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Good morning! I pray that you be well, at peace, provided for, & blessed 🙏🌅

Well, it's another cloudy day, but it's mild. It's supposed to be 71°F, and mostly cloudy 🌫 today. "Party Pooper!" 😝 Yesterday I got my new orthotic inserts, what a difference for walking, I can almost put the cane away now. Today is another one of those unavoidable morning appointments, late morning, to get my hair done. I hate morning appointments; they throw my entire day off.

So I usually don't leave anything that's important to do when I get back, or I'll have too many things racing around in my head. I'm not so much forgetful as I'm more of a scatterbrain, nitpicking the little things, or somewhere not here, lost in space, then I wonder why I forget the daily bread stuff. Like for example the damned noon pills, I always miss them when I'm out of the house before lunch.

So I have to line up all my ducks in a row in the morning and try to feed them all, fill in all the blanks in a limited amount of time, that's the hard part, I don't do too well with clocks.

So, as it stands, if I don't get today's news on the air before 11:00 am, I will not be posting the rest of the news until later in the afternoon, as soon as I'm done filling in all the other previous blanks. So, ladies and gentlemen, that about covers it for my report here today in the Newsroom. What should we discuss today?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

CHRONOPHOBIA

As I mentioned above, I don't do too well with clocks. I never had to worry much about it for the twenty-five years I worked as a social worker, working with the inner self of a human being. My work was never done; you never get the job done. You can only be grateful if you are able to show another soul where the next brick to step on is on the Yellow Brick Road of life.

Chronophobia (Fear of Time): Symptoms, Treatments, & How to Cope

Definition:

Chronophobia is a less common phobia that involves a specific and debilitating fear of time passing. It is associated with certain risk factors like having a terminal illness or being incarcerated. In addition to the fear of time passing, it often involves a general sense of having a shortened future or not enough time left to accomplish your goals.

I believe my chronophobia began when I was working 8-to-5 jobs. The time element just about frazzled me, trying to keep up with the clock. Social work, I was working a five-hour job at the center, but I was also on phone duty, spending a lot of nights up with lost souls at my own pace.

I am the same way when researching things on the internet through Google Search and other sources, sometimes through the wee hours of the morning because of my interest in my research; the clock simply vanishes like a morning mist. Meditation, imagination, curiosity, enthusiasm, adventure, empathy, and spirituality are all integral life forces that bind us together as one. That's it for the discussion today. Now, on to the National.

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump lands in Qatar after meeting Syrian leader in Saudi Arabia

What you need to know:

• Trump gets lavish Qatari welcome: President Donald Trump is in Qatar, his second stop on a three-day tour of the Middle East, where he was greeted with mounted camels and red Cybertrucks. Ahead of his trip, Trump said he planned to accept a plane from Qatar that would be used as Air Force One — raising legal, ethical and security concerns, including from members of his own party.

• Meeting with Syrian leader:

• Historic deals:

Updated 8:42 AM EDT, Wed May 14, 2025 - CNN -

Trump blasts Senate minority leader, who is seeking answers on Qatari jet

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that there’s “something wrong” with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in response to the senator placing a blanket hold on all Justice Department political nominees.

His remark comes as Schumer is seeking answers related to the Trump administration’s plans to accept a luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to use as Air Force One.

“Something wrong with him, I don’t know. I’ve known him a long time and there’s something wrong. He’s lost his confidence totally. And there’s something wrong with him. I don’t know what it is with Schumer,” Trump said during a gaggle on Air Force One as he travels to Doha, Qatar.

A blanket hold does not mean the Senate is unable to confirm these nominees, but it does force the chamber’s Republican majority to burn valuable floor time to overcome the hold. Only a simple majority vote is needed to overcome the hold.

Schumer demanded the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit “disclose all activities by Qatari foreign agents inside the US that could benefit President Trump or the Trump Organization.”

Updated 8:42 AM EDT, Wed May 14, 2025 - CNN -

200 rescued from Maryland elementary school using boats as flood waters started to reach the second floor

Alley Wade was at work when she heard that her sons’ school in Allegany County, Maryland, was flooded and rescues were underway.

She was 30 minutes away, and when she finally came within blocks of Westernport Elementary School, she was told by a police officer she couldn’t go any further, causing her to go into panic mode.

“It was very scary,” Wade told CNN. “I actually had a panic attack.”

She eventually got to a location where she was able to see her oldest son William, 10, being rescued by a boat. She waved and called out to him, but it took her a while to be reunited with both her children, including her youngest son, Quinton, 8, who was also rescued.

Her sons were among approximately 150 students and 50 adults evacuated using 15 rescue boats Tuesday as heavy rains brought flooding to the region, the county’s emergency services department said.

The children said they saw water close to the ceiling of the first floor of the school while being evacuated. By the end of the day, their pants were pulled up to their knees and their shoes were sopping wet. But they were OK.

Once they were all reunited at a local church, William was upset, and “clingy,” not that she minded, but his younger brother, Quinton, said he had fun, reassuring her after the long ordeal... Read More:

Updated May 14, 2025, 11 hr ago: - CNN -

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Carney says Canadians 'weren't impressed' by U.K.'s offer of second state visit to Trump

PM says it's no coincidence that King will read throne speech while U.S. challenges Canadian sovereignty

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians "weren't impressed" when the U.K. decided to offer U.S. President Donald Trump an unprecedented second state visit while he was threatening Canada's sovereignty.

"To be frank, they weren't impressed by that gesture, quite simply, given the circumstance," Carney told British news channel Sky News in an interview posted online Wednesday.

"It was at a time when we were being quite clear, some of us were being quite clear, about the issues around sovereignty."

Carney said that when he was campaigning for the party leadership he was "being clear" that Canada is not for sale, and the invitation that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer presented to Trump while in the Oval Office "cut across some of those messages."

Posted: May 14, 2025 8:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -

What, exactly, are Alberta separatists mad about?

We break down a few key issues driving the province's separation movement

Threats of Alberta separation go back decades, and have reached new heights since the April election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The separatist Alberta Prosperity Project is gunning for 600,000 signatures on a petition that would force a provincial referendum on the issue, while the Republican Party of Alberta — led by longtime conservative operative Cameron Davies — is ramping up its separation push.

"What we're looking at is the broken and dysfunctional system that has been in place since Alberta joined Confederation," Davies, who recently resigned from membership in the governing United Conservative Party, told -CBC- News.

He says the system was designed to consolidate power in the East, and the West was "viewed as nothing more than a resource colony" for Ottawa.

Posted: May 14, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 29 minutes ago

- CBC -

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