You'll always be the baby of the family no
matter how old you become !!!
We hope tonight's dinner celebration gives
you many happy memories!
December
of '93 is just a blurry memory...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
12-7-2022: HAPPY B'DAY TO SOMEONE WE LOVE...
Monday, November 28, 2022
JINGLE ALL THE WAY: FASTER, FASTER!!!
Once
the last vestige of turkey leftovers make their way to the garbage disposal or
trash can at the curb, the Christmas holiday preparations REALLY begin to gather
SPEED... twinkling lights are ubiquitous; spruce,
pine and fir trees stand at the ready: prearranged green-needle
soldiers in sundry neighborhood lots. Sporting branches of supple emerald, they
wait to be plucked up and carefully placed on vehicle roof-racks. Later, one
can imagine they simply beam like the brightest north star while being adorned
with ornament jewels and vivid ruby roping...
That said, over-the-top holiday mania is not entirely
healthy. The amygdala in our brain gets over-stressed by the mental riding crop
urging individuals to go 'faster, faster' in order to get 'more, more'. The
FOMO mantra certainly needs a measure of quieting...
True, some can 'run faster' than others but
if we spur our brain beyond its cognitive comfort zone, "bad things"
can happen...
Mental exhaustion can be seen in real-time
via the modality of fMRI. Not only that, over-taxed adrenal glands eventually hurl
one into the gaping mouth of depression. Allen Ginsberg's poem HOWL begins as
such: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness".
It goes on to rant about individuals "dragging themselves" at dawn,
searching for their "angry fix" of heroin. Too much but never enough ?
Yet,
there most definitely ARE some quotes that express what the upcoming holiday
season SHOULD bring to mind:
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"As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations,
compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are
people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are
worth the same." - Donald E. Westlake
"May your walls know joy,
may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility."
- Mary Anne
Radmacher
"Sharing the
holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you
past all the commercialism." - Caroline Kennedy
"The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each
others' burdens, easing others' loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives
with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays." -
W. C. Jones
"The holiest of holidays are
those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the
heart." - Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Friday, November 11, 2022
THANK YOU... to the nth degree
LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF
THE
BRAVE !!!
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There's also another thing for which
I'm ever grateful:
as well as free and fair elections...
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... and on 11-11-1903, my maternal grandmother came
into this world; 21 years later [to the day!] she would celebrate her wedding...
Friday, October 21, 2022
Each little 'leaf hint' offers insight into the grand composite
of
who YOU are...
simply
because of who THEY were!
Yet, without the little tidbits that my
parents (and other relatives) dropped over the years, I would likely not have
been as successful as I have been in
stitching together my own ancestral tapestry...
Why would someone NOT want to know their
background?
But one group I'll never lay claim to: the three witches !!!
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 !!!
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