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Wow Willie...I've been in the same mindset for a couple of weeks now! The change to gloomy weather? The realization that I'm physically and mentally ( been told I have DEMENTIA!) falling apart?


Maybe it isn't you. Maybe things are really falling apart.

The Second Coming
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

[Katmar]

Goodnight, New and Old Friends.....wishing you ALL a better tomorrow....

 

[FranC]

Goodnight, Kat Have a great evening.

 

[rosesense]

Uncle Willie, you are not alone. I often feel similar, then I hear a bird sing or love on my doggies and know I need to keep on going as long as I can.

Peace to you.

 

[Bea-FL]

duplicate, sorry

 

[Diver9543]

A friends small dog died suddenly of a heart attack last week .. the dog had been her constant companion since it was a pup, for 12 years .. she had it cremated and kept the cremains .. I was surprised at how emotional she was over the whole thing .. it was like she had lost a child .. in retrospect, I suppose, in a way, she had .. since her husband had passed and her kids had scattered around the Country and only visiting periodically ..

I guess loneliness can be replaced by even such a small thing .. because, as long as you get unconditional Love, it fills a void .. and, when it's gone, the void then remains ..

When I lost my wife, I lost my way in life. I didn't know what to do let alone how to do it. My little dog Chiquita was my connection to my wife and her unconditional love got me through a really tough time in my life. When I lost her a couple of years ago, she was the last link I had with my wife. I can understand what your friend is going through and my heart goes out to her. I feel sometimes that we take our little pets for granted and don't know their true potential and the comfort they provide us in our times of turmoil.

 

[Katmar]

Good morning, Lounge Folks

I hope you all slept well, and are in a better place than yesterday, with hope and humor...

 

[rosesense]

Good morning.

 

[Bea-FL]

Good morning all,

When I lost my wife, I lost my way in life. I didn't know what to do let alone how to do it. My little dog Chiquita was my connection to my wife and her unconditional love got me through a really tough time in my life. When I lost her a couple of years ago, she was the last link I had with my wife. I can understand what your friend is going through and my heart goes out to her. I feel sometimes that we take our little pets for granted and don't know their true potential and the comfort they provide us in our times of turmoil.

I so agree with you. From my years at the vet clinic I remember many clients who told me the same thing.

Regardless of the connection I consider my pets part of the family and when one goes I grieve just like that friend of Willie's.

 

[Anise]

Good morning everyone!

 

[MikeE3]

 

[FranC]

Good morning to the young at heart

 

[MikeE3]

When I lost my wife, I lost my way in life. I didn't know what to do let alone how to do it. My little dog Chiquita was my connection to my wife and her unconditional love got me through a really tough time in my life. When I lost her a couple of years ago, she was the last link I had with my wife. I can understand what your friend is going through and my heart goes out to her. I feel sometimes that we take our little pets for granted and don't know their true potential and the comfort they provide us in our times of turmoil.

When our daughter lost her 1st husband, she very soon after, got a dog. Her and Adam had wanted one, so she found Izzy or perhaps Izzy found her. They were living in San Diego at the time. Adam was from Louisiana and as it turned out Izzy was a rescue from the Louisiana floods back then that found her way to a shelter in San Diego. Kate was looking for a small dog but it way 'love' at 1st sight when Katie saw Izzy at the shelter. There was no question in her mind that Izzy was the dog she was looking for.

Izzy brought so much comfort to Kate in that time of her life. Izzy isn't just a dog, she's family!

 

[Janet H]

Good morning friends! What a beautiful morning. Had a busy day yesterday which included my annual physical and flu shot. I expected a sore arm, but not the fever that showed up last night. Ugh! This morning the fever is gone, but I still feel like crap. Luckily this will be gone in a few hours.

'Morning Kat...Bea...Rose...Mike...Janet...Dancing...everyone...



Acrylic on 9 x 12 canvas panel...

@oldbroad....this is the sunset I was up all nIght painting ....

I really need to get a camera to take better pics without using a flash or the lights I have...

Yiddle, you certainly have a gift. Excellent job on this painting!

I'm going to have to budget my time today; either that or give attention to the one thing I know must be done! Mix juices, and I want to make a large batch of 3 different favorites........I tend to take too much time mixing!

Me too, so when I drag everything out I make at least 600 mls of each flavor, sometimes more. Makes it worthwhile to go to the trouble so it doesn't have to be done again for a long time. I have a TO DO list that keeps me on track each day and it feels good to cross things off the list. Now if I could just stop adding things to said list... What doesn't get done today can be dealt with another day.

 

[DavidOck]

Happy hump day, loungers

 

[Uncle Willie]

Hola ..

If I remember correctly, they were about $6.00 or so at the time ..

Seeing both Clapton and Petty so close together was quite a rush ..

 

[Uncle Willie]

Please ignore the "house plant" .. .. circa early 1970's ..

 

[DavidOck]

Aha, proof that even then you were a Renaissance man!

 

[Uncle Willie]

Aha, proof that even then you were a Renaissance man!

As much of a Dichotomy as it may seem, I have been a card carrying member of NORML since 1971 .. and, up until I finally had enough and cut my card up this year and sent it back with a nice letter, I was also a member of the NRA .. ..

cutting edge .. ?? Well, no .. back in those days I used to say "I hope I see the day .. " .. and, I guess I did ..

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - NORML - Working to Reform Marijuana Laws

 

[DavidOck]

I was reading the bookshelf