RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
Daytona Beach, Florida • Age 67
Joined myLot 9 years ago
New York City is my hometown. I have now relocated from Riga, Latvia to Daytona Beach, Florida along with my cat Sid. I am passionate about poetry and writing.
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1h
After I had posted that photo of my mom and her friends, A year later after my dad had died this is what mom and I looked like. You can see that the sorrow has done much and we were visiting at a neighbor’s apartment when they...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun
Since it doesn’t happen often a family fishing at the Point on Cape Hatters was excited to see two orcas leaping out of the water. The killer whales were jumping and seemed to be chasing something. After the orcas arrived the...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Jun
You can see what the fashions were like for women in the 1960s. My mother is the lady in the middle and the other two ladies are her best friends Lidia and Irma. Both ladies also came from Latvia. They live in the same apartment...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Jun
First the explanation about how things stand. My late husband Martin and I had a good and loving relationship because we agreed on many things. One of our favorite movies was “Ghost” with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. We...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Jun
In the early hours at 3 AM which is the time I usually get up for a bathroom run, I came awake. I looked at the LED-lit clock I have by the bed. Now imagine a hand rolled up in a fist and knocking on something. I felt the first...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Jun
I found this true saying online in fact it made me stop and think. When I was a child I thought I could play all the time, as a teenager I thought I could listen to music and dance all the time, as a young adult I thought I could...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Jun
Not just your average cow I would say. This one is named Viatina-19 and lives in Brazil. She has a milk-white body, security cameras, and an armed bodyguard watching her. Viatina-19 is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Jun
Morning has broken, and the light is taking away the dark. A stand-up fan blows a nice breeze over the woman sleeping in the bed. At about 7 AM the thump, bang, and bump are heard from the construction site next door. She sleeps...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 May
I am a big fan of the Swedish rock group ABBA. I have DVDs of both Mama Mia movies and I can watch them over and over just to hear the music. ABBA came into international fame after they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 May
Pretty much this is an idea to get you to see what life is like at our house, As I work online and do my writing and blogging the cats go through many transitions in their own day-to-day life. They choose the spots the want to...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 May
In the days before WW II so very long ago when my mom was still going to university in Riga, Latvia she spent her summers in Austria. Not far from Vienna her aunt and uncle had an inn in the mountains. She told me how she enjoyed...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 May
My poetic meme was inspired by a special place where we lived in the suburbs of Riga, Latvia. It was a small stream that looked lovely in all seasons frozen still in winter, coming alive in spring with wildflowers nearby, a shady...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 May
When sea otters get hungry they love to eat large abalone, sea urchins, clams, mussels, crabs, and small marine snails. However, all of the shell cracking can be hard on their teeth. So, what’s an otter to do? These intelligent...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 May
I always thought people in India were for some reason more religious than people in other parts of the world. To say that this shocked me and left me speechless is more than right. A six-year-old named Vinod who lived with his...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 May
The river monsters in question are flathead catfish which can reach up to 120 lbs. They are tightening their chokehold on the waterways of America and have now crossed the border into Canada. Conversationalists have been alarmed...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 May
Imagine living halfway between Norway and the North Pole. You could have a 15,000-acre plot and your closest neighbor would be Santa with his toy shop, elves, and reindeer. Plenty of fresh air and you could build your dream home....
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 May
Back in 1969 The Bee Gees recorded a song “The First of May”. It was released as a single and featured in their album Odessa. It may not have made it to number one but it is a lovely and poignant song, When I listen to this love...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 May
May has arrived and soon the lilacs will be blooming all over Riga, Latvia. How I miss the lilacs in my garden every May. The photo with my poetic meme is of my lilacs. There was a big bush just outside the front door and many...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Apr
Today would have been my dad’s 119th birthday. Eriks Raisters was a popular Latvian poet and writer born on April 23, 1905. This poem is dedicated to him. I could imagine his family in the country of Ranka, Latvia welcoming the...
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (75119)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Apr
A manatee was rescued on September 2021. He was found in the Weeki Wachee River and it was thought he would not survive. Then he made a recovery at ZooTampa and was released in the wild in August 2022. The manatee named Flapjack...
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