And they know it! The economy sucks, inflation is out of control, homelessness and other social ills are increasing, and it’s the Dems fault. They know it. You know it. I know it. We all know it. So… they’re LYING to you about abortion, because they think you can be fooled. But I know, you can’t. This November, vote right to keep what’s left!
No idea who made this anti-Democrat, but it’s pretty brutal.
I bet y’all didn’t know I was once a red-headed “supermodel” for a day in Brazil, huh? Lol (This came up in my TBT memories from years ago.)
I’m sharing it because… why the hell not? I look hot and I’ll never be that young or that fit or have a red perm ever again.
I love that Carla, who was 21 or 22, just graduated from law school & I *think* this was the trip when Louis came with to visit my parents when Dad was Consul in Rio/Brasilia.
EDIT, I was 20 because when Louis came with me to Brazil, I just remembered, my hair was shorter, see here:
That Carla was brazen, excited, with her whole life ahead of her. Now, almost 30 years later, life hasn’t disappointed.
Yes, there have been challenges and dreams that haven’t come to fruition, most notably a devastating miscarriage in my second trimester a few months before we moved to NH in 2008.
Life ends up being highs and lows, some through the choices we make, and sometimes, through just plain, uncontrollable bad luck.
While you cannot control the shitty curve balls, you CAN control how you respond.
You can let crap knock you down and keep you there in a world of hurt and excuses and sadness, or you can pick yourself up, and plant your feet firmly back on your proverbial river rock.
I was taught to stand up every time, no matter what, and to accept the things I cannot change and focus on where *I CAN* make a difference.
Just as I stood on that rock all those years ago, bold and beautiful, I stand for liberty and freedom in the Free State of New Hampshire, the place I chose as my forever home.
Here I stand now, wider, grayer, wiser, but still bold and brazen and brave, because fighting for freedom these days takes balls.
Here I stand, ready for whatever life throws my way next! (I hope it’s a House seat! Lol SUPPORT MY RACE!)
People seem to be digging these! 🙂 Backstory: I am a bit of a weirdo who tends to spend waaaaay too much time in my head talking myself out of presenting the things I do.
Not not doing things, doing things and then not sharing them with anyone. That’s my issue.
Some people struggle with producing, I struggle with the confidence to put what I make out there. Or rather, I… used to? Or, at least, I am… learning to not care as much but rather just do it. If people respond, GREAT, if they don’t, tomorrow is another day! Neatly summed up by this one:
This series came to me during my last fast, from September 6-10, 2022 (yes, that’s 5 days!). I’m going to consider it either divine inspiration or madness due to hunger, but what the hey, I’ll take it!
Here are a couple of additional ones from this week. The “Donut” one is the most popular thus far.
Since this week was pretty good for me in terms of focusing on “making things (badly)” <—the permission I have to give my own mind in order to put things out there, here are a few other images I made using some apps. I use Prisma for different effects and Layout for general stuff.
My entire life philosophy: Live free & thrive! YOU have to claim self-ownership and in doing so, liberate yourself. Who is the boss of you?
YOU!
Once you understand that YOU are responsible for every choice you make, you can start making better choices.
Yes, as humans, we are fallible. We make mistakes. Sometimes–okay, oftentimes–we choose poorly.
But when you strive towards mindful awareness–through improved lifestyle choices like journaling, meditation, forest bathing (walking in the woods), diet and sleep–your life WILL become more fulfilling.
Choosing to focus on and “fix” or “heal” yourself should be your #1 goal. You cannot, and frankly, should not, try to “fix” anything beyond yourself until you are operating maximally.
If you are overweight, start there by eliminating processed foods from your diet. Eliminate seed oils, cut back on sugar & carbs. Eat animal fats for brain health.
If you don’t sleep well, figure out the steps to improve your bedtime routine, from stopping caffeine earlier in the day to dropping the temperature a few degrees overnight.
If you are working or partying too hard, consider 3 things you can change. Write them down and then implement them incrementally.
Reward yourself when you reach a goal, but NOT with something that is “bad” for you! I cannot stress this enough! Seems obvious, but you’d be surprised how many of us “treat” ourselves with the very things we are trying to change. When I noticed and internalized this counter-productive behavior in myself, things really clicked into place for me!
We get one chance to make the most of life. Live free and thrive… and STRIVE to thrive!
(And now I have today’s “My Life” Post-It lol)
Fresh back from the NHGOP Unity Breakfast, Carla shares some insights on the primary races and vows to do this if elected… Watch to find out!
We discuss Mayor Joyce’s failures with homelessness in Manchester, today’s primaries, and more.
I am growing! Even though I don’t have any real measurable skills as an artist, I have a burning desire to share what is in my head with people. While forest bathing the other day–fancy for ‘walking in the woods’–it occurred to me that at its very core, all being an artist is, is simply having the confidence to let your unique freak flag fly and share whatever YOU create with the world.
Simply. Yet we know, things worth achieving are hardly ever simple.
Making art is creative (selfish). Sharing art is confidence (selfless).
Somewhere in my journey to adulthood, I was told I was the “smart one,” and so, in law school, I started to suppress my artsy side, with occasional relapses into beehives, hot pants and fishnets, and drugs, lots and lots of booze and drugs, on the weekends.
Even though I’m grateful I developed my logical, rational, legal-minded side, I do regret not continuing to do personally fulfilling “fun stuff” like singing, dancing, and painting, at least as hobbies. You don’t have to be great at something to take pleasure from doing it… and who knows, with enough practice, you might even become good!
I was doing an interview with NBC Boston recently. In response to a “what’s next” type question, I said I’d like to “retire and become an artist,” mostly in jest (I will never really retire), but the interviewer glommed onto it, asking, “What kind of artist would you like to be?”
The question stumped me for a second–Wait! Isn’t being a writer being an artist? Remember how it took you more than a decade to call yourself ‘an author’ without having a full-on impostor-panic-attack!?!–then I said something like, “Well, I’m an author, and I dabble in painting (e.g. I painted the dogs you saw in my office), I take a lot of nature and food photographs, I cook, and, who knows, maybe in the future, I will have my own One Woman Show!”
(I will and it shall be called, “Disturbia.” :P)
But as I was answering, I was aware of that voice in my head, you know the one, Cunty McCunt, telling me how pretentious I sounded, and how dare I lay claim to such idyllic dreams! Who do you think you are, she started, but when I heard that second-person voice, that “you” voice, the one you have to teach yourself to hear so that you can snap her back in place–which is NOWHERE NEAR YOUR DREAMS–I re-framed my negative thoughts to this: I am who I am and I will do the things that feed my spirit and make me happy.
I am who I am and I will do the things that feed my spirit and make me happy. Like a well-rounded, authentic, balanced human-being. One who has, through hard lifestyle choices, including changing to a keto diet and quitting alcohol, developed the confidence to show you her crazy… as ‘An Artist’… one Post-It at a time!
This episode of Rock, Paper, Hand Grenades was recorded a year ago, and disappeared off Youtube. Catch it now to see why! (And it’s not because I can’t say “amygdala” right!)
This episode got banned off YT, and not just because I don’t know how to say “amygdala” properly
Posted by Carla Gericke on Thursday, September 8, 2022
Tom Woods and Carla Gericke catch up on goings-on in the Free State. They discuss the recent attempt by a real-life Karen to disqualify from election candidates running for office because she didn’t like the bill they introduced (CACR 32), states’ rights and National Divorce, Carla’s race for House of Representatives [DONATE NOW!], and more!
If you follow my work, you know I am a big fan of open and transparent government (I serve on the board of Right-to-Know NH, a nonpartisan group of concerned NH citizens), because if we don’t know what the government is up to, we cannot keep them accountable.
Transparency in government is vital to a functioning society, because you cannot both purport to work for us, the people, and keep secrets from us “for our own good.”
This is how abusers operate.
Over the past 2 decades, primarily after 9/11 when America really lost its way, the media, with every “unnamed source” and “intelligence sources say,” that started cropping up, became derelict. We no longer have a functioning 4th Estate.
No one in government is held responsible for anything anymore… starting with the WMD lies and ending with whatever this Covidmania shit-show is.
You may recall the Laurie’s List printed by the Union Leader in March 2021 for Sunshine Week showed several columns of blacked-out information about bad deeds done by unnamed cops. At the time, I thought if ordinary Granite Staters could SEE how even our local AG’s office obscures and hides the truth, you might wake up.
I am sharing this FOIA response from the Pentagon for the same reason. A serviceman who refused to get a medical treatment against his will was told:
“We found no indication of misconduct by [Air Force] Secretary [Frank] Kendall,” the document reads, before redacting the entirety of the explanation.”
This is your government. Do YOU approve?
Read more from the Ron Paul Institute about the legal bind the military finds itself in on this issue. (They may, by law, only mandate approved vaccines, but not emergency approved ones, and now everyone is scrambling.)