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KAYDEN — A MOTHER’S SEARCH FOR ANSWERS | PART 1 This is Kayden. ❤️ He was born premature, tiny and vulnerable. He spent the beginning of his life in the NICU. On June 27, 2022, Kayden died. His death left his mother with questions that have continued for years. Questions about decisions concerning his medical care. Questions about CPS involvement and placement. Questions about what happened before and after his death. And questions about records and answers his mother has continued trying to obtain. After Kayden died, the hardship did not end. His family says the assistance they expected with his funeral and burial did not materialize. Kayden remained at a funeral home for approximately six months while his family struggled and borrowed money to arrange his burial. His mother also has serious unresolved concerns about what occurred during the funeral and final-viewing process. Those events will be explained in a later part of this story. Kayden’s mother has preserved photographs and records and is continuing to organize documents involving hospitals, CPS, courts and other agencies. This story will separate what the documents establish, what his mother personally witnessed, and what still needs to be investigated. For now, his mother is keeping her identity private. This page is about Kayden. This is only the beginning. Part 2 will begin at the beginning: Kayden’s premature birth, the NICU, and the questions surrounding what happened after he was born. Follow Kayden’s story. His life mattered. His story deserves answers. ❤️

Bible Verse for August 13 😎 2 Corinthians 5:20 - Now then we are ambassadors of Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

Before modern vaccines existed, humanity faced frequent, devastating epidemics and pandemics that caused millions of deaths. Without medical protection, communities relied entirely on natural immunity, isolation, and basic hygiene, which often failed to stop widespread contagion.Major Pre-Vaccine OutbreaksSmallpox: Caused disfigurement, blindness, and death for thousands of years, triggering massive global epidemics until it was finally eradicated by a massive vaccination campaign.Polio: Paralytic polio created widespread panic and regular summer epidemics during the first half of the 20th century before the Salk vaccine was introduced in 1955.Influenza (1918 Spanish Flu): Spread rapidly across the globe in an era completely lacking a vaccine or effective antiviral drugs, killing tens of millions of people.Cholera: Caused severe waterborne illness and seven distinct global pandemics across the 19th and 20th centuries before modern water sanitation and hygiene practices controlled it.How Societies Handled Pre-Vaccine DiseasesQuarantine and Isolation: Towns locked their gates or separated sick individuals from healthy populations to slow down transmission.Sanitation Improvements: Cleaner drinking water, better waste management, and proper hygiene dramatically lowered the impact of bacterial diseases like cholera.Natural Immunity: Outbreaks burned through populations until enough people either died or survived and developed temporary or lifelong immunity, at a massive cost to human life

Social Security Social Security now scans applicants’ bank accounts, running geographic searches to catch hidden money By Tyler Foster, Supplemental Security Income runs on one of the strictest asset tests in the federal government, and the Social Security Administration increasingly enforces it with automation rather than paperwork. Through an electronic asset-verification system, the agency can query bank balances tied to applicants and current recipients, including geographic searches that hunt for accounts a person never disclosed. The program caps countable resources at $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 for a couple, figures that have not risen in more than three decades. For older Americans leaning on the program to top off a small retirement check, a single overlooked account can put a monthly payment at risk. Why the resource ceiling is stuck at $2,000 Supplemental Security Income is a needs-based program, separate from the Social Security retirement and disability benefits that workers earn through payroll taxes. It pays a monthly benefit to people who are 65 or older, blind, or disabled, and who have very little income and few assets. Because eligibility hinges on financial need, the rules count what a person owns, not only what a person earns. The countable-resource ceiling of $2,000 for one person and $3,000 for a married couple was set in 1989 and has never been indexed to inflation, so its real value has eroded steadily ever since. That distinction trips up many households because the two programs share an agency and a name. A retiree can draw a modest Social Security retirement check earned over a working lifetime and still qualify for Supplemental Security Income if that check is low enough, and it is the needs-based piece that carries the asset test.

Just picked up the stuff I need to make my Summertime Salad. It’s going to have Spinach leaves and strawberries cut kinda thick with feta cheese and walnut and a vinaigrette dressing 🫶

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Social Security can now withhold half your monthly check to claw back an overpayment it says you got By David Keller, The Social Security Administration has quietly reset how aggressively it recovers money it believes was paid out by mistake. For overpayment notices dated on or after April 25, 2025, the agency’s default is to withhold 50 percent of a beneficiary’s monthly retirement or disability payment until the balance is cleared. That is a sharp reversal from the 10 percent standard that had governed recoveries for much of the prior year, and it can cut a fixed income roughly in half with little warning. How the 50 percent default replaced the 10 percent rule Overpayments occur when the agency sends more than a person was entitled to, often because of a delayed report of new wages, a change in marital status, or an internal calculation error that can sit undetected for years. In March 2024 the agency capped recovery on new overpayments at 10 percent of the monthly benefit, retreating after public anger over demands that had zeroed out some checks entirely. That restraint proved temporary. According to AARP’s tracking of the policy, the agency reinstated a far steeper default, and overpayment notices issued on or after April 25, 2025 now carry an automatic 50 percent withholding rate on Title II benefits. The mechanics are automatic, which is what makes the change so consequential for anyone living on a set monthly amount. Unless a recipient responds inside the notice window, the agency begins recovering half of each payment until the debt is satisfied, a process that can stretch across many months for a four- or five-figure balance. What makes the shift especially fraught is how often the underlying overpayment is not the beneficiary’s doing.

I honor the light within me. I embrace every part of myself. I release what no longer serves me. I trust the path unfolding before me. I welcome renewal with an open heart. ~Izzi Meditates #wemeditateasone #affirmations #IzziMeditates #SolarEclipse

MARK AUGUST 12 — THE SKY IS ABOUT TO PUT ON AN ALL-DAY SHOW!!! Set that alarm — tomorrow brings one of the most action-packed skywatching days of 2026: a six-planet lineup before sunrise, a solar eclipse during the day, a moonless night, and the Perseid meteor shower reaching its peak after dark. The action begins before sunrise, when six planets will appear spread across a broad section of the sky. Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn can be spotted without optical aid, while Uranus is easier with binoculars and Neptune requires a telescope. Your best window is roughly the final hour before sunrise, before daylight begins washing the planets from view. Then attention shifts to the Sun. August 12 also brings a total solar eclipse, with totality crossing Greenland, Iceland, parts of Arctic Russia, northern Spain, and a small section of Portugal. A much wider region will experience a partial eclipse, including parts of Europe, Canada, the northern United States, and northwestern Africa. Never look directly at the Sun without certified eclipse glasses or a proper solar viewer whenever any portion of the Sun remains visible. The eclipse happens because August 12 is also new moon day — and that timing gives skywatchers another major advantage after sunset. With virtually no moonlight brightening the night sky, faint stars and meteors become much easier to see from dark locations. Then comes the finale. The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight from August 12 into August 13, with ideal dark-sky conditions thanks to the new moon. Under excellent viewing conditions, observers could potentially see dozens of meteors per hour, with peak rates approaching about 100 per hour under exceptionally dark skies. For the best experience, escape city lights, give your eyes 20–30 minutes to fully adjust to darkness, lie back somewhere with a wide view of the sky, and keep watching from late evening into the early hours of August 13. No telescope. No binoculars. Just a dark sky and