I hope to go on the sailboat for 1 or 2 nights next week. I have the week off. I can’t do a lot but it will be relaxing. My follow up for my surgery is next Friday and I am getting more energy each and every day. I also want to go to Jamestown RI 4th of July for patriotic music and fireworks on Monday. We have a heatwave until Saturday but cooler temps next week. I signed up for the $5 Young Washington movie which the discount applies on July 4th only. It is Fandango theaters.
Somehow
I ended up marrying a man
who takes himself,
his work,
and just about everything else
very seriously.
He does not like to buy things that are not strictly functional,
which means
that I bought the rain bells
on my own,
as well as the insect house.
If a project is not work related
he’d rather not do it.
Taking a drive for recreational reasons
was out of the question . . .
we must have a worthwhile destination.
So the job of lightening things up
seems to have fallen on me.
Deep in his Midwestern soul,
he’d be fine eating ham sandwiches
and his grandmother’s potatoe salad.
I sneak spinach and smoke into his scrambled eggs,
and make lasagne with TVP and gouda cheese . . .
he loves most of what I cook
and tolerates the few sidebars.
I try to dig deep
and find the old, playful me.
and although I’ve never seen myself as a clown,
I sometimes
play off of images and characters we have come across,
and use those to make him laugh.
I started translating what the cats were saying
when they sit on his lap
and look up at him quizzically . . .
we have shared much laughter over these moments,
and now
he talks back to the cats,
invents omelettes on his own,
and finds more humor in the irony of life.
Existing in the world today
can be hard,
and laughter helps to lighten the load . . .
the Universe
has a sense of humor,
although sometimes with a twist,
but when I come across it
I have to smile,
if not laugh out loud. ♥
Oh my Sparrow, we must have married brothers from different mothers😂
My hubby is very serious and stoic, but like you, with him watching me play hide and seek with our dog, and listening to the conversations I have with the pup, hubby has started to talk with him and play with him👍
Maybe playfulness is contagious💕
Tonight I perform with my improv troupe so there’s my playfulness! Always fun and freeing.
During my current vacation I’m making sure to explore some places I’ve never been in our hometown, which is still kind of new to us in some ways after 5-1/2 years of living here. Next week we’re going to take a bike ride to a sculpture park, about a 32-mile round trip. I haven’t been doing as much riding in recent years so that’s an adventurous mileage for me, even on my e-bike. Tomorrow we leave for a few days back in a town we used to live in, to visit friends and family. I want to approach it with fresh eyes like a tourist, which should create some adventure.
At heart, I’m a big kid. So being playful is my default. And I love a good adventure. Whether it’s a bike ride or a hike in a new place, or a road trip to wherever, I think of these as mini adventures. Heck, just going about my day can be adventurous. You never know what or who, you might come across.
My life has been full of playfulness and adventures. In fact, sometimes I feel guilty that I haven’t been serious enough and really buckled down to the more responsible and practical things. My mind easily drifts. And here I am. It’s unbelievable.
In my living area, I invite adventure. It may sound so little to others, but to me, walking around my local cities to explore new places for food and drink with vision loss is a cool experience.
I am playful most days and find numerous ways to amuse myself. For example: Seeing shapes in clouds, noticing puns and oxymorons, hearing things in bird sounds…sometimes-unfortunately, others don’t seem as playful and don’t always appear to appreciate mine.
As far as adventure, I am always game for something new, a new hiking path, a new restaurant, a new recipe, a new experience, a new place to explore- I love adventure.
Well life is one big adventure!!!
A couple of the ways I could invite playfulness and adventure in my life is look and see what I enjoyed in the past and how could I incorporate those in my life now. I love bubble blowing, and swinging.
In a park near our house they have a big seated wooden swing in a frame in a couple of different locations. When I walk through the park I always stop to swing a bit.
One of our dates for our anniversary often consists of going to a park with a kite and bubble-blowing material. (Bubbles make good indicators of wind speed and direction, besides being fun.) Last year I could hear a family reunion across the park. A kid said in tones of deep longing, “SHE has BUBBLES.”
Thank you all for the good wishes on my yesterday birthday. Today is my mother’s birthday. I never really got to be with her since she died when I was 21 months old. I always wondered if she wished I was born on her day or did she appreciate me as her present.
July 4th weekend as I visit “family” at their cottage & watch fireworks over the lake.
I am looking forward to “oohing & awwing”!
🎆🎇😊
Happy July All…🐰🐰🐰
🕊️❤️
As I become more comfortable in Traditional Vietnamese social settings with my elders, I’m finding playfulness and adventure there. As mentioned before on past answers and responses to other people, I’m outgrowing my old protective ways. My parents’s friends are very entertaining.
I had a supervisor once when I was in chaplaincy training at a Children’s Hospital, who encouraged us to be more playful in all aspects of our ministry – not only in playing with the patients who were children, but with the staff, with each other, and even in the hard times. Not to take away from the tragedy, sorrow, difficulty, etc. of being in a Children’s Hospital. As you can imagine it could be brutal. And oftentimes moods, tempers and emotions ran high. He would encourage us to fiind ways to be playful – even in the midst of all that. I can still see his smiling face as he would tease one of us into not taking ourselves so seriously. Today I will find words and ways to be playful with my Meals on Wheels clients as I deliver their meals along with their July 4th treats I made for them. I love Wednesdays.
My mom was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels for several wheels. I know she enjoyed seeing “her” people and I’m sure she lighted up their days, as you do too.
Yesterday I shot a 3-minute video on my phone of Tiggs attacking a paper bag. He was sure the foil ball I had hidden inside it was still there. Turned out it wasn’t, but that didn’t stop him from hunting. He worked at it so hard he poked his paw through the seam in the bottom of the bag. His pouncing was quite hilarious!
Right here and now- may I invite playfulness and adventure into this moment. Looking at life with eyes of a child like wonder and happiness with more ease and flow. Thank you .
Antoinette, this reminds me of my reading on Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.” I remember him talking about how there are endless possibilities in the beginner’s mind with only a few in the expert’s.
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I hope to go on the sailboat for 1 or 2 nights next week. I have the week off. I can’t do a lot but it will be relaxing. My follow up for my surgery is next Friday and I am getting more energy each and every day. I also want to go to Jamestown RI 4th of July for patriotic music and fireworks on Monday. We have a heatwave until Saturday but cooler temps next week. I signed up for the $5 Young Washington movie which the discount applies on July 4th only. It is Fandango theaters.
Somehow
I ended up marrying a man
who takes himself,
his work,
and just about everything else
very seriously.
He does not like to buy things that are not strictly functional,
which means
that I bought the rain bells
on my own,
as well as the insect house.
If a project is not work related
he’d rather not do it.
Taking a drive for recreational reasons
was out of the question . . .
we must have a worthwhile destination.
So the job of lightening things up
seems to have fallen on me.
Deep in his Midwestern soul,
he’d be fine eating ham sandwiches
and his grandmother’s potatoe salad.
I sneak spinach and smoke into his scrambled eggs,
and make lasagne with TVP and gouda cheese . . .
he loves most of what I cook
and tolerates the few sidebars.
I try to dig deep
and find the old, playful me.
and although I’ve never seen myself as a clown,
I sometimes
play off of images and characters we have come across,
and use those to make him laugh.
I started translating what the cats were saying
when they sit on his lap
and look up at him quizzically . . .
we have shared much laughter over these moments,
and now
he talks back to the cats,
invents omelettes on his own,
and finds more humor in the irony of life.
Existing in the world today
can be hard,
and laughter helps to lighten the load . . .
the Universe
has a sense of humor,
although sometimes with a twist,
but when I come across it
I have to smile,
if not laugh out loud. ♥
Oh my Sparrow, we must have married brothers from different mothers😂
My hubby is very serious and stoic, but like you, with him watching me play hide and seek with our dog, and listening to the conversations I have with the pup, hubby has started to talk with him and play with him👍
Maybe playfulness is contagious💕
Maybe it is,
dear Cathie . . . 🙂
Tonight I perform with my improv troupe so there’s my playfulness! Always fun and freeing.
During my current vacation I’m making sure to explore some places I’ve never been in our hometown, which is still kind of new to us in some ways after 5-1/2 years of living here. Next week we’re going to take a bike ride to a sculpture park, about a 32-mile round trip. I haven’t been doing as much riding in recent years so that’s an adventurous mileage for me, even on my e-bike. Tomorrow we leave for a few days back in a town we used to live in, to visit friends and family. I want to approach it with fresh eyes like a tourist, which should create some adventure.
I love doing improv!!! One is never sure where things will go😂
At heart, I’m a big kid. So being playful is my default. And I love a good adventure. Whether it’s a bike ride or a hike in a new place, or a road trip to wherever, I think of these as mini adventures. Heck, just going about my day can be adventurous. You never know what or who, you might come across.
My life has been full of playfulness and adventures. In fact, sometimes I feel guilty that I haven’t been serious enough and really buckled down to the more responsible and practical things. My mind easily drifts. And here I am. It’s unbelievable.
In my living area, I invite adventure. It may sound so little to others, but to me, walking around my local cities to explore new places for food and drink with vision loss is a cool experience.
My Ngoc, we walked together to some coffee shop last Wednesday Evening.
I am playful most days and find numerous ways to amuse myself. For example: Seeing shapes in clouds, noticing puns and oxymorons, hearing things in bird sounds…sometimes-unfortunately, others don’t seem as playful and don’t always appear to appreciate mine.
As far as adventure, I am always game for something new, a new hiking path, a new restaurant, a new recipe, a new experience, a new place to explore- I love adventure.
Well life is one big adventure!!!
A couple of the ways I could invite playfulness and adventure in my life is look and see what I enjoyed in the past and how could I incorporate those in my life now. I love bubble blowing, and swinging.
In a park near our house they have a big seated wooden swing in a frame in a couple of different locations. When I walk through the park I always stop to swing a bit.
One of our dates for our anniversary often consists of going to a park with a kite and bubble-blowing material. (Bubbles make good indicators of wind speed and direction, besides being fun.) Last year I could hear a family reunion across the park. A kid said in tones of deep longing, “SHE has BUBBLES.”
Yes!!! Me too- It is hard for me to pass a swing and not try it out!!!
Thank you all for the good wishes on my yesterday birthday. Today is my mother’s birthday. I never really got to be with her since she died when I was 21 months old. I always wondered if she wished I was born on her day or did she appreciate me as her present.
Happy Belated Birthday!
I’m sure you were a gift, Yram. You are here, for sure.
I will gladly second that thought, Yram.
July 4th weekend as I visit “family” at their cottage & watch fireworks over the lake.
I am looking forward to “oohing & awwing”!
🎆🎇😊
Happy July All…🐰🐰🐰
🕊️❤️
I’m going to my son’s this holiday weekend and look forward to playing with the cats, seeing his vegetable garden and butterfly flower garden.
The dog is always ready to play!
As I become more comfortable in Traditional Vietnamese social settings with my elders, I’m finding playfulness and adventure there. As mentioned before on past answers and responses to other people, I’m outgrowing my old protective ways. My parents’s friends are very entertaining.
I had a supervisor once when I was in chaplaincy training at a Children’s Hospital, who encouraged us to be more playful in all aspects of our ministry – not only in playing with the patients who were children, but with the staff, with each other, and even in the hard times. Not to take away from the tragedy, sorrow, difficulty, etc. of being in a Children’s Hospital. As you can imagine it could be brutal. And oftentimes moods, tempers and emotions ran high. He would encourage us to fiind ways to be playful – even in the midst of all that. I can still see his smiling face as he would tease one of us into not taking ourselves so seriously. Today I will find words and ways to be playful with my Meals on Wheels clients as I deliver their meals along with their July 4th treats I made for them. I love Wednesdays.
I’m sure your clients will love that 💗
Thank you, Katrina for providing love along with food for the home bound
My mom was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels for several wheels. I know she enjoyed seeing “her” people and I’m sure she lighted up their days, as you do too.
Have fun today!
I enjoy playing with my cat 🙂
I look forward to reading everyone’s answers – I know it will make me smile.
🐇🐇🐇
Yesterday I shot a 3-minute video on my phone of Tiggs attacking a paper bag. He was sure the foil ball I had hidden inside it was still there. Turned out it wasn’t, but that didn’t stop him from hunting. He worked at it so hard he poked his paw through the seam in the bottom of the bag. His pouncing was quite hilarious!
Cats
never cease to entertain,
dear Barb,
do they? 🙂
🐰🐰🐰 Michele.
Me too,
dear Michele . . .
even my very elderly cat,
Sophie,
still engages in a little play
(in between naps,
of course). 🙂
Right here and now- may I invite playfulness and adventure into this moment. Looking at life with eyes of a child like wonder and happiness with more ease and flow. Thank you .
” Looking at life with eyes of a child like wonder and happiness with more ease and flow.” Love this!
Antoinette, this reminds me of my reading on Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.” I remember him talking about how there are endless possibilities in the beginner’s mind with only a few in the expert’s.