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calimary

calimary's Journal
calimary's Journal
May 29, 2023

And they want to be famous but nobody's beating down their door

to cast them in a new movie.

May 29, 2023

I find that beautiful surroundings, especially green and leafy ones

can be calming and restorative, especially if your old job was stressful. A time of unwinding, untangling, and less combative. Parks and open places can be therapeutic as can be. Go where it’s green and leafy. Where the only tweeting is what the birds do. Peaceful surroundings where you can contemplate and you don’t hear traffic noise or other dissonance. Trees really feed my soul, maybe because I lived for decades in L.A. where there was so much pavement and crowding and noise.

Seaside, lakeside, or riverside. Water can be very calming even just to look at. There’ll be birds to observe. I read in Julia Cameron’s book “The Artiss Way” a recommendation to take yourself on an “artist date”. Where your senses can be fed and indulged. The sights and sounds and scents and everything. It nourishes the spirit. Seriously! Even if you just find your way to a quiet shady green ‘n’ leafy spot and sit there or stretch out on a blanket or beach towel. Take some deep healing breaths and just be. No one’s ordering you around, cutting you off, acting unreasonable or impatient or unkind, or telling you what to do.

And ask yourself: don’t you deserve it? And the answer is and will be YES.

May 28, 2023

Looks old and dissipated.

A shade of his former self, whatever that was.

May 28, 2023

My Ass Ginni doesn't discuss political activities with her husband.

She’s a devious person. She’ll always find a way around it. I bet they have their own private codespeak.

May 27, 2023

But they're reliably the first to take to the "holier than thou" podium

and carry on about how “Christian” they are.

It’s not for me to judge but I’m tempted to point out that they’re the types who Our Lord drove out of the temple, and later showed up to condemn Him and call for His crucifixion.

Fourteen years of Catholic school still pushes me straight over to that opinion.

May 27, 2023

Man-oh-man did I love that album when I was a kid!

I played it til it was sandpaper.

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Home country: USA
Current location: Oregon
Member since: 2001
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About calimary

Female. Retired. Wife-Mom-Grandma. Approx. 30 years in broadcasting, at least 20 of those in news biz. Taurus. Loves chocolate - preferably without nuts or cocoanut. Animal lover. Rock-hound from pre-school age. Proud Democrat for life. Ardent environmentalist and pro-choicer. Hoping to use my skills set for the greater good. Still married to the same guy for 40+ years. Probably because he's a proud Democrat, too. Penmanship absolutely stinks, so I'm glad I'm a fast typist! I will always love Hillary and she will always be my President.
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