ME-as I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called: "LIFE"!

It’s not an illegal immigrant issue. It’s not a liberal issue. It’s not a conservative issue. It’s not a government issue. It’s not even a wall issue. It’s a people issue! People cannot communicate anymore. People, who are our public servants,   and I emphasize “public servants” are gambling our lives and the lives of others for their own benefit These government servants are not speaking for the benefit of all their constituents and are definitely not capable of compromising! People, like the President, the Senate and Congress get the best health coverage, paid vacations and live an extravagant lifestyle In other words, the “public servants” are living far better than most Americans! And my friends, we are paying for this extravagant lifestyle! The rich in this country own 95% of the wealth of this country. As it is said: “It’s not that the poor cannot be fed, it’s that the rich cannot be satisfied”. It’s similar, if not the same, as an addi...

I have been in the hospital for 4 days. Problems are beginning to be resolved. Symptoms, the symptoms that brought me to the doors of the hospital, are not! I am sleeping most of the time. I am also getting medicine to help my cough, medicine to manage my other symptoms and breathing treatments. The hospital staff have been wonderful! Me, I am not the easiest to deal with when I am sick. You see, when I, like most people when they are sick, my emotions are all over the place. I get annoyed at doctors, especially when all of the doctors ask the same questions, over and over again I’m desperately trying to understand doctors and the mysterious aura about them! I am also taking steps to understand myself! I am determined to get better, with all of the no energy I have! I am giving the doctors and nurses needed information, including my symptoms and medical history to help in making a diagnosis and then, maybe, a cure! For me, there are more questions tha...

I am an inpatient in the hospital where I go for my medical care. I have not been feeling well for some time. Last Friday night, a roller coaster of sickness launched. This roller coaster of symptoms carried me to my doctor’s office, then off to the Emergency Room and subsequently into the hospital. I have been wheezing, coughing, somewhat vomiting, diarrhea + my red blood cell dropped significantly. I have anemia, which is something new. The doctors are going to do more tests hoping to get answers of why my red blood cells count dropped so much and explanations for all the weirdness going on in my body. Needless to say, I have not been feeling well! Love, a sick but hopeful,              Evelyn (Pinto)             December 27, 2018

People aren't born hating another, they learn that. People aren't born hurting others, they learn that. We can also learn to love each other and care for one another! Learning to love our neighbors for our similarities, as well as accepting others for our differences is the beginning of growth and the realization of true wisdom! No one is completely self- sufficient, no one. We need each other! No one person is better than another because they may have more finances, in a higher status quo or is different politically. Neither should anyone be looked down upon because of their mental status, health issues, age, family, mobility, disability, vulnerabilities or religion. We are all of the same race: "The Human Race"! It’s this awareness that we depend on each other and we so need each other. It does not mean that anyone, or any establishment, should ever use another human being. Things are meant to be used, not people! In dark tim...

Christmas. A celebration of the birth of Christ. This is a season of joy, love and celebration! It is also a time of stress, loneliness and confusion. Some worry over the importance of getting the right presents for particular people, spending more than your finances will allow and thus, many are thrown into a whirlwind of commercialism that society endorses. In these times of loneliness and this culture of commercialism, I think about Jesus. Then I pray! Jesus, God, who came to Earth feeling what it was to be totally human, like us, to save us is the purpose and reason of Christmas. I know that this society of Christmas commercialism is something that angers God. Being kind, loving and especially reaching out to others, especially spending time with the sick, the forgotten, the lonely, the distraught, the vulnerable and the troubled is, to me, the genuine and real meaning of Christmas! Reaching out and spending time, this Christmas, with others, especia...

My Christmas Family: With sincerity, love and prayers for a happy, holy and blessed Christmas My 2nd prayer is that an ever present Jesus be with you through this Christmas season and for always! Love, Evelyn (Pinto) November 29, 2018

It is amazing how history repeats itself over and over again. It's that some people don't get it the 1st, 2nd or how many times that history becomes the past, present and future until there is no future. I guess a lot of times the greed of mankind can outweigh the good in mankind. I certainly hope this world has a future for the children, their children and grandchildren. Being, myself, a positive person, I believe the good in humankind outweighs the bad and good in this world also outweighs the bad! Unfortunately the people in power in our country and some other countries think more of money and power than the welfare of people and the world we live in! I hope this younger generation can change this messed up world! With sincerity,              Evelyn Pinto              November 23, 2018

I was at breakfast this morning and thought, "I have a whole week to pack for Thanksgiving, where I will spend Thanksgiving + a few days with my sister. My friend reminded me that Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Like, where the heck did the week go? I have to call the "Lost and Found". I lost a week somewhere! Have a happy, holy and blessed Thanksgiving Everyone! Use a cup of gratitude and give a pound of blessings! “If you can’t find good in the world, be that good in the world!” With sincerity and love,       Evelyn Pinto        November 21, 2018

Being a patient in the hospital has its' problems, stresses, questions, and uncertainties.  It's a place where you trust your health, wellbeing and even your life into the hands of others. You live with this trust and hope that these people are making the right decisions in your behalf.  You also have faith that they are going to do the right thing for you. This can create a roll- a- coaster of emotions to evolve and flow out! In the confusion and chaos of the hospital, I had a birthday party! Chaplains of the Pastoral Care Department, of the hospital I where I am treated medically, gave me a magnificent birthday Party in the Coffee Shop of this hospital! Beth, Mary and I enjoyed some delightful cake, the out of this world company of each other and even some super fantastic presents. The hospital is an environment known for bad news, acute health problems, life and death struggles and other negative stuff. Today, the hospital wasn't just an...

I do not go to the hospital because it’s something I would prefer to do, no not at all. Usually I go to the hospital when things are wrong and I’m sick. Today was totally different. Today, at the hospital, something personal and amazing happened. In the craziness and negativity of this institutionalized setting of the hospital, something good erupted. In the coffee shop of the hospital, I was given a birthday party! My friends, who are chaplains at the hospital I go for my medical care, gave me a birthday party! Spending time with my friends, Beth and Mary, is awesome enough and is also something I love doing. Today, something even more extraordinary happened. My friends, I had cake and presents! May God bless my friends!           Evelyn Pinto           November 14, 2018

A Letter From Evelyn Dear Friends and Family, Thank you all for your prayers, kind words and birthday wishes! I very much appreciate them and I am very grateful to each one of you! This birthday I have been sick. My pulmonary physician has placed me on 2 different antibiotics, 1 for a lung infection and the other for an infection in my leg. I know things could be worse. I could (almost was) could be an inpatient in the hospital. So, now, dear friends, I am recovering at home. Being sick really exhausts you and, also, takes your strength away. It doesn’t fit my somewhat active lifestyle at all! Well, I go on and I will work to get better, hopefully soon and I will "pray"! Have an awesome day, my friends! Build a day that will give glory to God! Help others, whenever possible and live, really live, each day to the fullest! Love and prayers, A sick but, blessed, Evelyn Pinto October 27, 2018 ...

Today is my birthday ! Thinking over my life, I’m perplexed and grateful to God that I’ve come this far. I could not have made it without a loving and forgiving God who gave me the strength, courage and will to go on. The relationships in my life of family, friends and church have carried me through also. Thinking back to my childhood, my mother and my father have made a pronounced impact on my life. My sisters and brothers, through my childhood, have made a lasting impression in my life. We stuck together as children. I wonder what would have happened if we had continued our togetherness through our personal lives. I think of this when I become fixated in those times when thoughts and memories of my brother, John, ride across my mind. I would have loved to have been closer to my brother, John, in those early days. I have recollections of each of us going through our own personal hell, feeling so alone. I recall that these hells was not of our own maki...