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Old Friends ... Glad I reached out! I can breathe a little today. I can!

Totally convinced that in order NOT to jump outta a 22nd floor window in order to end it all and to fly away, that confiding in someone is a great idea...what a tonic! That way, brick-wall judgmental folks who do never admit that life sucks don't say after the fact. "WHY didn't she or he or it say something? tsk tsk tsk?"

Glad I reached out! I can breathe a little today. I can!



Thank God for those who give a damn and offer an understanding heart and the ability to listen for a bit! At this advanced age and whatever age, we all deserve that, no doubt. I do miss my parents right about now though--before they aged and became disillusioned with old friends and so forth.

Try to be there for human beings...we can all be fragile. And find someone who understands how important listening can truly be! I did...finally.



Thank you, friends …

Judy Kramer: "I hear you, Susie. There are days. Sometimes life throws so much at you."

Joy Gilraine: "It does matter. So much. I'm glad you found someone."

Colleen Hornidge: "I'm here for you too, Susie....I adore you can call me anytime. I'll private message u my number ♡♡♡ Always here for you. I will never forget your kindness...never!♡"



B Anne Giles Watson: "I’m not close, but I’m here... we’ve sure chatted and laughed at times! So glad you’re ‘grounded’ now! Your heart is good...the World would sure miss you!"

Pam Wong: "We belong to each other...sending compassionate hugs and unending belief in you!"

Annie Gagnon: "Sometimes folks need to be heard, and listened to; no words or advice; just let it rip."

Laurie LaRue Bills: "Susie.....You are SO loved and admired by so many!! You are one of the most special to me, that I have been fortunate enough to have you as my friend. Love and hugs!"

Nondus Carr: "You are a joy sweet, Susie! I enjoyed reading your book I purchased at Memory Lane when they were open. Remember when my son owned the music store with bird houses in window and the bat?? Few years ago. Keep on keeping on my dear."



Paul Clifford Schrade: "A lot of truth in Susie's words ... consider !"

Alison Filpatrick: "You are very loved, Ms. Susie. Always here to lend an ear. Hey, that rhymed. Feels so nice to be HEARD, doesn't it? xoxoxox"

Becky Felix: "Thanks for your reminder to listen and care. Glad you found someone to be there for you. These are very troubling times for many people and having a supportive network is so important."

Rita Warren Robinson: "I hope that you have a better day today, and it does get a little crazy when we get older and we need an ear to listen."

Roy Sexton: "You call me any time. You've been there for me and given me glorious advice and known just how to soothe my soul when life has me so damn rattled. The least I can do is repay you that kindness a thousand times over. Love you."



THANKS TO MY OLD FRIENDS! YOU BROKE MY FALL AND TALKED ME DOWN OFF THE LEDGE! THANKS, I NEEDED THAT...ALLLLLL OFYOU SWEET-HEARTED HUMANS! DEDICATED TO YOU KINDRED SOULS!!!!! <3!! FROM LIZA AND ME!

One fine day, folks will stop digging in their heels, and the other half of the human race will be considered human beings who matter. The militancy lies in those who oppose inclusion and not the other way around. "feminism" is a gentle word....Ibsen disowned it, but his words led to its importance and its progression into our thinking patterns. God bless, Henrik! Females (what a word?) are people, too--we could not live without us (them)! Guess I'll wink now? Damn? 😉 Time is up! Be sweet or be gone...respect us just a little, and before long it might not even hurt so much! Geesh. #imwithher #feminism



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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

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Old Type Writer: "Rachel and the Stranger -- a current events poem"

Enjoy my latest Old Type Writer column "Rachel and the Stranger -- a current events poem" - http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewri...

Inspired by my newfound appreciation of classic Hollywood actress Loretta Young and a late night viewing of Young's film, co-starring Robert Mitchum and William Holden, Rachel and the Stranger, here is my perspective on the current free-wheeling, gobsmacking state of American culture (and politics).



Talk of the Town Whitley County​ publisher Jennifer Zartman Romano​ writes, "Columnist Susie Duncan Sexton shares her most recent work, a current events poem on Old Type Writer...read it here..." http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewri...



Excerpt: All of this euphoric, highly personal, shared glee is just to indicate that in recent googling, I rediscovered an old film referenced which I have yet to view. Such an oversight is truly odd for me, because I once set my cap as a child to do nothing but watch films, if I could possibly get away with such an ambitious yet probably lazy scheme, for my entire lifetime! Thus, before I croak, while surrounded by household-untended, tedious, boring, perilous chores and routines which are insurmountable at this stage (I need a staff--or I should have given birth to twelve devoted daughters to help me out during these waning days I may or may not have left?), I MUST purchase a DVD! (whoops! only available on video?) This 1948 movie entitled RACHEL AND THE STRANGER intrigues my soul because ever-wise and relentlessly-gorgeous and usually-intuitive PLUS "I-can-land-on-my-own-two-feet-given-any-circumstance" Loretta evidently might need to decide between whether she will stay with her clueless husband played by Mr. Holden, or leave him to fall into the waiting arms of Mr.(empathetic/sympathetic ) Mitchum--a quandary I truly could relish -- immediately! Ms. Young, who can capably portray a screwball mother of seven or a spinster or an alcoholic or a nun or a farmer's wife (at the drop of a fashionable hat!), also faced this dilemma in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. Would she stay with goofy, work-obsessed, uptight, ice-cold, priggish Bishop David Niven OR would she live out the rest of her days with adorable, attentive, gentleman-angel Cary Grant? (The conclusion is rather tragic and incredible, and dare I say disappointing and anti-climactic, for romantics like myself! David wins? Ugh?)

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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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Parallel universes ... holy crap!

Came back here to my SHOE treetop cluttered up back room which is heinous and am sitting with one light bulb with some sun coming through the dirty 1962 window.

I have a library in my house because I am allergic to public libraries? And I wish I did NOT have all of these books ... I guess? I am full of question ... marks? Right? Eff it? I just had another birthday, and I’m feeling ooky just to realize that huge number is mine? I hope watching MSNBC pulls me outta the doldrums … which I doubt.

The disarray of the entire universe is disconcerting, but my monkey cat who drives me totally nuts made me laugh today. Sitting in windowsill, he grabbed my wadded up sandwich wrapper (tossed into what is left of my 1959 sink) in his mouth and gave me a look as I did him as well (a glare), and he gingerly dropped the paper wad like he knew better. I must be a simpleton because moments like that which also drive me wacko make me so tickled that I am glad I am alive for just a second! Isn’t that shameful?

"Thank God almighty; free at last" is my favorite MLK quote ... even more than "I have been to the mountaintop!" But I HAVE been to the mountain BTW! And not literal mountains, except down south through the ages traveling to see kin who are always a mixed blessing. But mountains either in my mind or in front of me blocking the sun and communication or in towers of crap I always have hung onto and copies of email and columns that I can never figure out how to file and where? I seem to have always put my life on hold? The cynics might scoff at my remark, but it is the damned truth? Just scattershot always ... yet I have barely ever moved an inch simultaneously ... what an irony.



I am now a nervous, self-doubting bag of sh*t, I fear. Cannot get a thought across to anyone without crashing into the stereotypes that crazies seem to harbor about this gender or this age or whatever blocks progress, I have found. What to do? I felt strokey and heart attacky all of this past year .... been hurled adjectives at … chatting with occasional humans ever so tentatively until we go our own ways like zombies.

I do not seek advice only understanding just once in a while. As Frank Barone barks gruffly, "HOLY CRAP"! I would love to land somewhere and stroll easily from room to room and find something on tv besides pharmaceutical ads for the elderly ... with side effects .... and scary "news of the day" and condescension and mean "humor" and tribal "games" amongst plastic people who just repeat the same claptrap to gain a political office and a free ride. I am doing my best to rise above heart palpitations and tears and anxiety because I remember what "fun" was and "hobbies" and laughter and organized households.

Fat chance I'll ever get back to that miracle. Arghhh! Either this is a positive message or a negative one ... psycho-babble drives me ... NUTTIER! I honestly seldom have found my twin in a parallel universe. Somebody who "gets" it and offers a pat on the back! My son does that. Just wish I could have found him under a cabbage leaf or in a cabbage patch or however the myths try to reach us ... stork, maybe? MSNBC so lame and gabby lately about nothing. I think Mueller is fictional and hiding in a cave BTW! Even Everybody Loves Raymond starting not to make me laugh as enthusiastically as I did ... what a show ... all the family members remind me of me! Ha! I have been accused of stream of consciousness thinking. I try to focus on the word CONSCIOUSNESS .... and ignore the insult ... me and William Faulkner!



Life is a blur sometimes. I sat there and watched Harry and Meghan marry. Looked forward to her feminist statements to pop up? Not sure that those messages were very strong after all was said and done. Maybe her speech at her umpteenth reception might resonate with those of us who feel we might be people even though we are #MeToo victims?

Moments in the ceremony charmed me ... but all in all I got confused by mixed messages. I do love horses, though, and would have appreciated not knowing that William and Harry's soldier costumes were fashioned from doe skin? Damn? And I thought Prince Philip and Charles were animal enthusiasts? Not sure ... hope so! Human pomp and circumstance and epaulets and swords and rifles and swagger do not seem very animal-oriented.

I still contend that appreciating animals would lead to peace and much improved human-animal relationships ... even though I am not always that charmed by trying to fight humanity to help animals out these days ... seems nobody's home on that issue? But Indiana DID influence the "let us not trap and kill" bobcats, possums, raccoons and coyotes movement. Maybe there is hope for Hoosiers yet.



Well, back to the boob tube and Texas school shootings in American guncultureville and back to the Brits and a grand expenditure made across the pond and its attempts at going modern and inclusive and whatever.

And I am losing so much weight that I look like a skeleton in my pix. I hope I ain't sick. I keep needing the next lower size blue jeans. As I said, this past year was the effing pits. Hoping I bounce back one of these days or there will be nothing left to embalm or bury. Let's all have a nice day anyway?

I am thin PROBABLY because I experienced a solid year of Mickey Mouse/maddening human crap from zombies who neither mean well nor ill but just do not relate nor give a crap. Pretty sure of that. And when I figure out how to verbalize my either trivial or monumental experience batting my noggin against the stubborn clueless human race, I shall be dubbed Louisa May Alcott and win laurels for my poofy book which does not offend anybody but does educate a little.

I have yet to learn how to manipulate thinking ... thinking being the operative word. I am too clammed up these days, and my heart is muffled and that has made me thin. And doctors just exacerbate what a human should figure out at home for themselves? But I appreciate concern. But I self-diagnosed, and I know that it is tough to remember to eat while my soul is quaking and my heart is being broken into teensy bits. And that did happen. And I am almost adjusted to people being crappy to each other because it is the way of the world. The wedding, the faux feminism, PBS’ Little Women, a night with Steve Martin and Martin Short in Fort Wayne, my son Roy, one of my astute cats - all - provided this past week-end of sheer joy ... and now the prom is over.



The liberal pundits are boring my ass off again today. They have nothing to add. A gunman shot out again because guns exist in this icky world and there is nothing to watch on my boob tube. I hope I finally clean my house and throw stuff away and move on with life. Wish me luck. And I am glad I that I have less weight to carry around on my knees that got shot out from under me during forced phys ed. I coulda been Leslie Caron if left alone! I am one of a kind, except for my other self in a parallel universe ... wonder how she (that other me) is doing and if marriage is such an artificial concept in that universe, too?

At least a "partner" can change the litter boxes on off-years and sort of balance a checkbook? Jesus ... tired of it all ... and need to change direction and have fun with my life and the junk acquired and the pets underfoot and such joys to be enjoyed. I am a transcendentalist I am pretty sure ... prayer means trying to reach your innermost core and reason with yourself ... and God is in every tree and every animal and every human and every child after all. Try never to fail to look in the correct spots for evidence of God (?) or whatever word might fit that need instead and more accurately … I think?

Signed: Susie Teresa who looked after everybody in a half-assed way and still is and why I do that I do not know.




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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

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Old Type Writer: TRANSITIONS --'Through the Decades'

A timely birthday installment of my "Old Type Writer" column on Jennifer Zartman Romano’s Talk of the Town Whitley County news site. "TRANSITIONS --'Through the Decades'" is a tribute in verse to Columbia City, Indiana, where I grew up and where I live today, inspired in part by a visit to Vintage Antique Marketplace which is housed in the former Columbia City Presbyterian church. Quote: "Ah, life in a small town! Walking to most any destination. Accessibility to churchy churches or museum churches. Nobody plays too rough."

Read here: https://lnkd.in/eXxaM6w

Addendum ...

LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE VAST WORLD OF (mis) COMMUNICATION? Linked-In informed me of an opening--LIVESTOCK MARKET REPORTER! well, i do not think that ever ever might be a very good fit! and thank god for that...unless i could report that livestock markets are in a time warp from hell and to be...DISCONTINUED!


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The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

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I have found that it takes great courage to try to be kind.

I have been advocating for animals nearly all of my life...and within the past decade writing about my experiences and trying to change some hearts here and there.

I have found that it takes great courage to try to be kind.

I now have many scars and silver hair and a few bite marks from humans and animals. I am sure that caring about life itself and the well-being of all of us of whatever species is the only hope for a peaceful kingdom...sometimes, even lately.



I think and feel we may be inching forward toward respect for the sanctity of all life. But, wow, evolution can be a taxing proposition.

I need support and stimulation when my spirits get low.

I am now ancient, but current events via cable news keep me engaged and percolating. The world is so wild these days...to say the least.



Hunting is so wrong in any form.....one of the high school kids who walked away from school this week (to advocate for gun control -- 3,000 schools participated across our country -- inspirational) used that word..."hunting."

I found her word choice totally appropriate.

Keep the faith forever!


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

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This may be code...but my true friends can decipher!

I have returned from NORMANDY...I guess? Signed: sad sack the war-torn and shell-shocked and disillusioned soldier named Sue!

Let's have a damned happy new year, one and all. God bless the animals among us: what lessons they teach. Time to appreciate the beauty of the world and animals happen to top my list!

"They are so placid and self-contained" in spite of human beans.



This may be code...but my true friends can decipher!

Love and kisses and hugs and stuff. Bye for now. Gotta catch up with myself by getting back on the horse so to speak? Wheeee.

Certainly ladies matter but even more so ... animals stacked up in factory farms and poached in the wild and waiting in shelters need our attention TODAY.


Not a minute to lose. Get to it! As Doris Day once stated: "Animals are always at the bottom of the barrel."

Well, let's get them out of there NOW!


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

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Reindeer games.

My friend Beth, whose blog "I didn't have my glasses on…. A trip through life with fingers crossed and eternal optimism." is always such a delight, posted "girl power." today. "only female adult reindeer keep their antlers through December. that means santa’s reindeer are probably all girls."

I replied, "Makes perfect sense to me…and how I wish and hope and pray (if that is part of the deal? praying?) that my local paper stops publishing photo ops of tiny kids with rifles hovering over deceased antlered deer…the sooner the better. Breaks my heart…usually across from church news, too? Okay, I’ll try to lighten up … it’s Christmastime!"



But, dear Jesus (or whomever you readers follow, praise, worship, deify) ... help us mere mortals to know that the present matters. The hereafter is nice ... but the present is when we can jump right in ... in real time and care and spay and neuter ... and stop piling up and eating other species.

All lives matter...how can we be so goofy as to pick and choose...all matter! Nothing sweeter than caring and doing something about the welfare of those currently making their way in this screwy world of ours! Hoping more and more humanoids get on board to revere all lives! PEACE!



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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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Old Type Writer: "THE YEARS TEACH MUCH THE DAYS NEVER KNOW." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Latest Old Type Writer column ... Excerpt ...

"THE YEARS TEACH MUCH THE DAYS NEVER KNOW." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edgar Allan Poe has nothing on me. My severe depression I could maybe downgrade to but a "funk"; however just as the lead singer with Heavy Metal "Iron Maiden" recently penned a new book from the depths of despair forgoing the hunt and peck system and instead scrawling upon yellow legal pads, I likewise someday must exorcise my grief and grievances. Lately, Donna Brazile and Hillary Clinton, not to mention Joe Biden, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Chris Matthews, also contributed book-of-the-month entries lamenting precarious life on this earth in these frenetic, explosive times! I've decided to write my next book. though, when and if I survive these past few months from Hell and have at last possibly begun to sense the humorous aspect of my personal nightmare. It just might morph into a kid's book, for goodness' sake! Jennifer for whom I write these columns emphasizes the positive via her news blog, and we discussed at a local restaurant how tricky "looking on the bright side" can sometimes be. But, here I am...I can do this. "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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May the merry, merry option continue! UNCLE!

"Not Ready to Make Nice" - Dixie Chicks

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting

I'm through with doubt
There's nothing left for me to figure out
I've paid a price
And I'll keep paying it

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time
To go round and round and round

It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell, can't bring myself
To do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can't you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it

FORGET? HELL, NO! FORGIVE? NEVER!

The kitties and me uncorked an ancient bottle of COPPOLA wine...and we are celebrating! In the middle of the afternoon? Here's to us! And to the final chapter of misogyny (if only in our minds) and to just instead meowing LA, LA, LA right out loud drowning out gruffness and incompetence and condescension and second guessing and intimidation and peacocking and stereotyping and put downs and blow offs and lack of appreciation in all of its passive-aggressive forms.



CHEERS! we are dancing a little, crying (why not?) and laughing and purring...so the heart attacks and strokes are subsiding at last. What a fiendish summer WE ENDURED - the next biggie being the holidays! May the merry, merry option continue! UNCLE!



"Bad Mood" - Miley Cyrus

[Intro]
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood

[Verse 1]
I always wake up in a bad mood
I can never fall asleep
I'm always thinkin’ bout you
What life would be if we didn't meet
I always wake up in a bad mood
Open my eyes then I'm on my feet
And I wonder what you would do, yeah
If you couldn’t rely on me

[Chorus]
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
And you know that I got the proof
We're held together just by a string
And while you're hangin' round with your crew
I'm here balancin' too many things

[Verse 2]
I always wake up in a bad mood
I'm sick of rushing straight to the sink
You're acting like you ain’t got the news
I don’t even really care what you think
But what I do, you know I do with love
I believe in more than you can see
And you know I'm never givin’ up
I ain't stoppin' till I know I'm free

[Chorus 2]
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
The glass ceilings gotta break
All together, wanna hear ya say
"I don’t know how much more it can take"

[Bridge]
You know it's gone on way too long (don't ya?)
And you know it's wrong (don't ya?)
But I know I'm strong (don't ya?)
I don't give up (no sir)
And when it gets rough (rough)
I get tough (tough)
I've had enough

[Chorus 3]
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
And when the light starts getting dim
I'll open windows up and let it in
Sometimes it feels like it's 'bout to end
Before it's all about to begin

[Outro]
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood
(Ooh) I wake up in a bad mood

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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page

Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com

Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

If we truly care about CAFOs and slaughterhouses located by three houses and, say, a Dollar General store or lake cottages and country clubs and ball-playing fields, we need to speak out for those animals to be confined and treated like merchandise and factory products and bred in droves only to be butchered for unwise and unhealthy human consumption.

(Note to self: I have trouble remembering CAFO means "concentrated animal feeding operation" ... because they are horrible contrivances. Hell on earth from them that quote the Bible! Hrumpffffffff! Concentrated as in CONCENTRATION camps! Tragic. I have a mental block about remembering this acronym. Good for me!)

We read lots of words and listen to oodles of talking about the environment, property values in jeopardy, landscapes defiled, health issues, political sides taken and even quotes from the Bible, but seldom do we learn the importance of the crux of the matter which rests in the fact that all species matter and should be treated kindly.



Reproduction of sentient beings leading to eventual slaughter is beyond belief to any human being who possesses a brain and emotional intelligence and a conscience. Why is the most important of "issues" avoided by the good ole "powers that be" ... the profit seekers, the money grubbers, the pirates, the killers?

Save the animals by donating to causes which celebrate life and do not profit from destroying life. The world is moving forward. Peace ... it can be wonderful!



There must be a Bible quote dealing with sheer thoughtless greed and the horrors it so casually produces. Oh, yeah, there are a few ...

An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. - Proverbs 20:21

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. - Timothy 6:9

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. - Matthew 6:24

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. - 2 Peter 2:3

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? - Mark 8:36

Do I hear some "hallelujahs"? Then speak up and stop the madness and thanks!




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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page

Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com

Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or Won't