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Oh, Drew, you’re doing great! KEEP ON KEEPING-ON! I quote Rev. Cecil Williams, Pastor Emeritus of Glide Memorial Church (ostensibly Methodist) in San Francisco. He’s black, white and Cherokee, 94 years old and a cool guy. I heard him preach when I lived in San Francisco. I was also gobbling a book called “People of the Lie” which my Vietnam Vet husband, Richard Wayne Routh, brought home one day. The book is copyright 1983, the year we married. While reading, Wayne hollered “Wow!” and told me this book is about his parents — and mine. I think I got my own copy and began underlining, bending pages, printing initials in the margins of people I was trying to deal with. Hoo-boy! Forty years later in re-reading I see all different things. Like the idea that people in pain or severe stress or just discomfort for as little as one week will tend to regress, become little kids or even babies. How many times have any of us gotten horribly stuck and just wanted our mama! In the last couple of years — the pandemic aside! — I’ve come thru some terrible outrageous stuff that I never signed up for! And I tried to be an adult about it. Putting that aside, moving on, I just learned I need dentures, like, no teeth for awhile! I have no friends or family close by this holiday. Nobody to gift, nowhere I “have to make a showing,” nada. BUT BY GOD THE PIANO IS GETTING TUNED! [I bought a Steinway in 1964 when the other junior officers sprang for Mustangs!] I plan to “make a joyful noise” in tune again. Then when spring comes I can open the windows and blast the neighborhood with a mix of sounds. As to the teeth, it hurts (ego and mouth) to have them pulled all at once, but I’ll make beautiful soft food and work on gratitude because across the world and down thru history, I’ve had a wonderful long life! I use both audio and print books and some Netflix favorites to stay calm and glad. For sure Outlander beats Prozac, yes?
I read your blog. Keep writing! You are right though and give us good food for thought. Less time.on the screen, more time engaging without our phones.
Mimi M. Routh
December 9, 2023 12:41Oh, Drew, you’re doing great! KEEP ON KEEPING-ON! I quote Rev. Cecil Williams, Pastor Emeritus of Glide Memorial Church (ostensibly Methodist) in San Francisco. He’s black, white and Cherokee, 94 years old and a cool guy. I heard him preach when I lived in San Francisco. I was also gobbling a book called “People of the Lie” which my Vietnam Vet husband, Richard Wayne Routh, brought home one day. The book is copyright 1983, the year we married. While reading, Wayne hollered “Wow!” and told me this book is about his parents — and mine. I think I got my own copy and began underlining, bending pages, printing initials in the margins of people I was trying to deal with. Hoo-boy! Forty years later in re-reading I see all different things. Like the idea that people in pain or severe stress or just discomfort for as little as one week will tend to regress, become little kids or even babies. How many times have any of us gotten horribly stuck and just wanted our mama! In the last couple of years — the pandemic aside! — I’ve come thru some terrible outrageous stuff that I never signed up for! And I tried to be an adult about it. Putting that aside, moving on, I just learned I need dentures, like, no teeth for awhile! I have no friends or family close by this holiday. Nobody to gift, nowhere I “have to make a showing,” nada. BUT BY GOD THE PIANO IS GETTING TUNED! [I bought a Steinway in 1964 when the other junior officers sprang for Mustangs!] I plan to “make a joyful noise” in tune again. Then when spring comes I can open the windows and blast the neighborhood with a mix of sounds. As to the teeth, it hurts (ego and mouth) to have them pulled all at once, but I’ll make beautiful soft food and work on gratitude because across the world and down thru history, I’ve had a wonderful long life! I use both audio and print books and some Netflix favorites to stay calm and glad. For sure Outlander beats Prozac, yes?
Alyssa
December 8, 2023 22:26I read your blog. Keep writing! You are right though and give us good food for thought. Less time.on the screen, more time engaging without our phones.
PJ
December 8, 2023 19:18Well Done Drew!
Your photography is magnificent. You work stirs the heart and the mind. Tell us about your partner Ritter…
TiffanieG
December 8, 2023 15:43Bravo