Posted in Humor, My Life

You Know

You know you’re getting old when you get invited to this …

(Ex-wife Donna and I graduated from incredibly beautiful Berry College in Rome, Georgia way back in 1974.)

At the same time, you’re out in your also-incredibly beautiful Savannah Square reading this …

Ho hum. Life goes on.

With beauty all around.

Posted in Humor

Three Good Arguments

A funny, slightly irreverent and heartwarmingly truthful look at the various ways of seeing who Jesus “was” …

There are 3 good arguments that Jesus was BLACK:

1. He called everyone brother

2. He liked Gospel

3. He didn’t get a fair trial

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was JEWISH:

1. He went into His Father’s business

2. He lived at home until he was 33

3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was ITALIAN:

1. He talked with His hands

2. He had wine with His meals

3. He used olive oil

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a CALIFORNIAN:

1. He never cut His hair

2. He walked around barefoot all the time

3. He started a new religion

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an AMERICAN INDIAN:

1. He was at peace with nature

2. He ate a lot of fish

3. He talked about the Great Spirit

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was IRISH:

1. He never got married.

2. He was always telling stories.

3. He loved green pastures.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was MEXICAN:

1. He treated his mama like she was a saint.

2. He always wore llantas and a serape.

3. He was a carpenter who could fix anything.

But the most compelling evidence of all – 3 proofs that Jesus was a WOMAN:

1. He fed a crowd at a moment’s notice when there was virtually no food

2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it

3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was still work to do.

(Robert found this somewhere on the internet but couldn’t remember where.)

Posted in The Artful Dodger, Unexpected Art

“The Artful Dodger“ #22

A blog category about finding “art” in unexpected places and situations.

So the other morning I sat down with HR to my breakfast of ham cubes (well, that’s what they look like, right?), eggs and toast.

Sleepily took a bite of toast …

… and spotted the rare GrapeJelly Splattered Scrubwren!

Sadly, birdlike, she didn’t linger on my plate very long before “flying” away.

Posted in Humor

Velocity! I Did Not.

As a retiree, it’s both pretty sad and very telling that the most exciting text (followed by an email) that I received today was an invitation to take part in a diarrhea study. But with the possibility of payment!

(My first name is Donald.)

(I did not reply STOP.)

Posted in My Saturday Evening Post

My Saturday Evening Post: 4/6/24 “The Geometry of the Universe (or at Least My Hall)”

My very favorite subject in high school was GEOMETRY.

Unlike calculus, trigonometry, and even algebra, geometry just made plain sense to me.

I mean, everything seems to have a shape. Even if it’s shapeless, isn’t that still sort of a category of a shape?

I also like the way the word “geometry” sounds and even feels coming out of my mouth. Try saying it.

gee-ah-muh-tree

Now try saying it a little slower.

geeee-ahhhh-muuuh-treee”

It’s like getting a teensy massage of the mouth and lips. (Stop staring at me like that. It is!)

And it has such a rhythmic flow.

So yes, I love geometry. The word and the subject.

And apparently, so does my iPhone’s camera. For as I was walking out our front door the other day, minding my own business, my phone looked down and somehow without my assistance snapped a quick photo of our hallway floor, etc.,etc., including my left shoe.

When I discovered the unintentional (at least by me) photo, I have to say that I was a bit charmed with my phone’s artistic expertise and perspective.

Just look at all the geometry!

Circles and squares and ovals. Rectangles and triangles. Lines and points.

If I squint, I think I can even make out a few symbols from sacred geometry.

So even though I have not discovered what the geometry of the universe really is, I do have a better “footing” for my hallway’s geometry.

Posted in My Saturday Evening Post

My Saturday Evening Post: 3/23/24 “Does Food?”

Does food (or life) get any better than this?!

So last weekend, Robert and I ventured down to Jacksonville, Florida to get away from the St. Patrick’s Day craziness here in Savannah. (We live on the parade route.)

One of our weekend meals found us in the Mayport area of Jacksonville, just off the Atlantic Ocean. and at one of our very favorite seafood restaurants, Safe Harbor.

I got the blackened shrimp and haddock. Oh my goodness!

Robert got something or other, I can’t remember what, I was too busy with my own seafood extravaganza.

But here he is …

The Joy of Food!