THE SEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTONARY. — — R — —
r is for
Radio
radio ...noun
A magical device that takes music from somewhere and drops it into your. Soul....oh wait. Maybe that ‘a just me...however let’s go with it. It was round about 1968 and it was my birthday and with one last gifted quarter from my Grandmother who worked just up jefferson.st, I had $2.68 which was just enough to buy the used converted “stingray from an old guy who sold used bikes out of his garage. He was the grandpa of Donny and Ronny the Armstrong twins and worked at the train repair shop so anything he put together was going to weigh just less than a small aircraft carrier, but it wasn’t going to break and that was just perfect. Anyway I back to the $2.68...well that was enough to buy a GE portable radio and the 9 volt battery it required so come just about dark I could tune in 1490 KBUR and listen to the top ten countdown. It would be a few years until I became familiar with Hendrix, but there were some Beatles songs and some Rolling. Stones and a Simon and Garfunkel ditty wafting through the air. Best of all I could put. In the ear plug and listen to the rhythm without hearing the distracting noise of any neighbors including our landlord squeezing every last dollar out of the working. Poor in our little town. With the antenna up I could reach out all the way to foreign soil like Chicago, St. Louis, and every now and then Omaha wherever the heck that was. Anyway .. this radio brought me music and this music played with my imagination and the emotions of a 9 year-old dreamer and it never. Really quit from then forward. I met some of my dearest friends ever doing college radio and have used music coming over the air to seek a change in a mood so often. I have tuned in for music to sing, music to make work go by quicker, music to dance and drink to...and yes music.I could play loud group annoy my roommates and neighbors ...
The point. I want to make is that seeking. Peace and joy is done better when we connect with an artist who is sharing experiences. And their meanings in ways that we can listen to and feel at at once and I am grateful that this thing called a radio exists.
Redemption Song....Noun
Just find it on the radio or on. YouTube and listen to it...any commentary added here would be at best distracting
Rhymes
Rhymes...noun(s)
These are nice little tools that can help us create little buckets to hold. Emotions that we might need for fuel later or that hold barriers. For a minute while we look around for options. some folks like to read them. Some people are masters at them like Dr. Seuss, and some folks. Cobble together. Song lyrics.with them. For me finding a rhyme is like breathing for some folks who meditate. I can focus on the words needed to make the rhyme and find myself right in the hear and now staring at my soul for a peaceful moment.
Here are the.rhymes I’m working on....or that are working on me. Right now....
I don’t mind if you may think I’m an ancient hippy freak
I’m not a greasy wheel but you still won’t hear me squeak
I find. No grace in hate so I’ll turn the other cheek
Love is my revenge and it’s peace and. Joy I seek
Here have this laugh And smile lay down your edgy smirks
Through the quicksand and the quagmires of life’s quintessential quirks
Leave the jungle of the festers and jealous little jerks
Go seeking like the wise kings who found peace and joy had perks....
There is some more cooking. However that’s enough for now.
Rubik’s CubeRubik’s Cube...noun... see puzzle except here’s more..
This hand held colorful puzzle was invented in 1974... I think just to keep most of the children of the post flower. P power generation confused long enough so that they wouldn’t read history and get outraged at Nixon and the Vit Nam cluster mess (insert the proper swear word if there are no children. Around).
Anyway this is a great puzzle to spend some time solving especially to impress. A girl and to use as a timer for activities that don’t really require a timer, but you want the audience to place false pressure on themselves so that they can feel proud they could finish their task before you finished the cube. To make a long story short the cube is a puzzle and if you focus your attention. You can figure out. How to move parts of it and like magic other parts will come together. And like seeking peace and joy...many things are connected and related and in the end if you consider many more than one thing and isolate and focus. Your attention you will see some patterns. Then you can work in conjunction. With other purpose and. In the end most the pieces will fall into place. Then deity a few more spins you can make other more intricate and interesting patterns if you please. The key is this.... no matter how jumbled things seem you can move, change your perspective, try different combination of experiences and generally you. Will come up with something cool... Either that or you can have your younger cousins move the stickers around so it never works out or you can paint the whole thing one color and stay bored... the choice is yours. ..
Look for a post on this sometime around Christmas...the cube makes a great stocking stuffer!
Well this Road is over and tomorrow will be brought to you by the letter. S and (hint) I see a big yellow bird and the forecast looks promising
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