I've been kind of sickish this past week, some kind of stomach flu :-( But, it seems I'm getting less under the weather today :-) Facebook won't let me post unless it is as a comment. Got way behind on here but I'm catching up :-) Patience is the ultimate tool :-) Next is Yahoo :-)
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
(William James, 1842-1910 - U.S. psychologist, philosopher. The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4-5, "The Reli gion of Healthy-Mindedness" 1903).
Hi --Blame DQ and Ishmael et al. Short on words today, as usual. Back still hurts me from sciatica--back and leg pain, a BUMMER--and today is my 73rd bday, so be good to yourself :-)
I turned in my passport application yesterday. Hooray for me :-) Thank god :-) All I need now is air fare to Zagreb, Croatia. Don't know how long I've wanted this--at least since Shrub got elected :-) Have to go see what my grandfather left behind in the old country :-) Of course I know a little bit about what I'm looking for--people who behaved like my dad did at times when I was a kid, people who approached life with a gusto I just don't find in Amerika. I feel there is too much fear here--this is a Protestant nation, a Puritan nation bound up in guilt and shame, fear and anguish, trying to do the "right" thing. Bother :-( It'll take a while I know--I've been a vitamin freak for like 50 years, trying this and then that "for my health" and it costs me like $300 a month. Bother. You live until you die, and nobody knows what's next, but it's a big universe :-)
My uncle, Wilmer Lee Hardy. He was in the Philipines when the japanese attacked and survived the Bataan-Corregidor march, only to die after evacuation when a US bomb/torpedo sank the submarine he was on. Bummer!
