very little about, but i remember...
i do remember
more than one charlie rose interview with rudy giuliani -and his stats, and his record for turning unsafe neighborhoods and sleazy business districts into safe and clean, livable, visitable places..
so, it can be done.. and i sure wish.. and i sure hope.. and i sure pray.. and i sure vote..
in Jesus name, amen.
Happy, Grateful Mom Heart (me!) ~writeousmom AKA: mamarazzi
and to also get to attend their college graduations!! -couldn't be happier; couldn't be more proud.
*****
way more pix & stories to come!
it pours. by (me!) ~tops
the contrast! of leaving our northern california drought and getting to see and experience:
the full, rushing, current of the Columbia River on my passenger side write; heavy rains falling directly down on the road ahead; and rain plus waterfalls to my left -all at the same time!
every conversation we've had over the past several years with friends and family regarding water was battling for attention and revisit in my mind..
-how i would LOVE to see a graph.. 20 years worth.. state by state in the U.S. because every hotel/motel that once washed every sheet, towel, pillow case, every day for every customer, whether it needed it or not... those practices are long gone.. not one hotel i've stayed in washes anything unless you specifically request it. -and for my husband and i.. we never request any washing services until we leave..
-the amount of lawns that have been converted! either to succulents, or very low water demanding native landscapes; or fake lawns...
-from just those two very dramatic changes, the water saving seems enormous!
i've just mentioned that the 'intended' water savings from water saving toilets or showers.. counter-productive.. an utter waste! cut your losses and start over.. we were better off before
-and the instant! response i've received each time i've ever casually mentioned 'desalination'
"way too costly! -Blah, blah.. environmental costs.. monetary..."
i always say and think the same thing: do you realize how many things humans have invented over time that initially were way too costly.. but over time, we learn how to streamline, how to improve the manufacturing and quality and reduce the cost.. -but you have to at least get started in order to reach that place..
my husband talks a lot about dams.. being better stewards of the rain God provides us; and he always gets the same response i do about desalination.. /insert grumpy, curmudgeonly voice here " way too expensive.. damage to the environment... "
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oh! thank you for asking Oprah.. here is what i know for sure:
water is, when it comes to resources necessary for human life and existence, #1
i mean, it's write up there with air.
and i KNOW for sure, we already have the minds (the intelligence) to solve this problem
and it may be awkward and costly initially, but i also know for sure..
we better start doing something!
lots of people mention.. us included: ' if you can pipe 3 million barrels of fuel per day between texas and new york.. [colonial pipeline]
why not water from up north, down south?
we all know this can be done. -write.
and best we can all do, us average, everyday, layperson citizens..
vote for leaders who not only know it can be done; but will invest in making it happen.
-amen.
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agree w/this letter to the editor LA Times (date?) -summary
states near the gulf of mexico are often flooded
-southwest is suffering long-term drought
why not begin a grand national infrastructure project of building a water pipeline
-from the flooded areas to the drought areas..
genius.
*** really? in carlsbad? -just learning...
and this is a great time to confess just how many of those conversations with friends and family over the years about water.. very passionate but without much research and knowledge. -we each have our ideas and opinions based on random little blurbs we see, hear, read. and certain people (like myself) who see one headline and spout off like they've earned a doctorate on the subject. -these type of conversations have, and are and always will take place in coffee shops, donut shops, bars, restaurants, on park benches and at dinner tables -laypeople with more heart than knowledge; politicians with more promises than action; students with more awareness than influence.
but... water pipelines... desalination... dams... the trifecta!
yes, please, thank you, hallelujah & amen.
when it rains by (me!) ~tops #superblogger
k. remember: everything is relative.