4 Snippets for this Morning

Grammar

It doesn't matter
what we've lost,
nor does it matter
what we've gained.

More important is the difference
between laid and lain.


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Great Literature

When any kind of poop comes out,
people get up to stand and shout.
When anything intelligent is said,
people are inclined to read it in bed.


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True Merriment

Merry is the prince
who once was a pauper;
better yet is he
who shares it as he oughter.


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A Family Story

There once was a son
and a little daughter.
Split apart too young,
they've lately begun to remember
both the good and the bad
as the best we've had.


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yesterday and half the night I was hopelessly stuck in the endless task of putting together Medicaid re-certification papers before the end of the grace period, even.  Today at last, the final final deadline being met and copies made just this morning, the appropriate papers went off to the P.O. to be postmarked and by certified mail.  All this alone, over $7.00!  Normally they do send you a free postage-paid envelope for all of this s__t, but you see, I had already lost that, as well as the forms themselves that I had started filling out already.  It's not that everything gets thrown away.  Oh no, that in itself is part of the problem.  I have a hard time throwing anything away.  Then naturally what happens is the stuff I saved for no reason gets mixed up with the stuff I should know the whereabouts of.  Then this whole place becomes a cyclone as I throw books, files, pieces of used chewing gum, bookmarks, shoelaces, whatever, around everywhere, could be on the bed, the floor, the ceiling even, if that were possible.

So I now breathe a sigh to all of that.  Thank the Lord and Holy Jesus, and Mother Mary too. All done with that.  But oh no, more problems this afternoon?  You bet.

whoops again

The most obvious reason why anyone would not want to appear anywhere in any public gathering, of course is the dreadful violence we are seeing everywhere in this country.

Of course, I missed a few things and said a few things wrong......

yes, yes, and yes, I slipped up entirely by reporting everything I knew already and so many other things I had to say about our Bob Dylan.  sure, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Why not? I thought long ago he deserved that much justly for uniting and enlightening a large part of our planet Earth on World Peace and also introducing himself as the one notably originally Jewish person, like me, who had also made that awesome (for some) leap from (even one enlightened standpoint on Judaism) into the completely new area called True Christianity.

Without even so much as one or two good deep breaths, no one but he could have started out with his famous song "Blowin in the Wind" to make that one song so well-known all over the world.  Much later to follow with "Long Train Coming," the  most splendiferous of all his albums.  "Blood on the Tracks" was out of this world completely.  The list of his songs is so long I haven't begun to listen to them all yet.  To see him shuffling up to the microphone or even if there wasn't any microphone, casually walking up on stage saying, "I think you must have the wrong guy...." well, you can see that too, on Youtube.

Sure, I said first of all the neatest and best way for two kindred spirits to unite and both accept Pulitzers or any other kind of prizes together, for lifetime achievement awards, would be to bring them together.  Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot.

Any more to be said I just don't have time for now before I prepare dinner.

Note on Legalization of Marijuana

As a substance abuse counselor myself, this is the only solution I can possibly come up with to this problem:

The best place to make marijuana a legal activity would be under the sea, where the fish could enjoy the fragrance. But, how could you ever enjoy a smoke underwater?

Anyway, the only smoke that I do enjoy, in extreme moderation, of course, is American Spirit tobacco, hand-rolled by me, and thereby I smoke 2-3 actual cigarettes per day, having just a few puffs at a time. It is worth it to do it this way, because it is the most fun activity around besides plain old sex. Not to mention a constant supply of nice black hot coffee is nice. The thing that gets me about the substance abuse counseling "field" today is that they are expecting everybody to give up anything but breathing and biting - perhaps - their fingernails. Oh yes, this is true. They could even be clipping their toenails to the bone, or compulsively cutting their hair shorter and shorter, eating their own hair, which amounts to a great deal of hair in the stomach and develops sometimes into a life or death problem..... and of course, another activity that deprived and thereby somewhat depraved people might pretend to enjoy on some level would be pulling their hair out by the roots and screaming Bloody Mary or something like that.

In short, the whole "field" is probably now such an unearthly chaotic mess that I got out a good many years ago, having witnessed one staff "party" where (many former alcoholics like me) "the counselors" were having a good time drinking. This is when the old "Is this reality?" kicks in.

You could only stand outside and smoke, because that already just doesn't fit in. We know who started that problem. Wouldn't it have been better, and still could be better, to establish simply, "smoking restaurants" and "smoking bars" and whatnot, and save us from the trouble of having to stand outside in the cold at subzero temperatures in NY, just to have a smoke? (Thereby we could catch pneumonia or just develop a bad cold.) Before I go on, I want to stop and tell an often-heard joke by my father in my childhood regarding colds vs pneumonia.

I am still not sure whether he made this up or heard it somewhere, like all of his treasured jokes. So here it is now, I'm not sure how it's going to come out. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx note to me, insert later xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                        

My way of smoking would not take more than two seconds to smoke just for a moment and go back. Going and coming could take 10 minutes both ways. Exaggerating, maybe 7 minutes only, who knows.

3 things for today

If you'd like to be mentally paralyzed by credit debt, try going paperless! In many cases you might even earn an extra $5/yr. by doing so!   *(seriously, this is true!)


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It Seems to Me -

The first thing that strikes me about marriage is that it should be illegal. Why should two kids romp around and play together permanently when they aren't satisfied with romping around and playing yet?

Unfortunately, the rest of what I once started with beyond the first sentence is entirely lost to my immediate memory. But this will be soon continued.

Notwithstanding I have only seen (6) pairs of eyes on this blog yet, and don't know how many more than two besides me (I don't think there were more than two besides me) ...whoops, lost that construction, let's start again.

Regardless of the fact that very few people seem to be reading this blog, much less the older blog which was started about 3-4 yrs. before this one .....if anybody has an idea to follow the first paragraph, I have a suggestion. Could they please, for me, write their own little essay and return it here as a comment? If anyone does this, they will get a big gold star on their paper and a quick happy face with wild curly hair on top and all around, almost to the point of looking like an excited little sun! I would so love for someone besides me, I always respond to things like this, for someone to go ahead and submit their own variation. As Barbra Streisand often has repeated, Discuss.......


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PHYSICS FOR DUMMIES
To All Those "New Physicists"

If any of you are still scratching your tired and itchy heads, still losing hair, and wondering why this is, why this than that, or anything else that your little peabrain full of mathematical formulas and other confusing devices, could come up with today, tomorrow, or yesterday - and no my little dears, the three are not the same, so how could yesterday, today and tomorrow even be on the same wavelength, if you would prefer it in your own terms? I'm sure you would. (not to mention, today, tomorrow and yesterday are by the way, three different WORDS)

So little dears, please be satisfied with the gifts of God's goodness and be well and happy, not cold or too hot and not starving. Who is the devil? Who is God? Could any one simple answer suffice here? Of course not.

Why are we here? Do we know the ultimate meaning of life on earth and other planets? Did we create our own eyes, ears and horoscopes? No, we did not.

What it is, is what it is. NOW, WHAT'S NEXT?


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Traveling

There's some baggage
in your brain
that only wandering
can clear

If you travel well,
you lose all your luggage