Day: July 13, 2017

Me at around age five or six

Throwback Thursday ~~ Vintage Family Photos

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Traces of the Past

 

Throwback Thursday ~~ Vintage Family Photos

A Pictorial Ode to Happier Times

Once Upon a Time When Innocence and Joy Reigned in Our Lives

 

 

Dads 1st car
Dad’s 1st car early 1950s. DeBorah Ann Palmer

 

Those I hope to see again in Heaven

Mom & Dad
Aunt Carrie ~~ George Gordon’s Sister
Grandfather William Palmer with 4 of his children 1923
My Grandmother Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer
My Dad Edward Gordon Palmer
My Aunt Thelma Palmer Varner
My Dad Edward G. Palmer
My Dad Edward G. Palmer
The King had found his Queen and for 40 years they reigned together.

 

Happier Times of Long Ago when Life was simpler and filled with Joy

Childhood when I was Happy, Healthy and the World was my Oyster

 

Me. Easter 1964. Complete with Black Patent Leather Shoes and matching handbag! I was very cute!

 

Montreal 1970
School Days
Baby Me & Lamby Pie
Me and Stephen 1961
Little Me
Me and My brother Stephen December 1961
Stephen, Me & Daddy 1977
Me and Dad
Our Florida vacation around 1986

 

 

 

Predatory Landlords, Debt, and Repairing the World

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This is a timely article. Gives some reasons for the increase in homelessness. My Brownsville, Brooklyn neighborhood is undergoing gentrification. My rent is rapidly approach $1K per month. Obviously when I retire next year I won’t be able to live here enjoy though I Love the neighborhood. I will be pushed out to the edges of the city limits all due to lack of money and inability to pay high rents. Food for thought.

The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

Dr. King said that,

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. ”

The question is how does such “restructuring” happen?

Following up on my earlier post regarding debt as a problem of financial self-defense, particularly in the case of apartment renters who are forced to live in a lemon or face Breach of Lease, Biblical Law may have something to say about the long term consequences of artificially pushing people into debt (talking about otherwise frugal folks who do not spend profligately).

I respectfully submit that we have had one possible tool in our hands for several thousand years, and it may need to be examined in the context of our present debt crisis -the release of debts, both short term and long term, at different times.  Below is a handout from one…

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Thankful for… and A Little Help wThis IDentity Thing, pls?

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Shira is a Great Blogger with fascinating, interesting and thoughtful posts. Please stop by Shiradest wonderful blog!! ❤

The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

The problem with thinking is that you start to ruminate, and that’s not good when a tractor comes by!   Today at least I got to finish my morning run before I started seriously ruminating.  (Kind of like the cows, but less smelly, I hope.)

But then I started, and Lo and Behold, my only good childhood memory came for a visit: Grandma Marie!

I must admit that I am thankful for my (adoptive) Great Grandmother, who taught me to fry chicken, to read, to write, and that “Cookin Lasts, Kissin Don’t.”

But the oddest part is that today I feel guilty for not dealing with my whole family of origin thing.  Not finishing my reading for the Latino Slaves research I started after looking up my 5xGr grandfather Miles Manzilla, for the WikiTree Slavery Project which, btw desperately needs someone to take it over, if anyone has time…

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