LORD I am having a real melt down, but I know how some foods and drinks make me feel, and it’s not a good feeling…just horrible!

I remember eating and drinking most of them as a child and I used to feel fine because I would be out in the yard playing… just sweating out the excess sugar and salt.

My taste buds are calling for one or two of these items…Coffee with evaporated and condensed milk, cornflakes with Parmalat milk and brown sugar, pancake, French toast with lots of syrup, bacon, eggs, sausage, jelly, jam, Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese, toast bread, butter. Rough Tops, Keebler Fudge Stripes Cookies, Junior’s Strawberry Cheese Cake, Allan’s Bakery’s, hops, hard dough bread, currants roll, pound cake, Ben and Jerry’s chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, coconut ice cream, soursop ice cream, barbadine ice. Mauby, sorrel, grape juice… “LORD help me through this moment of madness.”

Have a nice day and be safe.

Memorial Day 2016.

Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868 by General John Logan, National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was first observed on May 30, 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. Have a wonderful day. Enjoy and be safe.   

Happy Sunday to you and yours.

I thought that it was—as my father used to say ‘common knowledge—everybody knows’. Well I thought that it was common knowledge that everybody knows that you wash your hands after using the bathroom. You disinfect the area you used, and you wash your hands after preparing meat. Oh gosh I am sure commonsense will nudge at you to do this but you tend to ignore it. I heard on the news that you should wash your hands after doing these things. This shit is common knowledge—everybody knows. Don’t be nasty—WASH YOUR HANDS!

Enjoy your day and be safe.

Paul and Sarah were on a roll yesterday.

“When the two Trinis in this house talk, I does wonder. ‘Go over so and get that over there for me’. I would stand for a moment wondering what ‘that’ is and I would ask, ‘that’? And mom or dad would say, ‘yeh, dat thing over dey’. In order for me to know what ‘that’ was, I had to look at what they were doing, look where they were pointing, and then pick up an item, hoping that’s what they were talking about. I would hear, “not that, the other thing. Put that over so.” I would take the item, look at where mom was pointing to find out where over so is. Dad would say “get that from over so for me.” You have to figure out what that was and where ‘over so’ is.

“And they does get offended when you question them as if you should know what they are talking about. Oh gosh our parents not easy,” Sarah said.

Love my children so much. We are a hysterical family.

A wonderful day to you and yours.

“Quotes I like”

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. —Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Marcus Aurelius (121 AD-180 AD)

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. — Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? — Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha
Have a nice day. Enjoy and be safe.

I just want to share with you. There are lots of women like me, walking with a cane or walker. I really don’t know what their situation is but I know what is going on with me. Sitting has become a major problem in my life. My glutes hurts a lot when I sit for more than thirty minutes so I do more standing and I exercise. This gives me major relief so I want to share maybe it might help someone.

Hip Activation

Before discussing different strength and mobility exercises, we should first look at activation exercises for your Gluteus Maximus (referred to as the glutes) muscles. The reason for needing to activate your glutes is simple—as a population, we spend way too much time sitting, and as a result, what happens is what noted spinal researcher Stuart McGill terms gluteal amnesia—your glute muscles can "go to sleep" and not function properly. When your glutes aren't functioning properly, other muscles (hamstrings and lumbar extensors) are called in to do the job of the glutes, mainly hip extension. Think of hip extension as the downward action of pedaling. The problem is that these muscles aren't designed to be prime movers—they're designed to support the action of the glutes. Inability of activating the glutes can result in low back pain (low back muscles compensating), hamstring strains (overacting hamstrings), hip pain (resulting from hamstring-dominant hip extension) and knee pain (poor glute medius strength).

So, to activate your glutes, try the single-leg hip lift. Here's how it's done:

Single Leg Hip-Lift

Lie down on the floor with your legs bent as shown and lift one foot off the floor. Lift your hips up in the air, concentrating on contracting your glute muscles (think pushing through your heel). Make sure you keep your toes of the working leg up as shown. Pause for a second or two and lower. Perform 2-3 sets of 8-12 reps each side.

This exercise can be done anytime, but works particularly well before a strength workout to "wake up" your glutes, especially if you have been sitting for a while.
http://www.prehabexercises.com/hip-and-glute-activation/

I hope you are having a nice day. Enjoy and be safe and remember Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house. He will become weary of you and hate you. Prov. 25:17 

A blessed day to you and yours. A prayer for you.

Ps. 22:10-12. You have been my guide since I was first formed, my security at my mother’s breast. To you I was committed at birth, From my mother’s womb you are my God. Be not far from me, for I am in distress; be near, for I have no one to help me. Amen.

Happy Sunday to you and yours.

Paul was out yesterday hanging out with his friends. When he called to say he was on his way home I asked him if he ate. He said that he bought something and he would eat when he get home. When he arrived home he had a roti and a red Solo Sweet Drink (Soda). The sweet drink was in the old time Solo bottle. Oh gosh he is ah true Trinbagonian oui.  Life is good. Real good. Thank God. Enjoy your day and be safe.

Some people don’t know how to love. They do not know how to be kind. That is the group of people who do not love themselves. If you love yourself you would love how love makes you feel. You will love the joy you feel after you extend kindness. You would wallow in it and keep it gong. Life is too short to be contentious… causing riff … lambasting and degrading someone. Enjoy life and live it. Have a nice day and be safe

James. 4:13-17. Boasting about tomorrow: Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why? You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the LORD’S will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. — Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

Have a wonderful day and be safe.

EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo disappeared from Radar. Sixty-six people are on the plane. Lord have mercy.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/middleeast/egyptair-flight-804-liveblog/

MOTHERS PAY ATTENTION TO YOU CHILDREN!

He or she might be your friend or your relative and you probably have very happy times when you get together, but they are not your child or children’s friend. Remember to pay attention to your children and the company they keep. There are too many situations where children are being molested, mistreated by a relative or a family friend. I told my children when they were younger, that mom and dad’s friends are not their friends. If you ever feel uncomfortable in their presence let us know. I thank God that Paul is going to be 26 and Sarah 19 and they never experience uncomfortable moments with their relatives or our friends. I cannot understand how an adult can feel sexual desires for a child.

If this happened to you when you were a child, you know how hurt and degraded you felt so why do you feel that you should inflict it upon someone else? Why should the cycle go on?

The 14 and 9 year old girls who were found naked in the 39 year old man’s SUV said that, that was not the first time that he had sexually abused them. The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Crime Unit found nude photos of the 9 year old in the man’s cell phone. He should be given the maximum sentence and sent straight to prison! No mercy!

MOTHERS PAY ATTENTION TO YOU CHILDREN!

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. — Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Watson Duke, President of the Public Service Association (Trinidad and Tobago) was charged with an allegation of rape and indecent assault… hmm! Whether he did it or didn’t do it, I believe something happened and I commend that woman for coming forward. RAPE is a horrible violation and it is most horrible when you know the person. I was never raped, but I have been violated before and it took me 45 years before I told anyone about it. Hurt, shame and blaming yourself are the main feeling that you go through. After all these years I know that blaming me was wrong. Anyway back to Watson Duke, I don’t know if it is true but I heard he used to act in a vulgar way… Taking out his member in front of people and making broad statements about it. It is so sad that a; strong, intelligent black man with a family would disgrace himself, but as my father would say, “He have no damn commonsense!”

Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is the breaking of the fast from the night before so did you eat something for the day? I hope you did, I hope it nourishes you and I hope you feel full. Have nice day and be safe.

Happy Sunday to you and yours. Enjoy your day and be safe.

“If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.” ― Pope Benedict XVI.

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.” ― Abraham Lincoln ((1809-1865) 

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” ― Barbara Johnson (1947-2009)

Have a nice day. Enjoy and be safe.

On a personal note.

Children are the logos —(Jesus Christ as divine wisdom, word of God.) in our lives. They are truthful, kind and loving.

When Paul goes shopping he is always thinking about the other person. If he wants to buy an item he would check out how much there is before he buys. When I go shopping I would buy exactly what I wanted even if I took the last of the item. Paul would never take the last. He would always leave one.

One day I asked him to buy four of a particular thing for me. There were four remaining, he bought two and he left two. “Paul I really needed four,” I said and I was feeling a bit pissed.

“I know mom, but if I took four you will have four and someone else might just need one and they would not have any. You do not need all today. Tomorrow I will check to see if there are more.

“You are right,” I said and I walked away sayings, “Oh gosh ah shame.”

“Nah, you weren’t thinking,” He said.

Today when my family and I go shopping we always leave for the other person.

A wonderful safe day to you and yours. 

I hope today is a better day for you than yesterday. Remember not to leave home without saying that you are going. Remember that your happiness is right in front of you. Embrace it. Enjoy your day and be safe.

The Egg By Andy Weir is a long story but it is realistic… insightful. Please read. Have a wonderful day and be safe.

I hope you are having a wonderful day.

Not every woman who gives birth is a mother. You have mother and your have mother ass. I am so tired of hearing some women say, ‘I don’t have children, I am not a mother’. To the child or children who love you for your kindness to them, you are mother. Children know a kind heart and that is a mother’s love.

Even if you have not given birth you are still mother so to all WOMEN ESPECIALLY ALL TEACHERS, I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day.

There must be a child or children you have been kind too. If you help edify —improving their knowledge. Nurture —Play the role of a mother as care giver and protector. You encourage them to be successful, you quiet their arguments, you make sure they are fed, you make sure they seek health care when they are ill. I can go on and on about what you do for them then you are mother. Thank God for blessing you with a kind heart so you can spread happiness to a child. 

“The Wonder Of A Mother’s Love”
Foolish or smart. However you may turn out. That flame in her heart won’t ever die. A mother’s love is HEAVENLY SWEET. Here on earth it can’t be beat. So come to you. From up above. Is the wonder of. A MOTHER’S LOVE… (Author unknown)

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all MOTHERS, and to all the FATHERS who are doing double duty. A WONDERFUL SAFE DAY TO YOU.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ―Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) “On a personal note” Just want to share because I know people who died from diabetes and it is a sad situation. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Harold is diabetic and the moment his doctor called and told me that he was I phoned him at work and told him. That day I was going to cook a chicken pelau. I was going to brown sugar then add seasoned chicken, dry pigeon peas, parboil rice, home made coconut milk, butter, seasoning and a green pepper. Now there are things in that Pelau that would make Harold’s blood sugar go higher; sugar, rice, butter and coconut milk.

“I am not making pelau, I am going to steam chicken then broil the chicken, boil green figs and stir fry some vegetables. “Okay he said and that was the first day of his diet change.

His sugar level was 298 and a good glucose level in an adult depends on your age. ( 80-130 is normal). His doctor gave him medication and he started to take it, but he knew that medication has grave results on your kidneys and other organs in your body. If he continued taking the meds, dialysis and other complications would be the next thing to worry about. We found out that cinnamon is good for diabetes so he drinks cinnamon capsules daily.

I boil 8 sticks of cinnamon in a large pot of water for 30 minutes then turn off the fire, add 4 packs of Wild Berry Tea, cover the pot until it cools, take out the tea bags then pour the liquid into a jug and put it in the refrigerator. Harold drinks this morning, noon and night. Eats toasted whole wheat bread for breakfast with peanut butter, sometimes cheese paste (grated cheese crushed up with butter and mustard) and boiled eggs once in a blue moon. He might even eat meat and vegetables for breakfast. He stopped taking the doctor medication and he drinks some herbs for diabetic. His blood sugar reads… 87-100. Harold does have a cheat day. Fried bakes, a small slice of cake,fried chicken, fried fish, roti, a glass of fruit punch, coconut water, macaroni pie, potato salad, Crix etc., but he doesn’t go over board.  Those cheat days he would go up to 100-115

Eating right and on time helps, significantly. Remember you are what you eat. Love your body. Eat the right foods and exercise daily to make your body feel good.

A wonderful safe day to you and yours.

Diabetes is a worldwide situation but in the US more than 29 million people are diabetic. Every time you turn around someone dies, lose a body part or end up in the hospital with other aliments from diabetes. Eating right and exercising can help this situation. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Your body is yours and you know it.

Twenty years ago I did Anatomy and Physiology in college and I did great. I know what goes on with the body and how we should take care of it and I did not do that so as I got younger pains started in my body. I changed my diet and I am no longer in pain but I still have some issues to work out. Anyway I am talking health because … Yes men go through situations with their bodies but women go through more. As we get older our bodies let us know that we need to treat it right.

I am reading The Body Book by Cameron Diaz and I believe she should have called it The Body Bible. Ladies please get a copy. 

Ezekiel 47:12- Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”

“Quotes to think seriously about”

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Walking is man's best medicine. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ―Hippocrates (460BC-370BC)

The way you make Love is the way God will be with you. ― Rumi (1207-1273)

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move~ We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want~ We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable~ We work with being, but non-being is what we use.” ― Lao Tzu (604 BC, Zhou Dynasty)

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” ― Lao Tzu (604 BC, Zhou Dynasty)

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” - Lao Tzu (604 BC, Zhou Dynasty) 

“Love”

Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted.
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love.” ― Lao Tzu (604 BC, Zhou Dynasty)

A wonderful safe day to you.

Something is always amiss in your life. Nothing is going right for you and you wonder why. Think about the things that you do and say. Most of us know; “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written. “It is mine to avenge, I will repay,” says the LORD, yet day by day you do, say or wish that evil situations fall on your brother and sister.

Enjoy your day and be safe.

This is one of my favorite views of Trinidad and Tobago and my favorite beach. Las Cuevas Beach. The water is real nice for swimming, not rough, always calm.

My Happiness is waking up, seeing my family and chatting with them, looking up at sky, looking at the trees, drinking a cup of Wild Berry tea, sitting in front of my computer typing something to say to you.

You might thing that you are not happy, but the cup of coffee or tea you must have every morning, the piece of bread and cheese you love to eat, the sound of the birds, the wind moving through the leaves, the rain falling on the roof, sitting by the window, looking at the area coming alive and I can go on and on. Be grateful for the little things that help you start your day… That is your happiness.