What I learned in a short form is that blockage can happen within the spine areas for the diaphragm chest cavity area and in the pelvic area. Just before the first video, I was thinking that I needed to work on my breathing to manage the control of my colon. He brought the association of the pelvic floor which I had not considered to be related. The essence is that the fascia tightens due to stress to the nervous system and body where inflammation begins to occur. Then toxic waste begins to collect.

During the last 3 days I was doing fasting (almost full fasting), and I began to have unexpected poo issues. Then when it became a flooding into the toilet, like would be described as the runs or diarrhea, at least 4x today. I had not had any bad food or drink, or much caffeine, or any allergic foods, nor that much fluid in the last 3 days or so. I just lost most of what had become a developed belly and abdomen area which was odd for my body type to have developed it. I had to write about this as now it seems I just lost a fair amount of water/lymph weight.

Please keep in mind to do additional research other than “Stop Chasing Pain” YouTube channel and my summary of my situation in association with the Channel’s subject matter.

Studying for the FINRA Futures Commodities exam, I cut short as I was feeling an internal need to retake the exam before Halloween (the end of October) and before November elections, Thanksgiving, and then Jewish and Christian holidays in December. I sat for the exam at the earliest time that morning, a couple of days ago. While some areas of success in some areas of the exam, I could see that I had reallocated my study and test time on other areas. I received 82% (previously 65%) for the portion of the exam on Regulations. I had a drop in market knowledge from 51% to 47%. Some other areas of improvement were in 2 areas: Options Hedging, Speculating, Spreading from 0% to 60%, and Futures Trading Theory and Basic Functions Technology from 56% to 62%. Last to note was the area of Types of Orders, Customer Accounts, Price Analysis, Electronic Trading, improved from 63% to 72%. Suffice to say that I may not be ready to be a futures or commodities trader at this time, at least based on the test results. Certainly I demonstrated through my life experiences chutzpah at times, and more often a creator and change agent.

In the few months, I have enjoyed a group hosted by someone who overcame much, only by my general knowledge of the writer Hemingway. Learning to change behaviors and environments can really change the trajectory of family lines and the living survivor(s) ability to overcome in a healthy, positive way. The lead has been expanding her own life, while supporting and helping others with making healthy changes.

Today is Halloween, October 31st which often symbolizes the dark and yet playfulness of costumes. Wishing you love and positive change in your life!

What really is not pedantic, and many other individuals share is using food sources, at least in my case, to maintain a higher level of performance, and many times with a lower amount of daily sleep.

I had been in the middle of one YouTube video of Dr. Huberman, a Stanford professor and M.D. who discusses dopamine and will finish watching soon. I had been watching another video of an integrative medicine doctor who was also discussing the topic.

So while I have been assessing my managing and improving my body’s level of overall health, I have been looking at my own life story. We all have them. What skills and life was like when we were younger, and how we matured and areas of strengths and development of new skills and interests.

In my younger years, from second grade through my 20s, I loved math and was more skilled in math than multi-level communications skills and even creativity in producing solutions in the work and interpersonal environments. I wanted to go into corporate finance and institutional investment banking, yet I ended-up for many years in the private client area of money management and finance. Here I learned to develop communication skills, though they really developed during times of personal difficulty where emotions were involved and I had to work through them despite how impossible my personal difficulties were.

Now I feel and use much better judgment in communicating to those who have had such a different upbringing or set of experiences later in life.

As I had been more of an introvert in my earlier years, I had become more discerning, as I began to really hear what others are trying (or not trying) to communicate. Listening requires allowing another a space to communicate, versus talking, talking, talking for the sake of connecting with another.

This essay is a different expression of mine in that I have been reassessing passions, interests, and where to take my life from here. I found the investment world stimulating, challenging, and perhaps in my earlier years a novice in understanding of complex products and services.

My life story as it can be said, has melded in connecting the complex with the simple, versus living in either extreme. That seems to help when life offers a normally emotionally triggering situation, yet I am no longer bound into that type of response.

At present I am exploring work opportunities where I can grow and develop. I am excited to mark this time as a choice I am making to offer skills I have which are many, and learn new ones! The great balance of caring for others and caring for oneself, has become more of a consistent part of my life, despite there having been temporary segments that I allowed for personal drain. To have a fervor for life and keeping those sparks, I have learned more about the rhythms of life.

While this writing has seemed a bit meandering, it is the path many take to creatively finding ourselves or our new business, to finding where the next stage of our life should grow.

I hope this writing provides you with some helpful ideas for your life!

The impact of both the South African apartheid and the force of change that Kennedy family has represented, certainly reminds me of the certain change to come for me and my life, based on the last 24 to 48 hours. At times I have experiences that I recognize are guidance, similar to being a visionary at times, whether for my own life, for others close to me, or for those at large.

In this particular case, I had gone into 3 different restaurants over the last 48 hours, and I saw while they had been a positive connection to the past, I was being pulled to be uncomfortable. The 3 different experiences were revealing to me that I needed to change where I go, for the vibration or energy of the environment, was no longer congruent to my own energy, interests, and comfort. The element for growth was calling me forward, calling me forward to have more of a voice in the world where I can create positive impact. I have reconnected to my love of tennis recently and want to have much more so in the future. I could go into the details of these experiences, but I do not want to loose the gist. We all know when we are being pushed to make changes, to bring us closer to the reason why our soul chose to do and be while in physical form on earth.

We all have our own nudges or at times a sledgehammer of an experience(s) to bring us out of our comfort or disconnection, and bring us to an important understanding and/or set of perspectives that cause us to change or we will eventually pass due to not making the needed adjustments.

I believe we all are being called to make changes in our lives and to reformulate our lives, so we are living more authentically - aligned to our soul’s desired path, versus all the outer influences. Connection to each other, society, the world(s) are important, and yet it is most important to be present in our own lives, to then give more authentically to others - whether to individuals or organizations.

Perhaps my writing today will provide a feeling of connection and knowledge, that despite the change many of us are being called to make, know we are called to create meaningful impact in the world at this time. The choice(s) are ours to make, despite the wake-up calls that suddenly appear in our lives, and at times what seems at the “wrong” time.

I am encouraging you to find what brings you joy, and sprinkle that joy, in your life each day, despite or along with whatever comes your way in life.

I have stalled for quite a while as I have been creating a stronger platform from which to build - from education, self care and development, getting a handle on the AI safe use and its practical capabilities and use. While day to day progress has not always seemed linear, I do feel I have allowed myself to say goodbye to the old ways of being, and have been adjusting to and being more open to growth. I am finding the excitement of developing a career path more fully and finding a home where I feel connected, and able to enjoy nature as well as good restaurants and other conveniences of life.

For quite a few years, I have been learning a great deal about humanity and the human element from such a wide source of backgrounds and experiences. This time has provided me a much greater degree of understanding about human nature and choices individuals make and why. Interestingly enough, this has helped me to understand myself better and grow.

I have found that the Covid era and the political changes and quite a large number of reveals in so many areas, that I have learned to better manage what I take in, so I can feel more like living, versus being fearful of what the next turn will be. At times, I plan to be spontaneous. Now I just am more spontaneous with a larger plan and perspective.

That being said, I am trying to bring about a new positive change with regard to my living situation, and sooner than later. Expanding my income generation would certainly prove helpful for this endeavor, and I am working on this area through studies for a FINRA exam - commodities/futures, and being more open to interviewing. I have been somewhat of a recluse for a time, and now ready to expand.

Perhaps you too are experiencing or have experienced such as me, or know of someone close who is. Wishing you and those close to you well for your own lives!

This is shocking to me, and yet the United States has experienced an enormous increase of its population that had been largely of undocumented immigrants which had occurred during the no-border timeframe during the Biden Administration, and it has appeared to have been done more quietly to the public in previous administrations.

The application booklet covers a range of topics, such as convictions, violence, previous SNAP use, medical bills created in previous 3 months, rentals. There are 2 pages on the topic of health coverage from jobs and eligibility. A large list of possible immigration statuses, 21 in counting, with “other” covering the remainder not noted. This includes trafficking victims and his/her spouse, child, sibling or parent. Pages 59 through 68, is a section titled, “Read about your rights and program rules.” This section contains detailed information which includes contacts that the reader may want to connect with for further information.

While I have been aware through podcasts and other news-related venues of the many changes the United States has been experiencing and the many fraud cases being discovered, and yet, reading much of this application, I find I am in shock as to the level that this application has gone to include the many areas pertinent to many in the population that seem to represent a large standard deviation from what the population had been just even 10 years ago!

I advocate both for the ability to make money through many capitalist opportunities, and yet I do hold a heart for the humanitarian approach of respect and dignity of others, despite their cultural differences. That being said, a culture from another part of the world should not move the United States citizens who have lived here all their lives, to be disenfranchised, dominated, or pushed out of the way for the newcomers. As a rule people can relate and work with others of other cultures to create a symbiotic level of respect within society as a whole in a country. There have been many hands and minds behind the scenes, I imagine, which would prefer to change the United States culture beyond recognition to the longtime U.S. resident citizens.

Somehow, despite all the political views, we must work together to support the freedoms and allowance for self-decision making, so as to create lives of meaning, enjoy material aspects in life, and take on social responsibility where opportunity is provided to help others thrive by teaching others how to fish themselves, versus having another making that decision for a person who then becomes dependent on a system.

ADDENDUM

Following morning, what learned.

Initially, lying flat on back on pillows with a towel and head slightly raised by an additional pillow, for a time my body was comfortable. Later on, not sure how many hours later, my upper body felt pressed down barely movable. I was analyzing what could this be from. It took some minutes to push through this non-movement and get one pillow and tries to raise upper body more upright against headboard. Patiently but persistently, I pulled towards me on the bed more pillows. As I did, the pressure was gone. I felt better now and could sleep in a more relaxed, content way.

Releasing my edema requires a longer period of time to resolve. I do notice a positive difference, yet I will continue with dry sauna use at beginning and end of day, drinking water primarily, and diet changes I noted in original text below.

Due to this experience plus another related to the hotel, I decided to begin volunteering some of my time to a more humanitarian less corporate, business focus. I have begun to explore ideas as to what that will be.

Again wishing you well and love with goodwill.

R

ORIGINAL text

I want to share something that deeply has affected me and my life, over the last 2-3 months, a more recent capsule. Life for me has been to focus on work and to support and enhance my future… creating a new way of being and living in the world. A role I have taken with a health club has been requiring 5-6 hours walking/ standing behind 2 desks that are close to the entrance. Movement consists of fitting in some standing stretches. This was to help with oxygen flow and keeping my body from feeling stiff. That is a small bridge to staying aware of my own body as well as the work at hand.

Now, add on top of that, I had been primarily sleeping, i.e. getting rest, sitting in a chair, versus allowing my body in a horizontal position where the blood flow would not continue to work hard despite “resting.” More recently, within a month or so, my body started swelling above the ball of foot area. It progressed to the ankles swelling then eventually the legs. Then the abdomen became swollen. I was thinking that maybe the abdomen swelling was a cortisol topic due the discontinuity with various areas of my life and my not receiving enough quality sleep or rest time. Over the last few weeks, I noticed that I was slower to stand up or sit down due to my knees stiffening. I was carrying around certain things with me - due to temperature and weather changes, my studies and other projects. I was not always was I carrying the same weight - heavy versus light weight.

Days ago, I was extremely tired and concerned to be anywhere potentially unsafe. I thought that maybe I should have a little meal with protein, so I heated a gluten-free chicken pot pie at a Wegman’s grocery store. Not long after eating the food for energy, I ended up in excruciating pain near my kidneys, some in my lower mid-back, and my knees felt inflamed and almost on fire and stiff. So instead of checking into the ER where I have had to go to over the last year related to other lack of sleep topics, I stayed close by to rest, so I knew I was safe, secure, and medical personnel were near by.

So why did I have lack of sleep issues over the last year? I had made a decision to use my cash flow in solving a range of areas in my life, which did not include a place to live. I have been in the process of starting over and this process has had ebbs and flows. It has required me to learn much and adapt as best I as I could to circumstances not always of my own making.

I was able to work on my projects through the night, mainly at a local 24 hour fast food restaurant which uses more traditional music in the environment. Over time, I needed to get out to meet more people in the professional realm, so I applied to work part-time at the health club where I had been maintaining a membership. The clientele have been a special part of my work experience there.

Things changed both with my work and the changes that occurred there, plus the restaurant became more and more resistant to people staying longer than 30 minutes unless they are spending much. I am unable to eat food from there as it does not match the diet requirement I must maintain. So I ended up ordering often a hot tea or coffee. As I was spending less and less time there, I had to find other ways to be safe and secure, despite my options becoming much more limited. I began to walk a lot and go the 24 grocery store in Georgetown where I could buy some food and water, and perhaps visit the bathroom.

I did become overtired as I just did not stop doing and going. My intent was to make the situation workable and like an adventure. The main stopper to this behavior was when I ran into a metal light pole and bruised my eye area. In addition, I had drunk a strong coffee too fast while sitting on a high chair, and fell off injuring the corner of eye. That required an ER visit to evaluate if I needed stitches or tape placed where I had broken the skin. I no longer sit in high chairs or on high stools where I am overtired!

Back to my immediate situation, The edema has gotten out of control. I happened to run into a Chinese woman, previously an engineer, who I had spoken with here and there at the 24 hour restaurant in the past. She spoke to me that a dry sauna is what I needed to warm inside of my body based on Chinese medicine. She suggested I drink warm water. I had read after running into her, that low carbohydrates and no dairy or alcohol would help aid the body. I had used dairy to relax me periodically.

For the last 2 days, I have started and ended my day with multiple sauna stays - until I felt a slight uncomfortable and would then go shower under the harder streams of water coming from the shower head.

Tonight, I am sleeping for probably 18 hours or so, to all my body to rest, process and heal itself. I arranged to stay at a hotel in a quiet area surrounding DC proper. I would be so grateful for my body to heal!

Sleep is a decision - sometimes when making choices of finishing projects or when you have planned your life, or where you have less steady access to sleep. The position to sleep in, should allow the body to do the least amount of work, to allow the body to heal. Healing at quieter times is so important to allow and plan for. Sleeping as horizontal as one can (ie not experiencing vertigo for example), is optimal for many people. Each person has their own individual needs and requirements.

Wishing you good health!

He passed many years ago and the life on earth has changed so greatly from when he was alive. 1910 was the year he was born. Due to the hardships he encountered particularly during his younger years, he wanted to provide for his children so they would have an easier life from which to start. Education was important to his success during times of economic distress.

I was given opportunity to start at higher levels and after his passing, I began to discover the underpinnings of the leadership roles and more public facing roles. It took me much more effort to leave the underpinnings and yet these challenges helped me discover and understand how to better create solutions to what I would recognize was not working cohesively in work environments. My successes were evident in more quiet, self effacing ways.

It has taken much time to learn the art of diplomacy in communications, negotiations, and competing priorities. Looking back, I realize just how much I did not understand others who culturally had different experiences. I had begun to learn through conflict, challenges, and bringing success despite discordance and frustration.

Over the years, I have enjoyed the times of exploration, learning, and adventure, and believe I am better equipped to contribute in a more balanced, and often times subtle manner about problems among many different elements - professional and personal life, cultural differences among the population, especially living in a city attracting those from all over the earth.

I have felt attached with my interest and working in the financial industry - which included experience in banking, investment houses, legal related work. Plus, I have extended my life experience in other areas to understand more integrally other industries.

Initially, I had been introduced to technical analysis modicum through my dad in my high school years. That influence stuck with me throughout my life. At times, I stood aside from that connection, to evaluate if I was working in the investment field purely because of my dad’s influence, versus my own innate interest. My individuation, in part, I had grown in age and experience, though I was fairly an independent thinker in my earlier years.

My father, dad, meant much to me, as he believed in me despite my not believing in myself with many years of feeling less self-assured. He was dedicated to his work, yet he wanted to be a good father. Perhaps it was easier with his relationship with his daughter, versus son. His son was more defiant and willful at an early age which led to a challenging and distant relationship between dad and son. For me, the daughter, I responded well to learning from my dad - academically to intellectual pursuits. My dad was comfortable that way - as he became first time dad in his 50s. He married for the first time later in life - as his work pursuits were his focus with some female friendships along the way prior to my mother.

I miss my dad, yet I realize that by his letting go when I was 28 years old, I was more able to understand the world, versus being in a protective cocoon or chrysalis. Interestingly, I too seem to be following that aspect of my dad. He did not marry in his earlier years as it may have been challenging for another to join him while his inner life was more focused on his professional responsibilities and life overall. Certainly my life is not as extreme as many in the world, yet this is from my perspective and experience.

When I look back to this day, years down the path, I am sure I will observe an even more enriching understanding and depth, than I do at this time. Life can be a blessing so long as taking responsibility for my own actions, reactions, and thought processes. For each of us on earth , have our own challenges to experience, grow and learn from. How and in what attitude to manage our emotions and thoughts - to managing our bodies and maintaining good health, and to facing and addressing what we each face in our own lives.

Best wishes for each of you reading my story here. You are a valuable person who came here to experience life in this world. Taking one step or leap at a time, leads you to new growth and hopeful resolution to whatever conflicts you may experience. Choices and circumstances we each embark on, provide us with individual experiences and learning, yet there is always a true, underlying connection of humanitarian and humanity aspects. There are certainly complexities in life that may involve influences from sources unexpected by others. But, that is part of addressing what is, versus just what we want life and people to be. Life is becoming more complex outwardly, versus hidden over centuries. An exciting, yet crazy time we are living in.

Until next time, make the most of your life and in a way that provides you with the best quality of life you can experience, whatever and wherever your circumstances are!

My location or where I had been spending more time consistently has changed. I now feel freedom of movement and allowance to have respectfulness more interchangeably.

Choosing to and almost finishing paying off a credit card, and having paid off a bank loan, allow me freedom to move forward in finding a place to live for the longer term. My freedom allows me the opportunity to succeed at a higher level of progress and achievement for self, instead of just for the organizations primarily. I like to see organizations where I place my time and energy, to succeed.

Making small different choices allow room to adjust to better circumstances for self - development, values, honor, and respect for self. Sometimes these small choices, really are large choices - as admitting to oneself that the current circumstances are no longer tolerable and tenable. It is often the difference of lots of homeless around without cash, versus attempting to initiate movements to where environments are more supportive of mutual positive growth.

An example is an establishment considered to be open 24 hours, yet is emphasizing the 30-minute rule is in place - to order, eat and go. This decreases social time and more in the production of getting paying customers with less time in their lobby. With this company’s minimal commitment to the community, except to respond perhaps to parents of teens who come their to socialize after an event. It does seem that at times over the night and early morning hours, that there can be more wear and tear on the bathroom. The faster required of the turnaround, the less respect others seem to give the place’s lobby and bathroom. More stuff ends up on the floor and it looks like a mess to clean up. Mutual respect often seem to be initial turnkey - perhaps a subtle response, versus outward decision on treatment.

So time to change, starting with a single or several single steps, activating a better, more fulfilling path and perhaps a more alive future - than what feel at present.

That is what I am reflecting on.

I am enjoying a glass of wine in the restaurant/bar area of the Ritz Carlton downtown DC. I miss having the elegance and manners of institutions such as this one where professionalism and the nuance of polite society from which I grew up.

Let’s talk about the choice I made which I have now found hard to climb out of.

I made a financial choice so that I would have funds to take care of me enough, while I heal, study, and soul search. What I have found is that while I was focusing on my own personal development and final touches of healing, life moved forward in the world through many twists and turns. I suddenly discover that going back in the professional world seems so different and there are so many different views on how to approach the changes.

I just stopped to read an aol news clip. I am where tonight the White House Correspondents’ dinner was to take place, but there was a threat which led President Trump and other top leaders to evacuate here!

You never know what to expect next in DC and in my life. I had not been keeping up with the news as there seems to be so much each day. I have been taking a more personal take with my energy, despite my interest of knowing what is going on in DC, The United States, and elsewhere in the world.

Back to my choice I referenced earlier.

I had decided to use the cash flow I had to place toward my food, maintenance, education, as well as bills I have such as a loan and credit card. What that meant was there was no cash flow for a place for me to live. I have been floating catching a nap here and there, through I was grateful to have an empty apartment to stay in a building owned by someone who was.a friend of a friend for the depths of winter beginning just after Christmas and leaving on Easter Sunday.

As I am investigating of places where I would be inspired to live, I learned that the prices have gone up 3x the amount. Here I am receiving social security and making minimal cash flow overall through my part-time work. I was looking to develop skills in commodities and futures via my FINRA Series 3 studies. The earliest I can take that exam is in August 2026!

I am ready to work at the professional level. Admittedly I have had to heal myself in that I am not affected by sensitivities of the past.

Now I am looking on what career path would be simulating, challenging, and financially rewarding.

I am internally extremely strong. Thing is I have had to learn to better balance what is needed to fully care for and support my health and physically strength. It is like I have been tripped up by the details of self care. I have been so used to solving problems others have, that I had not always mastered the rhythm of financing good gluten free meals which are balanced and fully nutritious. I realize I am not alone on that topic. This probably happens for many others.

More recently I have not had access to washer/dryers or dry cleaners. So I have had to creatively do work-arounds. I am fastidious and cleanliness has always been important to me.

Interestingly enough, I know I am not alone in the world with these challenges. Just maybe alone in the DC area.

Perhaps it is time to wrap up this article by saying, we make choices in life that make sense at the time, but then, sometimes there are challenges one has to overcome to get to the other side of the river where abundance and growth lie waiting for us. Hope and perseverance are elements so key to our survival. That is what keeps us going despite what physically appears at that moment.

Thank you for reading. Wishing you well on your journey in life!

Addendum

The Correspondent’s Dinner was at the Washington Hilton, where there were shots heard. That hotel was where President Reagan had been shot in 1981. The reception to follow the dinner is at The Ritz Carlton downtown DC which has been occurring since I have been at the Ritz this evening.

I loved him, despite at times a difficult, yet brilliant mind and intelligence. The painful part I am experiencing as I am writing, is that living that way was internally stressful for him and he was a proud man.

He loved to learn and teach what he learned. My dad had tutored me on investment technical analysis and money management. He was a product of the depression era, as he was born in 1910. Education was the means to excel in society, so he wanted his two children to be able to financially be stable and be able to care for themselves, as he may pass earlier due to being an older dad. He appreciated the Edwardian era and customs, i.e. early 1900s timeframe, and these customs and culture often incorporated in locution and dining.

As children, we can establish close connections to our parent, despite their challenges.

Looking at this now, I realize how much I appreciate my parents, and realize the more challenging aspects to their personalities no longer hold resonance. Beauty and time seem to assist in acceptance of what was with more appreciation and acceptance, without getting caught up in all the details when the actual experiences were occuring. Letting go of memories with love, really is the key to good health and release of the weights of the past. Wishing my blessed mother and father who have both passed, the best with love.

Have you had similar experiences?

In August 2005, the month of the New Orleans flooding situation, I joined my fiancé along with 5 other of his guests and their spouses. We shared a private dinner in the private quarters of the White House in Washington DC. My fiancé was honored by the President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush with a private dinner in the previous Lincoln bedroom though the white lace curtains remained on the windows for our attendance.

The interesting treat beyond what I described, was this night was my first night out since my process of healing my detached retina in an eye. During my healing, I had little movement and no lifting of over 3-5 pounds for 2 to 3 weeks.

The dinner itself had a formal dining card describing what was available too being served for this dinner. During the dinner, the President made the dinner more personable and memorable after that evening through some us all signing the formal dinner menu card we each had placed on our serving plate.

A gentleman from the President’s secret service aided me when walking out from the White House to the gate. It was dark and I still had night blindness from my detached retina repair.

That night, I enjoyed speaking with and having dinner with the President and the First Lady, and with some of Spencer’s close friends and their spouses!

Bob was a personable, attractive man. He was bright, dedicated to doing right in the world. He was dedicated during the time I knew him to doing good in the world. He was not a political person based on my understanding and perception. His strength was knowledge and analysis. My take was he was not a political player which also has been noted in the media.

Today my heart opened with tears as my memory took me back to the man I had been engaged to. That man, Spencer, was bright, often quick witted, and physically attractive. He initially had become my strong advocate when my remaining immediate bloodline family was not supporting my thriving. Spencer and I worked and played well together for a time. Over time, things unbeknownst to me revealed themselves and we both realized at different times that our needs for the longer term were different. Sometimes relationships seem to isolate areas where we need to grow and develop within our own selves. There were unexpected misunderstandings that arose over time and yet I still respected him for the man whom I initially met. Sometimes there is an awkwardness when mistakes of turns seem to confuse the reasons for taking the path we walk down.

Spencer brought me to a feeling of support that I was not experiencing with my mother and brother, et al. My father who was a difficult, yet brilliant man who truly cared for me and provided me with his devotion, love in the way he could best express, and all all he could at his time, until he passed when he passed when I was 28 years old. After my dad’s passing, it was not until 2004-2005 where I felt validated, heard, and respected in a relationship.

Spencer’s and my health challenges shed light on the future expectations in and on the relationship. Without going into the depth more than I have, it is to say there are times in life that are turnkey - a significant change in some way.

What I learned from Spencer was that circumstances from his early life, his growing up environment, his dyslexia, and his rise to great prominence within the Episcopalian priesthood, rector of what had the been the largest Episcopalian church in the United States, Trinity Church Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts - they all shaped his understanding of the world and people. Yet his true self was hidden or cloaked, as pushing for success and focusing on what he could do, versus the past traumas. His second wife’s death, I understand, took a toll on his health at certain points, as his wife seemed to be such a great connector with others and also knew the inner workings of the Episcopalian faith and institutions.

During my time in my relationship with Spencer, I became more cognizant to really hear people and what they are saying. Spencer was sharing or teaching me on how to be a better guide, advisor to others. While I was not and am not within a religious context, I have found I am better able to guide someone on their path. I add value better with understanding the person and their task, challenge or dilemma.

Within 24 hours, prior to the exam, I felt compelled to workout more than before. As I was working out, I realized, I was releasing what had been tied in me with regards to financial exams such as previously with CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst exam years ago.

I am sharing this story as I feel I need to let it go energetically and perhaps there are others out there who have dealt with betrayal and a semblance of lies and deception as a result of retribution. Perhaps one lesson from this experience was for me, once you see the truth of deception and potential violence, leave early, do not wait. I had to see what the next stop was in a dream I had. If I did not leave as soon as possible, despite the outer appearance, my life would have ended. I also could have been on a higher track professionally, had I protected myself from the draining impact emotionally and physically.

My interest in the financial markets began with my dad and my sharing in charting moving averages, some commodities, and the Dow Jones and NASDAQ daily volume and closing prices. I interned in high school with a large bank and with Smith Barney Brokerage.

There was another reason for my eventually working in the financial world. I felt I needed and wanted financial independence which allowed me freedom of choice. The intellectual challenge was another aspect. I had liked to put puzzles together in my early years, and later on, I was one who explored strategies and solutions in life for others and myself.

My father passed when I was 28 years old, and I felt my protection and my encouragement in the world left me. I began to feel alone in that I keep looking for someone to also have my best interests in their mind in their decisions. I found myself still being philanthropic oriented with community activities, and had much energy to keep doing and going.

Just before my father passed, I was beginning to be around social settings which were not necessarily supportive of me as a young woman. I knew I was internally strong and was not deterred by seemingly difficult situations.

There was a person I met in a CFA preparation group maybe around 2006 or so. His background had been as a CIA field person or operative. He had just entered a CIA related entrepreneurial company. His mother was living with him. He seemed to be treating her well initially and then later I was seeing she was verbally abusive towards him, especially when he was financially strained. I also started noticing that his interest was lying in getting in contact with higher people of the high profile PE company for whom I was working on projects. As time went on, it seemed he may be trying to target those who originated the firm. I wish I separated from the study partner then.

Later I noticed he may have contacted the CFA headquarters to speak of inauthentic things about me, as he would project his authority in things. I also saw him strategize where he wanted to be in his current new job. I understood several people got fired including the HR person within a short amount of time at his new current job due to him.

During Obama’s 2009 inauguration, I had let him know by text or email, that I can no longer see him. That gave some room in case he would go in a rage, as he lived in VA and I lived in DC.

In September 2009, I understood his mother had passed. In the first week or so in October, someone was looking through my english basement window and down the street each way. Based on what I saw, it appeared to be a casing. So from then on I was careful to not be out at night. Also at night it sounded like someone was opening a cover and when I looked out it looked like someone was dropping something into what could have been water pipes…though I am not sure if it was or not.

Then the next week, I was woken up to hearing and feeling a pulsing sound, like a sonic sound around 1am. I laid on my bed on my side and prayed for protection from God. When I got up at 6am to my my alarm, I realized that I had to really work hard at focusing my brain to handle my getting ready for work. When I got to work, I experienced the strength I had internally, to focus and get work done.

I do not recall the time from that incident, but I had a significant push feeling into my third eye area… perhaps the calcium around that organ broke apart. My health began to spiral and was more affected by dust on the medical record area where my desk was close to that room. My thyroid speeded-up and I began to loose 1.5 pounds a day. I was at time 110 maybe with a smaller frame. I went into the 90 pounds area and was able to stop my weight decline. I did not have much money from my job net of my rent and had no health insurance.

From that experience, my life changed for a long while. I was much more sensitive to foods, sounds, and much more aware about people and environments that I had ever been before. My energetic protection, my aura, had been greatly affected and I was greatly affected by EMFs and any technology around me. In fact, I noticed my skin became more taut, yet I felt I lost bone during the time of the spiraling of my thyroid and perhaps releasing calcium from my bones. It did affect my bone structure and changed my appearance some.

In 2012, I was asked by my mother to come down while she had surgery which was much more extensive that I was aware of until just 24 hours before she was to go into the hospital in another city in South Carolina, Charleston. She passed a year later from head and neck cancer. I was involved for the following year readying the house for sale. It sold and I moved down to Charleston.

In Charleston, South Carolina, I healed my body and my emotional life. I had to address my extremely low levels of hormone production, toxic levels of some metals. I volunteered in cultural events, fashion events, and as a child advocate in the University of South Carolina Hospital in Charleston.

Perhaps if you are a bystander and go there for 30 minutes to get a quick bite in the past, such as before the last month or so, there seemed to be an undercurrent life which existed.

Yes there were at times that there were those asking for money to buy some food at that time. It seemed it was from the population who did not work, slept in the restaurant or on the ground outside, was a user of some kind of drug, people passing through who had not gained a stationary situation where they were working and having at least some income.

Then, there were people who were in transit and would come in during the middle of the night as like an in between to train hub at Union Station or preparing to leave by plane in the early morning hours.

There were teens and college age students with their friends who would socialize there prior to Trump’s curfew and ICE restrictions.

People of all backgrounds would come through for food. A law graduate who had spine issues and would find a corner to eat, socialize, and relax. There could have been undercover agents or people there, but that was a sense and not a confirmed statement. One man was trying to talk a woman in working with him on handing part of a counterfeit business. In another instance, 2 boys and a girl were of high school age, who had just come from being drugged at a party they were invited to and sounded like were sexually taken advantage of and were pressured to participate in some sort of dark occult experience. The girl was really ill and the boys were thinking they needed to do a driveaway drop-off of this girl to her parent’s home, as they were scared of her true condition, more than feeling sick.

There were young men acting like a field person for a 3 letter agency, though it seemed they may have been on a contract project and not officially hired by an agency. His parents took crack while his mother was pregnant and later, and he had a difficult homelife. Another man decided he was ready to have a girlfriend now in his 50s, and he left home on his early teenage years due to a broken home. In his early years, he had been involved with collecting money from a version of a call girl’s income obtained from the customers she had sex work with. He is now using his artistic skills in a local newspaper.

Weeks ago I encountered a woman who seemed possessed with an entity or spirit other than her original soul. She had recognized me from McDonalds and spotted me walking on the sidewalk a block away. She came up to me in a voice that had a distinct low vibration and walked up to me and said emphatically, “I hate white people! I hate white women.” I am standing strong within myself to not let myself be affected by her or whatever was attached to her, and thought, what am I to say to that? That was her opinion but why was I her chosen target. Then 2 following nights/early mornings, she would approach me in McDs. One time went over to my things to view what I had in my 2 smaller carrying bags. I came up behind her but stayed quiet to see what she was going to do. She peered over to see I had technology and notebooks in my bags, and then walked away. Another time she came toward me and was about to start in the similar vein as the first time, and I said no, you need to walk away from me now (or words similar to that) and she left.

In the later months, I found myself talking with young men as they are grappling with what to do with their lives and what was important to them. I was asking them questions and guiding them to come up with their own answers, after I brought up of some ideas or solutions to meet the values they hold and to create a more solid foundation for themselves. They ultimately are the ones to act on and be inspired to act on an idea or ideas.

Now that I described much the later portion of a period of time where I am going through great change and having difficulty getting a steady rudder going in the water of life. In March 2025, I had run out of my available cash flow and any gift here-and-there supporting my apartment rental near the Wharf in SW of Washington DC and my many Airbnb reservations. So my plan was to work on projects to help support me going forward to produce a higher income and also to more fully use the temporary healthcare available to me to have a health review, though I had 4 ER visits which directed my managing myself and the discipline I needed to better handle myself and this unusual situation which I could not talk about. The reason for that was cultural, yes, but also it was a protection for myself. Vulnerability such as that can open a potential safety issue for myself, as some men and even women would enjoy the hunt on easy prey! While I am not cynical about humanity, there does seem to be pockets of humanity where dominance and control seem to be a problem. So I spent 9 months working on trying to birth projects - stronger body via a local health club I had been a member prior to leaving a rental situation - creating a course which I am now changing the platform which will be more automated for me - studying for a FINRA Series 3 Commodities Futures licensing exam - writing on my Substack blog - AND handling all the problems of not having a place to live and streamlining a storage space to be leaner. Sleeping or lack thereof was one of my biggest challenges. Much time later and after 2 ER visits, I found a place where I could go to sleep at least upright and in a safe, secure area. Initially I had stayed in the evenings awake and left for the gym around 4:30am to get to the gym by opening at 5:30am. That place was safe with regard to people, but there was a roach family that kept creeping up to me when sitting a bench on patio at a hospital entrance. There also was a rat who once discovered I was there despite how quiet I was, would start racing to me. I would talk to rat with a strong voice and point go over there. It would, but then felt the need to try again. So that made it hard to fully focus on what I was doing - whether writing a resume or on LinkedIn or trying to study for another type of financial exam, Certified Financial Analyst one.

Within this last week, McDs’s managers are sending out patrons now on much shorter timeframes, they disconnected the plugs where patrons would plug in their technology, and made it cooler to make it less hospitable to stay there at times. Now I am in a temporarily safe place locally, but let me reitereate temporary. So… my time now is to continue writing on my blog and perhaps it will be helpful to the readers. Also, it is critical to begin working with the public and receiving financial compensation to continue with creating a more solid foundation for myself.

The day I am writing this, I had just enjoyed an unexpected proper 3-course meal treated by a friend I had met when I had come back into DC after caring for my mother, her passing, and then, my own needed healing time in Charleston SC. I had been living sometimes comfortably yet not extravagant, to in the last 2 weeks, very frugal - which is hard to do if you are not cooking in your own home. Sometimes certain grocery stores have microwaves. Premade food can be expensive, yet having a food allergy seems to narrow the path to nutrition and sustenance - along with running out of cash flow until my government stipend i.e. SS. Numerically it is true to be of age, but I feel my life is just beginning and there is so much more I want to do before I pass from this earth.

Well that is my finally being able to talk about these last 9 months and perhaps they will shine a light for you in some way.

Today being Thanksgiving Holiday celebrated in the United States, I want to share that I am truly grateful for life. Having life allows me the possibility to create a new place in this world and to fruitfully produce which helps others around me to live a more fruitful life.

Thank you as a reader for being here on my blog and I appreciate your energy and time to read!

With warm regards,

Renée

Just this morning and another morning hours earlier, a bus driver parked his bus, was on his phone outside of the bus to communicate to his supervisors about something. Those on his bus appeared to be with many blankets and some bags, and somewhat unaware of the bus driver making a call. Days before, another bus driver asked people to leave his bus and they would need to find another bus to continue on, and the bus riders were waiting on the sidewalk for another bus to come by. In these cases, it did not appear to include verbal violence, but instead, perhaps a rerouting of people, as the bus driver may be at the end of his route for the day/night. Just like a bus that ended at Union Station in Washington DC and there were many on the bus who walked onto the sidewalk at 4am on a cool night. I had gone into Union Station and grabbed a coffee and readied myself for what I was doing next.

Several days ago there was an incident, unlike a potential incident weeks ago, on the same route on Wisconsin Ave NW. The potential one was when one bus passenger started yelling at another passenger from opposite ends of the bus and then, the one from the back got up and started approaching the other in rage and unreasonable behavior for the situation and being on the bus. I got off at that stop as I could still walk to my destination easily, as I did not want to be embroiled in what was becoming anger and what I felt as danger for me and others.

The more violent situation happened just a few days ago. A woman sitting in the front of the bus commented on the man entering the bus. She spoke with disdain and shouted that he should go back to his country. While he was making his way to sit toward the back of the bus, she continued to rant stating she was going to call ICE as soon as she got off the bus. The man left the bus from the back as he was trying to manage the situation the best he could. The woman started to become more enraged, stating she has schizophrenia and I believe she said manic depression. The only problem was the woman started loosing control and was taking the cart away from the woman sitting next to her. Then, someone close by (I did not see who) threw a large cup of some fluid onto the more unruly woman. The rest of the passengers were trying to get to the back of the bus. The woman continued to go out of control and (I believe) the man across from her, stopped her from throwing the other woman’s cart. I was shouting “back door” as the bus had come to a stop and I wanted to get off to then walk.

Typically this route during day or night has been reasonably safe, but at least in more than several instances, there seems to be more issues with people loosing their emotions and creating dangerous situations in public places. I am not fully clear as to the underlying reasons for the lack of emotional discipline in public areas.

Washington DC has been a place of strong political views and yet in the past, there was more acceptance of the differences or changes occurring. Certainly with the dramatic changes in this administration and creating often with great accomplishment in a short time frame, some of the unsettled people act out their insecurities or feeling of dominance over others. This affects bystanders who try to manage as best as they can in what was becoming unruly situations. In the cases I saw, the bus drivers acted with stability and due diligence, and with professionalism.

We in the United States have been experiencing great changes which includes a birthing of sorts - all in the name of hopeful change and a better future. It is critical that we of the United States work with the change and protection for human dignity and human rights. Some are experiencing greater challenges now, yet somehow we need to work together, versus falling out into a potential anarchy or dysfunctional state. It would be wise for us as individuals and as a nation to take heed and be more aware and handle disharmony more effectively, so that we support and protect our nation and its people, and those who have come to the United States from other countries. Those from other countries who come to the United States for citizenship, should experience the process where the immigrants learn about the United States like they would going into other countries, for better integration into the culture and values of the nation overall, and still being able to maintain their origin cultural traditions.

Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut (Born 1745 - Passed 1807)

William Samuel Johnson, Connecticut (Born 1727 - Passed 1819)

Roger Sherman, Connecticut (Born 1721 - Passed 1793)

Richard Bassett, Delaware (Born 1745 - Passed 1815)

Gunning Bedford, Jr., Delaware (1747 - Passed 1812)

Jacob Broom, Delaware (Born 1752 - Passed 1810)

John Dickinson, Delaware (Born 1732 - Passed 1808)

George Read, Delaware (Born 1733 - Passed 1998)

Abraham Baldwin, Georgia ( Born 1754 - passed 1807)

William Few, Georgia (Born 1748 - Passed 1828)

William Houston, Georgia (Born 1755 - Passed 1813)

William Leigh Pierce, Georgia (Born 1740 - Passed 1789)

Daniel Carroll, Maryland (Born 1730 - Passed 1796)

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Maryland (Born 1723 - Passed 1790)

Luther Martin, Maryland (Born 1748 - Passed 1826)

James McHenry, Maryland (Born 1753 - Passed 1816)

John Francis Mercer, Maryland (Born 1759 - Passed 1821)

Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts (Born 1744 - Passed 1814)

Nathaniel Gotham, Massachusetts (Born 1738 - Passed 1796)

Rufus King, Massachusetts (Born 1755 - Passed 1827)

Caleb Strong, Massachusetts (Born 1745 - Passed 1819)

Nicholas Gilman, New Hampshire (Born 1755 - Passed 1814)

John Langdon, New Hampshire (Born 1741 - Passed 1819)

David Brearily, New Jersey (Born 1745 - Passed 1790)

Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey (Born 1760 - Passed 1824)

William C. Houston, New Jersey (Born approx. 1746 - Passed 1790)

William Paterson, New Jersey (Born 1745 - Passed 1806)

Alexander Hamilton, New York (Born 1757 - Passed 1804)

John Lansing, Jr., New York (Born 1754 - disappeared in 1829)

Robert Yates, New York ( Born 1738 - Passed 1801)

William Blount, North Carolina (Born 1749 - Passed 1800)

William Richardson Davie, North Carolina (Born 1756 - Passed 1820)

Alexander Martin, North Carolina (Born 1740 - Passed 1807)

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., North Carolina (Born 1758 - Passed 1802)

Hugh Williamson, North Carolina (Born 1735 - Passed 1819)

George Clymer, Pennsylvania (Born 1739 - Passed 1813)

Thomas Fitzsimons, Pennsylvania (Born 1741 - Passed 1811)

Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania (Born 1706 - Passed 1790)

Jared Ingersoll, Pennsylvania (Born 1749 - Passed 1822)

Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania (Born 1744 - Passed 1800)

Gouverneur Morris, Pennsylvania (Born 1752 - Passed 1816)

Robert Morris, Pennsylvania (Born 1734 - Passed 1806)

James Wilson, Pennsylvania (Born in 1741 or 1742 - Passed 1798)

Pierce Butler, South Carolina (Born 1744 - Passed 1822)

Charles Pinckney, South Carolina (Born 1757 - Passed 1824)

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, South Carolina (Born 1746 - Passed 1825)

John Rutledge, South Carolina (Born 1739 - Passed 1800)

John Blair, Virginia (Born 1732 - Passed 1792)

James Madison, Virginia (Born 1751 - Passed 1836)

George Mason, Virginia (Born 1725 - Passed 1792)

James McClurg, Virginia (Born 1746 - Passed 1823)

Edmund Randolph, Virginia (Born 1753 - Passed 1813)

George Washington, Virginia (Born 1732 - Passed 1799)

George Wythe, Virginia (Born 1726 - Passed 1806)

“AMENDMENT XI”

“Passed by Congress March 4, 1794. Ratified February 7, 1795.”

“Note: Article III, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 11.”

“The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.” (Page 37)

“AMENDMENT XII”

“Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment.”

“The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President , and all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; - the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; - The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. [And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death of other constitutional disability of the President. -]* The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

“*Superseded by section 3 of the 20th amendment.” (Pages 37-38)

“AMENDMENT XIII”

“Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.”

“Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th amendment.” (Page 38)

“Section 1.”

“Neither slavery not involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (Page 38)

“Section 2.”

“Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 38)

“AMENDMENT XIV”

“Passed by Congress Jun 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.”

“Note: Article I, section 2 of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.” (Page 38)

“Section 1.”

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (Pages 38-39)

“Section 2.”

“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the officers if a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the make inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crimes, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.” (Page 39)

“Section 3.”

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office , civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” (Page 39)

“Section 4.”

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” (Page 39)

“Section 5.”

“The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

“*Changed by section 1 of the 26th amendment.” (Page 40)

“AMENDMENT XV”

“Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February 3, 1870.” (Page 40)

“Section 1.”

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (Page 40)

“Section 2.”

“The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 40)

“AMENDMENT XVI”

“Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.”

“Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.”

'“The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” (Page 40)

“AMENDMENT XVII”

“Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913.”

“Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment.”

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.” (Page 40)

“When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies; Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as th legislature may direct.”(Pages 40-41)

“This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.” (Page 41)

“AMENDENT XVIII”

“Passed by Congress December 18, 1917. Ratified January 16, 1919. Repealed by Amendment 21.” (Page 41)

“Section 1.”

After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, of the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.” (page 41)

“Section 2.”

“The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 41)

“Section 3.”

“This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the state of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.” (Page 41)

“AMENDMENT XIX”

“Passed by Congress June 4, 1919. Ratified August 18, 1920.”

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

“Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 410

“AMENDMENT XX”

“Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933.”

“Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment was superseded by section 3.”

“Section 1.”

“The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”

“Section 2.”

“The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.”

“Section 3.”

“If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify , then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.” (Page 42)

“Section 4.”

“The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.” (Page 42)

“Section 5.”

Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.”

Section 6.”

“This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.” (Page 43)

“AMENDMENT XXI”

“Passed by Congress February 20, 2933. Ratified December 5, 1933.”

“Section 1.”

“The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.”

“Section 2.”

“The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.”

“Section 3.”

“This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.” (Page 43)

“AMENDMENT XXII”

“Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.” (Page 43)

“Section 1.”

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder os such term.” (Pages 43-44)

“AMENDMENT XXIII”

“Passed by Congress June 16, 1960. Ratified March 29, 1961.”

“Section 1.”

“The District constituting the sear of Government of theUnited States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:”

“A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shale considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to bee electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.”

“Section 2.”

“The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 44)

“AMENDMENT XXIV”

“Passed by Congress August 27, 1962. Ratified January 23, 1964.” (Page 44)

“Section 1.”

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.” (Pages 44-45)

“Section 2.”

“The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” (Page 45)

“AMENDMENT XXV”

“Passed by Congress July 6, 1965. Ratified February 10, 1967.”

“Note: Article II, section 1, of the Constitution was affected by the 25th amendment.”

“Section 1.”

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.”

“Section 2.”

“Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.”

“Section 3.”

“Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.” (Page 45)

“Section 4.”

“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro temper of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.” (Page 45)

“Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro temper of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within 4 days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.” (Page 46)

“AMENDMENT XXVI”

“Passed by Congress March 23, 1971. Ratified July 1, 1971.”

“Note: Amendment 14, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 1 of the 26th amendment.”

“Section 1.”

“The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or. older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.”

“Section 2.”

“The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

“AMENDMENT XXVII”

“Originally proposed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7, 1992.”

“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until and election of Representatives shall have intervened.” (Page 46)

“The U.S. Bill of Rights”

“Amendment I”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (Page 34)

“Amendment II”

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” (Page 34)

“Amendment III”

“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, not in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” (Page 34)

“Amendment IV”

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” (Page 34)

“Amendment V”

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public anger; not shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty. or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” (Pages 34-35)

“Amendment VI”

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.” (Page 35)

“Amendment VII”

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” (Page 35)

“Amendment VIII”

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” (Page 35)

“Amendment IX”

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” (Page 35)

“Amendment X”

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (Page 35)

“Congress of the United States begun and held at the City if New York, on Wednesday the fourth of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.” (Page 33)

“THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time to their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its power, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.” (Page 33)

“RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.” (Page 33)

“ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.” (Page 33)