Take Time Out! To Read!
How many people today, can remember back to when there was “No TV”, and none of the “Electronic hand-held items glued to everyone’s hand?”
I was talking with someone who was asking me why I did not have a “cell phone’, as if – if you do not have one – you just are not living? With everyone so important today – that they must be in constant contact with the world – “I’m sorry – that just is not the road for me!”
In those good old days – when you could hear yourself think – I had a very secret place – cosy, comfortable spot – a place to be all by myself! In my “Mother’s House” in the living room was this upholstered side chair – plush and comfortable. I would sit and spin my legs up and over one arm-rest and cosy myself in the corner and it was like a recliner, but ever so much more, holding me so secure in pure comfort. Hours and more hours – I was there reading.
Have to tell you of the longest reading books, I finished reading there. Check out this book, “The Wide Wide World” – this book I’m guessing has 600 pages, but once you start reading – it just keeps you glued – you can hardly put it down to get a bite of food! The other I still remember is, “The Girl of the Limber lost” – something I just could not stop, after starting to read. Both books are very good and once you start to read – you’ll find like I did – a comfortable and secret place all your own – “It’s Wonderful to read Good Books!”
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Make “Mail” Exciting!
When you go out to the “Mail Box” in the morning – do you walk in your regular old sad-sack self not really expecting , anything?
As long as I remember, I like to add “stuff” to the front of the envelope and all the best of paste on stuff on the back side. Why send “Birthdays Cards and exciting Wishes” in an old drab looking envelope? Why not decorate the outside of the card – so your love-one will start getting excited about the contents – as soon as they retrieve the mail, from the mailbox.
“Myself, as old as I am – loves the mail with all the decorating add-on’s you can possibly add! When I take the mail from the mail-box, I give it a flip this way and that , and if I find something with “excitement” all over it – my feet would win in any “race back in the house – just to discover what ‘treasure’ lies inside!”
Try this way of sending your love ones something to really talk about. You will find “your ears ringing” ’cause you just made someone’s day brighter and really worth living.
Proverbs 15:15 He that has a cheerful heart, has a continual feast!
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“Three Cheers for Grand-Children”
The month of “May” is wonderful! Looks like everything is coming up “roses” as the most beautiful flowers , you would ever want to see. Just have to say that all is well and lovely, to me! Must be that I am feeling better after seeing the “Doctor” – yesterday. It is so good to have “good news” and lots of “little happy thoughts” – per the art instructor on Channel Nine, years ago?
One “Birthday” this week over and done, and now a “Big Birthday Celebration” coming up this weekend, for my youngest “Grand-Daughter Jaime!” When you are young and happy and it is your birthday, it is as if you are winning the “Lottery”! Just thinking about it, today, tomorrow, and then ! “OH I can hardly think about it – it is just so exciting – just can hardly contain all this excitement in this “old bag of bones” that has already seen too many exciting events, in my lifetime – keeps the “old bag of bones,” young heart! And I sure hope this kind of feeling lasts, forever!
My thought is that – the secret of long life, and to be happy while getting old is “Having several generations of family living near by to always be at the new and youngest generation’s “Celebrations!” That’s what I call the “good life” and a long and prosperous one at the same time!
Thank you “Almighty God” for giving me the ‘best of best’ of families, forever and forever!
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Happy Birthday “Gail”
Today is the birthday of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Gail M. Pidgeon. Just to give you an idea of how old our friendship is – we were classmates in grade school. So, “You” do the math?
Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy Birthday to YOU! Happy Birthday “Dear Gail” Happy Birthday to YOU!
Wishing YOU many more, also wishing Almighty God to bless YOU with all of the best of blessings for a very healthy and long happy life with all your family and friends, forever!
At our age all I really know is that we must always keep the Power and Glory of God – first and foremost in our thoughts – looking toward the day we will all be together in Heaven!
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“Call Mother Today!”
It’s not too late to call “Mother” today! Almost seems like a hundred years ago when I worked at good old “Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.” Today, Mother’s Day was the #1 day for all telephones being used to call the best person on the earth, your Mother!
When I was working back then as a “telephone operator” – the best way to make the most money would be to work for someone who just had to have “Mother’s Day” off, especially if YOU had already worked the previous two “Sundays.” Three “Sundays” worked in a row , and your would received three times your pay rate for that day. Not a bad paycheck to take home that week!
So, if you are mot going to be with your “MOM” today – CALL! Also, if your “Grandma” is still here on earth, don’t let the day end , “Grandma” will really appreciate that call from you. Calls to your “Grandma” are worth more than a million dollars to her! And God will bless you!
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May 12th, 2013 “Mother’s Day”
Back to writing, sure glad to have the most wonderful person I ever knew – and knew “ME” best – my “Mother, Marie B. McClarren to wish a “Happy Mother’s Day!”
If only you, dear Mother could have lived a little longer? So many new advances in medicine – some new things that you could have had to make your life a little easier and better for you – for all you did for our family. Living today, and with a small amount more of wisdom, or so ” I Hope” that I have acquired over these many years of learning lessons every day – I think and understand so much more about the life each of us has here, and find that really – while we are here we are all working toward one end. And that is that when we complete this journey, here – we have learned that the straight and narrow path that leads us back to “ever lasting life with “Our Creator!”
Thank you “MOM” for setting my feet on the “Road to Heaven” to be with ‘YOU’ forever! “I LOVE YOU!”
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