Reflections By The Bay: 3/14/21

Saturday, March 20, 2021

March 20, 2021

WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE?

What would it be like if it seems
like everything in your life is going
bad, bad, bad, right down the drain –
and you’re walking through a train
station and your bags are heavy –
and your tummy is funny and you
feel all alone – anonymous in a big,
big city - and suddenly the whole
world erupts in a dance of joy?
What would that be like – like – like?

March 20, 2021

Thought for the Day

“The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!”

Israelmore Ayivor

Friday, March 19, 2021

March 19, 2021

DEPRESSION

Talk to someone.
Write your poem.
Paint your paintings.
Jot in your journal.
Admit your feelings.
Take a walk.
Take a shower.
Do something for someone. Quick!
Volunteer.
Buy a watermelon! Taste it. Share it.
Find your talent.
Play your piano or harmonica.
Tell your story.
Hear the other’s story.
Share your secrets.
Find good metaphors.
There are dark corners.
Buy a good lamp.
Enough with the lies.
Laugh at them.
Find out if your grandfather had similar problems.
Look at geography: it has its ups and downs.
So too an electrocardiogram.
Don’t go to your funeral till you have to.

There's more ....

March 19, 2021

Thought for the Day

“I want to die young at a ripe old age.”

Ashley Montagu

Thursday, March 18, 2021

March 18, 2021

GONE FISHING

Did you ever drive down a road
in the early evening and you come
to a bridge and there are people fishing?

Did you ever look at their faces?
Be careful now you’re driving.
But did you ever look at their faces?

Did you ever wonder why Jesus
picked fisherman? Did you ever
look at their faces when Jesus spoke?

Did you ever wonder why a question
mark is shaped like a fishing hook?
Did anyone ever ask you a great question?

Did you ever notice: Jesus asked a lot
of questions? Did one ever hook you?
Try that and feel what it does to your face.

March 18, 2021

Thought for the Day

“Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”

Auggie Pullman

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

March 17, 2021

IRISH BLESSINGS

Blessings you’re - to want - to need -
to have - as you travel up and down

the roads and twisting paths of this life.

Rock: the presence of hard strength
especially when the waves are crashing
and smashing and hitting your shore.

A Smile: when you’re really happy or you’re
really hurting – like when you feel that others
are talking about you at tea on another table.

The Bog: to give you heat when the foreigners
have cut down all your trees and your sons have left
to mine for coal in far off places like Scranton.

The Tavern: the place to sneak off to for a drop –
and cold butter on Irish soda bread - to sing, to dance,
to listen to the fiddle and to talk to an old friend.

The Celtic Cross: when death has taken away
a spouse or ripped a relationship in two and you’re
all alone and the cemetery is just down the hill.

March 17, 2021

Thought for the Day

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”

― Edna O'Brien

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021

RIM TO RIM

Did it in a day ….

June 14, 1994 ....
The Grand Canyon ….
North Rim to the South Rim.
No preparation.
Tom said I could do it
while on a trip to southern Utah.
He dropped me off at 4:49 AM

on the North Rim
and then drove by car around
to the South Rim – and
there he was waiting for me
at 7:25 PM – with a small crowd
of folks – waving signs and clapping.
Did it.
It was on his bucket list –
but I was to drink from the great bucket:
the Grand Canyon - a great brag.

March 16, 2021

Thought for the Day

“If you don’t place your foot on the rope, you’ll never cross the chasm.”

Anonymous

Monday, March 15, 2021

March 15, 2021

COMMENTS CAN CRUSH

Saw a YouTube video
with interviews of people
being asked if they were ever
crushed by comments.

Woooooo! Tough stuff!

How wrong was the comment
we sing-songed back at kids who hurt us:
“Sticks and stones will break my bones,
but words will never hurt me!”

Words! Tough stuff!

March 15, 2021

Thought for the Day

“Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.”

Mark Twain

Sunday, March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021

STRANGERS IN OUR SIGHT

We have all heard the song,
“Strangers in the Night!”

We have all heard we all have
family members who are strangers.

We all know the saying,
“Strangers in our midst.”

Well, then, what is the secret
of getting to know each other?”