A couple more before i take the holiday break....

Hi Everyone;

I have yet to figure out how to schedule posts. Tried....didn't work. So, throwing them at you in clumps. Here are some quick vids I found, and I can't remember where - I need to write these things down. Anyway, I hope you like them. There are lessons here for us....

1. Plan ahead. 2. Knock before entering a person's private space. :) randy.

Thanksgiving is coming my friends...

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Ok, so I'm a bit early, and a bit parochial. But, there is a point to all of this. First, to get some posts done before company comes and I'm much more limited in my ability to post. Second, to make my point early enough to allow you all time to tell me to go blow.

So, you ready? Here's my point: go hug someone today! Go be that person that is able to help, is able to lift up, hold up, even shove up. Be the person that smiles at the checker in the store, holds the door for the people coming through behind you. Be the person that picks up the errant trash...carefully...and disposes of it. Be the light in someones day, even for just the moment. Let a bit of light shine, my friends. As you've been for me so many times! Hugs -randy

Around and around they go, where my thoughts can be found...no one knows!

Hello all;

I had a few wandering thoughts today, somehow they seemed to come together with an actor....shown here....who I find not particularly likable. I think I first felt that way when he did the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I grew up on that movie...it was one of the first books I ever read, willingly. Even read the sequel, The Glass Elevator. But, what sort of struck me was how this man has played so very many rolls. Some were tough, some crazy, some lovable and, well, many were just plain weird. And, it made me think of all the rolls we play in our daily lives.

A for instance: my family is coming to my house for Thanksgiving. Wee! Ok, I love my family, just maybe not in my house...for more than a day. I think I have them for 10. So, first...they don't know about you. Sorry, we will just have to keep things on the down low while I play the dutiful son. I may not return in any assemblance of sanity. That happens around my family. It's like having a guest with the flu....they stay for a while, coughing and hacking and after a bit they leave..but now you have the flu. Ok? Same thing...just, well, these folks are nuts.

I thought about how some people live so differently during the day in the working, etc., world, and come home a totally different person. I thought about the working man who comes home and yells at his kids, beats his wife, partner, etc., for the stress he has from work. Would work change if the bosses knew he was so stressed and taking it out on the family? I thought about nudists....I wondered what they do on Casual Friday? Ok, bad joke...but I wonder why is it that we must play these rolls in society different from the rolls we play at home? Why should we care what strangers think of us? Why should we conform to a false culture?

I read an article today in a blog run by a nudist. He spoke about shame, specifically body shame. Isn't that just the oddist thing? Do you suppose native people find themselves ashamed of their body? I don't recall ever hearing of it. It's just skin.... and yet it defines our expectations, our thoughts and fears...even hopes. I grew up in a very body conscious home. I didn't walk about in my undies, and I was always very uncomfortable without a shirt. Can't even tell you why. But, I look back on things and wish I could have been more free. I want that now, and yet I still get nervous walking from my bathroom to my bedroom...what if someone is looking in my window and sees? They'll think I'm a perv! Of course, the real question would be why were they looking in my window....but it's my thinking that's the issue. Even when no one is supposed to be looking at me, I must conform to their rules and expectations. I have to play the role.

The eyes have it...

"I feel pretty....Oh, so pretty..." Finally proof of reincarnation. Meet the former Wilford Brimley

The men in the Hoot Family are just a bit special,

to the embarrassment of the women. Huey, Dewey, and Louis see their first 747

And, then....and then, the vet....he said he had to check my...my...p-p-prostate!

"Yeah, as a mattah o'fact, Polley do wanna cracker....an'

whatever else yous got"

What part of 'No Solicitors' do you not understand?

"I can not believe you said that! I say 'good day'.

"Hey! A bit of privacy!"

a special thanks to m.Cavignaux

"Ha! Oh, wow....that's hillarious. Right in the midst of...."

"Ok, that's enough of your humor young man!"

"I said, 'No! You may Not take my picture'. Do we understand now?"

Well, here's what's happening in Randy's life....(run away now)

Ok, for those of you who remain... hello :) I've had a bit of a difficult time lately. But, they say that goes with living. I believe the quote was: dying is easy, it's living that's difficult. I'm going slowly nuts trying to keep up with 4-lawns continuously refilling with leaves. The downside to living in a neighborhood with older women being the primary residents. The upside, of course, is good cooking! But, what has me insane with grief and worry is that I may soon be losing another who is very close to me. I am not particularly well placed in my family. That's the nice way of saying "black sheep", isn't it? So, an Aunt who has been specially kind and a ready therapist, occasional cook and baker, a very close person to me....is in very bad shape. When my friend and neighor passed, my Aunt had been sick for about three days. That was 6-weeks ago. She went under the knife today - the big C. There are some things I just don't understand in life....that's one of them. So, in the span of a very short time, I am looking at losing two of the most important people in my life. Well, present company excepted, of course. You are all special, you know that. I don't know what I would have done had not one particular person been so kind and caring. He emails me often to see how I'm doing, and the funny thing is I feel closer to him than anyone I know....yet we've never met. I've been able to share this with him, and he's helped me remain sane...well, as close as I get. You know who you are, and I can't thank you enough!!! I'd also like to thank you others who have sent your concerns. It makes me feel very good to know that I'm not alone. I felt that way just a bit ago; mainly feeling sorry for myself but also just a bit frightened about losing another so dear. (I'm doing better now....). So, I've not been posting much lately, and I just wanted to let you all know that I haven't walked away or fell into the loo, got lost in the mail, what-have-you. Nope, just finding that there seems so little time when it becomes so dear. hugs to you all. -randy