Proud southerner, Christian and Republican. Granddaughter of a WWII Veteran and grateful to be American. Laughter and kindness are the key to life.

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"I don't think it's going to get any easier." One of the most raw and vulnerable conversations I've ever had...
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🚨 BREAKING: By stroke of pen, President Trump just SIGNED with Melania Trump a landmark executive order for for women's health, creating a brand-new Women's Health Division at the National Institutes of Health Second Lady Usha Vance even brought her baby to the EO signing! 👏🏻 TRUMP: "THERE IT IS." It also sets up a White House Women's Health Task Force, co-led by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and RFK Jr. The order targets: - Osteoporosis - Alzheimer's - Heart disease - Stroke - Maternal health - Mental health - Endometriosis Melania pushed for this!
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Remember falling asleep on the couch during family holiday gatherings? You could hear the adults talking and laughing in the background, dishes being put away, and the TV playing softly. You didn't have a care in the world. You just knew everyone was there, and you were safe. It's funny how much you miss those ordinary nights, especially the people who made them feel like home.
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I asked @Wynonna about the antics of @KaceyMusgrave
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Nine years of working night shifts in hospice care taught me something I’ll never forget: People nearing the end of their lives rarely ask for the things you’d expect. Sometimes, they don’t ask for God. They don’t ask for miracles. Sometimes, they ask for something so small it breaks your heart. Room 4 belonged to an 86-year-old man named Walter. He had lung cancer. His wife, Dorothy, had died in 2019, and he hadn’t had a single visitor in eleven days. One night, around 2 a.m., he waved me over. “Are you married?” he asked. “No,” I told him. He nodded slowly. “Then you probably don’t wear perfume.” I smiled and told him I had some in my locker. “What kind?” “Nothing fancy. Just something cheap from the drugstore.” He shook his head. “Dorothy wore White Shoulders. Every night before bed. Not for church. For bed.” He chuckled, but the laughter quickly turned into a coughing fit. When he finally caught his breath, he looked at the ceiling and said something I still think about. “I used to tell her she was wasting it on me. She’d say, ‘The good stuff isn't for God. It’s for whoever has to look at you in the morning.’” Then he smiled. Not the polite smile people give strangers. The kind that belongs to someone remembering the best years of his life. I finished my shift at seven that morning, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Dorothy. So I drove to three different pharmacies until I finally found a bottle of White Shoulders. It was tucked on the bottom shelf, behind the nail polish remover. $18.99. That evening, on my night off, I went back to the hospice. Walter was asleep. I didn’t wake him. I sprayed a little perfume on the inside of his pillowcase, then sprayed a washcloth and gently folded it across his chest. I sat beside him for a while. He never opened his eyes. But slowly, almost painfully slowly, his hand rose from the blanket. He reached for the washcloth and rested his palm flat against it. Then he held it there. His breathing softened. His face relaxed. For the first time in days, the tension seemed to leave his body. I've watched many people die over the years. Nurses learn to recognize the moments when someone stops struggling against what is coming. That night, I watched Walter settle into a memory that was bigger than the room he was lying in. Maybe he was remembering Dorothy getting ready for bed. Maybe he was remembering the way she smelled when she climbed beside him. Maybe, for a few precious minutes, he wasn't an 86-year-old man dying alone. Maybe he was simply a husband lying next to his wife again. Walter passed away on Thursday morning. Nobody came to collect his belongings. His room was cleaned, his bed was remade, and eventually another patient moved in. The world kept going, as it always does. But I never forgot him. People think hospice care is about managing pain, administering medication, and making someone comfortable during their final days. And yes, it is. But sometimes, comfort isn't a medication. Sometimes, it's a familiar song. A voice you haven't heard in years. A hand holding yours when the room goes quiet. Or the smell of the person you loved most in the world. We spend our entire lives building what we call home. We fill it with furniture, photographs, clothes, and all the ordinary things we barely notice until they're gone. But when everything else is stripped away, home can become something incredibly small. A familiar scent. A remembered touch. A voice saying your name. Sometimes, home is the person you keep expecting to find beside you when you wake up. And sometimes, when you can't bring that person back, the kindest thing another human being can do is help you remember them one last time. I've worked nine years of night shifts in hospice care. If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: At the end of life, people don't always need someone to save them. Sometimes, they just need someone to remind them that they were loved.
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This is quickly becoming the best story in baseball
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Anyways, here’s wonderwall… #cowpoke #yodel #country #western #tengallonhat
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Imagine being born with something everyone wants and everyone thinks is amazing about you, except you didn't do anything to earn it. People tell you what you want to hear, no one tells you "no" your entire life. Not sure if that's good or a curse.
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🚨 JUST NOW: Elon Musk, shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, explains why AI is going to lift up ALL of humanity -- not force them into poverty @elonmusk: "I think by FAR the most likely outcome is an AGE OF ABUNDANCE where we don't have just universal basic income, we have universal HIGH income. And people speak about medical benefits. "Maybe it's worth talking a bit more about that. When you have robots and you have superintelligence, it means that EVERYONE in the world can have better medical care than anyone here, including ME. And wouldn't that be wonderful?!" Jobs are going to change. Jobs have ALWAYS changed. But being a computer used to be a job. There used to be buildings FULL of people doing calculations, but now digital computers to do those tasks. I don't think anyone is pining to go back and do calculations all day to do bank interest rates, which is what they used to do. So I think we'll see an evolution of roles. And as the President has mentioned, it's not as though unemployment has increased. In fact, there's a TREMENDOUS demand for people. So I think the most likely outcome--and it's probably worth looking at--the most likely outcome is one which is INCREDIBLY beneficial. And it's a future that you, if you could look into the future, it has a future you would WANT." WELL SAID, Elon. No notes 👏
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"Before I stepped in the box, I said, 'God, whatever happens, happens. It's in your hands.' I've tried so hard. It's been a hard season this year. I just go out there and trust my ability. He left something over the plate, and I was able to make a good swing on it." 🥲
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🔥 BREAKING: The White House just posted this video of President Trump sharing his 11 life lessons with young Americans. "Think of yourself as a winner." "Be an original...God only created one of you, so don't try to be someone else." "Finally - never, ever, give up," FOLLOW ME FOR MORE NEWS DROPS!
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Legacy media REFUSED to show you a SINGLE SECOND of President Trump's speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping tonight at the White House So here's the ENTIRE thing, from start to finish, with translations for Xi's speech DO NOT LET LEGACY MEDIA KEEP YOU IN THE DARK
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🚨 WOW!! Argentina President Javier Milei just walked up to the mic at the United Nations and RIPPED THEM TO THEIR FACES "It's become a USELESS organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatefully arrogant PARASITES masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats!" 🔥🔥🔥 "The alleged 'defenders of human rights' have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets!" "Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings." "Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task. Instead, they allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish." YOU ARE A LEGEND, @JMilei 👏🏻 Seems like President Trump and Milei both had the BEST speeches at the UN. Pure nationalist first, globalist last The UN is filled with hypocrites who cozy up to Islamism and 3rd world mass migration, while attacking the nations who want to retain their own borders and their national interests Those days are over. MAGA! 🇺🇸🇦🇷
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If you are not following the Noahs Ark Scans account, you should. If this turns out to be true, the entire biblical narrative now seems almost impossible to ignore.
We are 100% sure that the Daily Mail will come under fire for this headline. But knowing what we know now, we are also 100% sure that they are not going to have to issue a retraction. We will be releasing more information soon.
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It's all about scaring you to death so they can control every aspect of your life.
I’m officially done being scared of every crisis the news tells me I should be scared of. I’ve reached my crisis limit.
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Owning a pet is linked to a brain that looks up to 15 years younger. A University of Alabama study scanned 95 adults and found that pet owners had better memory, faster thinking, and bigger brain structures, especially dog owners. Fifty-six pet owners and 39 people without pets, aged 20 to 74, took thinking tests and got brain scans. Ian McDonough's team published the study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience in 2022. Pet owners thought faster, shifted their attention more easily, and remembered stories better. Their brains looked up to 15 years younger compared with typical scans for their age, and the effects were largest in dog owners. The researchers expected pets to help through better mood, social life, or physical health, but those things didn't explain the results. Older adults who owned more than one pet showed even more benefit than those with one or none. The researchers suspect each animal adds its own needs and habits to keep track of, which could give an aging brain extra daily work. With 95 people tested once, the study can't rule out that people with healthier brains are simply more likely to own pets. In this group, the pet owners had the younger-looking brains, and the dog owners stood out most. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3633…
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Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it. The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments. The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month. This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed. The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3117…
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