FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announces the FDA is REMOVING Petroleum-based food dyes from U.S. food and medication:

"Today, the FDA is taking action to remove petroleum-based food dyes from the U.S. food supply and from medications."

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1914776751693066509

Truth.

GM, frens. Have a beautiful day. <3

There is a list about 30 lines deep of all the things that have "gotten in the way" of my plans today.

In the past, this would send me down a path of frustration and victim mentality. "Why is this happening??" And I'd find endless reasons to repeat this question until my head finally hits the pillow and I let the night reset my own attitude.

Does this sound familiar?

I think we all do this from time to time. I think we all have those days that seemingly push us off track and past our perceived limits.

So we complain. We think about the things that have gone wrong. We talk to others about why we are upset and what has and hasn't been happening.

We feed that energy.

I'm learning that we do have a choice though. What we focus on, grows. And where attention goes, energy flows. Nothing happens to inherently cause us pain or struggle.

We do that to ourselves by resisting the natural current.

Sometimes the things we think are taking us "off course" are really just forcing us into a higher alignment that we aren't seeing yet.

So we swim against the current, resisting it because we think our plans are more important. We don't see the snake lurking behind us, taunting and laughing at us while we chase our tails. We don't realize the water is flowing in the direction we are meant to move in.

And by thinking we know what our day is "supposed" to look like, we place ourselves in a prime position to get bitten over and over again.

Sometimes the water flows in the direction we are supposed to move in. Whether or not we planned to. Sometimes it's in our greatest good to stop resisting it, gain a better sense of direction, and go where the flow is showing us alignment and synergy instead.

@EmbersfromAsh

How Do You Grieve a Version of You That Was Built on Lies?

She wore a smile like it was skin,
Perfect posture, strength within.
She knew what everyone adored—
And gave it, even when it tore.

She played the part, she knew the game,
She built a self without a name.
One stitched from wounds, from learned disguise,
A masterpiece of coping lies.

She said the right thing every time,
Softened truth to make it rhyme.
She laughed on cue, she made them proud,
But lost herself inside the crowd.

And then one day—too tired to fake,
She felt her perfect edges break.
The weight of who she wasn’t pressed
So hard, it shattered through her chest.

She looked into the mirror’s eye,
And whispered, “Who am I… and why?”
And grief, like smoke, began to rise—
For all the selves built out of lies.

The girl who stayed when love was pain,
The one who smiled to numb the strain.
The one who never raised her voice,
Because silence seemed the safer choice.

She mourned her strength, her scripted grace,
The way she made her soul erase.
And though that mask once saved her life—
It also held the hidden knife.

So how do you say your last goodbye
To someone built so you’d survive?
You thank her for the war she fought…
Then let her go. And heal the thought.

You stand there raw, no script to read—
Just breath and blood and honest need.
And start to live, not just to please—
But plant my soul in truth and ease.

Written By Samanta Vernon
Blooming In Adversity ~ Healing Through Poetry

Trump signed 7 Executive Orders today. All Education Related

1. Limiting and investigating foreign gifts to American Universities

2. Merit and Performance based accreditation..for Universities.. Law Schools and Other programs.. Investigating past issues based around woke ideologies..

3. HBCUS. Making sure every aspect of Trump's Administration are able to do their jobs. Historically Black Colored Universities.

4. Properly training teachers and students to utilize A.I. for the future.
"A.I is the Way to the future"
Smart people are investing in it very heavily.

5. Reshape Workforce development.
New apprenticeships.. (get up to a million) in areas where we don't have industrial and new industries workers.. for "global" competition. More Salaries
Bring back Trade Craft, to work in factories to remake the American dream.

6. School discipline.. DOJ under Biden made it impossible for teachers to enforce discipline for a safe learning environment. This revokes Bidens policies. Giving teachers the authorities to have discipline in the classroom.

7. Instructing all education departments to no longer rely on Disparate Impact Theory....removes all CRT, DEI...rules and modifications in schools. Focusing more on Merit based good values and actual results

GM, frens. Have a beautiful day. <3

I truly believe that if your childhood left you hurting, the universe sends you a child who reminds you of the person you used to be.

They have your same fire, your big emotions, your sensitive heart.

You’ll watch them struggle in the ways you once did. You’ll see them doubt themselves, feel too much, or be misunderstood.

But this time, you’ll respond with gentleness. With understanding. With the kind of love you always needed.

You’ll say the words you wished someone had said to you. You’ll show up when no one showed up for you. You’ll hold space for their feelings instead of pushing them away.

And by loving them through what once broke you, you’ll start to heal that younger version of yourself too.

You get to break the cycle.
You get to rewrite the story.
And this time, love wins.

~ CTTO

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