With spring coming, I wish they would just let the wilderness areas go and quit cutting the grass and let the wildflowers come in. It’s so beautiful but they just mow it all down. I’d like them to just leave those areas to grow naturally. Wildflowers are refreshing. If people took the time to go out and look at the woods and look at the flowers . . . I think we would all be better people.
They need to go after people who are illegally dumping waste.
Congressmen only do things for, naturally, themselves, their lawyers and, naturally, for money. All lawyers charge a certain fee for the same thing, no matter if you’re here, Indiana, Iowa, etc. That’s not fair but guess who makes the laws up to defend that? You guessed it — the lawyers who are now congressmen.
Death anniversaries can be so hard to deal with, even years after our loved ones have passed. I try to honor those loved ones who have gone before me by lighting a candle in their honor on each of those sad days. Somehow the flickering light makes me feel as if that person continues to live on, even if he or she only exists through memories I have of times spent with him or her. As I get older, I unfortunately have more and more candles to light throughout the year. Those death anniversaries are also a reminder of how important it is to let our loved ones know how much we care about them when they are still living.
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