THE FOOTNOTES

I'm sorry it has been so long since we've shared!! I love the idea andpromise to get better!! These photos are quite recent,but I will addsomeolderonesas asort of summary of our absence soon...Mommy wants to go to bed while she can,so we've shared a few favorites from recent days...

Our 60th wedding anniversary was a highlight in our lives thanks to Betsy's organization and planning for the event which was held at her place and at the Silver Lake Country Club. Everybody was in a festive mood, and jokes and laughter abounded for the entire weekend.
The golfers golfed. The non golfers went to lunch at a favorite place in Hudson, which, by the way, would a place high on my list in choosing to live someplace other than where we are, and went shopping.
The games in the evening were especially fun, as we have numerous comedians in our midst.
Betsy and Charley worked hard to prepare excellent meals which we ate in the gazebo.
It was a fun event, and left everyone agreeing get-togethers such as this should happen more frequently. I half-jokingly remarked that now would be sa good time to wind up affairs on earth because was an ideal climax to our time in this realm/

I couldn't see the guy in the next bed, but I could hear the inteviewer ask," Do you know where you are?" The guy says, "Here."

Moe, Dad and I did the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life Walk at Tolland High School last night. Two of Moe's friends from the Senior Center joined us - Sue and Sally. Very nice ladies with a great sense of humor, we had lots of laughs. This is my 3rd year at this event walking with Dad as cancer survivors. Sally is also a survivor.

You are not going to believe this, but I have discovered I am not universally loved, as one might brlieve to be the case. There I am, delusional, reserving the right to look down upon someone who has incurred my disfavor, only to find out that person is looking down upon me. That's fair.
What is to be done about it? Experience has taught me that no amount of reasoning can alter the entrenched views of some people not as insightful as I. Is it preferable to harbor ill will, and squander my disposable time on the matter? At a relatively advanced age, I have finally settled on a better solution.
The solution lies in meditation. Among the precepts of said nmeditation, are several concepts which I find useful:
having looked upon the problem in the manner of a new learner;
having gathered as much information as possible; and coming to the conclusion there is nothing I can change; I drop the matter from my consciousness once and for all. This unburdens me, and frees up my intellectual and emotional energies
for other use.
Actively disliking or resenting requires a lot of work and is unproductive. Try meditation, and you won't have to tell anyome to"Drop Dead!"