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Are Dreams a wish your heart makes, when you are fast asleep? I don't think mine are. Whatever is going on in my world usually shows up in my dreams. And usually in a jumble of other thoughts and images. I dream in color, bright colors and true to life. If I have an ache or pain in my joints it will be a point in my dream too. I have received 2 very clear messages in my dreams. Maybe more but these 2 I remember. The first came when I still lived in Enid, early 70's probably. I was shown clearly that hording or hanging onto STUFF was a losing proposition. It will all become ashes and cobwebs. This is a message I need to revisit during this downsizing time! The other came after I divorced my long term (alcoholic) husband. I had no real skills, no training, was a lousy typist & speller and had to start supporting myself. I was in a car that drove down into a riverbed, where there were snakes and other bad things, and the water came up around me. I was scared, but I stepped on the gas and drove myself out to safety. I did not need to be rescued. That message has helped me many times. Lonnie has been in my dreams many times over the past 10 years. His visits are always positive and leave me in a good place. I frequently dream about houses and remodeling. Antiques and hunting for just the right thing. And finding my way through places that are confusing with lots of twists and turns. I have not had fearful dreams about our world situation, or our country during this election time. Maybe I'm just too shallow to be scared, but we have survived many crises in the past & the Sun keeps on coming up each day! --donna
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I have been having the same dreams over and over, in 2 categories: They are about figuring a way out of the box I have gotten myself into, or they are about food. The last one of those was Ed and I in a car and I was telling Ed to go faster so we could get to a restaurant and eat. Those dreams are probably all morning dreams, telling me to get up and eat breakfast. Sometimes I dream both of those in terms of putting the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together, so I can either escape, or get food. But what I think is really significant is that I have been waking up both in the middle of the night, and in the morning with my brain singing the same song. Helen Reddy, the Aussie singer died last week, and it reminded me how important her hit song has been to me. So important that I have been singing it to myself for decades: Yes, I am wise, but it’s wisdom born of pain. Yes, I’ve paid the price, but look how much I’ve gained. If I had to, I could do anything … I am strong, I am invinceable, I am WOMAN! What a motivator! Invinceable, don’t you love that word? We don’t use it enough. We wise women are strong! We are invinceable! We are WOMEN! --Cynthia Just when we heard that Covid was a "thing," we decided, along with my brother and sister-in-law to take a trip to Boerne, Texas--a quaint little river town southwest of here, which is full of tourist shops and eateries. Our children disapproved, but we assured them we'd be careful. It felt a little like sneaking out the window of our house when I was a teenager (if I'd ever done that, of course:-). We were on the road on St. Patrick's Day and enjoyed walking up and down the main street of Boerne, where there was almost no traffic. About half the shops were closed, as other tourists had more sense than we did. But it was nice not to have to fight the usual crowds. By the time we got home a couple days later, the governor had issued a stay-at-home order. This is how our pandemic period began. We were very compliant for the next several months, and are still very careful, but it's hard to follow the rules ALL the time. I'm generally a rule-follower, but this Covid thing is getting old. WalMart instituted one-way traffic up and down their store aisles this summer, with stickers on the floor to direct traffic. I followed the signs carefully and would purse my lips at anyone going the wrong way. At the end of summer, I realized most shoppers were ignoring the signs (though they are all still compliant here with mask-wearing) and going down the aisles all willy-nilly! Aaaagh! By the end of September, I decided to be a rule-breaker, too, and go down the aisle in whichever direction I chose! I felt a little guilty, but It didn't kill me. A couple of weeks later, I realized WalMart had removed the signs altogether. It was a tad disappointing, because now I can't say I'm breaking any more rules. --Janice Wow! for a rebel type, I don't think I've been out on a limb here. Early on, March maybe, I really didn't comprehend how serious the pandemic actually was developing. So I did go shopping a bit without a mask. Then Karla let me know that was not acceptable behavior. We have ordered food & picked it up having paid in advance so there was no human contact. Now I'm a little more relaxed, still wearing masks & being careful to not bring anything home to Chris. One of the funniest things about all this is not using cash. I keep some on hand, but transactions are by card all the time. Seems funny to not have dollars in my wallet! I don't think I am alone in wishing the danger was over and a new normal could come into play. --donna When we first talked about this topic, I thought I had not ordered very much online, but it turns out I did order quite a bit recently, no groceries or food however. My first purchase was a notary stamp which I felt compelled to do to help notarize ballots during the pandemic and after, since Oklahoma seems to want to limit people's ability to cast ballots safely. Also related to the pandemic were masks from a couple of sources. Leroy needed a new watch band so that was ordered and we wanted a couple of t-shirts related to current events. We needed new sheets and a new Roku connection for Leroy's use of another TV. The most interesting purchase to me was for a charger and battery for the weed eater. Both took longer than advertised, but the battery came soon. However, the charger didn't come and didn't come. Then I got a message that it was at the port, but no one could find it there, so was it okay if they refunded 80 per cent of my money and wait to see if it would arrive. It did finally arrive after 2 months and then I was contacted to pay for it, but there apparently is no way to create a new invoice for something that is here. So far, although I have been willing, no further bill has come. I am sure it was very frustrating for the people who shipped the goods not to get paid. Of course, I could not go without needing to order a couple of books and Leroy had to have a certain kind of toothbrush so that's about it. We have slowed down recently. Some of these things we probably would have ordered in an ordinary time, but not a lot of them. We are fortunate to have such an easy way to get things we want or think we need. --Carolyn However you feel about Amazon as an organization--and I admit to mixed feelings--you can't deny it provides a convenient service. I've been an Amazon Prime subscriber for close to a decade and have enjoyed ordering gifts for family who live in other cities or states, having Amazon deliver directly to their homes within two days. It's saved me from being late on Christmas or birthday gifts many times over the years. When the pandemic started, I actually cut back on my Amazon ordering for a while, since I didn't need many goods for quarantine life. After a few months, though, things started to settle down, and a few family members had birthdays. My Amazon shopping has gone up again. It means fewer trips to a store, less possible exposure to Covid, less gas burned (and fewer emissions contributing to greenhouse gases), and more time saved for all my new quarantine activities (the afternoon nap, the puttering in the garden, the composting, etc.). Our church is currently conducting a hygiene kit drive for Louisiana hurricane victims, and I ordered almost all the supplies for 12 kits from Amazon! All I had to do was stuff the bags. I've made use of many other online shopping sites in recent months as well: Walmart groceries, HEB grocery, Home Depot, and a few independent sites. When they have the products I want, I'll use them. But I'll still compare prices to Amazon. I just love how easy they make it to shop. I'm a slightly guilty fanatic. In fact, I'm dubbing myself the Amazon Queen! --Janice It has been interesting learning how to shop on-line. I now get all my groceries that way. But I have now decided to get everything else I need that way too. I have ordered playing cards, toothbrushes and toothpaste, a yogurt making machine, several boxes of writing cards that I use to write to Svea every day. I have ordered my hair coloring and hair spray, and I have also ordered several Christmas presents already. I love ordering yarn on-line, as well as fresh milled flours and yeast. Last week my granddaughter’s school had an on-line book fair. I was able to order some of the things Svea wanted, and then add a few choice books that I liked as a young girl. It was so much easier than actually fitting into the school’s cramped library and trying to find something Svea wanted among all the other kids and grandparents gathered there (which is how it was done in the past.) And they get sent right to her house. It still takes me awhile to switch my brain to thinking I can order anything on-line, but it’s switching faster every time I do it. --Cynthia |
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