What Matters

What really matters? The last face I see at night and the first one I wake up to in the morning is my mother's. I have a few pictures of her on my night stand, smiling and dancing. I look at her face and want to tell her what she is missing. That is when I realize that other than the love of her family, she is missing nothing. That has become more apparent in the past few months. People that went to the gym religiously are surviving without it. The same goes for movies, restaurants and hair salons. We can learn how to adapt to "things" missing, but can we ever adapt to people missing?

In Between

I just read that the weather today will reach a high of 98 degrees. I bet that caught your attention. I never read that, but by writing it, you just did. For a moment, you thought that it was going to be a heatwave. I could have said that today the weather will be 40 degrees with a fleeting snow shower. The truth is always somewhere in between. When weighing the outcome of any situation, believing an extreme is not the way to go. If it is written and published, is it true? Think about that.

Rinse and Repeat

It has become a rinse and repeat world. Just like the instructions on the shampoo bottle, life is repeated over and over again. Do it once, shake it off and do it again. We are locked in a holding pattern and are waiting at the gate to run through.

Days

I was in Walmart yesterday and overhead a debate. One person said it was Sunday. One said Saturday. Both of them thought for a moment and decided that Sunday was the correct answer. Without structure, days have no meaning. I have renamed my days. They are "work, work, work, work, shop, Dad, wildcard". Until further notice that is how they will remain.

Stoned

Bob Dylan had a song with a verse in it that said, "Everybody must get stoned". There are three levels of "Stoned' in life. At the beginning, when you are a child, you are told not to put stones in your mouth. Little children like to pick up random things and are not always aware that some could hurt you. Then we move on to adolescent and teen years. You hope that you have instilled the values in your children that drugs are not good. You never want to hear that your child is getting stoned as it can lead to serious danger. In the end of life, even if you lived it in the best way, you wind up with a stone. This time is it a headstone. That stone becomes the memorial of your life. In reality, when all is said and done, the end result is that you get stoned.

Closure

I just read something online that made me laugh and shake my head. It was an ingenious way to close a cereal box. The video went viral. Celebrities were doing it now and astounded at how it worked. I have been closing my boxes that way for 40 years. Do these people not have a thinking brain? If you look in my pantry now, all of my boxes look that way. Take a peek into my freezer and the Eggo box looks like that too. Have I been a genius so many years that I just forgot to share my "new developments?" If someone just took a minute to think about the best way to do something, things and life would run orderly.

Full of Sh*t

There is a new reality show on TruTv called Tirdy Works. It is about a woman who sells moose sh*t online. She makes various products out of it in the most creative way. The show is very funny and the products are even funnier. It goes to show that people will buy anything, even sh*t. Her products include PooPoo Platters, Sh*t on a shingle, a number Poo pencil, Sh*t on a stick, PooPoo clocks, Poopcicles and so many more. Her level of creativity is wonderful but her knowledge of human nature is even better. It goes to show that anything , if marketed right, can sell.