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BUCKET LIST
“Bucket List”… If I hear or read that term one more time, I’m gonna implode.
I’ll kick a bucket, onto somebody’s head like one of the situations of “Because a Little Bug Said Kachoo!”, the ‘butterfly effect’ written with nonsensical wit by Dr. Seuss.
Yes, a crass little bug sneezing rather than a butterfly flapping its wings, flowing as one with the breeze.
Hemingway’s Bar
Hemingway’s Bar. I recall the joy, the rapture I felt at first discovery and sat on a stool at Hemingway’s Bar in Paris. It was long before I set my intention to write a book, yet I succumbed to the immediate allure, the pretension of sitting in his place. Heady stuff, the generalized thrill of adventure that I seek.
Until we began to note Hemingway’s Bar scattered about Europe, on the par of “George Washington slept here” on the eastern seaboard, the colonial heart of the US.
Living Life as a Miracle: Business Class
A couple of years ago we had the great (great-great-great) good fortune to fly ultra-luxuriously on >>>Air Emirates
Business Class from LAX through Dubai to Africa and back. It was sublimely awesome in every way, not the least of which was that we had time to sleep – with a perfectly-sized plump/firm mattress laid atop the fully-reclined seat. Oooh – spoil me, do!
The Physics of Christmas
Bursts of logic grace me from time-to-time. Blondes can handle logic, donchaknow! With holiday shopping complete and cards are their way via USPS, I had a few idle moments to contemplate today. I trolled our calendar, scoped the bookshelves, and the refrig.
In all of this bounce-about-the-house, a couple of thoughts knit together, one of them hitting me hard: of the past ninety days, we’ve traveled 1/3 of them.
And that me to thinking about Santa, who circumnavigates the globe: 25,000 miles overnight to deliver Christmas gifts – now that is traveling, albeit not away from home for long!
STASHES
What’s in your wallet, er, stash? Here are some of the items stashed in our house:
This Chicka Boom Booms
Peace, Love, Joy, and Contentment be this Chicka-Boomer – what about Thee? Want to try the Bill Martin alphabet tree?
Dietary Con-foods-ion
I recently attended a health seminar, focused on the elements of best dietary practice for Youngsters, Elders, and Ever-Youngs like me. Here’s the amalgamation, most often polysyllabic words that my mind can’t digest. Can yours? It’s dietary con-foods-ion time:
Social Security and Dynamite
What do these two things have in common? Ka-boom!
They were birthed in Stockholm – according to Rick Steves, the travel raconteur of public television. He is a Baby Boomer, so we grant him instant cred, the wisdom earned via a well-focused life of world travel, like ours. We’ve been following his ‘Back Door’ travel plans in Europe for year.
What I also think they have in common is: their volatility. Both can blow things up! Just try bringing up Social Security at a multi-generational family event…you might as well light dynamite all around the room. Ka-Boomer, Boom, Boom!
JOMO or MOJO?
Your Alphabet Soup of Socialization: MOJO or JOMO?
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