Same to you Chac. As gay men, I think it is especially true for many of us, but no one will ever love you as much as your mother did. I completely understand how you are feeling on your first Mothers Day without her. Hugs to you as well.
Same to you Chac. As gay men, I think it is especially true for many of us, but no one will ever love you as much as your mother did. I completely understand how you are feeling on your first Mothers Day without her. Hugs to you as well.
I worked 44 years following college usually five days a week, sometimes six. I retired in 2016 but still work two days a week to stay occupied. But I feel for you Chac. Tuesdays can be rough with three or four days to go. Life is full of trade offs. It’s great being retired but not great getting old. I think I’d trade working full weeks if I could be young again. Life is what it is. We have to appreciate what we have. Hugs to you too Chac.
(all within my budget for the vacation, I'm very disciplined when it comes to money) I'm going to start back at the gym again, I took some long walks while here (why does a casino make things so damn far apart LOL) and it really felt good, my heart rate was high but it started to feel OK and not as winded. I've kept to my "diet" for the most part, I had some sort of Asian dumplings and a Cobb salad for dinner, breakfast was coffee and a breakfast sandwich, I skipped lunch as I got up late and took a nice long bath. I'd normally hit the sweets hard while here and I didn't. I'm proud of myself for that.
I love this thread as “Ponderings” is a good place to just “ponder” about whatever is on our minds. I do miss the old days of this forum where at any time of day there would be one of my forum friends online, be it on the East Coast of the U.S. or any other time zone including my friends in England, Spain, Australia, France or Amsterdam to name a few. (I’m sure that Tampa & Peter know the names of one from each of these areas who were regular forumites). So while we are now a small group, I still love the freedom of expression that Mark has granted us here and I like that Chac has created this thread where we can just ramble about any random thoughts in our head on any random day.
Yesterday was the last day of the school year for New York City schools, and is the unofficial beginning of summer today. It doesn’t feel like that long ago when the last day of school and the beginning of summer applied to me too, but it has been 54 years since the end of high school for me, but it sure goes by in a flash. A couple of days ago I posted a song on Jon’s “Members Favourite Music” thread, called “The Circle Game”, written by Buffy St. Marie and performed most famously by Joni Mitchell.
The chorus is:
“ And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game”
Those are my ponderings for today.
Thank you Chac for taking the time to listen. I think you are in your 30’s which is very cool. Yes Joni Mitchell does have a beautiful voice. Thanks again so much for listening and appreciating one of my favorite songs from well before you were born.
