Human Rights Novelist

Dear Elfrieda,

My friend had to defend herself when her husband attacked her, in their bedroom. She had awakened, before midnight, as her husband was shuffling around in bed. She got up to take a pee, like old people tend to do, at night. Her elbow knocked one of her perfume bottles off the Scott McGillivray vanity. (She likes to brag about her bathroom renovation so I had to mention that for her interior design job search.) Her husband yelled from the bedroom... "You didn't close the windows, did you?" No, I didn't close the window, she said in her I am so tired of your OCD problems voice. Then he said... I just opened all the windows and turned off your air conditioner. She was laying down, back in their bed, when he leapt out of his side and she quickly jumped up to avoid being attacked while laying down. She faced him at the end of the bed beside her armoire. He had tape over his mouth, length-wise, a new habit he was into, saying he needed to develop his sinuses. His snoring, with his mouth hanging open, had created a very bad problem with his loose throat. Then he growled at her saying, 'I'm going to punch you in the face.' She jumped back and his punch glanced off her chest and she started yelling, and yelling and yelling... 'You hit me, you hit me, you hit me.' She was hoping the neighbours would call the police on her behalf. He snickered, in a demented way, and she left the bedroom for the purposes of self- defense. When he didn't leave the bedroom, she went back to bed but he initiated a further attack which she then held up a frying pan and his overly long fingernail cut his forehead instead of being able to hit her again. 

My question is... Shouldn't he have been arrested for attacking his wife?

I have also been told that he put a restraining order against his wife so he could steal all her belongings. 

                                                  Concerned law abiding human rights society citizen

Dear 'Concerned law abiding human rights society citizen,'

I am sure you are contacting me because of my human rights novel... The Orchard Walk by            El Dueck. I do deal with many day to day infractions of human rights in my novel but I certainly do not have any experience with a man who punches his wife.

Let me try to apply all the principles of 'right and wrong' from my very basic lifestyle of living on the right side of the law... which has always been my personal style. 

I think where you have to start with any fight is... who started it. 

From this description, the husband most definitely started the fight.

Okay, that has been established.

Why the husband wasn't arrested is a very serious question. Maybe we don't know what the husband did or said to avoid admitting to his 'crime.' Did he lie? Did he create a false situation which he only admitted to someone later? Does he have children? You said the wife is old so I'm assuming the husband is old as well? Is the situation resolved or what has happened to make sure the husband admits to his 'crime?' 

There is no way a lying husband can get away with this type of 'crime' and steal all her belongings with a restraining order. This will all be revealed and the husband will be going to jail if he steals even one of his wifes' things... that is a law he will not squeak out of.

Continue contacting and I will address the information as I receive it.

                                                                                        Respectfully,

                                                                                         Human Rights Novelist  

                                                                                         The Orchard Walk 

                                                                                          El Dueck    

Two Addresses

 So, here it is... Sunday.

My sermon, for today, is called 'Two Addresses.'

I'll write it like a story... J likes to sermonize that way.

A pastor I have listened to, once said... You only have influence while you're in your earthly tent. When your lifes' work is done, God pulls up the tent pegs, folds up your tent and everyone is packed away in a box and then you find out which address you belong at.

A pastor said... after earthly life, there are only two addresses... heaven or hell.

The determination for where we get to live, for all eternity, is made by the god whom we serve while still on earth. 

If we serve ourselves, well, you have to ask... did you manage to build a house in your heavenly realm so you can live in it when you have to live there? What kind of materials do we need there? What is the currency we need to buy building materials for the heavenly realm?

Many people who say... I'm just going to hell because that's where all my friends are... have a very grandiose idea that their evil friends are going to, somehow, provide for them, in hell, as they provided for them on earth. The way evil people provide for 'hell- bound' others is by stealing from honest people.

The people they steal from worked, owned all their own things and properties, and took great care of their living spaces. 

When he would come to my house, for Thanksgiving, I remember my Dad saying... your house doesn't even look like it has aged very much. The cabinets still look wonderful. Things look very well taken care of. Then Elmer would say, 'Elfrieda does all that.'

So, what do we get if we go to heaven? We get something there that nobody gets if they go to hell.

Any guesses?

                                                                    A crown.

How many people know where those words are found? In the Bible, those words are in a prayer, The Lord's Prayer. In my house, at 225, I put The Lord's Prayer, in the bathroom window... I purchased it at a thrift store. You know what I think is ironic about purchasing a machine- made Lord's prayer at the thrift store? Poor people shop at thrift stores and the kingdom of heaven includes poor people. So, what's really quite wonderful is that... if you don't like your address, on earth, and you chose to live in heaven (when it's time to go there), you will, eventually, have the most expensive address that will ever be.

The New Jerusalem coming down from heaven is described in Revelation 21:2- 8. 

In this passage, it details who will be in 'God's dwelling,' brought to humanity, and who will not be in this city. 

Some people believe the Bible, some people don't.

My first novel, The Orchard Walk- El Dueck, is a modern- day interpretation, a corollary of the Bible story, starting in Genesis.

The Orchard Walk El Dueck

Chapter 1

"Sam slowed the Hummer down to a dusty road crawl."

(In 2009, I purchased a Hummer H3 and it was demolished in an accident on August 19, 2019.)

Much of the inspiration for my novel came from my own life and the people I would meet.

"It was a good thing that they'd decided to travel in this rugged vehicle. These roads were raw gravel, pitted and dust driven by wind that is master of nature. The wrought iron gates of the winery...

Simmy rolled down her window to get a better view, taste, smell. "Hey Sam, maybe this is why I love flowers so much. Flowers are the depiction of Eden before the thistle entered on the back of the serpent.

I think you just found that artistic edge you were hoping would grow wings for your next novel."

My second novel, which I may have to re- write, starts out so dark and sinister because it has to have the warning of Revelation 21:8 written in layman's terms.

So, it starts out with some people meeting others, (people who should never be together) that creates the worst evil planners of destructive behaviour you can imagine.

The first and second chapters are, definitely, very bad people who should never have been together. They didn't all start out bad but, because they joined with really bad people, they made the worst partnerships. It's always the same story... a re- make of WWII which nobody wants to see happen.

Now, the first twelve chapters of book II are so depressing, I am unsure that a book that dark would be 'saleable.'

When I was working on the two or three volume novel, starting with The Orchard Walk- El Dueck, I was then already trying to figure out how to make the physical to metaphysical leap.

That was back in 2010, writing in my gazebo, at my 29 year house ownership.

So, the war on evil is what my writing is all about... on every front... let's say, three fronts:

the devil, supernatural temptation 

the world, external cultural pressures (my first novel dealt a lot with this)

the flesh, internal human sinful nature 

My second book starts with the flesh, internal human sinful nature, meeting the supernatural temptation of the domain of the devil.

Like I said... I'm not sure people want a Biblical corollary, number 2, especially those who didn't understand my first book but...

I continue writing.

Warren has been ensuring that every novel, of mine, and all my paperwork is being kept in pristine condition so I can keep my 15 year project going... as well as all my quilts and inventory.

Well, he's making sure everything I own is being protected, by him, so I can be secure in my working.

I am needing good people

 So, now I am looking for some good people in my life.

I need all my belongings from my address 225... It is possible that many of my things have been stashed under a small church. I hope not. Things can be less than tidy under a church.

Today, I would like to talk about what happens when a person... I'm not sure what the terminology is here... takes out a retraining order?

The basic purpose of a restraining order is to keep a person away from an address or individuals.

So, let's say a person threatens me... like in 2022 @ 225 where I was living. I had never met this person and the threat went like this... "I am a very ________ person. You have no idea what I am capable of." From the language of this person to the threatening look, I knew that was a serious threat to my personhood. Because it was an ex- employee of Norwex, I knew I could just make a quick phone call, to the police, if she acted out on her threat.

One time, while shopping with my husband, he turned in terror and fright and hid behind my vehicle. When I went in search of him, cowering there, I said, "What are you doing?"

He said, "That's the woman who threatened you. I do not want to see her."

So I braved the threatening atmosphere, by myself, bought my plants, and thought he might not be remembering correctly. This does not look like the same person.

I was rather fortunate in that I don't recall ever seeing this person, again, in the four years I resided at 225.

So, now I would like to talk about a restraining order.

Now, I don't even know how to procure one of these and I have only seen one, ever, in my lifetime, and it seemed really sketchy because there were so many different printings on it. I wondered if it had been a 'school project' exercise or something demanded of the person. 

So, if a person demands you stay away from where your belongings are, you know they might be trying to steal your belongings, right? I mean, what better way to make sure you have a lot of time to empty a house and stash someones' property items where they can't know where they are. Hey? Wouldn't that be a little premeditated theft or heist of someones' furniture, clothing... all kitchenware... 

My gold E... this was a gift from my son and his wife, in 2015. They bought it from Chapters. 

I am not likely to suffer such a theft because the telltale inventory I have created from my self- published novel, is never going to be seen anywhere without me (unless I sell some for outrageous prices to pay my rent). My inventory is all 'one- of- a- kind' and even Gerd can't find pillow cases like I gifted her and Paul (he was still with us then) for Christmas four years ago. I think I  also purchased one of my novels, and gave her that, for a gift, as well. I still have another set in my inventory. This cotton is such high quality, it's amazing.

 I hope I have, clearly, stated what I believe some people do to steal another persons' 'life belongings.' They take out a restraining order so the person who owns all their 'life work' isn't allowed to see where the devious rascals hide it, sell it, or try to send it to Nathan and his wife so they look guilty as heck. I don't believe for one minute that Nathan and his wife are hiding my dining room set at their house. They are Christians. Ana was a pastor at one time. Pastors do not get involved in theft of furniture that can be clearing traced back to Elfrieda. You're not going to get me to believe that. They're part of church that holds people accountable for all leadership positions. When I drove by, three years ago, the church was doing a huge new build for, either their private school for children or for their sanctuary. I can't quite remember what that big building project was for. I was so disappointed that we didn't attend church the Sunday I was there... I really missed that.

One caution I would really like to make to parents of children who are in a bind... when I removed my children from a private school and put them into the public school... that traumatized one of my sons so badly, he had a very hard time adjusting to his new environment. So, it is a very delicate matter to create upheaval for children... children suffer too, when parents are in a battle.

I really need all my belongings to bless my children who do not have much... it is my Biblical right to bless my children with the work of my hands.

 

Bed Frames

 I need my bed frames from 225. I have two old bed frames, one in the basement bedroom and one was outside in the spot where Warren and Elfrieda signed their marriage documents.

I need these bed frames for a person who is disabled. I need them now.

The one in the back yard, I had just purchased from a sale on Hawthorne. If anyone has contact with that house... please tell Warren he is endangering my well- being with his tardiness in calling me to get all my life possessions.

I need my clothes. I need all my footwear. I need everything.

My quilts. My bicycle. My 14 boxes of novels.

Make sure you don't try and return my white lace skirt to Super Thrifty. I purchased a lot of good clothes there... and my wedding dress... I purchased that at Super Thrifty in 2022... navy lace. I want all my clothes.

I really need my leather sporran and kilts that I purchased for $100.00 at Almost New. I have a very special project that I bought that for.

I'm sure Eileen has been wondering why she hasn't bumped into me at Almost New... I was there so many days, buying my thread and so many teacups and... the list of handmade tablecloths, etcetera. Make sure Eileen knows that I have not left 225. I did not leave.

My current address is 160, in Winnipeg, but I also have a storage unit paid for October waiting for all my legally owned and paid for possessions... Elfrieda Dueck

I sent a text, this morning, asking for help, from a sister's husband, to retrieve all my belongings.

Voluntary Diversion

A resume I created quite some time ago, said,

" (Elfrieda) Served in various positions for 25 years. Some of the positions were teaching classes, singing in a choir and a band, and a lot of decorating for events."

I have applied for so many jobs.

I think it should be easy to get a job for someone who is willing to work and eager to start.

I am awaiting all my belongings... winter is coming and I will need my boots, winter coats, mitts, scarves... 

My 35 journals must be protected as I have a lot of personal information in those and tons of sermon notes. My little gardening telephone directory with phone numbers of my family is stuck at the same address as all my belongings. I can't contact almost anyone without that so I try to send messages to the few people I have phone numbers for but my phone has been bouncing a lot of messages back to me. I have text sent a lot of pictures in the last few days.

I am very concerned about Thanksgiving, October 12. I am hoping I can cook a meal, here, for that. I don't have any of my kitchen tools yet either. That's in just a few more days.

I have accepted a voluntary diversion but I have not been told what it is. I was encouraged to accept it and was told it is a very good thing. 

It seems it is difficult to find a person to run that class? I'm not even sure if it is done through a church or what kind of organization produces these classes? 

So, I am unsure if that is still required for me to do... I have been diligently seeking the answer to that.

In Good Conscience

What is a conscience?

Each person has a conscience. It is your/ my inner moral faculty, a sense of right and wrong. 

What does your/ my conscience do for you?

Your/ my moral compass is designed to direct the actions of your life.

About 38 years ago I bought a course on what happens to a persons' conscience if they choose actions that go against their inner compass feelings.

Let's choose a simple subject- Stealing. Stealing is taking something that doesn't belong to you.

When discussing these topics, it is necessary to start at the beginning, childhood and parenting.

When I grew up... We were taught not to steal. The dictum 'Thou shalt not steal' was the authoritative statement my parents quoted to all of us children.

I was raised in a very large family and I don't ever remember a situation where anyone, within the family, accused another family member of stealing something from the other. Our family was so large, we even had to share bedrooms, so we had great respect for personal 'possessions.'

Almost all of my experience of 'theft and stealing' was quite a shock, to me. When my bicycle was stolen off the second floor of the apartment I rented, I was in disbelief. The year was 1981 or 1982. I was aghast. I contacted the insurance company immediately, made a claim, and received a cheque to replace the stolen 'goods.'

In my self- published novel, I write about a lot of situations to represent 'life problems.' I studied a little criminology and then decided to write the scenes in layman terms. 

A novel 

needs to be readable to day to day living. Imagine that someone would try to steal your novel, that you wrote and self- published. I would be willing to sue them so fast because of the time, and money that it took to complete this type of project. It's impossible to steal, of course, because I self- published. 

Self- published intellectual property cannot be stolen.

Now, let's detail how the conscience works, from the perspective of a 

                                             child to adult process.

Situation

A five year old child steals a candy, puts it in his/ her pocket so the parents, who drove the child to the store, don't discover the 'theft.' 

Immediately, you know that the child feels guilty about stealing the candy because he/ she hides it and waits to eat it when the parents aren't watching.

At the tender age of 5, a child certainly has a conscience.

If the child gets away with this 'theft' (isn't caught, isn't taught) the conscience is dulled and the likelihood of the child repeating the 'theft' becomes... more likely.

There is another step in this process that is called 'confessing.' A child might confess if they know enough about right and wrong to 'feel guilty.' A child who doesn't feel guilt is not a good thing. 

So, the course that I purchased, about 38 years ago, detailed progressional incidents that lead to the searing of a conscience, searing meaning 'dulling.' With each theft a child 'gets away with,' the possibility of thefts becoming larger and larger is the rational conclusion to each 'next' theft.

Moral lesson of this story-

Teach your children well. 

A parents' peace of mind is going to be connected to childrens' behaviour and the behaviour of children is going to be connected to parents' ability to teach principles of moral living.  

 

 

  

Verify

 Moving right along... I need my lawyer to verify that all my belongings have been under lock and key, so no one has access to them until I can get my 'life possessions.'

My lawyer is trying to find someone, in Winnipeg, to close my file.

But... what I really need for him to do is to make sure I have legal right to my house, in Dauphin, to get all of my belongings and my small business, and my most precious photo boxes of my life in the last 55 years. 

I really need those things around me because my children haven't had much, in life, and I need to help them, here, in Winnipeg.

I, certainly, have had very little, in my life. I have had a financial loss, living in Dauphin. I put last years' earnings, from my small business, in Fusion credit union.

When I come get all  my belongings, I will empty that account. It won't be enough to pay for my gas or anything else but, it is mine.

The only wonderful person, who purchased one of my novels, was a decent doctor. I so appreciated him for the post surgery exams after my two cataract surgeries. I had been on a waiting list before I moved to Dauphin so the timing was quite difficult for me. I did have retina gel detachment of both my eyes but I have managed to get through that without having a retina detachment. 

I became much poorer living in Dauphin so I have a lot of 'financial' gains to catch up on. I am needing my inventory. I am needing a job immediately, if possible. I am needing a few good people to  help me get my 'life possessions' from 225 and wherever anything has been stored so it will be in pristine condition for me to sell at my pace and timing. 

I would like to be protected from a woman whom my husband had been dating before our relationship. Gerd knows who this former Norwex employee is. She threatened me, in 2022, when she came to 225, where I was living. When I announced our wedding nuptials to her she told me... "I am a very unstable person and you have no idea what I am capable of. SE" This woman came with her son who seemed much more stable. I wasn't sure about his friend.

So, I just want to be sure, when I pick up all my belongings, that I am not going to be harmed by Warren's past life.

I have completed a number of projects of upgrades on that property. I did not sit idle in the four years I resided at that address, investing my sweat equity into my amazing back yard. 

The bathroom is also a 'time- match' renovation to the age of the house. 

So, I need all of my 'life possessions' to continue my life in a safe environment and I am hoping for a lot of emotional and financial support as I continue my life.

If Warren decides he wants to live with me, he can approach me about that. I am in a small apartment with very high rent but he has never had an opportunity to get out of Dauphin, you never know what he is thinking.

I have enough clothing, at 225 to last me for 20 years if my finances don't get better.

I am anxiously awaiting a call so I can get a truck and move my stuff to my storage unit, which I have been paying a fee on, since I got to Winnipeg.

I spent this morning sending pictures to one son and my three sisters to prove that all my belongings are in that house. I have another three hundred, or so, photos, to prove that I own almost all the same things I did when I owned 90 Forest Cove Drive from 1986- 2014.

It's amazing how many loads of 'clean up' my truck moved out of 225 and how many loads of furniture, from Winnipeg, my truck moved into 225. 

This is my bike, on Kildonan Drive, before I moved to Dauphin... I still want to use it for years. Please keep it with my things and don't ride it.

My rose lapel pin, on my nightstand, at 225, is a metal piece of jewelry I purchased for my Grade 10 photo.

This is a quilt I have at 225... I made it for my grandchild and haven't had the opportunity to give it to her yet... I think I made it in 2015.

These sandals, of mine, are in the front room but they're not in the best condition because one of toe holds pulled out when I was using flip flops to fix my heel spur, in 2016.

This is that truck that hauled all our stuff, what Warren and I bought together, to 225, in Dauphin. 

Now I just have an old van I bought at a local dealership, in Dauphin. I can never tell which van is mine in a parking lot, Dodge made so many of them.

It's still running but I was supposed to get something fixed that a mechanic said wasn't completely urgent three months ago but, as I drive, wear and tear is happening each day.

I'm ready to get all my 'life belongings.'