Posted in Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 6/3/22

1. Attending friends Pat and Mary Prokop’s annual Memorial Day Garden Party, featuring Pat’s incredible backyard garden. Pat was the long-term but now retired chief meteorologist for WTOC here in Savannah.

Here’s HR giving me a lengthy lecture, something about heat resistant blossoms (it was too hot to pay much attention), before I finally had all I could take of him and joined Mary on the porch for mimosas.

2. Robert’s amazing and tenderly delicious Steak Pizzaiola.

3. The joy, and yes sometimes sorrow, of being able to FEEL. Emotionally, physically, politically, etc.

4. Driving around Savannah and seeing grandson Daniel plastered on electronic billboards advertising the musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” D is Joseph in the play, which closes this weekend after a three-week run.

5. I’ve been going through some pretty intensive allergy testing this week to try to get to the root of some health issues I’ve been having. WARNING: Not pretty pics like the garden party ones above. Scroll through quickly!

Have you ever had to go through this?!

WHY on earth am I including such a thing as a Happy Bringer? Simple: my back is now TAPE FREE!

Here’s another garden party photo, to get your mind off allergy testing.

May you be taped to joy this weekend.

Posted in Hello, Anxiety.

Hello, Anxiety: “Accepting Acceptance”

This blog category is the journaling and journey-ing of my quest to say (with cautious sincerity) “Hello, Anxiety” and to take a look at the condition from my “me-andering” views.

Homework from a recent therapy session found me composing “realistic” affirmations or mantra statements. I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist, which is ironic since I never do anything perfectly.

As with most of us, I suppose, I really want life to bend in the direction I desire. But it often (very often) does not.

Here are a few affirmations I will (sometimes begrudgingly) practice:

“My life IS as it IS right now, and I accept that truth.”

“Everything may not be perfect in my life right now, and I am accepting of that truth as well.”

“I’m okay where I am right now.”

“I am who I am right now.”

Posted in Gun Insanity

Gun Insanity: “Embarrassing USA Statistics”

“The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, has 46 percent of the world’s civilian-owned guns, according to a 2018 report by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey.

It ranks number one in firearms per capita.

The United States also has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate of the world’s most-developed nations.” pbs.org

Sometimes I disagree with Lee Greenwood—and I am not proud to be an American.”

Posted in Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling?

Marveling this morning at the joy and many moods of PURPLE.

Pretty blooms near us.
Grandson Daniel and his voice coach Paul, after one of D’s recent performances as Joseph in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” here in Savannah.
Purple truth.
Ex-wife Donna and a purple egg.
HR

“All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul – when you look at it, it’s looking back at you.” Uniek Swain