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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, it's another beautiful sunny morning, a little cool but nothing a sweater can't fix. It was nice to sit out there in my Green Space with my coffee. I was just staring at the trees across the way, then my mind kind of drifted, and I was back on the homestead, by the lake, in the woods, at the original house. I seem to go back to that scene more often than any other lately, the house, the lake, and the island. The woods, the lake, and the island, especially, were my favorite hideouts to play out imaginary games like a lady pirate, or queen of the forest, or Robinson Crusoe on a deserted island with strange beasts, ya know, stuff like that.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

MEMORIES

Looking back, it reminds me a lot of Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon's lifestyle, just a bit more modern —not by much at first, as I recall. Our little house on the prairie was a one-and-a-half-story house, complete with a cellar and an outhouse. The house had shiplap siding and wooden shingles on the roof. It sat in a field on the edge of a hill under some giant pine trees.

"Hey!" I rode on a steam locomotive when we lived in the lumber camps. I was about six or seven years old then, before steam locomotives went out of style. It's memories like that that I cherish more than all the money Trump has stolen. If I had that money, I would give it all back. What the hell do I need all that money for at my age? I probably would die of old age before I could make it to the bank.

My mind is as sharp as a teenager's; don't let the old, worn-out machinery fool you. The psych moves much faster than the physical could ever hope to even catch up to. That's why I like writing the best of the modes of communication. I can come back and fill in all the blanks after going through my work with my editor, Paula.

I have developed an above-average vocabulary, and I'm sharp enough to see the difference between the lying cockroaches and Earth Angels. There are many Earth Angels; they just don't know they are yet. Most of my learning comes from self-education, seeking answers to numerous questions in the public library, online, in conversations with my late psychiatrist, and through deep discussions with my mentor, an extraordinary gentleman, research scientist, and engineer named Warren. And of course, my dad, when he was still among us. Both those men, my dad and Warren, had open minds to all potentialities.

And I also had a spiritual advisor during my recovery in the AA program. Marg, short for Margaret, no last names.

Now I believe it's my turn to return the favor by sharing my experiences and what I have learned from them with you. Thank you for reading the TREE HOUSE NEWS.

BREAKING NEWS:

Hostage families reunite as Trump is in Egypt for summit on Gaza

• US President Donald Trump hailed a “dawn of a new Middle East” in remarks before the Israeli parliament today after Hamas freed all living hostages and Israel released Palestinian prisoners under the US-brokered ceasefire deal. Trump has arrived in Egypt for a summit with world leaders on Gaza’s future.

• The 20 remaining living hostages in Gaza were returned to Israel earlier today after two years of war. Hamas released the names of four deceased hostages whose bodies it says will be handed over. All 250 Palestinian prisoners and more than 1,700 detainees from Gaza, held by Israel without charge since the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, have now been released.

• Emotional scenes unfolded as the freed hostages reunited with their families in hospitals across Israel and as Palestinian prisoners met with their relatives in the West Bank and arrived in buses to large crowds in Gaza...

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Today’s summit on Gaza’s future is being held in Egypt’s “City of Peace.” Here’s why that’s significant

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Released hostage plays with his children for the first time in two years

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Trump arrives in Egypt for deal signing with fellow leaders

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Updated 10:50 AM EDT, Mon October 13, 2025

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Jersey Shore braces for potentially highest water levels in a decade as nor’easter delivers final blow

Major coastal flooding and wind-whipped rain will hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastline Monday as an impactful nor’easter crawls up the East Coast for a third consecutive day.

The storm has already disrupted air travel at major Northeast airports, triggered serious flooding in South Carolina and threatens to push the ocean into homes and onto roads along the mid-Atlantic coast at Monday afternoon’s high tide.

This coastal storm is called a nor’easter because winds blowing from the northeast push water toward the coast, causing it to erode beaches and pile up water and cause flooding.

Here’s The Latest:

• Dangerous coastal flooding:

Water levels Monday afternoon could reach a mark not touched in more than a decade along the Jersey Shore. “Widespread roadway flooding and closed roads, damage to structures and evacuations are possible,” the National Weather Service warned. Parts of coastal Virginia hit major flood stage, the most severe level, Sunday afternoon and dozens of other locales in the mid-Atlantic experienced moderate flooding.

• Travel woes:
• Water rescues:
• Punishing winds:
• Days of significant coastal flooding:

When Will it End?

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Updated Oct 13, 2025, 9:45 AM ET - 1 hr 14 min ago

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Let us pause here for a moment for prayer. AMERICA NEEDS ALL THE PRAYERS 🙏 that we can send their way. Thank you and Amen, That's the end of my preech for today!

CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian Peter Howitt among 3 Nobel winners in economics

Howitt among those awarded for 'having explained innovation-driven economic growth'

Canadian economist Peter Howitt is among a group of three researchers who won the Nobel memorial prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday. Howitt, Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion won for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones — a key economic concept known as "creative destruction."

The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics. Mokyr is an economic historian who delved into long-term trends using historical sources, while Howitt and Aghion relied on mathematics to explain how creative destruction works...

• 'More likely to be elected Pope':
• 'Creative destruction':

Posted: Oct 13, 2025 6:39 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. *BUT* Ottawa can stop it

Deal could be subject to national security review

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is certainly unusual, if not extraordinary, and which raise questions about whether Ottawa should block them in the interest of national security. It's "possibly unprecedented for the U.S. government itself to be buying an interest in a Canadian company,” said Lawrence Herman, an international lawyer and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.

Canada should be concerned, he said, "about any foreign state purchasing interest in a Canadian company, especially in the sensitive critical minerals sector.” Those minerals include lithium, copper, nickel and others that are essential for modern technology...

• 'Not benign':
• Non-controlling investments:

Posted: Oct 13, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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Let us pray 🙏 for The Mouse 🐭 That Roared 😱 Canada 🍁

The Mouse That Roared (1959) Film in English, Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers Full Classic Movie HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8UEinOZWo