April Challenge.. the 18th through the 21st.

I'm going to be extremely busy this weekend as events have arisen.  
Oddly it's also Easter Sunday weekend.  But there you are..

April 18th, yesterday: How would you like to be described.  As Kind.  

April 19th, Today: What is your favorite song to sing.. This one.. I love to sing the chorus.



April 20th, Saturday: Would you like to know about the future.  
No.  Frankly, just living through a day or a week is enough to think through.  

April 21st  

Happy Easter

How do you show people you care?  I love them.  In all the ways that it can be shown in a Society that doesn't really like to be touched; I just love them.
I no longer cry so easily because in the climate that I entered into as an adult, tears were a sign of weakness.  So I don't cry about things even if they make me sad.  It's ridiculous, but there you are.

April Challenge: Yesterday's and Today's

My excuse.  Note from Mom, or WhatEVa...

is...

Wolfie's been sick, not eating well, so today we finally went to the vets.  She found he has a few probs.  We're working on it but test results on two growthy thingies have not come back, since he just went this morning.  I may be floating in the ether for a day or three...

Sorry I haven't been around the Robin to see everyone's...


April 16th, 
A word that I over use is:  "Goddamn!"  But that's only been recently, if you know what I mean.  I'd say this has been since approximately Nov. 16th of 2016.  It was an insult to add on top of a grievous loss.

April 17th.  A pun:  I found a page that had a bunch so here are my favorite two.  No one can do just one.

"I used to wonder why frisbee's looked bigger, the closer they came.  And then it hit me!"

"I saw an ad for burial plots, and I thought, that's the LAST thing I need."

From HERE  It's a very punny page... go see it if you don't already know about it.

April 15th: Tax Day.. Now I understand the prompt.... It IS Doomsday...

April 15th:  Ten Things you should always have...  

Things? Are we talking about survival gear?  

Or is it 10 things you should always have ON you, like "in your Pockets or purse?  You know, the sort that of things that you need to have when you set out for the market place. 

I'm going with Survival...since it's getting to look a lot like Doomsday...

Listed pretty much in the order in which you need them to live...

1.  Water, preferable clean water, no oily sheen!

2. Clean Food, no dirt from, say, being foraged from a trashcan but it's ok if it's from a field.

3. Clean (and maybe) Warm Clothes (a change of underwear, etc. 

4. Someplace safe to sleep, and have a waterproof roof over your head.
  
5. People to Love who also love you.

6. Soap

7. Emergency lighter

8. Crank and Solar powered Radio with Short Wave capabilities.

9. A current ID of some sort so that the Armies of the Damned don't cart you off to jail for vagrancy. Or worse... 

10. A dog who will stay by your side no matter what.  Dogs are like that..  I love dogs.

April 14th Challenge: Describe Kindness:

13th.   Describe Kindness:

You are getting an essay.... a ramble.. I hope you don't mind....

Humans think that they are the only ones who possess Kindness, but they aren't.

Kindness, permeates all of Creation; it is Empathetic, Intuitive, as well as the foundation of all "humane" behaviors.

I'll say again....Humane Behaviors.

Kindness is much more than gentle submission.  It has a Nobility to it.  Science tell us that aggression for access to procreation and hunting grounds drove the engines of Evolution.  Watching how a female bird chooses a mate puts the lie to that.  She makes the choice, not the male.  Mammals are an aberration, a serious one.

We can learn Kindness, and enrich it within ourselves, by practicing it.  Some people learn, with a shock, that they have the roots of it buried in their DNA, and they can change almost instantly when moved to it.

I've seen this transformation in children, and in adults.  It's like every atom in their body relaxes and they become at Peace.  So, does Kindness have a component of Peace in it?  Yes, I think Kindness is Inner Peace.  Kindness is what shows on the outside.  It's an expression of Inner Peace.

It didn't take long for the aggressive among Humans to learn that they can use other people's kindness against them.  So, Kindness also has a component of apparent subservience in their eyes.  And, so it became something that they aggressively took advantage of.  And thus, the Rewards in Heaven theories....
However, Kindness on Earth is Heaven on Earth.    

April Challenge for the 13th: "How do you make Decisions?"

Let's see here:

The easiest way is with a coin toss.  Consulting the Gods is not advised.  They never agree on anything.  Just ask Arjuna, and a few other victims of both scripture and myth.

There is also the "Three week study of pro's and con's" method, where you will probably get so bogged down in pluses and minuses that you end up doing a coin toss.

At this stage you probably should try calling and asking a friend what they would do about XYZ... They will give you a short course in, "Obfuscation and Hem-Haws", all the while trying mightily to not step on your feelings or your toes.  This will inevitably end in.... a coin toss.

The next thing to try is to haul two rocking chairs out of the house, position them to overlook the best part of your open space, and invite a Good friend over for cake and lemonade.  Now, you can just have a general chin wag and gently let drop that you've run into a roadblock and need a dispassionate opinion on the subject of XYZ.

OR.....Save yourself a lot of time and go with your gut.  Just you go ahead and do whatever comes into your little bony head immediately, and then if you should run into a crossroads due to dumbness or wild hairs, have coin toss.

 OR...  you can just walk back to square one and go the other direction.  If that ends in yet another fiasco, you can return to point A, and toss a coin.   Personally but this time I'd quit and take a nap.

April Challenge for April 12th: What is a "perfect" day?

What is a perfect day..

It's about 1:00 pm, in October; it's about 70 degrees, and the sun is shining.  😉

I'm bird watching at Elkhorn Slough with the Mr. Z (and maybe the kids).  Later, we go to buy some succulents at the nearby nursery.  Then, it's a visit to Santa Cruz Harbor for in early dinner, after which we go to watch the sunset at Natural Bridges. 

Mark Lilly takes the most Awe inspiring photos I've ever seen of this place.  His web page is HERE

April 11th: April Challenge.. How Important is Fame.

Fame is important to people who need it to make a living.  They need the notice of buyers and promoters for their Art or writings, and many other things that enrich the world.

So, Fame has it's place in Human Endeavor.

Also, Fame should never be confused with Infamy.  That's a whole "other Horse..." and one that nobody should seek to "ride" into Notice.  Unfortunately, Infamy seems to be the preferred "seat" for far too many unworthy yet powerful monsters.

Mr. Z says he's seen this before.. But I haven't.. so I'm posting it as something that fits right into the discussion of the Importance of Fame

April Challenge for the 10th

A Place you have never visited. 
 I'd liked to have seen the birds in Australia and in Malaysia but it's not that important anymore.

I'm not well traveled, though I thought that was my destiny.  Field Geologists go ALL over the HALF ACRE.  I don't really miss it.  If I see the rest of the West, it will be enough for me.

April Challenge for April 9th: The Story of my life in Five Sentences.

 "A Live's Lament, In Five Convoluted Sentences."

1.  I was supposed to be born in Hollywood California but, as with many families, Hitler dictated that many of us would be born not where we were supposed to be born, but where our Mother's families' were.

2.  For almost three years, I was in the loving embrace of my mother's big family of parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins in Ohio.

3.  When the old man was injured in Europe he came home ( home meaning to Ohio), and so my Grandpa, who was the President of the Heavy Equipment Operators Union, offered to find him work but Dad didn't want to stay, thus he gave Mother an ultimatum whereby we were taken back to California where he trashed and ruined all of our young lives.

4. When I was 19, I met the love of my life, and this wonderful guy and I have been married for 56 years. 

5. My DH and I moved to San Diego to raise our family though I would have rather gone to Central California because I could see what would happen, and it turned out that I was right; our kids grew up, flew away, and I'm not ever going to live close to my girls nor where I wanted to. 

The End.

April Challenge: April 8th...Three little things...

*Three things you and your best friend have in common...*

We both like snarky,political humor, we both love to laugh, we both have a love of children.

Actually, this is just about all my friends, on line, long Distance, or just up the road.  Hmmm?  ;o)

April Challenge for the Sixth.

April Sixth: One thing you need to start doing.

I need to start listening the inner voice. The one that tells me to watch but not speak.  I need to be more like a Zen Master.  I believe I'm too "American Freedom Fighter/Radical". Lol...

April Challenge ......The first five days....

Kwizgiver is doing the April Challenge from HER blog..  

So, this is late but I'm catching up...

April Challenge: The first five days..

1. What is your biggest Dream? 
World Peace, always has been, always will be.  Children have enough challenges to bear just trying to live, devalued, in a selfish world.  

2. What Place do you consider your home?
Wherever my family is.  I'm a happy camper when we are all in the same place.

3. What are you most Grateful for?
My husband and my daughters.  Next would come color vision.  😉

4. The most important qualities in a friend.
Kindness, Moral at the Heart of their Being, and Truthful.  And I'd love to have a crafting buddy but, you can't have it all, can you? 😊

5. One thing you have to stop doing.
I need to stop worrying about things that are so obviously out of my control.  I need to practice living in the moment.