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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Paradis Icitte!
It just doesn't get any better than this! We got the ice huts off the river but just couldnt give up the season. Deb and I set up right beside our house and we ate Walleye last night. It just doesnt get any better than that!
It will rain! Let it rain! spring is in the air! Its a magnificent circle. I am so blessed to live in a place that experiences all the seasons. I am so blessed to be able to live season to season. hahahha and was that you you who clicked on I HATE PEAS?
Be not depressed. That boulder that you finally pushed to the top of the hill...is about roll down the other side. If you want, I could help you push it to the top again, but its only gonna fall down again. By the time this is done, we will be really great boulder pushers, and yet never succeeded once.
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. 11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
All this stuff that I find so joyful really is just meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Yet today, right now and every time I think about it, I find joy. Why? You know.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
I love my hat too! Thx! I bought it at this old style department store in town..one of the last bastions of ma pa departments stores, Michaud et Levesque. There was a rack of them and I tried them all on.
A hat wasnt really required on the ice except...IT WAS RAINING! hahaha By the way..I hate peas too. I simply cant stand them. I love pea soup, I dont mind the odd pea in a stew, and I like fresh raw peas. However, weighing it all out, I would rather that the great engineer never designed them. It is not a crime to hate peas....I hope. I think it says somewhere in the book of hesitations though shalt not eat peas unless in soup or raw.....or something like that.
I know this sounds really stupid and a friend of mine gives me shite for this but I think we need to count our blessings all the time. Everything that happens to us appears to have both a good and a bad. I try to always count the good and see the positive. My buddy tells me I am just brain washing myself and that my joy is therefor contrived and not worth having. He is caught in an existential "loop" or crisis which does not allow himself the grace to enjoy those simple good things. The simple joys of life are lost due to the unsurmountable task of pushing that F&^%$ing boulder up the hill.
By the way...I weighed my budgie....50 grams! thats almost 2 oz's!
In that case tell your buddy that all joy is contrived then because it's all just a matter of perspective anyway. What gives one person joy gives another person a stomach ulcer!!! So it's not faking it to change your perspective on a situation and see the good in it, it's just better for your face because other people have to look at that ugly thing when it is pissed off and who wants that!!!
I don't really get depresderado, not really. I do for about half a day until i snap out of it because i'm a solution person so i don't stay too long in a mood before i find a solution because i like life and life is better when you're having fun and appreciating it.
I get more frustrated in myself that i let myself wander about in fairy land rather than deal with the reality of MY life not wanting someone else's life or whatever society says you should have in life. Thas what i get sucked into sometimes and it's nobody else's doing but mine. I am shite at close relationships. I could easily be better at them but i'm not willing to pay the price to get that. Bottom line. So i have got no cause to bellyache about it.
I'm exceptional in allot of other areas though and i do have great friendships at work and at church and work is just getting better and better, i've only been there a short while and i have already been promoted once. So life is amazing.
Maybe i will get a budgie and teach it to sing James Brown songs at me haha...
You are wonderful. I've always thought that....and you are shite at relationships...hahha. I wish I knew more about how you are doing and what you are up to because I am interested. It brings me joy. My wish and desire is for you to be happy and satisfied and content and know love and peace and joy. Hey maybe you could send me a letter? I could give you my new address.
It will rain again, your ice will melt and I am really shite at relationships.
ReplyDeleteBrenda the Depresderado
It will rain!
ReplyDeleteLet it rain! spring is in the air! Its a magnificent circle.
I am so blessed to live in a place that experiences all the seasons. I am so blessed to be able to live season to season. hahahha and was that you you who clicked on I HATE PEAS?
Be not depressed. That boulder that you finally pushed to the top of the hill...is about roll down the other side. If you want, I could help you push it to the top again, but its only gonna fall down again. By the time this is done, we will be really great boulder pushers, and yet never succeeded once.
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
All this stuff that I find so joyful really is just meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Yet today, right now and every time I think about it, I find joy. Why? You know.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
ReplyDeleteYeah i clicked peas. I have joy too, it's just way deep down at the moment, ha!
ReplyDeletelove your hat.
Brenda
I love my hat too! Thx! I bought it at this old style department store in town..one of the last bastions of ma pa departments stores, Michaud et Levesque. There was a rack of them and I tried them all on.
ReplyDeleteA hat wasnt really required on the ice except...IT WAS RAINING! hahaha By the way..I hate peas too. I simply cant stand them. I love pea soup, I dont mind the odd pea in a stew, and I like fresh raw peas. However, weighing it all out, I would rather that the great engineer never designed them. It is not a crime to hate peas....I hope. I think it says somewhere in the book of hesitations though shalt not eat peas unless in soup or raw.....or something like that.
I know this sounds really stupid and a friend of mine gives me shite for this but I think we need to count our blessings all the time. Everything that happens to us appears to have both a good and a bad. I try to always count the good and see the positive. My buddy tells me I am just brain washing myself and that my joy is therefor contrived and not worth having. He is caught in an existential "loop" or crisis which does not allow himself the grace to enjoy those simple good things. The simple joys of life are lost due to the unsurmountable task of pushing that F&^%$ing boulder up the hill.
By the way...I weighed my budgie....50 grams! thats almost 2 oz's!
In that case tell your buddy that all joy is contrived then because it's all just a matter of perspective anyway. What gives one person joy gives another person a stomach ulcer!!! So it's not faking it to change your perspective on a situation and see the good in it, it's just better for your face because other people have to look at that ugly thing when it is pissed off and who wants that!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't really get depresderado, not really. I do for about half a day until i snap out of it because i'm a solution person so i don't stay too long in a mood before i find a solution because i like life and life is better when you're having fun and appreciating it.
I get more frustrated in myself that i let myself wander about in fairy land rather than deal with the reality of MY life not wanting someone else's life or whatever society says you should have in life. Thas what i get sucked into sometimes and it's nobody else's doing but mine. I am shite at close relationships. I could easily be better at them but i'm not willing to pay the price to get that. Bottom line. So i have got no cause to bellyache about it.
I'm exceptional in allot of other areas though and i do have great friendships at work and at church and work is just getting better and better, i've only been there a short while and i have already been promoted once. So life is amazing.
Maybe i will get a budgie and teach it to sing James Brown songs at me haha...
B
You are wonderful. I've always thought that....and you are shite at relationships...hahha. I wish I knew more about how you are doing and what you are up to because I am interested. It brings me joy. My wish and desire is for you to be happy and satisfied and content and know love and peace and joy. Hey maybe you could send me a letter? I could give you my new address.
ReplyDelete