October 21, 2023
mad
LIfe is short enjoy it
We are in a good spot here and we don't leave often. Vacation land... is that boring.... sometimes. Should we climb out of the rut and do things. Probably. Do we do it? I can't make up a bucket list for the life of me. Things I want to do before I die..... what things do I crave doing that I am not doing?
Am I content with the status quo?
Big question.
Life is short, and who knows if we have a week, a year or ten years. 7 days, 365, or 3650......
Big questions and for now not answered, but definitely food for thought.
Christmas new style
This year Christmas was minimal because of Joan's fall and my total lack of interest. The fall was an excuse and aren't we thankful for that. Not the fall, but the excuse of it.
The holiday has not been inspiring, fun, warm, nice in donkey ages
and this year it felt better because I more or less ignored it.
One of the only things I had planned to do was send our holiday wishes and I messed with them
and took a new picture to use.
Never sent the message except a few copies I mailed to a few people who sent Christmas cards.
Some who sent late cards got nada.
the swan pleased me and here it is in a few variations.
July 16, 2023
challenge
I, for my entire life, have done the bare minimal. anything gets tough I get going. not finishing studies, not becoming an expert, not, not not.
I want to before I leave this earth become good at something. I need to finish the exercise, the whatever.
I need to accept the challenge.
I will learn to bake bread
I will do Qigong till I am good at it.
I can do this. I CAN DO THIS. I STARTED TODAY .....
June 17, 2023
May 1, 2023
big rains last night
our vernal pond had almost dried up and was a vernal puddle until the 3 or 4 inches last night. Many roads are closed because of flooding. We will be going into summer with a good water table. Best of all the geese and ducks have a swimming hole again. Happiness is a vernal pond in the front yard. What a treat. What a treasure. What a divine gift.
January 29, 2023
listening
It has come to me that it annoys me when I am speaking
that that person is not bothering to listen.
They are busy doing something else.
Tuned out looking at something.
I have been guilty of this. We all are.
Communication is so off with texts and screens that the phone
and in person seem the best, but have found them lacking.