I am back...I guess I have more stuff to say...or to post and always the pictures

This is a stunning video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKDNV-6Dxk

A reluctant poser! You have to imagine the owner, a tiny Chinese lady with a baseball cap and a huge visor and a face mask standing beside encouraging her dog...and when the deed is done, insisting on a high-five!

There is never a dull moment. At six-thirty in the morning the bank calls to tell me my Visa has been compromised on line. It's a robot...it asks me to press two to cancel and when I do, India arrives in all his glory. He asks how he may help and I say you can't. I'm calling the bank. Which I do...and I'm on hold because there is an unusually high incidence...and of course it was a scam but I had to remember my mother's maiden name...
And then a friend who lives in Norway writes to ask if her cat's vomit is normal...

I definitely am up!

I am surrounded by virgin marys….the lack of capitals is intentional...sweet, innocent, well-intentioned people that make my Irish blood boil!

So I stepped out of my car this morning and lost two cards immediately. Why do I not close purses? Why do I not close doors? Why do I not close drawers? I don't like to finish...I guess that's it...but thank goodness I saw the cards dropping.

Turning 80 should make one consider one's mortality.
Turning 80 should make one consider what is undone.
Turning 80 should make one want to go for walks
Turning 80 should cause one to propound on something...anything.
So far none of this has happened and I am reduced to stealing neat stuff from facebook.

Don't look back. You're not going that way anymore. 

Lie some dead flowers on a piece of black paper and voila!


...but it is the drawn-together life we are muted by.

I know that real photographers do not do this to their pictures...but I love playing...and the original was a bit out of focus anyway!

The word of the day...
bouche-trou
Personne, objet n'ayant pas d'autre utilité que de combler une place vide.
I used to be a bouche-trou for my mother's choir when everyone was away...I would put on a gown but I had to swear not to actually sing! There was good reason for that.

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just 
Begins to live
That day.

Emily Dickinson

 Affectionate Light Bulb

I have a 75 watt, glare free, long life

Harmony House light bulb in my toilet.

I have been living in the same apartment

for over two years now

and that bulb just keeps burning away.

I believe that it is fond of me.

Richard Brautigan