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Book Review on One of the Best Books I’ve Ever Read

On By dotluvs2writeIn Cultural and Political, Fiction Writing, humanity, Inspirational, Life, Musings, Reviews, war3 Comments

FIVE STARS!!

The Women is a devastating, moving, haunting, educational, harrowing, and beautiful story. An impacting story where we follow Frankie on her journey of self-discovery from post-high school, nursing school, to Vietnam where the reader is drawn into Frankie’s everyday harrowing, tense, and emotional experiences and encounters. I cried four times before I’d even gotten further than a quarter way into the book. I learned so much how nurses, doctors lived in their assigned base camps, and a taste of what soldiers went through. Her post-Vietnam life was full of struggles, suffering, PTSD, trying to cope with virtually no help. All the while, she gave us glimpse on what was going on in my country, America, during those tumultuous years. Her experiences were relatable, so real, human, and believable. I cried and smiled by the end of the story. Won’t give away anything else. Exceptional book worth reading!

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Respect: A Moving Tribute

On By dotluvs2writeIn Beauty, Cultural and Political, humanity, Inspirational, Life, movies, Music, Religious2 Comments

A couple of nights ago, I watched on Amazon Prime the movie about Aretha Franklin’s life story called Respect.

It was amazing, moving, touching, and really well done!

I learned so much about her that I didn’t know. In fact, I knew very little of her private life.

Her story is full of suffering, love, triumphs, conflicts, bravery, faith, and redemption.

Her gospel album, Amazing Grace, was the bestselling album of all her fantastic albums.

I decided to listen to the whole album via you tube starting yesterday evening.

So moving. So touching.

I’ve always loved gospel music. It’s uplifting and touches the soul.

Check out Respect. You won’t be sorry.

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“Men Without Chests” — Clueless, Heartless Elites

On By dotluvs2writeIn Cultural and Political, humanity, Illness and Medical Treatments, Life, Musings, News EventsLeave a comment

Our government doesn’t give a fig about us. They are out of touch with the average person’s way of life and live in their own elitist world.

This is why they are clueless and don’t care that $600 per person won’t even pay the rent in any state I know of. It may cover some utilities and it could be used for groceries, but that only takes care of a couple of needed items in order to survive.

Considering our government has been giving $1 trillion a day to banks, that tells me our government is more than able to give each person and/or family easily $5000/month until this pandemic and the recession/depression is gone.

Millions have lost their jobs, which also means many of them have lost their health insurance. A double whammy because of the stupid system of tying your healthcare to an employer. It not only puts the burden on the small and medium-sized employers, but most importantly, it makes a person in bondage to his/her employer because he/she can’t afford to be without healthcare.

It’s interesting to note, I saw a chart of other countries in the world compensating people because of what happened with Covid and the shut downs. Japan is paying 100% of the wages of their people, and other countries average 80% coverage.

The US–richest country on the planet? A big fat 0.

Disgraceful, unconscionable, disgusting, and simply inhumane. I’m embarrassed and angry.

Back to the stimulus joke. Due to the knowledge of the shelling out of a trillion dollars daily to banks, I think our government should have been doling out $5000/month for all Americans stating back in March. Instead, we have people suffering both health wise and economically, causing more deaths of despair and illnesses. It’s a disaster, it’s insanity, it’s inhumane.

I can’t get over how incredibly inhumane, arrogant, and worthless our government officials are. With the exception of a handful of them, they all need to go.

Just learning now that Trump hasn’t signed the bill but rather wants the bill reworked. This is good, but it doesn’t change my view on our government’s actions during these crises. However, I will hold out some hope that the next stimulus will actually be focused on the American people instead of unnecessary foreign aid and our government officials’ own special interests.

You always have to have hope.

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