I just came back from a long walk around the hood. I listened to music for a little while but realize that without hearing nature sounds I feel less connected to where I am. If I don’t feel connected, it’s no fun. I’m all about keeping it fun.
If I’d been listening to music as I passed the bamboo, I wouldn’t have heard its gentle creaking, I wouldn’t have heard it say, “come play, come watch me grow.”
A beautiful morning walk, a clear day — nice, breezy, a balmy 76 degrees, humidity is 80%. It’s sprinkling off and on so it’s not muggy. There are no misquitoes. It feels good to get back out and walk again. Usually I do it before dawn but at 8:00am I needed sunglasses and a visor. I tend to forego walks the entire summer due to the heat. Not good, I’m up 10 lbs. The treadmill is a blah substitute and I’m lax about riding the inside bike. I was stoked when I woke up today wanting to take a trek. I was glad I took my phone with me since a manly man with tools needed to be called into the gate at my rental. I was stoked that I had enough breath to carry on a phone convo without huffing and puffing. Thank you daily yoga the last 40 years. Since I wore my sunglasses, I also wore my eyeglasses, which I usually only wear when driving or at large venues when I want to recognize faces and read signs. I discovered that with glasses on, I tend to focus more on moving things outside my immediate area, like the street traffic 2 blocks ahead, rather than taking a closer look at the inner workings of what’s right in front of me. Continue reading
When someone shows up unannounced and your experience tells you it’s best to keep the door closed, you keep the door closed… no matter how many times they cry wolf. I wrote yesterday in This is a drama free zone that I love Facebook’s On This Day feature that shows me what I’d posted 1, 2, 5, 7 years before on this day. I’d written “I don’t know how people stay in moody up and down relationships with boomerang partners. It’s such a waste of everyone’s time and energy and is mega disrespectful. Thankfully I did my time years ago. I count myself lucky getting away with less than two years babysitting a drama queen.” I wrote that after seeing posts I’d made reminding me of the maze I’d allowed a former friend to put me thru years ago. I spent less than 3 minutes in thought time on it but thoughts are powerful things. I finished some work and at noon laid down to sleep. A knock on the door roused me and I opened the door expecting USPS. It was the former friend I’d just been reminded of. Continue reading
Oh, how I love Facebook’s On This Day feature that shows me what I’d posted 1, 2, 5, 7 years before on this day. My interactions tend to be easy flowing and drama free. I don’t know how people stay in moody up and down relationships with boomerang partners. It’s such a waste of everyone’s time and energy and is mega disrespectful. Thankfully I did my time years ago. I count myself lucky getting away with less than two years babysitting a drama queen. When people learn to entertain themselves on their own, they’ll enter into more real relationships since they’re no longer looking for someone outside themselves to entertain them. When you connect to the Source within, you never look outside your own Self again, except for the fun of sharing life with beloved friends.
UPDATE: And to make sure I make it to day 1461, I did not answer the door just now. You cannot just show up unannounced, especially after last time. If there’s anything to say, you can text or email me. Trouble can wander around outside all it wants but I don’t have to invite it in.
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I learned a lot about grommet insertion this weekend. Despite practice, I couldn’t do them correctly. I read online and followed the instructions. I bought and tried several grommet setting tools and read reviews of who’d had problems with which ones. I spent an afternoon trying to find a benchtop hand press, which I thought was the answer. I learned new terminology and Googled eyelet vs. grommet, driver, anvil, grommet inserter, hand press, bench press I learned about the sizes and that I needed size 000 also known as 5/32″ aka 3.9mm, and size 00 aka 3/16″ aka 4.7mm. I watched YouTube videos and did what they did. I thought. Then I watched more closely. I had the right tools but I’d not been holding the driver, the pounder piece, correctly, and I was being too heavy handed with the hammer. I went to the workbench and tried again. I tried with several size grommets using my different tools. Success!! Why grommets? Airholes in the hats — a must in Florida — and also for those lace up corsets Benny likes to wear.
Two clients are miffed to see pics of their husbands on the new girlfriends’ Instagram announcing upcoming weddings. Both wouldn’t mind a divorce so they could get the marital debt assigned but it’s good to tie up loose ends before tying another knot. Every area of your life is related, all of it. When you don’t tie up loose ends, you’re leaving a tangled mess to wade through before everyone can get to their Happy Now.
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Here’s why Trump’s 2nd Amendment ‘joke’ has an impact, whether he meant it or not. An excellent Twitter thread – @5thCircAppeals And while plenty of people were appalled that the Republican presidential candidate would “joke” about political violence, none explained why Trump’s comment was dangerous quite like lawyer and former English professor Jason Steed.
“I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here’s the thing about “just joking.” You’re never “just joking.” Nobody is ever “just joking.” Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always). To say humor is social act is to say it is always in social context; we don’t joke alone. Humor is a way we relate/interact with others.Which is to say, humor is a way we construct identity – who we are in relation to others. Continue reading
Kiki Smith: “Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn’t, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.