My Thoughts Exactly by Annette Kniola

    You have to admit these past couple of years have whizzed by with a strange reality of the new you. Yes, this is me writing to you for a second. Have you found yourself more isolated and somewhat of a germophobic since Covid hit our world almost two years ago? Are you home alot more, or now working at home?  Seemingly more and more out of touch with society, a bit more angry, and less closer to friends?  Well, that's me, and I don't like it, yet I do at the same time.  Call it a silver lining if you will. Or the new reality. With this reality has also brought on alot of sadness and pain to many. Myself included. I lost my Mom, a close cousin, an Aunt and three Uncles, a close friend, my dog Duma, and cat Pharoah. Though I am not here to write a bummer of a blog. I am writing because not only do I need to start writing again, but all I ask for Christmas this year, is peace on earth.  (Why I didn't write a book while I have been home all this time is beyo...

Benjamin Kniola -2/18/2003                                   ~BABY BEN~ It was the year 2003 at North Collier Hospital Birth Center, where I was scheduled to have a C-section and expecting you, my third boy, Baby Ben. As I lay there for the birth of you, I remember calling out to the doctors that it was the best C-section I ever had! Now you don't hear that every day. It was nothing like the one with your older brother, Nickolas, where I swear to God, I died twice and even saw "The Light." 😇  Later, come to find out, it was just the light above my surgery table. Ha! Too funny! It was my blood pressure that tanked and made me feel like I died. I still see it to this day though. But that's another story. After your birth, they held you up over the sheet that separated my upper half so I could not see what was going on. I got a brief look at you as you cried and cried, all covered in bl...

    Have you watched the Social Dilemma yet? I watched it a month or so ago and found it astounding. It may help some understand why life needs to be much more simple without the manipulation of others. And if you haven't noticed, I myself, other than a page I run on Facebook, have since backed down from social media greatly. Watch this documentary and you will understand why. The manipulation of life in our society has become far too great, and it's become a burden to me now.  Thankfully, I am working on finding my inner peace and focusing on keeping it. So here we are, 2021. Do you feel like the world is messed up?  Do you feel alone, oddly different, and maybe just a touch more angry on the reactions or no reactions of our society? Well, I certainly have. We all have. I have been wanting to write this or anything for that matter for the longest time, but I have been stuck.  So stuck that I don't even care anymore. Maybe that's where my inner peace is taking o...

    It all began October 31st, 1968 in Madison, Wisconsin. I was born and history was made! 😁    I write today because today reflects the one year anniversary of my Mom's passing.  All I have done is think and reminisce about the past I had growing up, so I figured I will write it all down as I go. As I'm writing this, I had to touch base with my family as to places we lived. All my siblings chimed in on our family text feed to all the questions I asked. I know we moved alot, but just couldn't remember the sequence. From the day I was born in Madison, where my Dad was a high school Biology teacher, my Mom a Homemaker, we then moved to Sun Praire, then onto Shawano, to Voyager Village, then to Reedsburg, back to Voyager Village. There is where I began my earliest memories of life.   My God, no wonder I have issues. And I am not even done moving yet. 😧  (Though I do have a faint memory of living in a big white house, on a farm, and having ...

  We are certainly posed for quite the dilemma with the vaccines this year.  Seems everyone will do what they can to get an appointment which fills up in minutes at every location here in Collier County. People are getting upset and hopefully there's more we can do.  Well, one thing is for sure, they can't make this vaccine fast enough. I posted this earlier on my community site on Facebook, but wanted to put it into a blog as well.  My page I on Facebook if you are interested in liking my page or follow. The Estates Community What you think about doing mass distributions for the 100 days and 100 million rollout for vaccines under the new administration?  I understand our Florida Governor Desantis wants to keep a tight grip on how we are handling, but I feel more needs to be done. Especially now that it's open to everyone and you have to be a Florida resident. Which is great!   I have offered myself to learn to administer shots, and to start helping those...

    After yesterdays events at the Capitol, I ask you to do two things for me today. Just two.  First, sing or hum 'God Bless America' out-loud, like Dan Rather asked many to do last night on the Jimmy Fallon Show.  Also below, I have the Kate Smith, who first sang it on YouTube. Second, read the prayer by Senate Chaplain Barry Black, read after this morning's finalizing of the election. That's it! Thank you.💗 God Bless America First written by Irving Berlin in 1918, he rewrote the song in 1938 in response to the rise of Adolf Hitler and fascism in Germany. He rewrote it as a prayer for peace, and it was performed for the first time by Kate Smith on an Armistice Day broadcast (November 11 – now known as Veterans Day) that year. Berlin also wrote the spoken introduction (now rarely heard but which Smith always used). At its heart, it’s a prayer for the well-being of our country. Especially in the politically and racially charged times in which we live, may...