These are the initials for the Oscar winning movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. Well, that’s kind of how I feel right now as I try to write this blog post. Exactly where do I start? Hamilton the heron was hunting Wednesday morning. The Cost of Poverty Experience I participated in on Saturday with friends from church? My goodness what an experience it was! The presenters basically put the presenters in situations that people who are coping with poverty deal with every day. We roll played real live people. I was a 35-year-old-man who had been laid off with two teenage daughters. I had a $745 unemployment check, but my expenses included housing for $800 and food and utilities and household items, and kid expenses. What do you do? Well because I’ve been involved in a study about people who become homeless, I focused on keeping a roof over our heads. My kids ate breakfast and lunch at school and we all went hungry at supper. There was no money for that. Another participant made sure his kids could eat. For me avoiding eviction and becoming homeless was paramount. It was a stressful situation made more so by the time pressure. In the debrief after, almost everyone commented they would look at folks they were helping with a lot more empathy. If you’re interested in learning more, I’ve got this picture with the web site. Sorry, you’ll need to enlarge this pic to see the website. (Except for this pic, the others are random beautiful sunrises and sunsets to make you feel better. )We just celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Sixty years, and we’re still fighting the same old awful bigotry. White Supremacy has made it into the mainstream instead of staying on the fringes. A few days ago, a white man killed several black people in a Dollar Store just because he hated the color of their skin. He had swastikas on his weapons. No one who is in their right mind can support neo-Nazis. You just can’t. Come on, folks, we have to speak up when we hear racial hate speech coming from people we know, sometimes even our family members. Staying quiet means we agree. Difficult but necessary work. More about this at a later time. This sunrise prefaced an eqaully super hot day of over 105.And then we have the poor folks on the west coast of Florida  and on up into Georgia and South Carolina dealing with Idahlia’s arrival Wednesday morning.  All we can do is hope most citizens evacuated. Support the Red Cross if you of a mind to help. I’d never before caught this exact look with the beams showing behind the clouds. I’ve put off the other topic exploding in my brain until next week. Not enough time to give it the attention it requires. Recent Sunset when we had a delightful “cold” front come through. Got our night time temps into the 70s. It was lovely. And of course, we’re heading into the Labor Day weekend. For our family that is also about our youngest grandchild’s BD. She will be 12 on Sept. 5. The year she was born, that day was actually Labor Day, so she claims two days if it doesn’t fall on the actual day. Not a bad plan. Our grands are in 6, 7th, and 12 grade now. Really amazing.Do you do anything special for Labor Day? As always, I’d love to hear from you.Blurbs for each of my books with links can be found on my website https://authormarsharwest.wordpress.com/ Where you can also sign up for my blog and my  NEWSLETTER   MRW Press LLC (list-manage.com)Contact me at marsha@marsharwest.com , and follow me on…(20+) Marsha Riegert West | Facebook      https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmnhttps://www.twitter.com/Marsharwest  @Marsharwesthttps://wordbyword.net/category/blog/https://www.pinterest.com/marsharwest/  https://www.instagram.com/marsharwestAmazon.com: Marsha R. West: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, KindleMarsha R. West (Author of Vermont Escape) | GoodreadsMarsha R. West Books – BookBub