Writing Reality

This morning I’d thought to myself, ‘I took an oath.’ Then Freddie Mercury’s singing came into play. It came from the back of my mind to the forefront of my day. “Somebody_SOMEBODY_Somebody… Find me Somebody to Love…” The song, “Somebody to Love”, was released in 1976.i As karma would have it, that was the Bicentennial year of the Declaration of Independence, the birth of the United States of America and no more kings. Oddly enough, I awoke saying, “Find me Somebody_ SOMEBODY_Somebody.”ii Then the words traversed in milliseconds to “Find me Some Country to Love. Find me Some Country to love. Find me Some Country to loooove.” I could hear Freddie Mercury’s voice ringing in my head in place of mine as I stretched and prayed in bed this morning. I heard the piano chords play the music that went with “Somebody to Love”. Only it played to a different refrain, “Find me Some Country to Love”. The line repeated and resonated with me, and the Constitutional Crisis the United States of America i...

My friend since 1996, neighbor and pet care person texted back, "It's the hardest thing...". She texted back the morning just hours prior to my decision to have our last pet euthanized. It's not something I'd ever done. Although I've been told I have a killer instinct. Which I've discovered over the past 20 years that would be true. A promoter said that to my fight coach after my first cage fight. The promoter saw the charged smile on my face after I'd just lost to a decision. I am disciplined, so thank God for that. My feeling is we all have that, but not the amount I've discovered I have, and most certainly most do not have the obsessive level of discipline I have had or have. Fast forward to yesterday afternoon holding our bunny for quite sometime before her sedation in a veterinary treatment room.  About 20 minutes later the vet and vet tech arrived finding a spot to inject a sedative into our pet bunny. They said it would take ten minutes, th...

 “In My Country—.”   “In my country—” The wealthiest men are taking control. The whitest men gamble taking a toll. Hardening the margins, burning more coal. Ravaging families lowering whole. “In my country—” Corruption has taken it’s hold. The heart of the country is turning cold. The GOP has sold it’s soul. Democracy we no longer behold. “In my country—.” It is not just one who’s evil fulfilled. Disappearing innocence off to be killed. His parade they want full billed. They feel their due as unearth is tilled. “In my country—.” We wait seeing more appointed unskilled. Not one kind human can be so thrilled. Ruling people with numb minds drilled. Damning humanity with our voices trilled. “In my country—.” ---Jody-Lynn Reicher 5/15/2025

Your vote was a moral decision. Whether we vote or not, it’s a moral decision. How we vote is as well. So, when you vote with a Lasse Faire attitude, that outcome too will be on your soul. It’s not whether you believe in a hereafter. Nor is it whether you are religious, agnostic or an atheist. It’s who you are deep inside, that is what it shows. [1] If you think you’re entitled to enslave, dehumanize, oppress other people in anyway in the world, citizens of your country, or your own community, think again. You’re not. This is not just in the United States Constitution. [2] It’s also in many religious books, books on philosophy and it is written in our hearts and minds. And to negate that—is the most harm a person can do to not only others, yet it is also harm to oneself. It is pure evil. As U.S. matured, much bias was fought, marginally knocked down. There are other countries as well as our own citizens who wanted to destroy what we’ve built and were continually building up until...

Ford Models? The marriage I had with my one and only husband was filled with so much—sometimes stories I’d like to remember slip past my mind. Probably its most likely, as my hubby would’ve said, “Jody, you do so much!” Yes, that was when I’d wonder why I might be tired. And he would respond with logical answers that I’d ignore. Now years later after his passing, as I drove early this morning to my job at an organic market I thought——‘What would my husband think of this? He would probably want to work here.’ I thought to myself. Then I pondered what he’d say that would become a funny famous quote between us in reference to the market I now work at. Then I reminisced about the time I’d started my Massage Therapy and Bodywork business. One day he’d heard from a friend that I was good and going to be successful, hands down. No pun intended. Upon that thought, my husband said, “You know soon you’ll be working on Ford Models.” My husband was all excited. I tilted my head in wonderment...

Will We Make It to the Finish Line? As I gather information from a variety of sources quite often before I post on social media—quite rarely do I put something up I don’t have faith in. Sometimes though, I do it for a laugh or to throw people off just a bit. Part of that is—a trust factor. One query that I cannot definitively know is—Will We Make It to the Finish Line? That is about our country, our society being of a democratic nature. Although our democracy has been said that it was/is an experiment. With experiments, there is a need for growth and increasing our bandwidths of thinking and allowing. However, one of them is to not violate basic human decency and the rule of law. Especially, when it comes to ‘due process’. Applying a strong moral compass, as not to be swayed by bullies. At least 32% of our voting public have either gone willfully into darkness, due to their own inequities or they’ve allowed others to tell them how they must think/vote or are sheerly willfully ign...