Here we are: hot summer and cruel summer.
I will be fifty-five years old this year.
I am currently "on sabbatical" from working and enjoying it.
In my opinion I have earned this break.
It's just a heck of a goshdarn shame that everything is currently closed!
Well at present things are gradually reopening.
Who would have thought this would happen?
Friday, July 10, 2020
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
CRUEL SUMMER
Hot summer streets
And the pavements are burning
I sit around
Trying to smile but
The air is so heavy and dry
Strange voices are saying
(What did they say?)
Things I can't understand
It's too close for comfort
This heat has got
Right out of hand
And the pavements are burning
I sit around
Trying to smile but
The air is so heavy and dry
Strange voices are saying
(What did they say?)
Things I can't understand
It's too close for comfort
This heat has got
Right out of hand
It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
The city is crowded
My friends are away
And I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go
My friends are away
And I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle
So I got to get up and go
It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
(Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
Now you're gone
Thursday, June 18, 2020
I WANT TO BEHAVE LIKE A BETTER PERSON....
...And not hold grudges.
How do I learn how to do the above?
How do I learn how to do the above?
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
TODAY IS MY FATHER'S NINTIETH BIRTHDAY...
...Or would have been if he were still alive.
My mother comments on how the family would have held a big party this weekend. But the earth is in the midst of a pandemic!
I've been thinking recently of my actions should I ever reach the proverbial pinnacle of my life.
Shades of Bilbo Baggins' one hundred eleventh birthday party:
Thirdly and finally, he said, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. He spoke this last word so loudly and suddenly that everyone sat up who still could. I regret to announce that — though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you — this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!
And with that Baggins touched the "Precious" ring in his pocket and subsequently disappeared from view!
Hmm..that's not how my father ended his existence. He died in his bed at age fifty-eight; the cause of death was complications of carcinoma (cancer) of the sigmoid colon.
My mother comments on how the family would have held a big party this weekend. But the earth is in the midst of a pandemic!
I've been thinking recently of my actions should I ever reach the proverbial pinnacle of my life.
Shades of Bilbo Baggins' one hundred eleventh birthday party:
Thirdly and finally, he said, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. He spoke this last word so loudly and suddenly that everyone sat up who still could. I regret to announce that — though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you — this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!
And with that Baggins touched the "Precious" ring in his pocket and subsequently disappeared from view!
He stepped down and vanished. There was a blinding flash of light, and the guests all blinked. When they opened their eyes Bilbo was nowhere to be seen....
[Bilbo] was never seen by any hobbit in Hobbiton again.
Hmm..that's not how my father ended his existence. He died in his bed at age fifty-eight; the cause of death was complications of carcinoma (cancer) of the sigmoid colon.
Friday, May 8, 2020
HOW I AM SURVIVING THIS PANDEMIC
I am maintaining a continual log of tasks. This involves constantly updating my daily to do list.
I am completing my exercise workouts in my home via my android tablet and some recently acquired equipment.
I have completed several meetup walks. These involve maximum groups of ten, six feet social distancing, and the use of a face covering.
I am downloading books and finding worthwhile history programs on the television.
I am keeping my bed made, my house tidy, and I have now committed to a three month professional cleaning schedule.
I am eating healthy every day: fruit, vegetables and dairy products.
I am committed to controlling my drinking. This is probably the largest challenge I face. I recently read in the news that liquor sales have increased forty percent since the beginning of this situation; I am somewhat surprised it isn't more!
I am taking each day as it comes. I can project and plan two days ahead but that is as far as my task list goes. BTW I keep a longer term list of appointments etc. on the face of my kitchen calendar.
I am trying to subdue thoughts that the entire summer 2020 will be shot to excrement or that the way of life I have always known will be forever doomed.
I am completing my exercise workouts in my home via my android tablet and some recently acquired equipment.
I have completed several meetup walks. These involve maximum groups of ten, six feet social distancing, and the use of a face covering.
I am downloading books and finding worthwhile history programs on the television.
I am keeping my bed made, my house tidy, and I have now committed to a three month professional cleaning schedule.
I am eating healthy every day: fruit, vegetables and dairy products.
I am committed to controlling my drinking. This is probably the largest challenge I face. I recently read in the news that liquor sales have increased forty percent since the beginning of this situation; I am somewhat surprised it isn't more!
I am taking each day as it comes. I can project and plan two days ahead but that is as far as my task list goes. BTW I keep a longer term list of appointments etc. on the face of my kitchen calendar.
I am trying to subdue thoughts that the entire summer 2020 will be shot to excrement or that the way of life I have always known will be forever doomed.
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