Writing Reality

 “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...

It is quite difficult to adjust the nature around you for your benefit without disrupting the nature outside of you. We have this neighbor who retired young at about in his early 50s, He's now maybe age 70. He seems younger. He doesn't like deer in his yard. What he does is chase the deer out of his yard and then the deer run into my other neighbor's wooded area of their yard. I do not think that neighbor knows this. However, that's not the real problem. The real problem is the deer get so alarmed that they run through the yards and into the street, which although it can be low-key in traffic. Still it is a road and the way the deer are chased by this neighbor it could have a catastrophic effect on not just the deer, too on a driver of a car that may come in contact with the deer scared and running. Today, as I saw him scream and chase the deer, I went outside and said, "Hey. It's okay. Let them come into my yard." He answered back, "They're ea...

  When you enter our home, you will walk past a Mezuzah above your head to the right of the doorway. If you exit the backdoor you'll see a Catholic Blessing certificate and a red and gold placard written in Chinese as a Blessing. The one thing you may never realize is that we own nearly every religion's book(s) and have them in our home. Why? Because these are all sacred.  Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my parents thought I would either become a nun or a Marine and then go into law enforcement as I'd desired. Yet, I practiced privately my own religion in healing and prayer daily. My mother was religious, but didn't appreciate the way her religion was taught in its fullest. My dad was arrogant and acted as though he was God, pretty much like our current POTUS. It at times could be discerning, because there was nothing about anyone he liked unless they totally agreed with him and told him how great he was. Aside from that, little did I know that I was practicing a far...