today is a new day and a new feeling. no meds today and, therefore, no side effects. my mind and body are clear. I can function. I am alive and well. I can focus. I can talk. I have had two coffees and a long walk with Murphy. the skies are grey and the air is cooler. no mosquitoes. the music is filled with heart and filled with soul. my dog is laying at my side. my daughter is away and my wife is working. life is still moving forward. it doesn’t stop for me. it doesn’t stop for my friends. it doesn’t stop for anyone until it is over and then one day it suddenly stops and you’re gone and it’s over and the world stops for you but it keeps going for everyone else. life is filled with so many wonderful things but also so many struggles but we must embrace the wins as well as the losses. embrace your loves. embrace your friends. embrace your family. listen. hear. communicate. love. enjoy. have fun. say YES. YES TO LIFE and NO to HATE. do but sometimes also be. listen to great music and watch great films. engage in meaningful conversation and do not get bogged down by phony politics and phony people. but don’t hate them. just ignore them or use your fly swatter and swat them off of your arm or leg or wherever they “get you.”
Covid is still lingering and life is still moving. as hard as it is on me I think of our elders who don’t have many years left and they are winding their lives down while wearing masks and unable to really travel. what is going to happen to all the seniors who love to go south for the winter? how will they cope? what about all the seniors who are alone and lost. wondering where their families are. wondering where their lives went. wondering when they will pass away and leave this wonderful world.
stay true to yourself. stay true. stay focused. stay driven. stay engaged. stay alert. stay alive. stay open. stay honest. stay friendly. stay peaceful. stay loving. stay empathetic. stay understanding. stay patient. stay. stay. stay. “DON’T LEAVE!!! PLEASE DON’T LEAVE!!! I WANT TO HOLD YOU AND HUG YOU FOREVER!!!! DON’T LEAVE!!!!!”
I look at my beautiful daughter as she is fast asleep and I wonder where all the time went as we all wonder the same thing. connect. connect. connect. love. love. love. I don’t need tony robbins to tell me this. I don’t need anxiety meds to tell me this. I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me this. life is love. life is connection. human connection. human connection. human connection. stay true to yourself. stay true to myself. sometimes we need to slow down and smell the roses. sometimes I need to slow down and smell the weeds. smell the leaves. smell the air. smell the life. smelly fish and smelly farts. but laugh. laugh is a better medication than Zoloft. for me. I speak for me. I know me. I don’t know thee. he. she. we. we is better then me. we. we . we.
it is 2020. 1967. 2020. 1978. 1981. 2005. years passed. years lived. big years. happy years. sad years. year after year we live and we love. see the world. feel the love. see and feel. get out of my mind and into my body.
why do we hate?
why do we put our lives into the hands of fake politicians leading fake lives?
stop the insanity and listen to art.
stop the insanity and watch art.
stop the insanity and read art.
stop the insanity and feel.
feelings always more important than thought…for me.
be me.
be free.
love.
love.
love.
hug tightly and hug often.
breathe.
gratitude and love and empathy.
life 101.
notanotherphony. 