Shall we dance?

Ever felt bored, I know I have from time to time. I have realized that boredom is an internal feeling. It comes from, for me, not being curious enough about what is going on around me. Life is full of quirks and strange things, but from time to time, I lose track of the adventure and exciting aspects of life. For me, the real trick, for confronting boredom is to ask more questions. If I overhear part of a conversation, in my mind, I ask questions about why the person said what they said, in the conversation, what will be said next, who are they talking about, if there is an issue, when will it be resolved, who will resolve it and how will that impact the people in the conversation I overheard. I put all of this together in my head and I can create a story, usually with a happy ending, from the tidbit of a conversation I have heard. Asking questions can keep me from being bored. How do you tackle boredom?

Loneliness is dangerous for seniors or for anyone. We are social creatures and we need contact with others to keep us healthy. But some people don't know how to tackle loneliness. Tackling loneliness is not easy but for me tackling loneliness, means taking more action. What does taking more action look like? It may mean going to a senior center and having the courage to say hello to someone there, it may mean picking up the phone and calling a friend or a relative to ask how they are doing and listening to them. It may mean joining a group of people with similar interests. It means that I don't sit on my butt; it means getting out and about and taking action. However, each of us is different, how do you tackle loneliness?

I overcome periods of sadness, which can overwhelm by doing and thinking more about doing for others. How do you overcome periods of sadness?

Loneliness, boredom and sadness, difficult topics so when we have examined them all, I think the best thing to do is to dance. Shall we dance as a way to embrace the best of life?

Life is sometimes about making easy or hard choices.

There is an old saying, if a person is hungry, you can give him food or you can teach her to catch the food and cook it. If you give the person the food, you solve the immediate problem, which is to take care of the hunger. If you teach the person to catch the food, i.e. catch a fish, you have taken care of the long-term problem. So, let's say you live by a great, abundant, life-giving ocean, though at a very primitive time in history, and you are very, very hungry. And let's further say, that you're given a choice: a wading pond full of fish or fishing lessons; enough fish to last you for several weeks, or the skills to tap an unlimited supply. Which would you choose? 


The answer is not as easy as it may appear, if you are starving, you may choose the wading pond full of fish as it important to you that you and your loved ones survive. However, if you are just hungry and not starving and near death, you may choose the fishing lessons.


Ah-ha, so it is not an easy choice, but life is sometimes about making easy or hard choices.


What if learning to fish meant multiple solo attempts to test out your new skills, without any guidance and help that you could see? My thought would be that while you were learning this important and life-changing skill, you'd likely feel anxious, uncertain, and a little confused? While you were learning, you don’t realize that your instructor would never be far, watching over you like a mother does a young child, but giving you the freedom to make your own mistakes and make the skill truly yours. Would you sometimes feel all alone and given the chance to remake the choice would you still choose the lessons? 


I know what I would do, and have done in those circumstances. What have you done, and how can you help your children and grandchildren to make the same choices you made, or perhaps make different choices than you made?

Proper Grammar Matters :-)

Thanks to Wally for this gem.

On my 66th birthday (not mine but the joke teller) I got a gift certificate from my wife.
The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man
living on a nearby reservation that was rumoured to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction.

After being persuaded, I drove to the reservation,
handed my ticket to the medicine man
and wondered what would happen next.

The old man slowly, methodically produced a potion, handed it to me, and with a grip on my shoulder, warned,
"This is powerful medicine and it must be respected
.You take only a teaspoonful and then say '1-2-3.' 
When you do that, you will become more manly 
than you have ever been in your life and you can perform as long as you want."

I was encouraged. As I walked away, I turned and asked, "How do I stop the medicine from working?"
"Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,' he responded.
"But when she does, the medicine will not work again until the next full moon."

I was very eager to see if it worked so I went home, showered,
shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine,
and then invited my wife to join me in the bedroom.

When she came in, I took off my clothes and said, "1-2-3!"
Immediately, I was the manliest of men.
My wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes. 
And then she asked, "What was the 1-2-3 for?"

And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition!

ONE COULD END UP WITH A DANGLING PARTICIPLE

A waste of Thyme

Saw a kid standing on one leg at an ATM.

Confused, I asked him what he was doing?

He told me he was just checking his balance.

Q. Which country's capital has the fastest-growing population?

A. Ireland. Every day it's Dublin.

I have many jokes about unemployed people, sadly none of them work.

So what if I can’t spell Armageddon? It’s not the end of the world

I bought a wooden whistle. But it wooden whistle. so I bought a steel whistle. But it steel wooden whistle. So I bought a lead whistle. But it steel wooden lead me whistle.

RIP boiling water. You will be mist.

I tried to sue the airport for misplacing my luggage. – I lost my case.

Why did the tomato blush? – Because it saw the salad dressing.

Did you hear about the man who was accidentally buried alive? – It was a grave mistake.

I would tell you a construction pun, but I’m still working on it

If you give a gator a GPS, does that make it a navigator?

I had to clean out my spice rack and found everything was too old and had to be thrown out. – What a waste of thyme.

What do you call a dead parrot? Polygon

What did one ocean say to the other ocean? Nothing, they just WAVED.

Can you SEA what I did there? I'm SHORE you did. Why are you so SALTY? Don’t be a BEACH.

Why do cows have hooves instead of feet? – Because they lactose.

What do you call a cow with no legs?

Answer: ground beef.

I had to clean out my spice rack and found everything was too old and had to be thrown out. – What a  waste of thyme.

My poor knowledge of Greek mythology has always been my Achilles’ elbow.

My friend could not afford to pay his water bill anymore, so I sent him a card, “Get well soon.”

Where do mathematicians go to die?

The symmetry

Accordion to a recent survey, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.

I was very lonely so I bought some shares. – It’s nice to have a bit of company.