Losing Interest

[digitS']

Well, not so much losing it as feeling bruised and exhausted from having an interest.

One problem has to be these crazy campaigns and campaigners ... Sheesh! Fortunately, it isn't militant ... but one wonders ... The world news is tragic. Even small things ... there was an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands the other night. I immediately thought of my cousin's experience with a tsunami on the California coast after one of those. He was awakened in the darkness when his home was being lifted off it's foundation. He had to push a log away from the front door as he and his wife and baby escaped to higher ground. They showed up at my aunt and uncle's Crescent City home in the middle of the night. Their house ended up, tipped into a pond, at a nearby business. This week's Alaskan earthquake didn't produce a tsunami ...

I think about Ted Kaczynski and his "home" in Montana. I almost know where that nearby location is. The unabomber's cabin didn't even have windows, out there in the forest, if I understand right. I have known brothers living sequestered lives with nearly all their activities related to church work. There. I feel better thinking of their lives ... .

Okay, I'll be okay. Okay -- that wonderful American word! Here's a word that's much older: "affection." The dictionary tells me that one of the obsolete meanings had to do with prejudice. I hope I can always be moving away from that. But, the word is much older than that and was used and has always been used in the way we think of it now. Affection.

George Eliot said, "Affection is the broadest basis of good in life."

This could have been on @sumi 's quotes thread but these are fairly dark thoughts around that light of affection. The rain has stopped here and I'll go out and get some more of the dahlias for their winter sequestering in the basement. They and other things and sentiments hold promise and so they are valued ...

Steve
Affection, like spring flowers,
breaks through the most frozen ground
at last. ~ Jeremy Bentham

 

[Beekissed]

Digits, sounds like you need some peace of mind.

 

[Nyboy]

Double hug

 

[aftermidnight]

"Ditto" , keep thinking the glass is still half full, better days just around the corner.

Annette

 

[Larisa]

Steve, affection - only connection between you and someone or something else. Perfectly, if you're on one side, and on the other "Christmas gingerbread". No gingerbread? Okay, to hell with them. No affection = no suffering.
It's not I said, this is the Buddha.
The best thing that you have is yourself. Love yourself, take care of yourself. Every day you have a lot of good. You have to see it. I'm sure there are people who are happy to travel with you on this planet in this time. I'm one of them. Do not leave your house, when the rain ended. Go out in the rain. Get wet in the rain. Then come back to a warm house, and say to myself: "Here it is, happiness!"

 

[sumi]

 

[digitS']

Thanks @sumi , and everyone.

Sumi, I was just reading how a fan from Ireland told Bruce Springsteen that if he wanted to be president ... of Ireland ... he would be elected.

Someone else told the author of the article how she went off for a week by herself to South Africa so that she could attend several Springsteen shows before making a career change. She plans to do that same thing in the near future but this time, she will be going to Australia.

@Larisa , how in the world did you find TEG??? Most of us came from Backyard Chickens. You must have taken a different route ... thru the Alps? ... across the Bering Sea?

The World is a wonder.

Steve

 

[freedhardwoods]

Sometimes I get discouraged at the long hours and slow progress on my shop. To keep going, I have to keep in mind what I am doing it for.

Hang in there. Things will get better.

 

[so lucky]

This time of year is when I do a lot of reflecting and usually feel rather melancholy. Something to do with the season changing, I guess.
But not so much the last few years. For me, aging has dulled my emotions a bit. Which is a good thing, most of the time.

 

[digitS']

You know, aging is interesting ...

No, really. I used to have a professor of German literature, that may tell you a little about his personality right there, anyway - he said that pain was how you know you are alive.

Depressing! But, I used to think that since it (pain) had become a constant companion in my life, I may as well accept it. It was okay thinking of it that way but after 20 years or so it began really interfering with movement. Helluva companion!

Okay, movement is impaired. I can lessen pain by moving anyway, even if it's just turning in the chair. That ahhh moment! Does it fully go away? Even for an hour? No. It decreases; that's the ahhh. Well, I need more of those. Yeah. I do . Selfish that way .

Drugs? Forget it! I'm already an idiot ... brainless would be taking that step.

Steve