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Permalink Reply by Carol T on
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One of my best friends (she was my labor coach when my daughter was born) had the misfortune to become a widow yesterday. I am trying to be there for her, but I haven't fully recovered from this spring/summer/fall yet and it just seems like so much effort.
The persistent winter weather does not make it easier, either. Last night I went to stay with her until her son came to spend the night. Her doorbell isn't working because it requires a special battery that her husband was going to buy, so I had to climb up the stairs that have not been shoveled all winter and maneuver up the ice-covered stairs between the dripping icicles to get to the door where she might actually hear me if I pounded long enough. At one point I slipped and landed on my hands and knees in a snowbank. She seemed glad to see me, though.
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Permalink Reply by Marilyn on
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You're a good friend, Carol! What a mess this winter has been -- adding to your friend's grief, I am sure.
"I love the change of seasons." Bah!
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Permalink Reply by Bmichael on
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Ok…so it rained steadily for the past 18 hours with temps in the mid 50s…which finally melted all the remaining snow from last week…creating flash flood warnings…until the temps dropped below freezing which turned everything to ice…and the rain is now snow (oh baby, oh baby!) which is piling up on top of the ice.
At great personal risk, I made it back just in time with emergency survival provisions – beer, wine, nachos, bird seed, squirrel corn, and mechanical pencil leads (just in case, ya know?), and I am braced, steadfast and stoic against the onslaught.
Tomorrow is gonna be a great picture day!
(Oh, by the way, if you like good jazz (and who doesn’t?) check out jazzgroove.com. It’s free. No commercials…and awesome!)
And people will think you’re sophisticated…just like me!
Cheers!
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OK, so you win. We just have snow, snow, snow and more snow. Beautiful! And bah!
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From his new best friend...
“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked“
Truer words were never spoked.
Still Domed and stoic. (after all these years)
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If I walked around naked today I'd freeze to death! 8 inches and counting .... bah! (But stoic.)
Anybody writing anything? I got a direct mail package for Discover in the mail yesterday that was written in the old-timey style of a sleazy "you cannot be turned down" insurance pitch. Plastic card on the letter (so you had to open it to make sure it wasn't a credit card re-issue), "handwritten notes" in the margins of the letter, cornball photos, implausible promises -- gotta love it and wonder if anyone at all still replies to sleaze ....
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Yeah…I’m trying my hand at Mommy Porn…inappropriate for this site…jajaja! (However, if you send me a SASE, along with 19.95…)
Junk mail? Sure…I get it all the time from AAA – various insurance plans, upgrades, etc. In fact, I get so much, I figured they could probably lower their rates significantly by not sending it.
And then it occurred to me that the reason they keep sending it is because it is successful – that folks are responding to it. Oy!
While this winter weather continues to plague us (‘cept Westerly), I am reminded of a poem I wrote some time ago and will reprint here.
Winter Nocturne
Sleep soundly, old forest
O’er long winter’s night
In snow clad pajamas
That aren’t too tight
Across your cold floor
Autumn leaves dot your dirt
Like the grapeness of jelly
On the front of my shirt
How long…oh how long
How long must we waits
Spring’s welcome reprieve
From these dire straits?
Not long, I so hope
With an eye to the sky
Lamenting our luck
‘Cause this really suck.
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Thanks for the laugh!
And yes, people do respond to "junk mail" (I once had a creative director who called himself "the junk mail man") and 2% percent response used to be considered outstanding. Now it's closer to .02% ... which begs the question:
Why send it at all? Why, so Marilyn will have a job, that's why! Jajajajaja! Ooooh baybee ....
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Inspired by Bmichael's ode above, I offer these words of wisdom from other famous writers:
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” Roald Dahl
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” Mark Twain
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