Angelorum

 They know who they are.

Sugar

 Toot sweet!

You don't want sludge, just a touch.

A pinch of sugar to flavor some pasta, sauce, many items.  It is hardly noticeable.  It gives substance.  Otherwise taste might be flat.

Those things sweet should not overwhelm either..  There is a touch of salt in fudge.

Freedom gives you the responsibility to risk the recipe.

Awash

 Lies told often enough can seem to become the truth.  Josef G was right about that.  Either collectively or individually, the world gets upside down.

Bearing false witness plays a major part.

Frequently such lies involve projection.  

I want to deal mostly with the personal.  Many of us are familiar with the broader aspect of political brainwashing.  We wend down the well worn road of commie tactics which bend and make green blue/orange.

Personally, very personally, conditioning intensifies.  The heat is on.

And back to projection.

Say, a stepfather is child raping a daughter.  He manipulates her mind and the barely there bovine mother.

He needs a scapegoat.  And the perfect one is the absentee noncustodial father.  To his detriment, staying away is a bad way to go.  More presence would have demolished the stepfather's machination.

If applied steadily and villainizing continues, the stepdad projects his crimes on the real Dad.  Said Dad is unaware of this manipulation, not thinking anyone would stoop so low and of course stepdad hid his crimes.

Eventually Dad suspects something.  He has managed to establish communication with his daughter.  It was slowly building til stepdad finds out and puts the kabosh on it.  Him, not the mother.  

More inroads continue with the support of Dad's current wife.  And Dad's lawyer who actively legally defended Dad's interest and the interest of a healthy relationship for the daughter.

The stepdad was aided and abetted by the mother's family, eager to revenge against the Dad.  Ungainly and illogical, they believed the lies.

Until the mother divorced the stepdad.  Why?  It's posited she had had enough and like a stopped clock was right this time.

However, the fix was in and the damage done.

As Dad's counsel observed, the daughter had been turned.

It's like an infection which, when truth is applied, evinces a diseased reaction, replete with pain and fever.

Is there an outcome?

As with much of life, there is no clean cut denouement.

It may sit where it is/was or progress to a realization of all the pain of yesterday in bitter resolution.

Such damage is insidious.

It must be dealt with truth and love and concern, not some 'gotcha' revenge.

Even adult kids deserve such truth and love.

The above is partial supposition based on a factual case.  

All hopes for healing and truth are intended.

Stringing

 Business endeavors are pursued with as few strings as possible.  Even little or no.  They have to be MY strings.

We all, or should all know about strings pulled in world events, including the US.

It is a matter of turning the tables on the stringers.  

As for strings attached to people/events, we note them and out them.  

In a personal vein, something appears on the surface as legit, when in reality it is not so, even a complete opposite of what appears to be so.

It might take years of steady reinforcement and folks accept an intricate lacing of happenings and shrug if anything outside the narrative surfaces.

There can be a central figure who manipulates.  But also there are often 'allies' who do the central's bidding without them knowing.  Or they might be conscious and wholeheartedly support the liar.

Strings can be bribery, blackmail or threats.

They are puppetry as well.

A false front villain may take center stage, while that vile central figure remains in the background.  And a target might live complacently, accepting circumstances and even thinking right will win.

It won't unless the perfidy is exposed.  It is truly war.  And war demands action.  

A support base has to be established.  That's uphill when most of it has been removed.  Pray and seek.

Say many inheritances are stolen or thwarted.  Thieves revel in their ill gotten gain.  One can have an attitude of acceptance or rejection of this.

''Well I'm above this and better than they are'' could be a reaction.

Or, you get po'd and seek justice.

If immediate justice fails, it might be long term.

The thieves/ne'er do wells forget they can't take it with 'em.  What we have is to be used while here and honestly enjoyed.  Then, it gets passed on.

I tell you 'the diamonds must be returned/restored' is truth.  

It may not be in the same form or might be so.  

The diamonds WILL be returned.

Snip the strings.