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W0W...NA0mi...

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& CArinG!!

ThAnk~Y0U!

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& 0nG0inGLY AweD,

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Naomi, I was watching a riveting speech given by Dr. Risch At I’m guessing is your home.Lovely, btw. But most important… the most pressing question requiring an immediate response… Was the busy little gremlin appearing randomly Mushroom?Absolutely hilarious! Dogs are God’s masterpiece. Humans? Not so much.

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No matter how many times I’ve reread this exquisite documentation of unequivocal love, my life is more deeply enriched.

The depth and poignance highlights the beauty of recouping our own humanity which is sadly waning. But only because we’ve dismissed that which makes us human.

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Simply, beautifully said. Thank you.

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All those laughing moments during the good times are wonderful, but those special family members show us a little bit more than we’d like to see or feel at the painful times. The intensity and curiosity you describe in Mushroom show us how we might handle the less than perfect days. God bless you and Mushroom.

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I’ve become a caregiver over the last year, spoon feeding my mother in law two to three meals a day. I’ve told my wife, how fulfilling it is to me, and that’s what it is: Love does perfect itself, when we are willing selflessly to serve. Like a mother’s love. That is the the actual secret. Thank you for putting that into words for me.

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Again, Naomi’s exquisite writing has brought me to tears. We have been racing to the nadir of the evolutionary scale, having peaked decades ago and began our descent at a barely detectable downward slide. Like any roll down a slope, it accelerates quickly and snowballs to the bottom.

We must come together and with all our might and effort thwart the crash.

Our society is a self absorbed celebration of death. If anything living becomes an inconvenience, it is deemed unworthy of life.

A viable developed fetus is disposable, a pet that is no longer an amusing puppy or adopted for companionship during an overreaching, seemingly endless lockdown is no longer useful once the lockdown has ended, the pet then either abandoned, pawned off or returned to a shelter with a guarantee of euthanasia. The elderly are particularly disposable, the quicker the better.

Look no further than the tragic Nusra IG home deaths. The very people who raised us, nurtured us, protected us and consoled us left to die without comfort or family surrounded them.

What struck me as the most insidious proof of a contagion of sociopathy was the lack of outrage when Fauci’s Mengelian , Beagle torture and Monkey Island of Dr. Moreau was met with not only silence or any emotion, instead, the Cult of Scientism became more worshipful of the Supreme Leader with religious fervor.

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Pets are family. ( Jesus is my role model, on caring for everyone & free will )

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fyi unusual literary agents roundtable including ICM Partners co-president Sloan Harris https://youtu.be/qL5bcAXTZys

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Naomi.....you are an old and beautiful soul and if anything the horror of the last 2 years has shown us- it is people like you rising as heros off old. You are a true poet, a visionary , a warrior. Your name in Sanskrit would be " Daya" which roughly translated means compassionate wisdom" and your symbol would be the ace of swords" victory over adversity through compassionate leadership". Bless you. Xxxcc

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Apr 26, 2022·edited Apr 26, 2022

I truly love the way you express your life and its treasures along with its trials. Our pets are so much more than just critters we care for. They are here to comfort us and even mirror us while we watch all else unfold. 12 years ago my wife and I loss our cat Sammy who ran outside our house and was tragically slain by a couple of hounds belonging to a neighbor. Sammy had slipped into their back yard as they were being let them out in the middle of the night. The next morning upon learning of this horrific event, the hurt was immense, worse than the feeling I had of losing both parents. But it was a feeling nonetheless, something that I celebrate because it brings out my humanity. Whatever happens to Mushroom or all else you love and cherish, just remember to hold tight to the sense of connection with your heart, something that Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari or whoever dreams of merging us into compliant robots can never take away.

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Your ode to Mushroom is personal, insightful and wise. I'm better having read it.

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Wow, just beautiful. Truth and beauty can be found so easily in nature, if we only look.

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Beautiful. 💕

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I saw Naomi on steve bannons show. she looked great sporting a head of hair like a lions mane lol

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