Loretta Riddell (Elohi)'s Blog – January 2016 Archive (6)

I remember and lived the times and as a woman who has always had someone in Uniform in my life I can honestly say I was ashamed of my Country and how they treated our Military during the Vietnam War and After..

That is how I live even today with all the technology.. I look around at my neighbors and wonder if they realize they are suffocating mother earth , starving all the creation that could be brought forth by mother nature, flooding our rivers and streams with trash and polutants and changing the air we breathe.

Many years ago my grandparents taught me Never to…

Know your strengths

Accept your weaknesses

Be proud of all you overcome…

I  have  light many candles in my lifetime

Have  had many candles in windows  for those returning  Home

Either  home into Gods Hands or  Home and  into  my  arms

Music also plays a very large part in my life

Many times  bring not what the Artists intended

But emotions…

And again I start off with a New year, new hopes and dreams

10 years ago yesterday I held the hand of my  Sister promising  to honor

hwe final wishes as she ceased  fighting  Cancer New Years Eve.…