Twelve Steps Song
(Google this tune on youtube – very singable)
Tune: Dwelling In Beulah Land (Old Gospel)
1) I admit I can’t control
The life I have been living
But a Higher Power exists
To take my life in hand.
Admitting I am helpless here,
I look for strength to go on.
As the universe unfolds,
I learn to stand.
CHORUS I’ve living every day [...]

When you see injustice happening, often increasing, your impulse is to jump right in and give 100% of yourself tryng to change it, often in company with interesting others.
Before you plunge in and let this cause gobble your whole self, consider that there will be other causes. Is this the one [...]

HOW DO I CLIMB KILIMANJARO?
November 5th, 2011 by Rose
For Lisa, David, Mary, Dan, John, Jo and Blake
*This began as advice for my two nieces as they marry concerning what I have discovered about the long haul. But reading a friend’s memoir of how he has surivived and succeeded through a life of personal struggle and [...]

Now he needs to get elected Member of Parliament for Kingston & The Islands. Which will be a painful time for him and his family. Politics are a sesspool. Media attention is a blight. Your character is tested and every bit of weakness in yourself and your family is exposed to print and online. Who’d [...]

Probably my favorite childhood picture of my husband. He is having a bath in what they called ‘the washshed.’ Stubborn as always. But here is this little square image, taken some seventy years ago – and what to do with it now?
Here he is again, usually with a dog. Most family pics also [...]

Real life is all around us – and it’s snickering!
I’m NOT on Facebook to be sold stuff! What? Do they think this is the SHOPPING CHANNEL?? I had a ‘friend’ whose name was always trailed by the words – ‘author of –(and then her genre label) but NOW she’s added the words ‘& [...]

Yesterday a woman came into the Credit Union where I work and told me she was drawing out enough money to buy back a cow which had been sold by our Federal Corrections when they made the monumentally stupid decision to close down the effective and efficient local prison farms.
I rushed right home and [...]

Raised by two people extremely critical of everyone around us, I absorbed judging others with my mother’s milk. Then I hung around unkind, unloving, critical people and my goose sizzled. No love going on here.
Look at this shot of an uncritical person trying to look judgemental. This is what your face looks like when [...]

I use this sign for privacy. It seems to work among those who can read and are not too hotheaded to ignore it. For quiet Sunday afternoons.
This ones on the lid of my green bin so that I don’t come home and find recycling hasn’t taken it due to some oaf tossing a [...]

Some 12 years ago, I was in a hospital ward of mostly older and old women, lying in bed, totally trapped by the Crohn’s diagnosis of the doctors for the past 20 years, I’d vomit and ride the porcelaine pony, sick as a seagoing varmint. particularly spring and fall though [...]