Gone To Texas: October 2025

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Keep on The Sunny Side

Sometimes, we happen to encounter people whose words/behavior are impolite, or who treat us unfairly. Sometimes, they surprise us with their opinion about us, based on a gossip, or their own assumption that is more than wrong. Other time, they stun us with some senseless, out of the blue demands, or claim our achievement as their own.

Have you ever experienced any of those, as well?

In most cases, such persons neither care how we feel about what they say, nor how they present it. When we digest that particular unpleasant situation, reliving it in our mind a million times, they have already forgotten about the entire incident. They just threw their low frequency on us and moved on. Negative emotions affect our mind and, when accumulated, destroy our body. That is why, there is no point on dwelling on their words/actions. It only hurts us as we get tangled in their negative energy, and gives them power over ourselves. The experience itself is unpleasant and unnerving, but you can choose how you react to it. Do you really need to stay entrapped by somebody else’s low vibes? No, you do not.

Therefore, after initial irritation (when it occurs), make an effort to step back, and look at those people, and it all, from a distance. Bullies are just being what they are. They have not learned better, yet. Quite likely, they reflect on others their own fears and their own negative vision of themselves. What those people do not realize - thoughts and words are energy, they carry specific vibrations. Hatred spread on others, resonates like echo, coming back to its source, the person who produces it. The negative load eventually gets them, influencing their life, as well.

In that understanding, the saying “God bless them as they do not know what they are doing” may help you detach yourself from the low frequency they make you feel.

Whenever such a person comes back to your mind, send them that thought, or another one, such as e.g. “God loves them and cares for them”*. It will help break the negative entanglement and set your mind free. Moreover, the higher vibration sent by you, may give that particular individual a chance to use it for their own development, if they choose to.

Nothing is accidental. Everyone whom we meet in our life is a learning opportunity. Whether we decide to learn from that is another matter.

After all, each of us is just another souls trapped in the physical reality of our body, struggling with learning earthly life lessons so no reason to be unkind.

A lady I know, when I tell her about something I find positive, she usually responds in a way that sometimes makes me feel less excited about what I intend to share.

Examples:

Myself: ”I’ve had a nice walk in the woods”.

The lady: “There must have been a lot of ticks (which could bite you and give you terrible disease).”

Myself: “What a nice building!”

The lady: “Its windows are dirty”.

I have known that person long enough to know her reaction is subconscious. She does not say that on purpose, to spoil the mood. Her words do, though.

Everything is subjective. The way we see the world is based on our beliefs and prior experiences. Our attention is directed also by habitual thinking.

Are you like that lady? Exercise your mind. While looking at the reality around you – people and things – notice the positive aspects of them, the nice side and beauty of what you are looking at, not the ugliness only. It is not about fooling yourself and calling negativity positive. What is negative is still negative, no matter what we call it. It is about changing our perspective and, what is more, the law of attraction. What you focus on, intensifies in your life.

After some time of such a directed exercise, your attention will become moderated and automatically focus on the brighter side of life (although the latter reminded me of the old song by Monty Python, I am sharing a different song here).

Find inner peace, find things you enjoy doing. Be yourself and be joyful. Despite what other people say or think.

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* From Dr. Joseph Murphy, the author of “The Power of Subconscious Mind” and quite a few other books.

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Napoleon B Breeding's Family - Part 4

More about Napoleon's relatives

Benjamin Wilkens Breeding, Napoleon's brother, and his nephews David S., Benjamin, and Columbus Patton Breeding served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Benjamin W. was with Company E, 15th Regiment of Texas Cavalry and Company G, 26th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Debray’s /Davis' Mounted Battalion).

The three nephews were with Company D, Waul’s Texas Legion.

Cornelius was the Company’s bugler. he also served with Company I, 18th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Darnell’s) and Company A , 9th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Nichols') (6 months, 1861-62).

David also served with Company I, 24th/25th Consolidated Regiment, Texas Cavalry, and Company G, 26th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Debray's) (Davis' Mounted Battalion) (16).

David, son of Napoleon's married Eliza F. Bell on 27 January 1867 in Fayette County, TX (17). She was born in 1850, in Fayette County, her parents were Granville P. Bell and Mary Ann Sutton.

Cornelia, the youngest daughter of Napoleon and Charlotte’s got married twice. Her first husband was James Sidney Black – their marriage took place on 26 January 1867 (18).

Later, she married Dawson N Hodges (born on 25 June 1848, in Gonzales, TX, to Thomas Robert Hodges and Nancy S. Reed) on 30 November 1876 (19).

Richard Landy, Napoleon’s brother, lived nearby their father’s household (which he also owned) until 1877. Then he moved to Hays County and sold the father’s home in December of that year.

Eliza F. Bell Breeding, David’s wife had passed by 8th June 1880. David lived then in Precinct # 3 of Gonzales County (20), together with his son by Eliza, Charles A (age 7) and brother Alexander Breeding (age 32). Cornelia, their sister, lived in the neighborhood with her husband Dawson (age 31), his father Andrew J Hodges (farmer, age 52), and her youngest child Eugenia (age 1).

On 13 July 1882, David S. Breeding remarried. His second spouse was Mattie M. Neal, a widow, born in 1842, in Gonzales, TX (21).

Charlotte Breeding, Napoleon's wife, passed on 20 August 1902.

David S Breeding, the son, passed a day later.

Cornelia died at the age of 80, on 1 February 1931.

Friday, October 3, 2025

About Questions and Answers

Once upon time, more than a decade ago, I stepped into a little store with “esoteric” type goods. I had never visited it before. The lady who ran the establishment asked me to think of a question/something I wanted to know and next, draw a card from a Tarot card set. She offered that to every customer who came to her place, to read the Tarot message for that particular person. I told the lady that I did not need that as that was how I felt about it.

The store keeper insisted – she wanted to learn why I said so. So I did draw a card. The message was: “All the answers are within you”. It was no surprise to me and that was exactly what I thought rejecting the lady’s initial card reading offer. However, the store keeper seemed rather amazed. She said nobody else had drawn that card before. Perhaps not enough persons had come to the place? Who knows.

I do believe that the answers we seek are within us and, surely, I do not mean here the questions related to General Knowledge. That is a totally different matter.

Many people look for the fulfillment and comfort in the outside world only. Whatever they find there, though is temporary and fades away quite quickly. Thus, they need to be constantly surrounded by people and/or make another purchase again, and again, to keep the fulfillment flowing. It is like pouring water into void, a closed circle that never ends.

If you cannot find what you seek out there, perhaps it is time to look within?

It is quite common we choose to blame others for our failures and unsuccessful life. How convenient it is, blaming others and not taking any responsibility for our own life. Does it help us improve anything, though?

I used to know a lady who had a good job but was not happy with her life. She found it boring and she blamed her parents and her social background for her situation. Whenever I met her, she kept saying she would like to learn a foreign language, join this and that club so that her life could be more interesting and exciting. The time was passing and she did nothing regarding what she was talking about. I came to a conclusion that she enjoyed it all - that narrative, blaming others and using it as an excuse for her own inertia. It grew so old that I stopped meeting her.

Stop self-pitying. It does not improve anything and leads to nowhere. If you wish to change something in your life, act on it. If one direction does not work, try another one.

Another acquaintance once said,

“I have been messed up because my father was …. (put an adjective or a noun of a negative meaning here).”

When we were children we could not do much about our life circumstances, I agree to that. Nonetheless, what if those conditions were given to us not as punishment but as a learning lesson? To learn from them, draw conclusions, and move on?

We are not our parents, you are not your mother, father. You are YOU so be yourself. Each of us is responsible for our own beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. They all carry positive or negative energy, depending on what our beliefs/thoughts are. If you believe you are nothing more than a product of other people’s actions and situations created by them, you are like a steerless boat thrown by the winds and storms of life from one side of the ocean to the other.

Be your life Captain, bless the ones who you think have harmed you or influenced your life in a negative way. Let them go. Clinging to dark feelings/memories of traumatic moments/the past/ holds you back. Sending those people negative thoughts is hurting you mentally and physically, not them. Do you really need that? Whatever was, was. Everything has a reason and nothing happens by accident. What we do and how we deal with it is another matter.

It is quite common that when a person happens to make a mistake, they say, “How stupid of me/ how clumsy I am” Are you such a person? Saying so, you express your negative belief about yourself and put yourself in a negative judgment frame. Why should you do that? Everybody makes mistakes, it is part of our lives. However, if you do not believe you are good enough who else will? Nobody.

Look at every moment and other people who surround you as part of life learning process. Somebody claims you will not succeed or are not smart enough? Why should you care? Perhaps they project their own anxiety on you. They are NOT you. If you believe them, you let them lead your life. You are the Captain of your life, your thoughts and beliefs. However you direct them, you direct your reality, as well. Focus on the positive.

Yes, it is possible. Discipline your thoughts. Our mind constantly talks to us, brings doubts and all that gloomy and fatalistic visions which create fear. Mind that hurting others, even if in thoughts only, is a road to self-destruction. Send love to others as whatever we send ripples back to us. It is not fantasy. Remember Physics and “every action creates reaction”?

Let all the grudges and regrets go. The past is the past, gone, the future has not happened, yet. Choose love, peace, harmony and the good. Focus on the current moment. Replace fear with positive thoughts and keep repeating them again and again. Love, Peace, and Harmony. You can create your own positive mantra such as for example, “God loves me and looks after me.” It is all not about any religion. It is about the universal laws of life. Whatever you focus on in your thoughts will amplify in real. If the word “God” does not resonate with you, use another one e.g. the Source or the Ultimate Creator. The meaning stays the same: “the source of life and everything that is”.

Be the Captain of your mind, thoughts, and beliefs.

Be the Captain of your life.