My mind is ready to blow. A generator nearby has been used to pressure wash all day. I woke during the night for many honk horns, more generator sounds, and bad dreams. I also took my heart medication quiet late in the day, and had to visit the bathroom multiple times from my water pill. I was glad yesterday when I visited Deborah's grave that there was a lovely yellow glass butterfly by her name. Someone had visited her grave. She is asleep, soon to wake up; the Blessed Dead rise first the bible says. This likely will happen this September! No more going to the graveside! No more sense of fear, hopelessness, sickness, duality of spirit. I will no longer have the torment of choosing righteousness over evil. I will be one with Christ, on the day He takes me home in the rapture.
I feel lonely as a mom, and have been advised to pray in tongues. I have a hard time co existing in a loveless world. There are no more how are you's? Can I give you a hug? or a tender cheek kiss from a child, or even a husband. There are no phone calls from friends; there are no letters in the mailbox. My source of love has to be God alone. Leaning on others will only disappoint don't you think? What I assumed as the norm, sharing, laughing, working things out projects together, community engagement has become a serve yourself only bar. Kind of like a pot luck (pot bless) dinner of sorts. Supply all your needs to yourself, alone. No matter what falls on me this month, I will continue to look up. The devil has been throwing so many things on me.. things I will share later with you my readers. No mattter; I will look up.
Officers
with the Seattle Police Department were no strangers to Unit 4303 in
the Brettler Family Place apartment complex in the northeast part of the
city. After they responded to at least three domestic violence calls
there in the past year, the police were dispatched there again on Sunday
morning to investigate a theft in Charleena Lyles’s unit.
Ms.
Lyles greeted them at her front door, let them inside and then calmly
explained that an Xbox video game console was stolen and a bag of
clothes on her bed looked to have been disturbed, according to an audio
recording of the officers. But after an officer repeated out loud what
was stolen, the encounter suddenly escalated after the two officers
present said they saw Ms. Lyles, 30, clutching a knife, the police said.
“Get back, get back, get back!” an officer yelled.
“Get ready,” Ms. Lyles responded, using an expletive.
“Tase her,” the other officer instructed his partner, but neither officer had a Taser.
Seconds
later, the officers fired at least five shots, killing Ms. Lyles, as
three of her four children were in the apartment. The family said she
was pregnant.
The
fatal shooting has outraged Ms. Lyles’s family, who said she struggled
with mental illness after years of abusive relationships and threats of
her children being taken away. It has also evoked similarities to past
cases of Seattle officers using deadly force in encounters with people
with mental health issues. Those episodes resulted in a Justice
Department investigation, and the Police Department was placed under a
federal consent decree in 2012.
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