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I still put on earrings every day, but I’m concerned that I will lose one while fumbling with the mask. Good for you for going out regularly!
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I know what you mean. I actually lost the back of one just that way…pulling it off since, I hate wearing one so much. Patience seems to be down a quart. We shall strive for improvement Madam Anne.
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Anne, I wore earrings the first few months, but have stopped because I lost one. Eye makeup is still a must.
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See Anne, we’re not the only ones with earring woes. Thank you Skinny, for weighing in.
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Susannah, it’s a small thing, but I can’t wait to go out with all my makeup on. Foundation doesn’t work well with a mask, ha ha. The first time I went out with a mask I automatically put it all on and quickly realized that doesn’t fly. The funniest part was the kiss mark on the inside of my mask.
Last week I ran into a co-worker from 40 years ago that I hadn’t seen in at least 20 years. He said my name with a question mark at the end. Luckily he identified himself so I didn’t have to ask. I quickly pulled my mask down, said, “Yes, it is I”, and pulled it back up. He laughed and did the same.
How many old acquaintances do we inadvertently pass by because of those masks?
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This is true. I don’t recognize anyone. Lipstick is the one thing I’ve not worn. Chapped stick has replaced my Lancome Ruby Cream Lipstick. Beauty has been abbreviated it seems.
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Since it was my first time of wearing a mask I never gave my lipstick a thought, until I saw the kiss mark. Live and learn. I don’t go anywhere without my Blistex. And it has to be the teal colored kind.
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Blistex has been around since the caveman I think. It’s right up there with Erase. My mother would pile it under her eyes, would never leave home without it. Funny what you remember.
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Good for you. I haven’t put make-up on since March. Mind you, I had an eye infection that lasted over a month so I sort of just stopped doing the whole mascara thing. Then I started working in a golf canteen where the temps reached 85-90 INSIDE, so it’s probably a good thing I had gotten out of the habit. I don’t think I would have been too pretty come end of shift…
As for people. I don’t know why it is so damn hard to just be nice, wear your damn mask in public and stop bitching…
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We’re very spoiled Dale, never having a challenge like this before. We’ve been severely humbled and we don’t like it. I too have my moments that I’m happy to say, swiftly pass, but these are difficult times we’re in and it may be a while we’re in the valley, as they say. sigh
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We are, you are right.
And I don’t like not being able to travel to where I want to go.
And I have my moments, too.
We’re stuck in the dale, for a while, methinks…
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Methinks…that’s a Mr. Imma word. Methinks too.
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Methinks that’s a Dale word… But he does use it as well. 😉
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Sorry, I just remember it from him. OOPS
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It makes sense as you don’t read me.
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I’m a WW girl
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That you are. And much appreciated
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I love your photos. I think you should think about taking pictures as a career.
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That is hight praise. There are so many out there way better than I – but I do enjoy it so!
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But that’s neither here nor there. You’re plenty talented. Compare and despair is a 12 Step slogan I’ll pass on to you. Your photographs are exceptional, and loving to take them shows in every frame.
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That is one of the nicest things ever said to me. Thank you. Who knows what the future holds?
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
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😁😊
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We all borrow off each other. After all, I use your “pandammit”! 😊
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I think that is quite apt considering, and Coco Chanel said, it’s a compliment to borrow. She said it in French of course that you’d probably understand better than me.
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I think it is as well. 😊
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Coco was a trip, in so many ways. Ever read about her. Wow, now there’s a story.
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She was. I saw one movie and wanted to read her story after…
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Coco was a real survivor. You can’t help but to admire her.
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Yes! Speaking of tough broads, did you ever read the book/see the movie about Colette?
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No, but I did read something recently where she was mentioned quite a bit. I need to think. I read so much, they all bleed together, like bound madras.
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I’m not a huge fan of Kiera Knightly, but she did very well in this one. I know want to read about her.
I know you do! I’m duly impressed…
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I saw her in that. The one I liked a lot is the film with Audrey Tautoo…Coco Before Chanel. It shows her affair with Boy Capel, the love of her life, who was killed in a car crash. It always pulls at my heart strings.
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Yes! I love that one, too.
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I love that story behind her and Boy. He loved her, but married some woman with illustrious lineage which would further him in society. Men!!!
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Even though we know some women do that as well 😉
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That’s true.
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BUT… something tells me the man “marrying up” was more de rigueur…
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Maybe back then. He had money, which was how he was able to back Coco’s business, but he was after prestige I guess. I don’t know. That kind of thinking has always eluded me.
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That’s what I’m thinking – back then. And it eludes me as well. But it gives us great reading material 😉
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You got that right. I eat it up, the intrigue of those times It’s a pity Boy died since, the romantic in me feels, they would have eventually ended up together.
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I have a beard. Since I retired at the end of February, I have not kept it (or my almost bald head) as trimmed as I did while working. A few days ago, while dealing with some mild depression about a range of factors affecting my current situation, I decided I needed to stop doing that. Out came the razor, off went the wild thing growing all over my head. I need to do that more often. As well as get out and about in some way. The only problem now is with the smoke and fires that are blanketing our area, making outdoor time unhealthy and not much fun.
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I’m so sorry to hear the fires are affecting you. Wish I could help in some way, and the thing about keeping ourselves in aesthetic shape…it’s about us too, not just those we encounter. To look our best is good for morale. So trim on Mark. Trim on.
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Fortunately, the actual fires are plenty far away, but the smoke is just relentless. Weeks of it now, and there isn’t any end in sight.
Here’s to the ol’ morale!!!
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Reminds me of 9/11. I lived way uptown and still, smelled the smoke. it was amazing.
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The entire West Coast is shrouded by smoke. It’s just kind of amazing in a horrible way. So much tragedy from these fires and no apparent ability by our leaders and our society to actually do something about it. I’m sooooo tired of our country’s inability to do things anymore.
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I’m with you there. It’s like we’ve been orphaned. My naivete just doesn’t allow me to understand it at all. Congress not being able to compromise for the betterment of the people they were elected to serve. Do you think Midget, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster would have gone home? Or John Quincy Adams who actually died there after 17 years of humble service? I’ll bet even Ted Kennedy, who you sure didn’t have to like, but they didn’t call him the Lion of the Senate for nothing. He’d a rolled up his sleeves, and stayed right there until a solution could be found. As for the fires…they’re are on their own Mark, as are we. I say that with a great deal of remorse and bewilderment.
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We have gradually morphed in recent decades into a nation where making noise seems to be far more important than actually contributing and solving.
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I’m here with my hands in the air. Makes it hard to type.
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And I’m happy to hear it’s not near your home. On top of a plaque, they have fire. It’s right out of the Book of Revelations. It chills me Mark.
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I had a manager years ago that insisted that our customers could hear us smiling at them over the phone. Just as with a mask a cheerful thank you, or I like your earrings goes a long way. And who knows, maybe that is exactly what the person needed.
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I’m all in, as they say in AA. 🙂
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Life can surely become dreary but God never lets go of us and He never, ever forgets anything. Time marches on with us intact…just takes effort on our part. At times it almost seems too much.
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And the beat goes on…as they say.
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That God indeed. I am always amazed by the number of pure unadulterated ass hats that walk this planet. You are very wise to give them wide berth. Have a super Sunday.
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Love the term…ass hats…a real Johnism if I’ve ever heard one. What’s that Twiggy? That’s my dad. 🙂
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Hahaha. Yes she is right here. “What’s that Twiggy? Yes Susannah lives in New York. I know. Luckyyyyy.”
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Anytime she’d like to visit, let me know.
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I can only hope she would invite me to go along too.
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It would be only proper for a lady, such as herself, to have an escort.
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Now that I think about it almost mandatory.
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I can just see Twiggy at the 14th Precinct, eating an ice-cream cone while Officer Krupke checks the missing children’s list.
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He would have look under the heading, “Can bark anyone to St. Louis.”
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LOL
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😁
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Masks are the new political debate.
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Is that so. Hmm
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All these Constitutional experts who insist they don’t need masks to shop in public. And their compadres who claim this whole pandemic is a hoax. It’s frightening stuff.
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It’s clearly not a hoax, and masks, though I loathe wearing one, right now…indoors need to be worn. I think being outside at a safe distance is different. New York will have indoor seating restored on Sept. 30th, 25% capacity. Then we’ll see since, diners do not wear a mask. It’s all very disturbing not to mention, confusing, and as you say, scary.
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I notice these non mask wearers talk about having a “medical condition” WHILE they record their confrontation with the restaurant worker or store employee who requests they wear a mask. They’re just looking for a fight. How said is that? But hey, they got their orders from the top on this one . . .
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It’s all crazy. I see those eating outside, masks off giving their order to the masked waiter, while the tables, to me, don’t seem that far apart. I will say this, as much as I love being outside, I have little desire to eat at one of these created venues. There’s no draw for me.
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I agree, it’s much too orchestrated. I dig the vibe of a restaurant when its humming with the clink of plates and glasses and myriad conversations. It’s a part of the meal, that sound. And right now, we don’t have it.
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Things get stranger, and I guess that will be the case before they return to any sort of normalcy. I’ve settled into accepted isolation like a shepherd, having no urge to fight what is. I think the way people I even know are acting, has me in a self-possessed state. We’d like our life back please. I feel so unmoored as an American, so disoriented as a human being. Like getting hit on the head, hard, twice, and still expected to carry on. We do, we’re designed that way, but it blows, doesn’t it Mr. Imma?
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I won’t fight it, and I’m glad that my confrontational self is a thing of the past because it would’ve gotten me in some trouble with these knuckleheads.
I think people feel empowered by all the wrong things these days. It’s vanity and pettiness run amok.
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So well put, Mr. Imma. Ire is the new black. Love the word knucklehead. Has such am old fashioned cadence ,as if Spanky coined it. 🙂
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Ire is a greatly undervalued word. It’s a pithy party with plenty of punch. Perfect!
As for knucklehead, it DOES bring to mind Spanky. And it’s versatile too. It can stand to mean asshole or goofball, which is the height of grammatical diplomacy if you ask me.
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They are such old expressions…Buster Keaton, The Key Stone Cops…the Little Tramp come to mind. When entertainment was innocent.
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Was entertainment ever really innocent? I guess for those who showed up to watch, yes. But at some point the curtain was pulled back, as always happens in life, huh?
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I think innocence was attempted a bit more than now. We all know the secrets behind closed doors, but we also know, what we don’t know, especially if it’s a private affair, won’t hurt us. I hate the Ronan Farrow dirty laundry new genre of journalism. Okay, Harvey had it coming, no pun intended, but the mudraking, to quote Teddy, for me…can only speak for me, gets out of hand.
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It’s everywhere. Nothing is allowed to be mysterious any longer. Private lives are for public consumption, and I don’t think it’s good for us. To be consuming these toxins. It makes people crave more and more, in spite of how empty it all proves to be.
Bread and Circuses 2020 style.
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Agreed. Imagine JFK now. He’d be in jail.
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And Camelot would’ve been copyrighted by the Kardashians. And Teddy would’ve had a talk show. Robert . . . I think he would have kept to it. He was tenacious and undeterred. I always thought it SO weak when the football team from Washington sold out their new stadium to a company and ditched the name RFK Stadium.
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I didn’t know that. Now that blows.
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Right?
RFK Stadium . . when the announcer welcomed you inside the moody acres of that old cavern, there was a special feeling to it.
FedEx Field. They traded it for FedEx Fucking Field.
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Are you kicking me? That’s the new name? It’s like when Trump gold plated the Plaza. It’s called, going lowbrow. sigh
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That was the name. I would’ve had more respect for them if they’d named it after a curse word. Seriously. Fuck It Field. It would’ve fit the team better.
Trump’s gold and all its tin foil aesthetics. That guy needs an enema.
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Fuck It Field. Ya know, I really like that.
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Imma send in the suggestion.
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I still can’t get over dumping Bobby for Fedex. The ghost of Momo Giacana lurks.
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Nice reference SB! You and me could talk Kennedy all day long.
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I know that. WTF???
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Joe Kennedy III’s senate campaign flopped, and that may, unfortunately, be that.
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He looked so sad too, as if he let the family and all its glowing and not so glowing, memory, down. I mean, Bobby was his granddad after all.
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The guy he was running against was playing a character. Because Markey is most certainly not the candidate he was running as. And yet, lots of very powerful people fell for it, as did much of the constituency.
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He does have that Kennedy cuteness they all seem to have. That hair that falls over their forehead, and the teeth. Oh those teeth, as if they have more than the rest of us.
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That’s a good point. Imma start looking for a dentist whose last name is Kennedy . . .
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That’s pretty funny,
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Yeah, not my 20, as they say in the Bronx. I don’t go for cute. It’s like the Wildlife catalogue with their owl toilet paper dispensers and gorilla towels with matching bath mat. OOH…Did Imma get a chill?
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No, I don’t either. Which is why I camouflaged it inside the word kitschy. 😉
And yes I did, you brat! Haha. But I think it may be a combination of your cheeky humor and the weather.
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The weather. Hey, where the fuck is Indian Summer. I want a refund.
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Indian Summer is a casino and fall weather was co-opted by Columbia Sportswear.
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It’s all too distressing. I’m on the couch with a warm cloth over my head.
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Reading a book, I take it. Make the locale warm . .
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Can you hear that? It’s me sighing.
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Just read about a place where the winds smell of ocean and coladas.
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Add a coupla’ dolphins, and I’m in.
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They always complete the scene, I find.
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They are the comics of fish. Could just see one opening for Seinfeld. 🙂
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I want to be in the front row for that.
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I just imagined one with a toupee and a cigar, introducing, Jerra…
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Buahaha! So well played.
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They always look like they’re smiling, don’t they? So it stands to reason.
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Makes total sense.
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A revelation since, nothing seems to make sense these days.
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So true
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Having a hard time. Forgive the silence. Susannah
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Never have to apologize to me. I get it, I really do. Sending you good thoughts SB
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Thank you. I know you get it.
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Be well, SB
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It’s a day to day thing.
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Here a hoax, there a hoax, everywhere a hoax joke! You’re right…it is scary – mass confusion 24/7 and no one actually knows what’s going on…really? Everyone has a theory…theories are just that. Theoretically speaking…every celeb, pundit…you name it and it’s out there. Scaring up readers…yeah, scaring is the word. We’re all running in circles – getting dizzier by the minute. No end in sight…unless you’re a _______________________(fill in the blank).
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I looked up the word hoax. A humorous or malicious deception. That’s about right.
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Humility? In this day and age? There’s a vain hope if there ever was one. But we can just do our best to keep a positive attitude and care enough about others to do our part in not speading infection, and taking care of ourselves, too. Good for you. Chin up!
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We do try though stumble, getting up just to stumble once more. It’s turning into a sport Eilene, this rising up off the mat business. There’s a line in the Serenity Prayer…accept the things I cannot change…and that’s how I approach my days these days…those who offend out of fear or just plain arrogant ignorance, the rules that feel like we’re residents of Mars as well as my own moments of resentment. I just march on. Right sneaker, left sneaker.
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It’s that “arrogant ignorance” that’s so aggravating!
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You said it sista.
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Sorry Susannah, I have to confess my makeup regime has deteriorated severely under lockdown conditions. And my manicure isn’t a lot better: trashed all my pluckers on my lathe on Friday.
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Well Rob, I think you could do better. When you look in the mirror you don’t want to get scared, now do ya? Got a lovely note from Mrs. Rob. She has the loveliest manners I wish we could bottle. 🙂
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Mirror! What mirror? I cut my own hair without a mirror. I could start my own horror franchise.
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Think of Maeve, Smudge and Lola when they say…so you’re the ones living with the guy with the weird hair.
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