After decades in waiting as heir apparent to the crown, Charles Philip Arthur George [Windsor] ascends to the seat as Britain’s new monarch after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. He’s waited nearly a life time to take on this role, and tasks before him are considerable: he’s not nearly as popular as …
Month: September 2022
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen is dead, long live The Queen! Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. 1926-2022. 96 years old. A 70 year reign over England and its Commonwealth. A human symbol of stability made forth by a sense of duty and responsibility. She was the first Royal to serve in the military. She said early on when still …
CrowdSource Question: WordPress, Medium, or Substack?
I’ve been on WordPress for long while. Early adapter trying to find the way to the blogging world, with fits and starts and no real guidance. I love having this site, this voice, this channel to all you good peeps out there to share thoughts, perspective, inspiration. The question to you all is, “Why do …
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Lists Redux
I’ve written before about lists, scribbling down more words, likely same thoughts, so helpful sometimes, lists. Scribble down more words to share as I scribble down more words on a list, endless words, endless things to do. Lists like a safety valve, pressure valve, always more always more, scribble down the words that are tied …
HEAT
Straight up, sitting in this house, damn hot, heat wave through the west, no A/C, like millions, BILLIONS of people on the planet, gotta cope gotta cope, Heat, My peeps out in the Central Valley, family out that way, ten, fifteen degrees hotter out that way, Stocktown, Sac, so fucking hot, Heat, Fans on high, …
Roots.
Visited an old friend recently. He lives up on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. Great fun, catch-up conversations, random topics, easy chats, good food, bevies, some live music, good night’s sleep… All of this amounted to a nice reset for the soul, Rooted. Too, rooted in names and places, my buddy, Euro-Alpine origins generations, …
Late-Night Brain Wanderings
Sometimes late into the night if you wake up the brain starts to wander. Depending on the obligations the next day, this turns out to be either an unplanned stresser of lost sleep, or safe but reckless feeling-lark. As I lay down the base of the draft for this post it is a bit of …
Self-Care, Part Two
Considering more about self-care, more about what's ok, what's not, What has to be ok is taking care of yourself, looking after your needs, listening to you head, your heart, "To thine own self be true", so the saying goes, if not each of us true to ourselves, What is there? What is there? Carve …
Self-Care, Part One
Self-care, is it selfish...sometimes hard to say, for me anyway. So focused on others...colleagues, kids, friends, work, bills, keeping up with the day to day and week to week, Hard to say, with such a list, hard to say it's ok to "just look after one's self"...hard to say for me, sometimes, Hard to say …
Get The Funk Out
Funk can be good or no so good, depending on the meaning intended. Whoozy light-headed blah, doldrums, out of sorts, not so good. Funk like the music vibe, really really good sometimes. Recently for me, I was feeling the former; weird, odd, funky. Fuzzy whoozy brain. Bumpish night with the kids. LSleepy. Fortunately a little …
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