Monday, October 10, 2022

FUNNY THE THINGS THAT COME TO MIND

 when recollecting things

 a deceased parent has said in the past

Today, 10/10 is my late mother's birthday...

and I can see that HER grandmother passed the day after, many years ago

Well, I finally did the requisite genealogy on the Busch line to confirm that we're shirt-tail relatives of the Busch Garden folks... it all comes down to an Ulrich Busch! Wow, did he sire a lot of children !!

[Well you had said that, didn't you?]




Hello Williamsburg !!!


Sunday, October 9, 2022

SOME BIRTHDAYS ARE JUST HAPPIER THAN OTHERS

                                                              


It can't always be helped but sometimes birthdays occur around the time when a loved one has died.


I truly hope this doesn't continue to be a theme in our extended family...



Nonetheless, a big happy b'day wish to our son-in-law and our precious grand-daughter Kelly Quinn (who turns "1" today)





Saturday, October 8, 2022

THERE'S A BIG BEAUTIFUL FULL MOON OUT TONIGHT, AND

 

SOMEONE WE LOVE DEARLY HAS GAINED HIS WINGS TODAY

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sun-ward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high un-trespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the Face of God.

R.I.P 

James Peter Jordan, Sr.


Big Jim, How you'll be missed!

"Born with the map of Ireland on his face

and in his heart"...


'Till we meet again

Friday, October 7, 2022

Honestly, I might have changed the very last one or two words...

                                                              


“I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. 

Delicious Ambiguity"     -Gilda Radner


 



                     Alternative endings? 


   ... in its own special, quirky way

Friday, September 30, 2022

GO ASK ALICE ???? OR JUST HUNT DOWN A PSYCHIATRIST?

                                                                



You've heard it described as "psychedelic mushrooms"

 but did you know that the substance of interest

 [i.e., psilocybin] is

actually generated by 200 different species of fungi? ...



Well, here's the best news: not only is it being looked at for treating major depression but as an antidote for personality disorders, as well. 

This includes

'political fanaticism'

Funny how I already guessed that such fanaticism was a mental disorder !!!

Is there a truck load of fungi for this poor chap?  

His 15 year old biological mother certainly did us a disservice...