Celebrate True Beauty! Loving this Nigerian Sister! ♡ ♡ ☆ ☆
Month: March 2017
Watch “Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech” on YouTube
Notice how this outstanding young woman first gives Thanks to God! ♡ ☆
If I had a daughter I would want her to have Malala Youssfzai morals and values.
International Women’s Day
Today I am Thankful for the Women taking care of my brother Stephen at his Group Home Residence and for all the Ladies and Gentlemen who are Direct Service Providers. These poor folks are seriously underpaid. Actually they would make more working at Walmart or McDonald’s!! Because of the low pay they are leaving the field in droves! On the little money they make they cannot support themselves or their families.
Not everyone can take off for International Women’s Day. If you are on Facebook instead Please read my below posts regarding BFair2DirectCare. Support the Workers who care for developmentally and intellectually disabled children and adults. Because of the extremely low pay workers are leaving the field. What will I do on the day that there are no workers to care for Stephen? How will other family members cope?
If you live in New York please call, write or email Gov. Andrew Cuomo to add COLA increase to the Direct Care Providers paychecks. We who live in New York know how expensive it is to live here. I know I’m barely making ends meet and I make much more money than the staff who take care of my brother Stephen every day. Direct Care Workers/Direct Service Providers need a New York Living Wage!!
For those of my readers who live outside the USA now you see that America Does Not properly take care of it’s disabled population. Nor do they care for the Homeless especially the mentally ill homeless many of whom are Women. Because of my work schedule I walk the streets and ride the subways late at night and early in the morning. At 1:00 am there are women and men sleeping in cardboard boxes on the streets. Both Women and men are sleeping on the subway platforms and inside the subway cars. Because of the high rents homelessness in New York is on the rise. Same problem with Homeless Veterans but I’ll leave that for another post.
America ~~ A nation that ignores the needy and feeds the greedy.
Ash Wednesday ~~ Lent
For Christians today is Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lenten Season. I’m not much on celebrating Holidays or even going to church. Actually I almost never attend Church however I feel that with everything that is going on in my life and my country this year would be a good idea to observe Lent.
During Lent Christians usually give up something for 40 days. I think for me since I have an extremely hectic work schedule I need to give up one of my blogs and therefore Espiritu en Fuego is gonna go silent or at least less posts for the next 40 days.
I don’t have the time. I work some times 16 hours straight and I am living in a perpetual state of being overwhelmed. Obviously being that the rents and cost of living in New York is extremely high I will be putting in those extra hours of overtime just to survive.
Also I’ve noticed that I have less and less to say. At least nothing I say or write is meaningful. At least not to me. I think that’s a sign I need to stop and reflect or at least redirect my efforts. Plus I’m getting up to 100 email messages a day. That means I’ve begun the process of unsubscribing from blogs that are not in my interests. I do not have time to read all these blogs nor to comment on them.
Therefore I’ve decided to put what little free time and energy I have towards my photography blog Roaming Urban Gypsy. I’m Overwhelmed 24/7/365. You may continue to visit me at this link: https://roamingurbangypsy.com/
At this point in my life Enough is Enough. I have very little time for myself and with my upcoming vacation I plan to spend time with my brother Stephen.
How other Bloggers manage I don’t know but it’s time for me to throw in the towel at least for a little while. When I asked myself Why I’m doing this No good answer came back to reply.
I will not be responding to comments because I don’t have time. Nor will I address this issue on my other blogs because I know folks will want to chime up but it is not an issue up for discussion.
Comments are Closed.
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 