Mostly the weather this week has been very “unjoyous.” After a week of summer, we are back into the cold and grey of a Winter/Spring. However, coffee this week with a friend was joyous! In fact my friend recommended a book that I might like – “Obscure Sorrows.” The author, John Koenig, creates words based
I am always amazed at the energy generated by warmer weather and longer days. When it’s cold and dark, I have very little desire to get things done. However, as soon as the snow melts and the days lengthen I have the enthusiasm to “do a million things at once.” As I have said before,
….. OK every once in a while the cosmos delivers a week of pure Joy! Maybe it’s a dividend for months of Winter’s hardship or maybe it’s just a random numbers “thing” – you know the more you hang in there the more you get. I’m not sure what the rationale is or if there
This was the response from a friend of mine, when I said that I was taking a folk dancing class this Fall. Well, I went to my first class today and I am in awe!! This is a class that has been together for 30 years. It has been taught by the same instructor, Olga,
If anything is going to save us from destruction, from total annihilation, or maybe just from ourselves, it won’t be religion, it won’t, for heavens sakes, be war. No, it will be neither of these. It will be music. “Praise the chord and hold the ammunition.” There have been innumerable studies done lately on the
I spend a good deal of time reading articles on self improvement. I’m sure I read them years ago, as well. Then it would have been to get a better job, perhaps, or to dress a little trendier, look a little smarter, keep a cleaner house, raise healthier children….the list goes on. Now, I read
Our word for today is “pipe.” Again a word with so many meanings. Given the mood of today and the ugly people who have been voted in to “rule” us, the first image to come to mind is “pipe bomb.” An angry populace revolts. They make weapons at home, pipe bombs, to throw at the
