Oh Lord, Not my favorite jeans!
Or
BUILDING BLOCKS 419 PANDEMIC STYLE
Usually—what a strange word—I’ve heard it so often lately. “Usually we’re open from....”. Usually we eat out on Wednesday” “Usually Uncle Phil comes over on Saturday” and usually I save the Pandemic Journal for the end of a post... but there’s no real reason to pretend that what usually. Happens is, or need to be, happening right now. Therefore the journal—entry 7– comes first today.
I had a moment of enlightenment yesterday... Oh I didn’t see the face of God, reveal the final variables needed to build a unified theory of energy and matter, or even figure out how to open the plastic wrapping that came on my headphones—-you know the kind that you wind up using a pair of scissors to open and sometimes a knife to pry open.
Anyway the enlightenment came with regard to my wardrobe. Oh you’ve seen my dressing habits and you can’t believe I’m enlightened?—fair enough... I’ll clarify.
Yesterday I realized I almost have a new favorite pair of jeans! We’re friends here solet’s be honest...we all have a favorite pair of jeans if we wear them. They aren’t your favorite right off the shelf. You have to break them in. Until you do that you can’t tell for sauce if they are. Going to sag in the rear (at your waist or down below). You don’t. Know if they are going to sag at the belly or be just enough too long that when they get wet you step on the back of the left leg. Worst of all you have no idea if they are going to “ride up” in any of a couple of really unfortunate spots.
Well yesterday I almost wrecked the “newer” jeans I’ve been breaking in and those jeans have the potential to be the new number 1. Fortunately some quick thinking and a good wash machine saved them. Of course that spurred some thinking about the pandemic. A lot of us have. Days and events that are like our old comfortable jeans that almost have a big hole somewhere that can’t. Be hidden or repaired in a way that is publicly. Acceptable. In many ways it may be helpful to think of our new set of habits and social distances as “new jeans.” We now have some chances to make new choices and we will have Salome time to. Wear them in before. We take them out in public. If you are looking at “elephant bells” make sure to restrict them with a rubber band because these will get caught in your bike chain. Remember that new jeans never. Quite feel the best right off the shelf,, however your temporary discomfort. Will not bring your old jeans back so give the universe or your bodacious backside a bit of time to slightly alter the. Fabric of your life to really be okay when you shake shake. Shake it.
In short remember that your comfort zone has and alsways will change a little and sometimes you don’t get to. Pick when the process starts and is finished.
In short work hard to be patient—not with the world—-the world will be just fine—-be patient. With. Yourself and your. New skin (thigh new jeans). The )PE) is underway so get yourself some. New 501s or Lee or Wranglers or Wrustlers or whatever ... and start feeling the change until you have the comfort of your. New favorite jeans.
Okay now we go to some new building blocks. As always I’m not looking back to see what I wrote a couple weeks ago som my wonderfully flawed mind is providing the. First. Couple verses and I’ll add two more today.
Enjoy and look for more in a day or two.
The Building Blocks Pandemic Style
Well the world spins in a wobbly spiral
COVID -19 well it’s gone viral
So we can’t haunt the same old places
See all the familiar faces
As each routine fades or fails
We must fill in new details
Some will fly some will be frozen
As light shines on the paths we’ve chosen
As we explore new social distance
We’ll seek acceptance find some resistance
Find some relief find some despair
Make sure others know you you still care
You’ll find some strength and yet. Feel strange
Become aware of. How you’ll change
Let the past just pass let today begin
And get to know the glow you have within
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