Thursday, May, 29, 2008
Welcome back my blog readers & friends
well, if your reading the blog - hopefully you're
already a FRIEND ... or maybe reading it sways
your choice to become one (a friend)
*shakes head*
(God I gotta start coming up with better greetings!)I have tried to and sometimes succeed
picking up on peoples vibes, I'm pretty good at it -
Actually that ability made me a pretty good living,
No I wasn't a 'vibe-reader' at the local carnival
*ha*
(at least NOT YET)
I guess I should say it helped a great deal.
Picking up on a lot of down friends ...
Oh, most have convey what's bugging them
and I truly understand why YOU may be a down!
I'm the king of the moods myself - full blown bipolar
So I'm not going to try to push my will of moods on anyone ...
I know it takes your own doing to come out of your funk.
Now, I will pass this little something on
(of help) along withTell me about your favorite vacation
Childhood or even more recent spot
that you enjoy/enjoyed visiting for a sabbatical.
Include how it came about or circumstances leading to it.
This is a therapeutic as it gets, to think back
of the pleasant times and family gatherings.
Even remembering the bad experiences can
help distract or relieve your funky moods.
My fondest memory of vacationing in my youth?
Back when my parents were still together and all my sibling
but my eldest sister still lived at home (circa 1970's)
My dad was as hippish/hillbillish as they got.
He truly could live off the land if necessary.
A true out-doors-men as long as there wasn't a
bar around to lure him into as they are known to doWell each summer we'd pack up the station wagon
and just "Go as the crow flies" and camp wherever the
car would take us. And stay until we ran out of food & money.
Hardly ever do I remember a "TENT" in the conventional sense.
We usually used some canvases that when wasn't a makeshift tent for the vacation,
It would doubled as his tarps to protect his carpentry equipment from the weather.
Yeah, we were po' as they be
But, "IF" we even stayed at those 'fancy' campsites (lol)
We usually just found a clearing in the woods and park it.
I cant recall any of the girls complaining - We just though
that's how everyone camped. I remember gasping at the
big fancy tents and would truly be in awe of the campers.
(RV's were even rare to see, at least at the places we stayed)Awww memories ... I can still remember picking berries
for the pancakes cooked in a skillet over an open flame.
Black bears & raccoons incidents of stealing our food.
Being discussed by the roadside parks with those smelly "straight johns"
Yeah "The Blue Ridge Parkway" before the highways & commercial sites
Were the sacred grounds of my childhood vacations ...
And just as happy as can be & unaware of our poverty too.
Which is another way to get from the funk,
"counting your blessings"
My mama always said:
"If you think you have it bad,
you don't have to look far to find
someone who is a lot worst off than you.
And during our travels in that beat up wagon & canvas tents
we'd always travel threw mountain towns that people LIVED
under tents - who didn't have a car, beat up -or- otherwise?
All of a sudden as we'd pass those poor souls,
mama & dad would offer them food -
which often meant we'd have to cut our
vacation short.
I cant ever remember anyone
complaining about that either.
When we arrived home,
the little house that looked a
little less 'nicer' always looked
like a million dollars to me.
The grass would be in bad need of mowing.
But as we all grabbed things to bring back
and reflect on the time away ...
At least our family had a -home-
and it made it nicer to come back to.
Any vaction stories that just make your heart smile?
Please share!Today's comment is a once run from
about a year ago?
I think I threw it together
when running late, using
a couple items that I'd used
on other comments (ie: Fridays)
I thought I'd add some feel good
music to help sooth your soul ...
And the late great Bob Marley
is just the guy to 'uplift' moods.
So I hope your visit to my blog
was a little 'vacation' from whatever
ales you today - Come back anytime!
Welcome back my blog readers & friends
well, if your reading the blog - hopefully you're
already a FRIEND ... or maybe reading it sways
your choice to become one (a friend)
*shakes head*
(God I gotta start coming up with better greetings!)
I have tried to and sometimes succeed
picking up on peoples vibes, I'm pretty good at it -
Actually that ability made me a pretty good living,
No I wasn't a 'vibe-reader' at the local carnival
*ha*
(at least NOT YET)
I guess I should say it helped a great deal.
Picking up on a lot of down friends ...
Oh, most have convey what's bugging them
and I truly understand why YOU may be a down!
I'm the king of the moods myself - full blown bipolar
So I'm not going to try to push my will of moods on anyone ...
I know it takes your own doing to come out of your funk.
Now, I will pass this little something on
(of help) along with
Tell me about your favorite vacation
Childhood or even more recent spot
that you enjoy/enjoyed visiting for a sabbatical.
Include how it came about or circumstances leading to it.
This is a therapeutic as it gets, to think back
of the pleasant times and family gatherings.
Even remembering the bad experiences can
help distract or relieve your funky moods.
My fondest memory of vacationing in my youth?
Back when my parents were still together and all my sibling
but my eldest sister still lived at home (circa 1970's)
My dad was as hippish/hillbillish as they got.
He truly could live off the land if necessary.
A true out-doors-men as long as there wasn't a
bar around to lure him into as they are known to do
Well each summer we'd pack up the station wagon
and just "Go as the crow flies" and camp wherever the
car would take us. And stay until we ran out of food & money.
Hardly ever do I remember a "TENT" in the conventional sense.
We usually used some canvases that when wasn't a makeshift tent for the vacation,
It would doubled as his tarps to protect his carpentry equipment from the weather.
Yeah, we were po' as they be
But, "IF" we even stayed at those 'fancy' campsites (lol)
We usually just found a clearing in the woods and park it.
I cant recall any of the girls complaining - We just though
that's how everyone camped. I remember gasping at the
big fancy tents and would truly be in awe of the campers.
(RV's were even rare to see, at least at the places we stayed)
Awww memories ... I can still remember picking berries
for the pancakes cooked in a skillet over an open flame.
Black bears & raccoons incidents of stealing our food.
Being discussed by the roadside parks with those smelly "straight johns"
Yeah "The Blue Ridge Parkway" before the highways & commercial sites
Were the sacred grounds of my childhood vacations ...
And just as happy as can be & unaware of our poverty too.
Which is another way to get from the funk,
"counting your blessings"
My mama always said:
"If you think you have it bad,
you don't have to look far to find
someone who is a lot worst off than you.
And during our travels in that beat up wagon & canvas tents
we'd always travel threw mountain towns that people LIVED
under tents - who didn't have a car, beat up -or- otherwise?
All of a sudden as we'd pass those poor souls,
mama & dad would offer them food -
which often meant we'd have to cut our
vacation short.
I cant ever remember anyone
complaining about that either.
When we arrived home,
the little house that looked a
little less 'nicer' always looked
like a million dollars to me.
The grass would be in bad need of mowing.
But as we all grabbed things to bring back
and reflect on the time away ...
At least our family had a -home-
and it made it nicer to come back to.
Any vaction stories that just make your heart smile?
Please share!
Today's comment is a once run from
about a year ago?
I think I threw it together
when running late, using
a couple items that I'd used
on other comments (ie: Fridays)
I thought I'd add some feel good
music to help sooth your soul ...
And the late great Bob Marley
is just the guy to 'uplift' moods.
So I hope your visit to my blog
was a little 'vacation' from whatever
ales you today - Come back anytime!
