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10/04/2026

I am not sure I entirely agree that a child's first bully is an unhealed parent.

Now I understand why this lands so hard. Most of us can trace at least one thing we do under stress back to something we watched a parent do under stress. The yelling that came too fast. The silence that lasted too long. We inherit more than we're told we will.

But I don't think it's that simple, and I don't think it's fair to every parent holding this image and feeling accused.

Plenty of people grew up with calm, healed, self-aware parents and still turned into the kid who made someone else's life miserable at school. Plenty of people grew up with a parent who was still actively working through their own wounds, flawed and unfinished, and still raised a genuinely kind child, because that parent apologized when they got it wrong and kept trying anyway.

Unhealed parents can absolutely pass pain down. That part is real, and worth sitting with. But "unhealed" isn't the same as "unloving," and a parent still in process isn't automatically raising a bully. Healing isn't a prerequisite for good parenting. It's something you can be doing at the same time as it.

So I'll take the first half of this quote and leave the certainty in the second half behind.

10/04/2026

Don't be fooled by this wave of acolytes. was once highly respected until took hold. Any place that embraces becomes a waste. Just look around the world.

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10/04/2026

Envy runs like a dark thread through humans. Here are some of the most pivotal narratives in the Bible, demonstrating how individual resentment often scales into systemic or collective hostility.

Key Biblical Accounts of Envy

Cain & Abel (Genesis 4): The primordial example of envy. Cain’s envy was triggered by perceived unequal favor in their offerings. When left unaddressed, his personal resentment quickly metastasized into the first murder, showing how envy turns familial closeness into violent rivalry.

Joseph & His Brothers (Genesis 37): A clear depiction of collective envy. Joseph’s favor with Jacob and his prophetic dreams sparked jealousy among his ten older brothers. Here, individual envy combined into a shared group dynamic: they plotted murder, settled on selling him into slavery, and feigned his death to their father.

Jacob & Esau (Genesis 25 & 27): Rooted in competition for birthright, blessing, and paternal favor. Esau’s envy over Jacob’s deceitful gain of the blessing grew into murderous intent (Genesis 27:41), driving a deep wedge between what became two nations (Israel and Edom).

Moses & Pharaoh (Exodus 1–14): Driven by fear of the Israelites' growing numbers and power, Pharaoh’s regime sought to suppress and destroy them. The collective anxiety and desire to maintain absolute control over a rising population mirrored the destructive, zero-sum logic of envy.

"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice." — James 3:16

The Pattern of Collective Envy

Across these accounts, envy typically follows a predictable progression:

Comparison: Focus shifts from one's own blessings to another's status, favor, or gifts.

Resentment: The other's success or favor is viewed as a personal loss or threat.

Consolidation: Individual feelings attract like-minded resentment, creating a shared, group-sanctioned animosity.

Destruction: Action shifts from wanting what the other has to wanting to diminish or remove the other entirely.

08/20/2026

07/04/2026

Happy 250th Birthday, America 🇺🇸. May Almighty God bless the USA Flag 🇺🇸, the land it withstands, and her people 🙏🏽.

06/11/2026

Meet perpetual insanity demands with level-headed, relentless, and consistent firestorm. Nice try, though! Go Figure!

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06/02/2026

When Franyelis Parra arrived at an airport check-in counter just before midnight with her two children in tow, she believed she might finally be able to leave the U.S.

Then the airline agent furrowed her brow. “We don’t have tickets for your reservation,” she said.

The encounter at John F. Kennedy International Airport was the latest setback for the Venezuelan mother of two living in New York City. She had been trying to use several pathways to leave the U.S. since her husband was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a routine court hearing in September—and her pregnancy due date was weeks away. But her paperwork was a mess.

It appeared to be easier to get into the U.S. than to get out.

More migrants including Parra, 29 years old, are relenting under pressure from the Trump administration to self-deport before immigration authorities detain them. The problem she and other migrants have found is that self-deporting isn’t always as simple as it sounds without the money, documents or legal clearance to do so.

Read more of Parra’s story: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4vdE7iy

06/02/2026

Psychology *One-On-One,* be aware of these manipulative tactics and the people who plan, plot, and carry them out. The string puller could be 2 or 3 folds from the tactic's action. When you have nothing to lose, the string puller has nothing to gain; a parasite on a body is as dead as a dead body. Go Figure!

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01/16/2026

Happy Friday ♀ ♀️.

01/02/2026

Happy New Year, 2026, to you and your loved ones. While at it, I'm watching the *"Knives Out"* movie. When wealth, family, businesses, finances, lifestyle, generational gaps, coupled with old age, untold complexities, entanglement, and shenanigans happen, but murdering the breadwinner or his su***de to brew havoc on his is the next level of family dynamics. You think you know family members or how an entitled bloodline can become clever devils over others' belongings/wealth? Watch it! Please don't limit yourself to just my analysis; watch the original. . Go Figure!

Knives Out—In theaters November 27, 2019. Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Sta...