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The Tremendous Effort to Save Julian Assange’s Life

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PRESS RELEASE

March 8, 2024

For Immediate Release

THE TREMENDOUS EFFORT TO SAVE THE LIFE OF JULIAN ASSANGE

The two-day hearing in the UK High Court for Australian journalist Julian Assange’s last appeal was on February 20 and 21, 2024. The two judges presiding asked for additional information and additional time. Their decision could come any moment. Assange did not attend for health reasons. The decision is to allow further appeal through the European Court of Human Rights, or extradite him to the United States.

It is important to note that Assange has not been formally charged, and is only being held on remand to a potential extradition to the U.S. to face the accusations in the U.S. indictment, a total of 18 charges amounting to 175 years in prison on an old U.S. law called the Espionage Act. On the first day, the defense made a point to clarify that Chelsea Manning is a whistleblower/leaker, and Julian Assange/WikiLeaks the journalist/publisher. The whistleblower had been an service member of the U.S. military and has already been punished for breaking confidentiality. As a member of the press and a non U.S. citizen, Julian Assange had no confidentiality agreement with the U.S. government. The accusations in the U.S. indictment suggest Julian Assange assisted Manning to crack a password, but Manning clearly already had access and clearance through her work, so no hacking was needed. C.E. Manning was on leave when she initially spoke and gave documents to more than one news organization before uploading to WikiLeaks secure upload. She did not speak to Julian Assange until well beyond the transfer of information.

The misstatement was made that people were harmed by what WikiLeaks published, but at C.E. Manning’s trial, U.S. admitted in actuality that no one was harmed. Accusations that Assange did not redact names are not true. Several witnesses were present when Assange redacted thousands of names. Redactions were not made in the diplomatic cables, because they were already out in the public venue published in their entirety on Cryptome.org.

The defense also brought out that the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo planned the kidnapping and murder of Julian Assange. The defense made the point that extraditing Assange to the U.S. would be putting him in the hands of the same people who plotted his murder. It was also mentioned that the CIA illegally spied on Assange, through a company called UC Global, learning his legal defense strategy while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

The importance of this case is what it means to the future of journalism, free speech and press freedoms. If Julian Assange is extradited to the U.S. and successfully convicted, then the Espionage Act, a U.S. law that has never been used against a journalist before, could then be used to arrest any journalist in the world whom the U.S. state department deems has printed classified material, whether it is in the public interest, or not. It could also affect whether the First Amendment will protect the Free Speech of the Free Press, or not. The future jobs of journalists may be in jeopardy and many Assange supporters feel their right to know the truth will be at risk.

Stella Assange, wife of Julian, has been leading the heroic battle for her husband’s freedom. She is afraid he would not survive extradition in his fragile health, and doctors and two UN Rapporteurs on Torture agree. In addition, Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton who attended the 2024 State of the Union Address as a guest of Congressman Thomas Massie, expressed the wide concern that Julian Assange who’s health is delicate would not survive the extradition to the United States. Finally, it was admitted by prosecutors at Assange’s hearing that there is no assurance that the Eastern District of Virginia Court would not add the death penalty to the 175 years being held over his head.

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Assange Hearing Recap: Day1

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This is a running live update from a friend on the hearing for Julian Assange’s freedom in the UK High Court today, February 20, 2024. The hearing continues tomorrow. The freedom for all of us to publish our thoughts and feelings hangs in the balance. After that, the judges will deliberate likely for several weeks. *there is no mandatory frame of time, the estimate for a ruling is based on previous time-frames judges have taken in this case. The ruling could also be immediate.* If he is extradited to the US, and convicted which would most certainly happen if he is sent there, all of journalism, free speech, the free press and all of us bloggers will be fair game because of the precedent established. We must fight for Assange’s freedom because his freedom, is ours.

Assange Trial Day 1 live:

Assange’s lawyers have argued today that the CIA plotted to kill Julian Assange, and that he cannot be safely extradited to a country that planned his kidnapping/ assassination.

Fresh evidence shows options were presented directly to President Trump over killing Assange after Vault-7 leaks.

(Defense for Assange is establishing that entire US government was/is hostile to Assange and cannot therefore guarantee a safe trial. They are appealing the scope of previous findings ruled on by the court)

Defense has raised point that document U.S. is relying on for extradition contains clause forbidding extradition of political prisoners. Argues U.S. cannot simultaneously want to extradite because of political embarrassment while ignoring that section of the treaty.

Also raised was fact that Wikileaks was not the first or only outlet to receive said classified documents from Manning, but the prosecution has been selective (targeting Assange) with no explanation for this behavior.
(note*** for posterity. This is not entirely correct as the charges actually revolve around an unidentified WikiLeaks representative offering to help Manning obtain more* But* there is no way for positive identification of Assange possible as that representative, so it is a nonsequitor, legally speaking. Also, no such assistance took place.)

Assange trial live: Court breaks for lunch, will resume 2pm London time.

Defense is raising an Article 7 ECHR/ 5th Amendment argument, stating that multiple forms of classified material have been published and gone unprosecuted, stating there is no precedent in U.S. law for the prosecution of journalists.
They are arguing that the previous judge refused to engage that line of legal argument stating it should be resolved in U.S. courts because it is a 5th amendment issue (due process).
Defense argues that because Article 7 of the ECHR applies, the judge should have had to engage it and acknowledge its legal standing.
(defense for Assange is once more appealing the previous court actions and errors here).

Section 7 of the ECHR protects someone from being prosecuted for future crime. In other words retroactively making something illegal in order to prosecute them.

Sec 7 of ECHR: “No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offense under national or international law at the time when it was committed.”

Defense now raises article 10 of the ECHR saying that Manning’s actions in leaking information fall under the protection of freedom of speech and expression.

Article 10 of the ECHR protects whistleblowers if documents are authentic and it is well within the public interest to know.
It protects both their right to receive and send such information; including in cases of classified documents if, like in Manning’s case; said documents were improperly classified to cover up war crimes.

This pertains to the charge against Julian for allegedly (again, unprovable) offering to help Manning procure the documents if needed.

If in fact the documents were improperly classified and covering up war crimes (they were); then Manning as a whistleblower falls under that protection of the ECHR and by extension, the journalist helping break that story in public interest.

This is weighty legally because according to multiple reviews, no one was directly harmed by the release of said information.

Defense raises point about Assistant US District Attorney Gordon Kromberg claiming they could and would deny Assange first amendment rights.

Judge ask for clarification about previous judges saying there is no reason to suspect Assange’s first amendment rights would be infringed.
Defense explains that Both the assistant DA and the then-CIA head Pompeo both said that explicitly. Claiming that Assange had no rights in the U.S. This threat alone raises serious concerns about any guarantees made toward Assange’s safety or right to a fair trial.

Judge then asks if the U.S. actually gave the court any assurances as to Assange’s first amendment rights being protected or the rights of foreign nationals.

Defense replies that no such assurances have been made whatsoever.

Final ground of appeal is put forward by defense.

Given the designation by the CIA head that Wikileaks was a “hostile non state intelligence agency” giving the bureau authority to act without oversight of any kind, there are absolute threats to Assange’s life present in the case under articles 2 & 3 of the ECHR (Right to Life, and Freedom from Torture).

Defense argues that CIA could impose SAMS (Special Administrative Measures – can prevent lawyer access, bar all outside communication or contact for life) or if they wanted to; kill him with absolute legal impunity based on this designation.

Defense requests extradition order be rescinded based on its inconsistency with standing treaty.

House Resolution 934 to Free Assange

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H.Res. 934: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities are protected under the First Amendment, and that the United States ought to drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange.

Please contact your US Congressman and ask them to sign onto House Resolution 934 to retract the charges and extradition request for Julian Assange and to protect journalism under the First Amendment.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/934/cosponsors?s=1&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22julian+assange%22%7D

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hres934

With Hearing Set, Time For Biden to Drop Assange Charges

For Truth

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We are finding out so much about our three-letter agencies. Finding out they did not have our best interest at heart. That’s kind of shocking and saddening to think that those we entrusted, abused that trust and lied to us about it. Many of us have dealt with betrayal at some point during our lives. It hurts. Our brains go through disbelief and cognitive dissonance. But we are starting to realize that this is being done on a massive scale and we must stand up to it before it gets any worse.

It’s no wonder that people are clambering for government transparency. We learn more with each whistleblower that comes forward and from every release of declassified documents. How many years has it taken for documents to be released that our own CIA may have been behind the death of JFK? By now, anyone responsible for that horrible event is long gone. Where is justice for the public, and for the family? We are too familiar with cover ups and lies. We are finding out three letter agencies have had a hand in controlling governments all over the world in the name of stopping terrorism, but we’ve found out that our government has also secretly been funding the terrorists. Because of Julian Assange, we’ve seen the shocking footage of government committing war crimes against innocent people, in other countries, some were press. Journalists that go into war zones know there is risk, but every journalist would think twice about what they expose after that.

Assange’s detainment sent a message to journalists everywhere to be very careful what information they publish. They have been told to step carefully. Most journalists today know they are under scrutiny. Most won’t even get close to exposing government crimes. Thanks to the Twitter files, we are finding out that the social media and news media is controlled by the CIA and the FBI. We have been finding out that this agency has been getting away with so much devilry, that we do not trust what we are being told anymore. It’s no wonder why citizen journalism is on the rise. The public is trusting ordinary people on the street with a cellphone more than the report on their evening news.

A growing number of people all over the world are yelling for truth. It turns out those pesky three letter agencies have been making mischief in the Assange case all along. Unfortunately truth about the Assange case has been sparse. Stories discrediting Assange have stuck in some minds, but that is changing as court cases emerge such as Kunstler vs the CIA. This case has been brought by Assange’s lawyers whose phones were taken by the CIA when they met with Assange to discuss his case. It turns out that the CIA copied all the information on those phones, violating the Fourth Amendment rights of not only Assange, but of all the other clients of those lawyers.

But the truth is that Assange believed that truth and transparency would solve numerous problems in the world with governments that have gotten out of control. He stood up for the truth and told the world what governments were really doing with the people’s money, in their name. More and more people are catching on that this is where the people need to take a stand and tell their government NO. Assange knew that there would be consequences. He still went ahead and did the right thing. Assange stood for change and he knew it could only happen by exposing these crimes against humanity. He is an exceptional courageous man and he has been detained in horrible prison conditions for years without being charged.

Take a stand. Use your voice. Defend Assange.

For more info: https://dontextraditeassange.com/

In Light of Truth

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As more and more information comes out, it will unravel a shocking picture of the true current state of our old systems as they are revealed in full spotlight. It’s something we won’t want to face and some will still have difficulty having conversations. As we unravel complicated storylines and bureaucratic messes, we must stay grounded in our faith and maintain hope.

When we look at an issue, read up on an article, watch a news story, have a conversation… we are engaging our conscious awareness with the issue. As we seek to understand, the light of our attention shines on the subject matter. That light comes directly from our divinity because of our Soul’s direct connection with God. We bring God’s Light here to Earth and shine it all around as we choose to interact with our reality.

When we work in groups, we multiply our light and magnify the issue that holds our consideration. We benefit from different viewpoints. We ask questions and bounce ideas off one another. By refusing to become frightened and withdrawn, we stay engaged with the subject matter and that leads to critical thinking…. the key to elevated understanding and rising above.

I just want to offer this up… When we’ve studied something and made up our minds how we feel about it, know there is always more to learn. Understanding needs to be fluid, because, in a multidimensional reality, there is always another dimension to things and we are the ones that dictate our reality. So, as we seek to unravel tightly knotted world storylines, my advice is to stay fluid until all the dust has settled. This is a storm and it is difficult to know what is what until there is a settling and peace and light shine through.

The people are taking their power back… know that… jump onboard. On both sides of the aisle… use your voice any way you can. Stand up. Speak up. Be empowered and let’s step into our bright new future together.

If you start to feel frightened… or know someone who is.

If you are getting sucked down under the waves, and begin to feel hopeless, I have this to offer…

There is hope.

Life may be hard right now, maybe even unbearable. But you are not alone. No matter what you’re going through, getting through it and feeling happiness again is possible.

Nobody says it will be easy. You’ll probably stumble a few times and want to give up and go in a different direction. Keep trying. You are stronger than you realize.

There will be bumps in the road and reasons to stop and take a pause. Nothing will ever be like smooth sailing. There are some things you couldn’t control. But you can control how you respond. That is the key.

There’s always hope and light at the end of the tunnel. This pain that you’re feeling, will eventually fade. You will grow from the experience. It may not be the way you first intended, but it will be in a way that pushes you forward. And that’s a good thing.

You’ll look back and thank yourself, and everyone who came into your life to help you along. You will pat yourself on the back for making consistent, daily efforts to become a better person. And for rising above false beliefs of hopelessness.

Fight for yourself. No matter how difficult it gets, never let yourself give in and stop. After some time, your spark will return. And a new you will come out happier, healthier, and wiser.

Control your MIND. Control your LIFE.

Work on your yourself to:

-Feel more relaxed and sure of yourself

-Make better decisions

-Excel at everything you try

-Live a happy life

-Experience success again

-Become a better person

-Achieve higher level thinking

Being a Lightbearer

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It is of a noble nature that we carry the light. Considering it sacred therefore guarding it with care. It is time now to feed our flame so that it shines at full capacity. To have the courage to be the true us and pour it out into the world. To express our unique perspective without holding back. Your unique gifts, allowed to expand and strengthen are just what the world needs right now. Be bold. Be confident.

Being a light-bearer means we are contributing to humanity with high vibrational intentions. They expand outwardly, glazing everything with a light that carries our love, our care, our dreams, our compassion. This is not a time to dull ourselves down in order to fit in, the beauty that is our self-expression wants to burst forth, and it may be just what the world is waiting for.

Holding the light means not dipping down into hopelessness or despair. It holds space for the miraculous and nurtures the seeds of their making. We dream the dreams and cultivate the soil for new growth. We allow ourselves to finally emerge as a full expression of our authentic selves. Connection and possibility nourish us so that we may own our power and dance our most magnificent dance yet.

If you have a choice to make, choose the one that makes you feel light, excited and passionate. Make the choice that empowers, not the one that puts out fear. We want to make choices that allow us to unfurl our wings and seek flight past all limits. We are flying past worrying about what is considered acceptable and being that expression of love that bathes the world in a new unique Light.

This is a completely new paradigm. As we undergo changes deep within us, we realize that time is up for playing it safe anymore. This new evolution of the Soul is unlocking insights that will change reality in positive ways. The responsibilities of a light-bearer means that we grant ourselves the freedom to finally be able to say what needs to be said. Having a voice of freedom of self expression is essential for power to shift back to people and communities. Our hard work and experience allows us to speak directly to hearts and minds. If we can trust enough to let go of rigid forms of thinking, follow our own wisdom, we may take our place as light bearers in this shifting world.

We are whole in the face of God.

Questions to ask yourself:

How do I inspire others?

How do I want to inspire others?

Overcoming

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Something has been building and it feels as if the unexpected is about to occur. The word that came to me this morning was “overcoming.” Overcoming what?

It’s almost as if we are being gathered together and pushed forward, which means we must drop our stubbornness and move past any resistance to shifting from fear and survival mode into love and possibilities. Moving into our heart space and releasing all that no longer serves our highest and best good such as angst, anger, blame, grief, and words we withheld. With all the new information coming out now, we must accept and grow past everything that has been blocking us from living our best life.

If I had any advice right now it would be to let go of any attachment to any suffering that keeps us stuck. Our Souls have a higher calling for us. It is time to go with the flow and go forward where our Soul is taking us, releasing any resistance. We must step forward boldly… in truth, in Love.

We are walking into a new unity that binds us as we rise above anything that seeks to pull us downward. We are not going down again and we stand together, as one. We are making healthier choices now, choices that support our own transformation. We are grounding ourselves on a better path, and building stronger foundations for new relationships and careers. We are letting go of overthinking in favor of a wiser knowing. We are washing out all that has been holding us back. We as a collective have had enough so we are moving past whatever was causing resistance and overcoming our own blockages so that we can make anything happen now, together.

So, we can clear away clutter, exercise or take a walk, drink more water, organize our space. We can stop worrying and start working. Finding what needs changing in our world and being willing to be those changes. We can become the support we’ve always needed by cultivating a mindset of productivity and a just-do-it attitude. Might be a good time to upgrade our skills. Every small task we do gets us closer to success, and our bright new future.

Every writer, publisher and journalist needs to stand up and speak out for Julian Assange for what his detainment means for writing as a whole. Whether it be on the world stage or on a minute screen with bloggers such as myself. Please stand for Julian.

Use this tool to send a message to all the news organizations in your area telling them it is important that they stand for press freedoms and stand up and speak out for Assange>

https://act.campaigntoendqualifiedimmunity.org/lte/letter-to-the-editor_save-press-freedom/

Buds of Promise

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Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree

by George Starbuck

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O
fury-
bedecked!
O glitter-torn!
Let the wild wind erect
bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect
frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn
all cuckolded creation in a madcap crown of horn!
It’s a new day; no scapegrace of a sect
tidying up the ashtrays playing Daughter-in-Law Elect;
bells! bibelots! popsicle cigars! shatter the glassware! a son born
now
now
while ox and ass and infant lie
together as poor creatures will
and tears of her exertion still
cling in the spent girl’s eye
and a great firework in the sky
drifts to the western hill.

If you are in any kind of emotional depression during these holidays, sadness, and I know it is all too common. Feelings of sadness, loneliness, worry and despair are prevalent now particularly with rising inflation and moving toward recession and financial depression. With things the way they are in the world, right now, people are getting more and more anxious and frustrated putting food on their table and gas in their cars. The love that we are feels squashed and strangled.

Self care is still of the utmost importance. Caring for ourselves is also in service to God and the Universe. Personal hygiene is more than washing down in the shower. It is disengaging from the toxins and poisons of the world… physically, mentally and emotionally. Much of the media messages now are so toxic, that we are left emotionally disenfranchised, which leaves us feeling empty and depressed. We’ve got to find our spiritual rock and stand on it again. Detox from all the chaos. Clean yourself out. Get back to the innocence inside that is the you without all that tainted mind chatter. Step back and do what it takes to get out of your head and into your body so you can trust your gut feeling again. Try to go beyond the layers of what you’ve been taught to believe about yourself and get to the point where you can trust your honesty again.

The next thing I will suggest is to reach out to others in service. A choice founded in love can make you feel light, excited, passionate and give you butterflies. When we give from our hearts outwardly, we have to open them. When our hearts are open, the electromagnetic biofield around us magnifies. This creates a wonderful thing to occur. When hearts are in the vicinity of eachother, they go into harmonic resonance. Harmonic resonance is an organizing force that transcends other forces in the physical world, it is how the natural world retains balance. Not only that but it sets off regeneration through a series of nested cymatic signals. You can learn more about harmonic resonance here.

When we reach out to others, in service, we are also giving to ourselves by starting a circular motion of energy of giving out and receiving back. If we can muster the ambition to perform selfless acts of kindness for others, we receive back things of equal or higher energetic value. Soon we are being showered with light.

Be bright, you are worthy. <3

If you are feeling sad or depressed at all, I want you to know there is good reason for it. We are disengaging from the old system and that feels strange and unnerving. We are stretching out of our comfort zone. We can’t take our normal cues from our guidance and it feels like our GPS is off. The reason I am suggesting self care and service to others is because that is where the momentum is traveling toward our bright new world. By being brighter through cleaning out ourselves and raising ourselves up, and then acting in service to others, we will be on the straight path to our better world.

Just like tree buds in winter, we hold the promise of a bright new spring within us, getting ready to explode with magic.

A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It’s a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that’s you.

-Christopher Paul Curtis

Send a letter to Julian Assange, a journalist who put his life on the line to bring light to the world to make it a safer, more peaceful place.

Bringing the Light in service to mankind.

Your Voice Matters

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Why is this girl, who is normally all about “love and light” writing about speaking out? Why is she writing about making a ruckus? (and she’s doesn’t mean a quiet one either)

We need to get loud. Let me rephrase, we need to get louder. The Omnibus Bill was just passed at the last minute over night. It added $1.1 trillion dollars of debt to an already insane $3.1 trillion of debt. Not only is this a terrible way to run a government, but rules were put in place that it had to be offset so as not to add any more debt.

Let me adjust the picture to make it a little clearer…. that is only the treasury debt. The Federal debt adds nearly $9 trillion more. Add in the rest of the public debt such as pension funds and it becomes over $100 trillion. And… The US only has assets that amount to $9 trillion. Basically, the US is upside down on their mortgage.

So typically when we deal with numbers like that, it becomes a little numbing. What does it really mean for us?

The Treasury will have to borrow more money to offset this, and will increase the price of Treasury bonds and I bonds (a type of month interest bond meant to withstand inflation that has a yearly limit of 10k per investor). It means the price of everything is going to go up, sharply. Also, social programs will probably need to be scaled back, but SS should be okay because they should go up with cost of living increases. Those on fixed incomes should be okay.

All this spells one thing: a recession/depression is coming like a taught rubber band that has been drawn back way too far and is gonna snap…. and it’s not just the US either. Yes, we’ve been hearing that but it’s here now.

The valuation of real debt per taxpayer is nearly 1 million dollars per person. If we take out medicare and social security from that total, it is still $3-400 thousand per person.

We cannot let ourselves boil in a pot of fear. This is the point where we must stand up and get very, very loud… all over the world… as one people who have had enough. It will get uglier for a while until it gets better. But right now, and please trust me on this, we need all of our voices to be heard.

How to Call

So, I like to learn a little about the issue so I am acquainted with the overall picture.  I take notes on facts.  Then, I take a few quiet moments and think about the issue, and then relate it to myself.  How does it make me feel?  I write that down.  For example, that makes me really angry/sad/furious/exhausted/poor/sick/etc…then focus that energy to coming up with 1-3 points to discuss.  Then I try to come up with some questions around those so that I sound like I know what I’m talking about and can have a conversation on the off-chance that a staffer actually answers the phone.  You can pull a few from this post, but also by doing your own research.  Lots of talk about the Omnibus Bill going on right now, so there should be plenty to find-  See videos below.  Now pick up the phone and call.  Be civil, but firm.  Once you do it a few times, it gets much easier and is a healthy to channel our aggravation, granted we are speaking in a calm, reasonable manner.

Public pressure helps create movement. Our calls are documented and compiled on spreadsheets. They are tallied up and looked at by political analysts attempting give their boss an edge. Our calls don’t just sit there untouched. Our voices are incredibly powerful, especially when raised together.

For something like this, call and write.

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Full Steam Ahead

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Full Steam Ahead!

Keep watching the news now. Changes are happening in our world and we are part of it. If you thought that you would never have the chance to make a difference because there is too much corruption or nobody cares what you have to say….. Now is your chance to speak out. Let people know how you feel on social media. Start a blog. Find your tribe. Lead a group. Contact your representatives and give them your opinion. Contact them and tell them how you feel about how they voted. Watch the news. Changes are happening.

We have more in common then we realize. We all want clean food, air, water, soil, weather, etc… everything, We want our families to be healthy and to be able to spend time together pursuing happiness. We’ve been to the edge of the dark and are still shining brightly. We’ve proved to ourselves that we are stronger than we could ever realize.

I love my Human-Angel family more each day. Keep going forward. Full steam ahead.