Well, whether you missed me or not, I’m back!  The blog has been moved to a new host and all we lost was one post and several weeks.  I can’t even remember what was said in that post, except an affirmation that I’m committing myself to getting this work out there this year one way or another. So hang on, here we go again.  By the way, on my hospice rounds today I ran into one of those inspirational quotes in a nursing home elevator that went something like this.  “You never know just how much is possible until you cross the boundary into the impossible.”   Let’s review this a year from now and see if we’ve crossed over or not.

peace…………ag

I guess that’s what keeps us going… those unexpected bumps in the road that pop up in our lives and poof!… we’re suddenly headed off in a new and unexpected direction.  Do we let them control us or do we reach for the reins and get back on course?  That, my friends, is the important question.  Who is in control after all?  I’m sure I’ve shared this before, but it’s worth retelling… the time my wife asked a psychic whether those roadblocks in life were signs to turn back or obstacles to be overcome.  They are, said the psychic, whatever you want them to be.

peace………ag

So about three months ago I lost a bracelet that I had fashioned and had been wearing daily.  It had special meaning for me because I had actually made two of them and given one to a hospice patient of mine whom I had gotten very close to.  At his funeral, I saw that his son was now wearing it.  So clearly at least two people think of Reggie when they see the bracelet.  Anyway, after losing it on a shopping trip to Trader Joe’s, (I even checked with their lost and found), I took a Buddhist approach of non-attachment and let it go, opting to wear another one that I had purchased at a street fair years earlier.  Then today, while shopping at TJ’s I grabbed a shopping bag that I haven’t used for a while, and there it was, lying inside right where it landed when it fell off on that long ago shopping trip. Thank you.  Unexpected pleasures are really great.

peace……..ag

A judge disagrees with your decrees… he’s suddenly a ‘so-called’ judge.  A reporter writes down what you actually said… she is ‘media scum’.   A department store removes your daughter’s dress line because it isn’t selling and they are ‘terrible’.  Meanwhile, you order a ban on immigrants from all Muslim majority Middle East countries except the ones where you have business interests and that is in our country’s interests.  I can see it now.  Trump supporters deciding to wear khakis, all carrying no less, and “Freedom of wardrobe” will be the call from the Off-White House.  People should be allowed to wear whatever they want, he will whine.  Oh yes… and little mustaches are cool.

Not hate… not disgust… just numbness.

peace……ag

I’m seventy-six years old and I’ve never seen things like this.  Our country is divided right down the middle and we are spreading our blight into the entire world, faster than you can say Trump.  A shooter in Canada of all places, the civilized country we would all move to just to get some some sanity if it weren’t so cold, shot up a mosque killing innocent Muslim worshippers.  In Canada!!! How’s that for a country exporting terrorism and hatred to other countries without even going through a pat down at the border.  Way to go America.  Shame on US.

peace……….ag

It’s a new word… a new concept… a new day for our country and the world.  Lies no longer exist. Only #alternative facts. Where does it go from here?

Okay.  It’s happened.  Our nation’s power has been transferred to a billionaire narcissist who says one thing, then says another, denies saying the first thing, and accuses the media of making up what he said in the first place.  How sad!  But life goes on… maybe not as smoothly as before, maybe not as peacefully as before, but it goes on.  It is still within the power of each of us to make the world around us the best it can be.  We can each do that.  And we will survive.

peace……ag

Human beings share something very important. Every one of us feels that we exist… that some very personal being we call ‘I’ is inside us, however we define that ‘I’, or what it looks like from the outside. And though the individual attributes surrounding each ‘I’ are different for each of us, the feeling of just being, the feeling of ‘I am’ is the same for all of us. (tbc)

peace………….ag