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Hey Granny, is everything ok? Are you alright now? Ramadhan started and it's taking me a little time to balance my fasting & worship with classes & Guild things. I didn't forget about you!

I hope you're Ok & cleared to post on TDN now if you want.

Peace be with you. ~360 

I would like to recommend a documentary (TDN doesn't ban this word, right?) movie found on Hulu that is based on a book by the same title: Far From the Tree. A man who found himself to be what society and his family deemed to be "not normal" and he wanted to look at other families with a child with different challenges (which also causes society/families to label these differences as "not normal") and it was very eye-opening for me to be able to see these different ppl and see their life experiences and I hope that I learned to accept ppl as they are, to respect them as they are and not try to hold them to society's standards to feel that these "differences" should be changed to make these ppl "fit in" or be "normal". I admired that the man who wrote this book and made this movie did not only focus on his "difference" but looked at many different families with a child not seen by society (and some times their families) as "normal". 

  I went to Houston's Protest on Tuesday. I couldn't keep silent about George Floyd's death and the many, TOO MANY, other deaths of people of color. Pictured here his family leading our protest- Gianna Floyd-his 6 year old daughter and her mother  Roxie Washington .

Don't be silent. If you see someone being mistreated, stop-pull out your phone, and let them know that they are going to be held accountable for what they are doing.

    My ugly school.      As you can see, we are right next to a Frontage Road-no where to go!                                                                                      My sibling in Chicago designed this logo that my school continues to use & never paid them (not even the gift card for winning the Design Contest).

At least we ended up being ok. When they made us evacuate yesterday (Mon., 12/16) at 3:30 pm, we were in Clubs, so most of us didn't have our backpacks or jackets (cold front came through that afternoon and dropped the temp. from 75 to 55). Only had my phone, so I called my mom to let her know.

We actually had no idea what was going on as they first herded us into the "caged" soccer field we share with the Middle school and we were freaking out bc we felt like "fish in a barrel" bc the rumor was there was an active shooter at our campus (not true).  Then they moved all of us-High, Middle, & Elementary to the muddy field on the other side of the Middle school and a teacher told us that it was a bomb threat at the Middle School (again, not true-rumors!) and we were like, "Why are we being moved closer to the threat?" We saw the Elementary kids being really scared, some crying, so we were trying to help them feel better-share jackets with them if we had them & they didn't. Was really an experience I could have done without.

Thanks be to God, for keeping us safe! Alhumdulillah!  

Happy Quinceañera, to  Peopha the Royal Peophin     @Angeló !!!!

It was fun to watch the balloons float up! 

My heart and prayers are for the families of the victims of the New Zealand mosques attacks. We had extra security for our Friday prayers yesterday. I really wish that this wasn't the "new normal" and that one of the NZ police said that this attack was because of "the growing Muslim population problem we have". 

Still wondering why Neopets allows a username: infedele to be ok to use on a kid-friendly site. 

I am shook! Someone joined our guild, The Kindness Project, with a highly offensive username: infedele.

Infedel/Infidel means in English : a person who does not believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own. It is synonymously  used to mean an unbeliever. But people in the South use this word to intimidate people of my faith, Muslims, very much like how a swastika  is used by people who belong to Neo-Nazi groups use that symbol to intimidate people who are of the Jewish faith.

There was no button/link to report this offensive user name. I made my mother, through her tears, report this username to Neopets through gmail and didn't realize how much it upset her to see this name on her children's gaming site. But I know that she was remembering the day that these people came, brandishing this hateful word on signs, their clothes, on their cars and trucks, and waving their guns at our community at our masjid-the place where we worship-were very young children , families, and elderly had to witness all their hate to try to tell us that we don't belong in America. 

I sent a message to all of our Guild Council members that even though I am on the Welcoming Committee, I would NOT be welcoming this person to our guild. 

I hope that they will close that account and change their name, and choose a name that is not based on hating a group of people to try to somehow make yourself feel more important.

I just can't believe that this player has a 6 year account with this hateful word and I can't write my religion's name or what I am or where I worship at on Neopets. I am shook. 

I was pleased to see that @deboratibi's Caption was chosen for Page 1414 for Caption Contest and my "A Proposal for Skalpo" article for The Neopian Times was posted http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=577515&week=842 !

Take this quiz to see if you know what's going on at the border

https://quiz.moveon.org/qs/keep-families-together/?source=fb.ads.quiz.borderknow.s.st2.th2.a1.qu_1

The towering, 6-foot, 5-inch Imam Omar Suleiman presses his hand into the bus window.Nye Armstrong / via Facebook

How can ANYONE be OK with separating children from their parents??? This is abuse! This is torture! We must stand up to our US government and tell them that they are WRONG and INHUMANE!!!

The towering, 6-foot, 5-inch Imam Omar Suleiman presses his hand into the bus window.Nye Armstrong / via Facebook

How can ANYONE be OK with separating children from their parents??? This is abuse! This is torture! We must stand up to our US government and tell them that they are WRONG and INHUMANE!!!

Hi TDN family! In case you were worried, I'm doing ok! We are wet as anything but we don't have flooding in our streets, yards, or homes in my neighborhood-so I'm good! Prayers for our city of Houston, as Harvey is sticking around until Thursday & I hear President Troll is coming in tomorrow...where? Please don't come to my neighborhood bc we are the only ones not flooded!! 

I am very thankful to my Guild Buddies at TKP and my friends at TDN that helped out with all those expensive items in a super-deluxe care package: 16 expensive stamps, coins, & scarabs from my Wish List; about 40 gourmet treats (super rare, ultra rare)-clearing that Wish List; 6 Christmas Petpets-nearly clearing that Wish List; and a complete set of codestones that they provided for me to encourage me through the sadness of losing a good friend unexpectedly from a car accident. I appreciate all the kind words and support that everyone has sent to help me work through my grief, your words and positive vibes were very much appreciated and touched my heart. Thank you, one and all!  

That's ok. This is just a hobby that we do in our spare time for fun. When you have things going on in rl, your friends here understand and just wait until you have time again. :)