When the Power is Out

I should have paid more attention. I wish I would have listened to Grandmas stories a little more. Grams was born January of 1900 and loved us until she was 96. One day she simply said “This old body has had enough, I miss grandpa. I love you.” And she was gone. My grandparent spent 71 years together. I sure so do miss her sitting across the counter from me and my cousin, telling us stories of life in her cabin before the state made her and grandpa put in electricity. That was in the late 1960’s, if memory serves me correctly. She was upset about the whole deal, Grams loved the cabin just the way it was. My Dad and Grandpa built this home for their retirement. Lovingly put together from the trees on the property. Nestled next to an old dirt road, the log cabin faced a pristine body of water. At the time it was built there were no other houses around that crystal clear lake at all. It was peaceful and serene. During my working days I spent many years caring for old people. Some in nursi...

Creatures of the long silent night. . . Many years ago, the young and adventurous me, discovered a 40 acre parcel of heavily forested property which even the locals had lost track of the  original  owner. It was smack dab in the middle of a state forest. Deep in the middle of this secluded 40 acre parcel in the wild’s of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula stood a 20’X20′ tar papered shanty I was about to call home. It took every penny, but I had to buy the property that had been up for sale for more than 15 years. I was beside myself with excitement! I was 43. The cabin/now shanty was built as a hunting camp in 1963 using real saw milled 2X4’s. Sturdy, well built, no electricity or water as there were no power lines out there in the early days. It was now a dirty, run down and neglected waif from all the years of no human intervention.   However, a local population of mice and raccoons had made a ...

" Compassion for others is a strong prerequisite for all that survive the earth changes, for compassion and caring for others will be a natural and inherent trait for those who will carry on in the Age of Peace.                               As told to Mary Summer Rain by the Cherokee prophet No Eyes.              1986 Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska                                      by Lee Brown, Cherokee There was the cycle of mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now we are in the cycle of the animal coming to the end of that and beginning the cycle of ...

Just the ladies for this one please.       I dare say darling,' some of yous is missin' th' point. So. . .  This subject could get me into deep shit if I don't handle it well. But it is one that I feel is just too important, so I'm willing to risk it. I'll try to do the very best I can. Ladies, we need this discussion! Your well-being is in your own hands! Please understand that it is not my intent to put fear into anyone, quite the contrary.  I wish to empower us all and maybe use this forum as a deterrent for those who wish to harm.  We need get real serious. The time is now.   How I got here. . .   At the age of 80, my Dad was living alone when he took a swan dive out of the bathtub while taking a shower and landed on the cold tile floor. He laid there for 5 hours unable to get up before someone came to his rescue. A lady neighbor in the apartment complex "came by to check on him" thank goodness. She called me and...

  ~ The Day the Power Grid Goes Offline~~ Imagine, if you will, the most horrendous storm you have ever lived through. Walls of torrential water slamming into the side of your house. Day after day of miserable wet pounding your neighborhood. River and lake waters are creeping higher and higher, seeping into every crack in the foundations of every home. After 3 days of these intense storms there is a lull in the rain, your neighbor ventures out to check on you. Frank works for a large power network and he just got word from a colleague a major cyber attack happened at the same time as these wicked storms. Looks as if these events were timed towards sabotaging the nations power grids. "We need to accept that we are in world of hurt for a long haul", he mumbles as he diverts his eyes to the ground. "Not your fault, Frank." I say" There is nothing you could you have done." You and Frank decide to check in with some of the other neighbors.   "I was out a l...