Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

It is far more fun to do something you want to do, rather than something you feel you should do.

Don’t eyeglasses come with tiny chips that call home when they are lost? [photo from here]

This and that about not very much. I like rocks. I used to collect them, sort of. Definitely not in any sort of organized way, just here and there as something caught my eye. An unusual shape or color, maybe. I remember one time a young boy came to my door – he looked sort [...]

I am not sure the proliferation of software geared toward helping you organize yourself is all that good of thing. Too many choices. Or maybe not enough choices to fit the needs? I would love to have just one program that is able to do everything I need it to do. I thought, maybe, I [...]

What an odd sensation! See, I was writing a promised (to me) article on Haiti and it just wasn’t going right. Start, stop. Delete. Start, stop. Delete. Rinse and repeat. Finally I realized that there was a whole nother way of looking at things hovering at the edge of my mind, that I had been [...]

I haven’t a clue, but isn’t it cute? I guess it’s a gecko since that is what Paul Anderson calls it in the post I lifted this from. It’s funny – when I first clicked over to the post from the rss feed, I thought I’d already read it yesterday, so moved on. Then I [...]

Mom is watching a PBS show, some sort of oldies on Ed Sullivan thing. 60′s and 70′s – sounds of my childhood and teens. Good stuff Of course I have to do the obligatory “They were so young!” exclamation. And also, “wow – most of those people would have been out of luck in the [...]

Because it seems we sure didn’t used to. Reading lately about the underground railroad (great stuff!) and other things dealing with the antebellum South, and I got to wondering…  when enslaved persons ran away, how did people recognize them? For instance: This says, in part- $150 REWARD Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of [...]

I had a whole day almost to myself today. What a change! And what a necessity. Of the so many things I have to do, I actually did very few of them. Or, rather, halves of everything. Half the laundry done (washed and folded, but not put away), half the kitchen cleaned (floors, counters, dishes [...]

We’ve had something like 35 days near or over 100 degrees so far this summer and much less than normal rainfall the past few years. Of course, this being California – with our ever green lawns and ubiquitous swimming pools – you’d never know it, if not for all the melting people. The farmers are [...]