Tulelake, CA— Politics in Tulelake, the truth! (Part One) of Chapter One of Book Two "Up from here".
I am going to say it like it is and if you cannot handle it, then you need to stop reading now. The truth is the truth, and that is what I was always taught to tell the truth by my Mom, Edith K. Garland (Donaldson), and her boyfriend was Luaol Kenyon in 1938 when she was 14 years old in 1938 and her brother was 11 years old Richard (Dick) Donaldson. His wife he married her after meeting her when she was in the first grade and he was in the third grade later in their life. Her step-father was Les Thompson in Malin, OR. And his parents were James and Kathryn Thompson when my grandmother was killed in Timber Mountain in September 1938 in a deer hunting accident, Barbara Irene O'Malley all buried in Mt Laki in Klamath Falls, OR and my Mom in Eternal Hills, Klamath Falls OR. May my mom's soul rest in peace. I have roots here compared to the transplants.
I have been in this area since 2002, when my Mom and I first rented a duplex in the Goose out in Newell, CA. It was a two-bedroom apartment and I rented it from a pastor and his wife, Robert and his wife the managers. Robert who was the pastor at an event I organized for October 31,st, 2003 in the Economics Building at the Tulelake Butte Valley Fair grounds.
We had 25 people show up for that event, most of them came from Dorris, a few from Klamath Falls and some locals. One of the first locals I met was Lanie Bailey in front of Jock's Super Market. I shared with her what I was planning and she came out to my house in Newell where my Mom and I lived at the time and Lanie Baliey began helping me with not only my event.
She even began giving me a helping hand with my Mom after I met Lanie at Jock's. My Mom, and I felt very good about the relationship Lanie had with my Mom. My Mom would look forward to Lanie coming by and talking with her and sharing time with each other, my Mom and Lanie. They became very good friends because my Mom was like that she loved people. If it had not been for Lanie, I don’t think I would have made it through all the things I was going through at the time in Newell, CA when Mom and I first arrived in the area from our trip to Madress in October of 2002. Where we stayed at Motel 6 in Klamath Falls for a week when I was trying to locate my grand mothers grave site. My Mom's last wish was to put a marker on her mother's grave site and I did that in 2003.
I was known then as Jesus Rocks4me, the Jesus freak. This new person and his mother who had moved in to Newell, CA. The reason we landed here is another chapter in my book called “Kutrus Gardens”. After we left Madress, OR where my Mom’s brother Richard Donaldson and his wife Jean Donaldson lived. They both have since pasted on. My Uncle, my Mom’s brother passed away in 2004, then his wife Jean Donaldson in 2010 in Madress, OR as I received the sad news from the only blood relative I have left that I would even consider family now. Even though right now that is on thin ice. The rest of my older family and their children live in Redding, CA. Starting with my oldest brother Ted and his family, then my sister Cher and her family, then my brother Rick and his family.
I was an orphan as far as it comes with those people. The very people that did not want to take on the responsibility of taking care of my Mom in the last days of her life. Well, it fell on me, the baby. I had spent three years teaching English as second Language in South Korea, which also is a chapter in my book “Up from here” and you can find it and read it on the the blog links here. But I got homesick and was worried about my Mom's declining health.
It is about 9:45 AM and I was going to go the Hispanic Church on the corner of Main and C Street in Tulelake, CA. But GOD led me to do what I am doing exactly right now. And that is telling it, like it is.
I first sat down and thought I would write a few paragraphs and then go to two churches today, maybe even three. But what for and why should I go there? The only church in all the years I have been here is the Lutheran Church where there is a small group that gets together like a family. They care about one another like I have never seen in a church before in Tulelake, CA. Unlike the phony so called Christians that own Ross's Market, that will be answering to God Almighty as I am not their judge, but He is. HE does not like to be mocked. He doesn't like people who swear on 10 stacks of bibles they have a written agreement, when they know damn well, they don't.
You reap what you sow and Karma is a bitch!
I have been to all the churches in Tulelake, CA. Starting with Assembly of God (AG) when Mikie and Carolyn Henderson were the pastor and his wife. (I still even have their CD and play it all the time.) When Mom and I were still living in Newell, CA. The AG Church sent out a group of people to Newell handing out flyers for a youth event they were having at the Church in Tulelake. So for me it was God’s way of saying you need to get out and meet new people. And we did, and they just loved my Mom, and most people who got to know her called her, a “Sweet Heart” and she loved Jesus like nobody else that I have ever known like my Mom did.
From the book, "Up from here" Link
rocks4me Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:01 am Post subject: What does Jesus say?
Roseanne wrote:
Quote: “what question do you have for jesus? i will ask him and tell you what he says....”
How long do I have to keep suffering for His Will to be done in my life? I wait patiently on the Lord to guide me, but I have no idea where it is He wants me go. Me thinks it cannot be where I am at now. What does Jesus say?
James C. Garland-a very creative, talented and unknown poor person, but rich with ideas!
Roseanne Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:06 am
Post subject:
“rocks for me...this is a world of suffering and never will be any but. the buddhists say existence is suffering....at the end we die...however, jesus wants you to know that there is indeed a way to cope with and live in this world...that is by watering the well inside...miriam's well (it is in the galilee, and so many of his stories were about the galilee)..he was a writer of stories that stuck and still do after all these thousands of years...a great writer, that is what jesus wants you to become, and you will never be finished trying... and suffering is a part of that process, so get used to it, and cope using the meditations i have posted for you to try..if they dont work, then they are not for you, you are paying nothing for them, and so they are free...being free and suffering are the same thing in this world....”
I don’t play favorites, never have and never will.
What is right is right and what is wrong is wrong!
And I say it like it is.
Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772
Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852
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