Mary had a little lamb and some peace and joy?

MARY HAD A LITTLE  LAMB— AND PEACE AND JOY?

Okay—I started writing today with the big idea that I was going to  provide my sum total. Of wisdom about  how peace and joy. And seeking it  was important for  coping with anxiety.  However, after writing. About it for a good twenty minutes and a bad  three or four, I decided “no....not today...I was getting. Too anxious.  I laughed  at myself.a moment but true is true so that sort of blog entry will have to wait.  I will give you the short version and say more someday in the not so distant future.

1. Meditate or Pray or both
2. Take meds if they help but don’t. Fake it if they don’t
3. Make sure you have someone you trust to  tell you  that your anxiety is  okay or not...why because you don’t need to worry about worrying about worrying.
4. Breathe slower—not  just when you feel. Anxiety coming or when it’s already. Here.  Breathe slower all the time.  Enjoy breathing in the goodness and breathing out the tension all the time.
5. Laugh  at yourself and if that doesn’t work laugh at me for thinking  I’m  going to help. Anyone with  this as  we know so little about. The brain/body connections  involved it’s sort of funny (not really.). But laughing  feels good and everyone has. The right. To feel good  sometimes (except for a few people who. I keep on a list.)

Back to Mary...

She had a little lamb—so said Mother Goose.  Now  who was this Mother Goose—was there. Really such a person?  

Well—yes there was and she lived in the American colonies but died at the age of 92 just about 20 years before  the declaration ofAmerican  Independence.  Yes and her name was really  “goose” Elizabeth (Foster) Goose after. Marrying Mr. Goose—Idon’t remember his name right now and he didn’t claim the title Father Goose although he had 10 kids at the time of his a  vows to Mother. Goose and they had six more  children after that (so many children they didn’t know what  to do I suppose?). Anyway, the rhymes and songs were printed  for the first time around 1719 in a Boston  print shop owned by a family member.  

Of course  MG didn’t  make up all these songs and rhymes  originally and history is vague on just which ones are original and which. We’re modified from. Old English drinking songs.  If I had.16 kids there would. Be a lot of drinking I would imagine and who knows what  rhymes might come of that?  

I think one of the rhymes might have gone more like this.

Mary had a little wine

Then thwhiskey sgtarts to flow

She. Looked around  for all the kids

Where they went she didn’t. Know

Then Jackand Jill went up. The hill

To fetch a pale from the old still

What happened when they reached the well?

Jack. Can’t recall and Jill won’t tell

I don’t  care if Mother Goose  made these things up or if she went the weird Al route.  A lot of kids  have learned to talk and read and  had a good time acting out some of these  funny and scary  little pieces of  culture and that’s good enough for me.  

Now that’s about enough for a Friday...however I just had a wicked thought.  With 16 kids and all the  offspring they  would eventually  have there  probably was eventually. A Bruce and a Lucy or maybe Bruce  Goose married Lucy.  That would make them Bruce and Lucy Goose...andI wonder what stories they might tell?

Oh. and one last  “rhyme”  for the morbidly inclined—

Mary had a rattle snake

Rolled it up into a cake

Then Little Jacck Horner  Sat in the  corner

To  hahave hhim some Easter. Cake

He stuck in. his thumb

And thought  lord I’m dumb

And that was ahis last mistake.

You see Jack was a selfishlittle  squirt and it’s important to share.

So go out and  share some peace and joy  today!