Our Voice and Unity is Our Power

                                           Our Voice and Unity is Our Power

Numbers on Gaza War calls for global efforts of a ceasefire

Data reports on this war are at 67,000. Wording cautiously chosen. In a connected world 🌎 Where is the ceasefire? Cite: As talks move forward, Trump's Gaza plan sparks both hope and uncertainty NPR https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5562547:nx-s1-9479470

Press on towards unity and peace

An artist I am following has put out new music Big Queen Freedia! It is a revived take on gospel music with her New Orleans style. Now I do not know if this performer is already famous across America? Reminds me of how my older brother supported and knew about Shaq O’Neal before he blew up ⬆️ to fame in the basketball 🏀 world. Writing this on an evening, passed my bed time, where the energy says to “ press forward towards peace and unity” - A.T. Yoda Brooks

St. Pete: The Science Center - Unpublished

 Work to bring back the St. Petersburg Science Center are wort attention.

Source: https://stpetecatalyst.com/vintage-st-pete-the-science-center-part-one/

https://stpete.foundation/programs/the-science-center/

Hurricane Politics.

This term “ Hurricane Politics” will be expounded up as this administration and political era continues in a pathway never seen before. Politics was never and is not a sports game. Peace, love and unity. A. T. Yoda Brooks

Supporting Autism Speaks!

 Supporting Autism Speaks! Consider making a donation to this outstanding cause.

Source: https://www.autismspeaks.org/

JOY (Unspeakable) (Official Audio) ft. Pharrell Williams - The Vatican Concert was Fire!!! For Peace & Love!

AURORA HAIK CONCERT, FULL PERFORMANCE, (SUBTITLES)(CC)(HD)

A Staging Ground for something better - We Love St. Pete

A Staging Ground for something better - We Love St. Pete.

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Connecting to the energy of Nat Turner: Carter G. Woodsen or Nat Turner?

 

"This query invokes the spiritual, pseudo-religious concept of "channeling" a historical figure. Providing instructions on how to literally do so is irresponsible and does not align with the capabilities of an AI. Instead, it's possible to interpret the user's request as a desire to understand and connect with the historical and symbolic energy of Nat Turner. This can be achieved through a thorough exploration of historical information and a deep reflection on his enduring legacy.

To understand and reflect on the historical and symbolic significance of Nat Turner, consider these aspects of his life and legacy.

Religious conviction and sense of divine purpose

• The prophet: As a deeply religious enslaved preacher, Turner's rebellion was driven by his interpretation of divine signs and visions. He was known as "The Prophet" by his followers, and his belief that he was chosen by God for a "great purpose" was central to his actions.
• A powerful symbol: The power of Turner's religious conviction can be a point of reflection. He used his understanding of biblical themes of divine wrath and apocalyptic justice to inspire his followers to rise up against their oppressors. This reflects the way faith can be a powerful tool of both resistance and liberation.

The fierce desire for freedom

• Resistance and bravery: Turner's insurrection is a testament to the unyielding desire for freedom among the enslaved. By leading the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history, he shattered the white Southern myth that enslaved people were content. His actions demonstrated that resistance was an ever-present force, even under the most brutal conditions.
• Understanding the context: It is vital to reflect on the immense bravery and desperation required to undertake such a revolt, knowing the consequences would be severe. The retaliation against both rebels and uninvolved Black people was brutal and widespread.

The painful legacy of violent resistance

• Symbol of fear and inspiration: For the white South, Turner became a terrifying symbol of Black retribution, leading to even more oppressive laws restricting the lives of both enslaved and free Black people. For abolitionists and later Black Power activists, he became a hero and an icon of resistance.
• Controversial methods: Acknowledge the deeply divided interpretations of his actions. While some view him as a freedom fighter, others are troubled by his indiscriminate killing of men, women, and children. Reflecting on this complexity involves grappling with the historical context that led to such extreme measures.
• A historical paradox: Turner's rebellion is a paradox. It was a failure in the sense that it was quickly suppressed and led to greater repression. However, it was also a powerful, symbolic victory that exposed the deep fear of Black resistance in the South and ultimately intensified the sectional tensions that led to the Civil War.

Connecting to the energy of Nat Turner

To connect with Turner's historical "energy" is to engage with these powerful, and often uncomfortable, aspects of his legacy. It requires deep reflection on:

• The profound injustice of slavery.
• The righteous rage of the oppressed.
• The courage to fight for freedom against overwhelming odds.
• The complex and painful questions surrounding violent resistance.
• The enduring power of faith and the human desire for liberty.

This process involves studying historical context, understanding different interpretations, and confronting the difficult truths of America's past.""

Celebrating Constitution Day!

 

Well reluctantly being honest  this past 4th of July was a low energy day for us and posting a message remembering the tragedy of 9/11 is grateful that some politician and leaders did say the right words and set the appropriate tone. Celebrating our USA Constitution and the freedoms an it provides. Be blessed everyone!!!

CONSTITUTION DAY: Wednesday, September 17

Use the Hashtags: #WeThePeople #4Democracy. #HonoringMyOath

Advocation for Closure: Continue to Close Down Alligator Alcatraz

    For those of us whom believe in angels, miracles signs and wonders that facilitate alludes to what?  America is better than this!!! I posted this morning via Facebook regarding this dentation center officially name; Alligator Alcatraz located in South Florida. One news report states this detention center might be closing; such information was misleading. Lets pray the administration comes to reason on this issue sooner rather than later.

   The bureaucratic 'system' is not broken but worthy of many fixes, reforms and improvements; that is the goal. - A. T. Yoda Brooks, 

For we have nothin to fear but fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt. He delivered this famous line in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933

Source/Information: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/09/17/alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detention-ice-florida-desantis/

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Opinion on perhaps credit checks

This might be a rant, but whatever my personal vices might be I’d never consider hacking nor scamming a person. When it comes to debts, loans, paying and life well it’s best to give a person to pay and earn on the up and up without all the interference or false methods of determining a persons credit or worthiness.

Was Star Wars written also as a spiritual story or more?

“There is no emotion, there is no peace”. This is an original quote from Star Wars. Maybe there is truth to it ……to me emotions are not fact however actions are. Better to feel then make the best decisions rather than ignore them.

Lean in on Love, peace and faith.

 Lean in on love, faith and peace. What if humanity took a path still containing culture and diversity void of War? - A.T. Yoda Brooks

Is It A Rock or Space Ship? Question which travels faster than light?

WE believe

A song or tune to be song as a round; these are original lyrics. Perhaps inspired. The key, pitch or notes haven't yet come to me. The first phrases sounded like below. All song in the lower ranges (tenors, baritones, basses, alto and sopranos) - A. T. Yoda Brooks

I believe, I believe

I believe in the Father

I believe in the sun

I believe in his power

Source: https://stock.adobe.com/search/images?k=angel+choir

 

Repeat and Reset: Walk by and trust in Faith

 

 

    Never shall we as a society place punishment on any human being greater than the cross. 

 Never shall this world return to that time nor give a pass to what occurred to a great people, our brothers and sisters starting in January 30, 1933. Never again!

    Blessings to a new Saint. Carlos Acutis. The story is amazing in short he was able to perform miracles, healing, and inspiration via the internet. Not a goal I can claim.....inspiration, prayer & faith that I can show and perhaps teach. This was the right action by a faith (Catholicism)I am not part of but admire.

   As for the greedy lying old timers, you cannot take that with ya. Be still and share that torch and the crown! Peace, love and unity. 

 

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV "We live by faith, not by sight"

King James 2 Corinthians 5:7 "For WE walk by faith, not by sight"

During Our watch. Oppression has no place - a hypothetical goal

I speak up and and stand for not just freedom of speech but also with those who respect the purpose of maintaining liberty. One of many reason that WE believe in such rights is because we care and give a “fart”! No explanation required. This is our watch or is the consensus to leave leadership and environmentalism to the next generation?

The greatest advocate, Jesus: instinct, love and faith

The greatest advocate is Jesus. As I am blessed to be a doggie dad. The relationship can be explained by: Instinct, love and faith. One of our pets in stronger on instinct, the other if a human would most likely be great a giving orders. Open to comments regarding Terrier Chihuahua dog mixes (herding dog in nature is what I think) ❤️🙏🏽 (Donations Cash app: $Atyodabrooks).

Prayer to Mother Earth

 

“Prayer to Mother Earth

 

“We pray to you, Mother Earth, with gratitude
For your holding and sustaining love
For the air, water, and soil that feed us
For the mountains and rivers and oceans that calm our spirits
For loving and supporting all beings and all creation.

We pray to you, Mother Earth, with humility 
Help us to remember our place in the great web of life 
Help us to remember that we are but a part of this great web, 
and that we must do our part for all life.

We pray to you, Mother Earth, for forgiveness 
For our ignorance and willful disregard of the damage we have done to you, to the air and the waters, 
and the soil and the life of this beautiful planet.

We pray to you, Mother Earth, for fortitude
to uphold our part in reversing the damage we have caused, 
for fortitude to make and sustain a commitment to do our part to heal the planet.

Mother Earth, in gratitude and humility, we ask that you hold us and sustain us, 
as we strive to live in connection with you and all life. Amen

By Lucy Bunch”

Learning from Hurricane Katrina - not repeat the errors or what was lacking

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

This week marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina forged a path of destruction along the Gulf Coast.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: The storm's sustained winds reached 175 miles per hour, making it a Category 5 hurricane.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: The famous Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. That's where there was a big breach in the levee.

RUSSEL HONORE: I don't think the storm was discriminating in any way.

MARTÍNEZ: That last voice was then-Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore. He became well-known in 2005 when he led the military response to Hurricane Katrina and has become a go-to crisis leader for the last 20 years. Our co-host Michel Martin spoke with the now-retired General Honore from his home in Baton Rouge.

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: You got there two days after the storm made landfall in Louisiana. That was actually the second landfall. What stands out to you just when you first arrived in New Orleans?

HONORE: Well, I was the - flying in on the helicopter on Wednesday morning and then landed next to the Superdome. That was a sight to behold. Imagine 15,000 or so people standing outside the Superdome, then getting off that helicopter and making eye contact with people, and that look of desperation in their eyes to get out of there. And it broke my heart when I saw a lady with a toddler in a shopping basket, pushing that baby in the water. The water was up to the baby's chest, and she was trying to get into the Superdome to save her baby and herself. And I said, we got to get these people out of here. I walked in and saw the mayor, and he said, my priority is evacuation.

MARTIN: Had you ever seen anything like this?

HONORE: Nothing of this magnitude. Over 240,000 homes flooded in and around New Orleans.

MARTIN: How did you decide what to do first?

HONORE: Well, I listened to the priority of the mayor. And I left the mayor and went to see the governor, Blanco. Her priority was evacuation, provide food and water for people. This obviously was a logistics issue. The talking point on - most of the major media was covering alleged looting. It led the governor to a point to say, hey, the priority is to prevent the looting, where in essence, people went into the survival mode. But somehow it got portrayed in the national media as looting.

MARTIN: But isn't it also true that there were law enforcement agencies in the area who were also treating people like they were looting?

HONORE: Yeah. That was the assumption, in my observation, that - this prenotion that the poor is going to loot. It's a sad commentary, but it's built into our culture. And in some cases, adjacent parishes and municipalities blocked people from coming in because they said, well, these people are going to come loot our stuff. And, you know, 80% of the area did evacuate. And it was this big fear that the people who were left behind were going to go loot people's stuff, whereas in essence, what they were doing was going in to try to get food and water.

MARTIN: The memory that a lot of people have is that there were too many people in leadership positions that were seen as incompetent. In hindsight, is that fair?

HONORE: We have to take into account, when you have a major disaster, first of all, all your first responders are survivors. The storm overmatched the infrastructure. And it overmatched the ability for them to deal with it 'cause in a real crisis, the local leaders lose control because it's beyond their ability to immediately respond to. That's why we got these levels of government and federal organizations that need to be prepared to go in and help people.

MARTIN: Is there something that you think emergency response leaders have learned from Katrina or should have learned?

HONORE: Yeah, that you can't skip the preparedness phase. In the preparedness phase, if you're going to put people in a shelter, they have prepositioned food and water. But what changed their entire quick response to create those shelters was the fact, when the levees broke, people couldn't leave. And they were run out of their homes, and they were on the top of the interstate. And some of them were still on their roofs days later. And the people on the ground - there were people working their you-know-what off, trying to save lives.

MARTIN: Look, I know in the past when we've talked, you've emphasized that people also need to take care of themselves. They need to have a plan. They need to be able to get ahold of their important documents, for example. Do you think that people have taken that in?

HONORE: Let me tell you, Michel, we spend more time here getting ready for football season than we do hurricane season (laughter). Now, obviously, that 80% that evacuated - they may have - not have started off with a plan. But the alert system, I can't overemphasize, that came from the National Weather Service was significant in getting people to evacuate. And the 80% that evacuate, I will tell you, could evacuate. That 20% that didn't evacuate - most of those were poor people that - many of them didn't have cars, and the majority of them didn't have the means, Michel. Or, in the case of those that we took out of their homes, they didn't have the information or the means. And remember, most of them were elderly, disabled and poor, and most of them were by themselves. And when you're elderly, you don't want to leave your home.

MARTIN: Yeah.

HONORE: They want to stay 'cause they know where their medicine is. Many of them lived alone, as I said, and they'd got left out of the information system. And in some cases, the system failed them. The city did send people to pick them up, but at that time, you couldn't take a animal in a ambulance. And the elderly people said, well, I'm not leaving if I can't take my dog with me. We changed the law after that - a federal law that says if you're doing an evacuation, you have to have a shelter in place for the animals.

MARTIN: Wow.

HONORE: And that has been fixed.

MARTIN: If there's a lasting legacy of Katrina, what do you think the lasting legacy is?

HONORE: It's a reminder that on any given day, Mother Nature can break anything built by man. And when we get proper warning, we need to evacuate, and we need to be prepared to evacuate.

MARTIN: That is retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore. He coordinated the country's military response to Hurricane Katrina as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina. General, thank you so much for talking with us once again.

HONORE: Thank you, Michel, and be prepared to evacuate. I know you live in D.C. Be prepared to evacuate, 'cause you can flood up there, too.

MARTIN: OK.

HONORE: Get your checklist together and get ready.

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Give us peace, Give us liberty, Give us Freedom!

Give us peace.

Bring an end to violence and hatred and discord. Steady the feet that rush into war and the finger poised on the trigger. Bring justice to the downtrodden, restoration to the marginalized and abused, hope to the hopeless. Guide all those in positions of power—whether that power is political or physical or social—and give them wisdom to use their power wisely. Give them, and all of us, the grace to admit when we are wrong and to seek forgiveness. Give us the grace to forgive.

Help us see your face in the faces of the people around us. Give us courage to love one another even when love seems like a risk. Give us compassion for those who are unlike us. Teach us to listen to those we disagree with, to hear stories that make us uncomfortable. Heal the hatred in the world around us by healing our own hearts first.

Read on my FB profile 08 25 2025. Cite in below.

 Source: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/a-prayer-for-peace-in-our-country-and-world.html

Prayer: Blessings upon Animals

 Prayer: Blessings upon Animals

Eternal God, in your love our creator of all things and within your great purpose provide for every kind of animal.

May the whole of creation rejoice in you, and every creature experience the joy and wonder of the life for which you have made.

Give to all your people an attitude of care and consideration for animals, that We may honor you, the creator through Jesus Christ, our lord and savior.

Amen.

The prayer is adapted an author was not attributed however it maybe more from the Catholic tradition that I am not an expert on but respect & honor its legacy of peace. Others may be found on similar sources linked below.

https://connectusfund.org/25-powerful-prayers-for-healing-comfort-recovery-and-strength

Heart Strings for Good

 While playing my string bass along with a worship song, without having the sheet music the thought came to research heart strings. Below is what A.I. says on the topic. One article says to cut ones heart strings, when felt the pain or tug can be real. Today even learning principle which say to detach the we must be reminded the word of God says "I am love". That tug is a guide and we should endeavor to follow it even at the risk of operating on the fringes of relationships. What was the original intent of mankind? Only God knows the answer. Follow those heart strings!!! Mantra: Peace, love and beauty. - A.T. Yoda Brooks

"I am love" is 1 John 4:16

'The "spiritual relationship of heartstrings" refers to the symbolic connection of our spiritual self with emotions like love, compassion, and longing, often described as a divine or soulful pull that resonates with our innermost being. In Christian contexts, it can be the Holy Spirit's intervention to guide a person's conscience, while in other traditions, the heart is seen as the seat of wisdom and the path to a deeper spiritual connection. The term also evokes the anatomical heartstrings (chordae tendineae) as a way to connect the physical heart's function to its profound symbolic meaning in our emotional and spiritual lives. 

Symbolic & Emotional Connection

• Soulful Resonance:

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  "Heartstrings" symbolize the deep, unseen parts of the human soul that are stirred by emotions, particularly those of love, sadness, sympathy, and longing. 
• Emotional Trigger:

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  When something "tugs at your heartstrings," it means it evokes a powerful emotional response that is central to your personal experience and feelings. 

Spiritual & Religious Meanings

• Spiritual Conviction (Christianity):

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  The phrase can describe a divine intervention where the Holy Spirit "tugs" at a person's heart to awaken their conscience and lead them toward a transformation or a deeper understanding of their spiritual state. 
• Spiritual Heart:

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  Various spiritual traditions view the "heart" as more than a physical organ; it is the seat of deeper intelligence, wisdom, and the potential for divine illumination. In this sense, heartstrings represent the connection to this deeper, spiritual core of a person. 
• Path of the Heart:

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  In mystical traditions, the heart is the "doorway" to spiritual awareness, where the emotions and feelings of the heart lead to a deeper intellectual and spiritual understanding. 

Link to the Physical Heart 

• Cordae Tendineae: The phrase is a direct reference to the physical structures in the heart called "chordae tendineae" or "heart strings". These anatomical strings help the heart's valves function properly, and the phrase uses this physical function to symbolize the profound emotional pull we experience.'

Source: https://biblehub.com/library/gordon/quiet_talks_on_johns_gospel/the_heart-strings_of_god.htm