Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you. -Bernie Siegel

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758

There has been another shooting in Tulsa at a Saint Francis Hospital and Health Center. There is not a lot of information yet -- they haven't identified the shooter whom I think is dead, so it won't be known for a while WHY. One of my first thoughts was the shooter wanted his 'fame' to begin. He too heard almost nothing the last few days ( if he was listening to the news ) about the Uvalde shooter. That was must a thought that popped into my head and may be the farthest thing from the truth of ever. It took place in one of the buildings that dealt with ?? cancer maybe --- Women's Breast Center and also same day surgeries were done there. Seems to have been the only part of the complex that was involved.

People really are tired of this and actually -- while I pray the shootings stop -- while they go on the pressure to get something done will continue. It should have taken place after Newtown -- and I really thought it would. I was so wrong. Time is long past now. People are paying for the Reps. to have their way and they are paying with their and their children's lives. So un-called for and so very un-fair.

A bit more about the shooting in Okla.

4 killed in shooting at Tulsa hospital; gunman also dead, police say

Police say a man armed with a rifle and a handgun was also dead after Wednesday's shooting at St. Francis Hospital.

June 1, 2022, 6:00 PM CDT / Updated June 1, 2022, 8:05 PM CDT

By Tim Stelloh and Lindsey Pipia

Four people were killed as a gunman opened fire inside an Oklahoma hospital Wednesday, authorities said.

The gunman, described as 35 to 40 years old and armed with a rifle and handgun, appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Tulsa Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish told reporters.

Tulsa police Capt. Richard Meulenberg said the gunman fired that shot as officers were kicking in a stairwell door to gain access to the Tulsa medical building where the gunfire erupted.

As many as 10 people could have been wounded in the shooting, Meulenberg said. No injuries were considered life-threatening, he said.

The shooting occurred shortly before 5 p.m. inside the Natalie Building at St. Francis Hospital, authorities said. The victims, whose identities have not been released, appeared to be a combination of patients and employees, Dalgleish said.

Part of the shooting appears to have occurred inside an orthopedic facility on the building's second floor, Dalgleish said.

The gunman and his motive have not been identified.

Creative gratitude is an attitude. It is magnetic and will draw good to you. It is good therapy, a road to happiness. Thankfulness is a way of living more fully. Be thankful for your health and you will have health in more abundance. Be thankful for the love you receive and it will be increased. Be thankful for your success and you'll open doors to further achievement. Be thankful for your friends and more friends will come to you. Be thankful for beauty and you'll experience it more deeply. Creative gratitude is a force for harmony and goodwill. It brings people together in love and understanding. It is high on the scale of creative qualities to be practiced day in and day out in our moment-to-moment contacts. -Wilferd A. Peterson

I guess I will have to write my idiot Senators & Representative again. You think that if you were in a 'safe seat', you might dare to do what is moral and right......sigh.

Here's the message that I just sent to my Senators and Representative. Feel free to use the Action List if you contact yours.

Sensible gun control regulations take NOTHING away from 'a well regulated militia'. As a former teacher who has been locked in a darkened classroom, crowded against a back wall with a group of frightened 6th graders during an active shooter lock-down (which, thank God, turned out to be a false alarm......but next time may not be), I beg you to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Please, please support the following measures:
1.) Ban all assault rifles
2.) Require gun owners to register their guns
3.) Require gun owners to carry insurance
4.) If you have a restraining order or order of protection against you, you must give up your guns
5.) Universal background checks - even if you are gifting this to a relative
6.) Seven day waiting periods
7.) If you have an assault arrest, you must give up your guns
8.) Red Flag laws

Ruth, that is a fantastic letter. I hope everyone uses it. I didn't do much here yesterday. I've felt a lot of negative feelings about the other side ( the Rethugs ) since Uvalde and its aftermath ) so I've held back a bit. I guess I'm a bit discouraged and depressed. Added with some exasperation and huge frustration over where the line is on this. The dichotomy of the Reps. wanting NO abortions -- so they can what -- let more children be harmed in schools.

Well, maybe I'll get my legs back under me, but I do feel weighted somewhat right now.

What a guy!! I don’t give a flyfig about any pro sports team, but this is unreal.

Excellent ruthbru!

It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world. -Gay Luce