Or fear the blurry shadows as the light begins to dim
When the buzzer says it’s over as the ball bangs off the rim
As the waves consume the lifeboat and some aboard can’t swim
You can choose to start believing that all of life is grim
But i say grab your Goblet and fill it to the brim
For Karma flips eternally and often on a whim
And your slice of glee and happiness is really not that slim
Things Change
take a shot from the hip
All the posing just skip
And your sweetness unzip
So what if you slip
Don’t let fear crack the whip
Take a gulp not a sip
From Your Grail called Life’s Trip
Live Now
So holy cow it’s January 12th already and my “new Year’’s Resolutions are sitting patiently by waiting for me to dig in. Now it could be that some of us make these resolutions and don’t start on them right away and are starting to feel guilty…let’s visit that a little later. It may be that we’ve already given up in which case pat yourself on the back for being an overachiever as research has shown that the majority of all resolutions are abondoned by January 19th sometimes known as National Give Up Day. Either way let’s figure out what we really. Want to work on and start today but… first….
Let’s figure out why we didn’t start right away… There are probably lots of reasons, however, maybe its mostly about fear of change? Maybe let’s explore this by relating it to something most people are taught to fear—MATH.
Yep… you see most people get taught to be afraid of math at some level and then they stop building the foundation to change their level of math skills. So … let’s substitute math skills for life skills and put some stronger math bricks in your foundation and then in the next couple posts bring the two together. Life hacks/ Math Hacks
We are usually taught somewhere around third grade. Or fourth grade the only math hack we ever learn… so your schools are ripping you off (big shocker). What’s that Hack?
The rule of 9
When you multiply. Any number by nine the sum of the numbers in the answer will add up to nine. While this is true no matter how high you go we are usually only taught up to 9 X 9.
That’s a good foundational hack, however, it just get’s left there with no building. On top of it and that leads to some uncertainty so let’s expand shall we? What is almost? Why 10 of course… So multiplying by 9 is the same as multiplying by 10 which is adding a 0 to the end and subtracting that number multiplying by 1 which is of course that number. So let’s say we want to multiply 319 X 9 well that is 3190 — 31990–19 is 71 and 3100 —300 is 2800 so the answer is 2871 and of course 2+8+7+1 is 18 and 1+8 is 9 (remember what we said about the digits adding up to 9? So instead of multiplying all this numbers you are simplifying be adding a zero and subtracting and subtracting shouldn’t scare anyone…
The 5 Hack
Now another hack we should all be taught is the 5 hack but we are not. Now multiplying be 10 is adding a 0 and 5 is half of 10 so take the you are multiplying by 5 let’s say 1286 just for giggles. So cut 1286 in half which is 643 and and the 0 there’s your answer so what if it is an odd number …pick the next higher or the next lower number and do the same thing and simply add or subtract the 5. So let’s do 6217 for example… we’ll add 1 making it 6218 cut in half that’s 3109 now add the 0 so you have 31090 then subtract the 5 and presto you get 31085
Squaring numbers that end in 5 … so let’s say we are going to multiply 25 time 25 the hard way is to multiply 20 times 25 and then add another 5 times 25 or the other way around. The easy way is to look at the first digit which. Is 2 and then multiply it by the very next number which is 3 and then stick 25 on the end. So 25 time 25 is 6 (3X2) 25. Now let’s go to 45 squared using the same hack it is 4X5 (20) with a 25 tacked on or 2025 so of course 85 squared is 7225 etc.. and yes 105 squared is 110 (11X10) 25 11025!
Just one more for today
Multiplying by 25…
Now 4 X 25 is 100 and just like multiplying by 10 adds one zero… multiplying by 100 adds two zeros. Now the trick here is to remember. We are multiplying by 100 divided by 4.. so we add the two zeros and then divide by 4 or divide by 4 first and then add the zeros. So let’s take 72 X 25 .. Now 72 divided by 4 is 18 and 25X72 is 1800 Now you say that’s all good but what if the number doesn’t plot by 4? Good question… since you are multiplying by 25 your answer has to end in 00 25 50 or 75 so after you divide if there is 1 left over your answer ends in 25 for example 117 X 25 = 117 divided by 4. Or 29 with 1 left over.. so the answer has to end in 25 which means 117 times 25 is going to be 2925 39 X25 would be 39 divided by 4 which. Is 9 with 3 left over so that is going to end in 75 or 975
The point is …. Math can be fast and fun and easy..however many of us were not taught that… We learned that there were piles of complicated numbers to be figured out. Carried put in columns and the very least we need a fancy calculator to even come close..
What is being suggested here is that we are probably more likely to feel good about seeking peace and joy through New Year’s change if we start with a simplified scheme that we can feel good about.
So let’s say you want to eat better…. Start by multiplying by 10… What? Adding one zero… eating one piece of fruit or one green vegetable Then if you want to get a little more advanced multiple. By five.. Eat one fruit AND. One vegetable .
Back to the point about not starting yet… Screw it… You are the master of your own life calendar… start today … Guilt never changed history… and you may have to start again a few times in order. To figure out what formula works for you.. You may multiply. By 9 by simply multiplying by 9 but. You may find it must easier to multiply. By 10 and subtract.
Seeking peace and joy or any change or building any meaning is adding up the pieces from where you stand at any one time. And after a while you can start putting some anchors down like knowing that 74 squared is 5476 and 76 squared is 5776 and 88 squared is 7744… the point is practice facing fears to build a foundation from which to exercise curiousity … and be sure to show your work!
More Math hacks soon and your new year starts now…
Peace.
Hark ye crooks collecting fees
Stop selling fears it’s a disease
Don’t worship greed with so much ease
And spreading debt through mock degrees
We vow to no more bend our knees
We’ll lift our heads and say -Oh Please
Blood from our stones you shall not squeeze
Today’s that day we choose to seize
Economic Policy
Of someone’’s bold advice
Smear at fear and roll the dice
Don’t be squeaky like young mice
Or drink cheap champagne on ice
If choice exists then please choose nice
I’ll be glad to tell you twice
Peace and Joy are worth the price
Then the breaking story broke
No one laughed for it’s no joke
For with one quite careless stroke
countless giants they did poke
There’s all daggers but no cloak
Like burning gasoline with oak
Civil discourse up in smoke
SocialMedia
At the wheel of fate you wink
As you stand here on the brink
You’ll dare not even blink
Or count how many shots you’ll drink
As the bright sun morphs to pink
And the blue sky turns to ink
Hope conquers as fears shrink
Liquid courage
In the previous entry I hammered out my feelings about the current lock out and I make no bones about it, the owners are allowing the love of power rule over the power of love (the love many fans have for the game and the love many of us would pass on to others). In terms of seeking peace and joy, baseball is more than a hot dog and a beer or peanuts and Cracker Jack—why?—at least three reasons.
You see….
Baseball is not dictated by external time. Nearly all other major team sports, if not all, start with a symbol a horn a whistle and then the clock starts to run and every action has some time components to it. Baseball starts when the ball comes to the place where the first batter has a chance to observe it, act on it or let it pass and the story of the game at hand comes about. The game goes on until the last batter concludes an action and then the results can be considered and placed into perspective along with lessons from other games etc. The pitcher, the fielders, the batters, the umpire, and the fans don’t wait for a two minute warning and aren’t watching the clock at all as the only thing that counts is what is happening right now.
There is an expectation of “failures” leading to learning.
Even the “best” hitters fail to reach base about 6 or 7 times out of ten. The odds that any pitcher will pitch a no-hit game let alone a “perfect” game are smaller than tiny and all game long we cheer for our flawed hero’s. We expect the hitters to take wicked cuts in situations where they are challenged. I wonder how much more interesting life would be if we expected the same of ourselves and those we know? I wonder. How much more peace and joy would abound if we accepted that failure would happen often and lessons would be learned.
All game situations are temporary.
There are enough games. In a season, enough at bats and enough pitches in each game, that what happened in one inning or in what at bat in one game comes and goes and each action can be the beginning of a new plot twist, a new story etc. So even if todays game was rotten tomorrow is a different story. Thus it is. Or can be in life.
We cheer for people we don’t really know, however, we share a purpose with.
You stand and cheer for your home team. You don’t really know the players and they don’t know us, yet because we share a goal we all stand and cheer. What if, once we made our purpose known, like-hearted.people would stand and cheer when we had a good day?
Baseball give the players and the fans plenty of time to talk with each other on and off the field. While sitting in the stands you can turn to the person next to you and have plenty of time to connect, chat about the game or almost anything. You can also sit and observe many parts of the baseball universe and know that many people sitting around you also know and appreciate the subtle aspects of the life experience you are having in this moment.
Baseball as a sport gives us all. Of that not to mention all the joys children and their parents get playing and passing it along…maybe that’s for tomorrow.
For now —let’s get the bargaining agreement done.
Maybe some should read it twice
For with very little sacrifice
You hold the latest phone device
Shouting takes not keys nor mice
Yet if you choose not to be nice
You just rolled the cosmic dice
Which can’t be cleaned when dipped in rice
#think first
I FOR ONE Like Roman Numerals—and a couple more things to ponder
Let’s say you sit down to write the true historical account. Of your first car...
Is that an autobiography?
Puns and word wrinkling can be fun and yet over the past couple years it seems that folks are taking some words and their meanings to their limits of utility. Almost everyone today runs into the question “what are your pronouns?” well I use them from time to time, yet is it really necessary to claim ownership and then be defined by these? For example, if I say I’m a he/him is there a formula where he/him+she/her = They/them? Doesn’t He/himx 2. Also = they/them? Who gets to decide when and where... and more importantly why pronouns get to be so important. I think we are sneaking a bit too many adjective attributes into the process and so maybe we could admit the subtle attachment of meani?”
By asking someone to give a pronoun are we really saying you have to express an extreme? Do we want to simplify folks into a three letter word? What if we had to go through life. Only using three letter words? That would work for a hot dog and ham, yet how would we get a hamburger... Oh wait “Big Mac.” Red would be a color yet what names would we give to other bands on the rainbow.
We would. Have a cat a car and still go to the bar to get gin or a mug of ale, yet the limits of what we could say, do, or mean get really clear really quickly.
As stated.words can be fun yet we need to be sure that we have something to say at least as often as we feel like we have to say something.
also there is the whole process of building meaning in context. We have more opportunity to read the text of a speech than ever before and thus the spoken word can have all its richness stripped away. Not everything looks the same naked.... take for instance a marching band or the symphony.... Oh too harsh?
In the cyber age it’s important to offer a little context that can sit on the shelf with the bits of info we share so when our friends followers and such drop in our gifts don’t get regifted in strange and unintended ways. In short understand that words live in the now just like people do and change like people do as well.
In summary word play is often fun, yet let’s not get too cute with the subtle defining. That can go on even if respect is intended. Some words need to stay subtle and complex so try to have the patience. To wade through with those words. Be careful with words like always and never. Work as hard on having something to say as on making sure you are always saying things.
For now just remember being certain about who is he/she/him/her/ they/them needs to be balanced with how WE can get to a Place for all of US
Here it comes....
So before we go running for the shelter—Rolling Stones lyric to be continued below—
As promised the SPJU will include some insights from books that have seeped through my awareness recently. Let’s start with the non-fiction. 4000 Weeks is by far the finest time management book out there. Of course those terms time and management are completely erroneous. In the seeking peace and joy world we are not concerned with “time” per se—it’s about experience creation and it’s not management it is “use.” You can’t manage time because it happens and you have no way to make it go any direction but “forward” or seemingly forward. Actually it doesn’t go anywhere because when are you living? You aren’t living in the future and while sometimes your thoughts are influenced by what has happened you aren’t breathing air in the past either. so this book helps people focus on the illusions we get caught up in. For example it reminds us that the better we get at doing some things the more we “get” to do —like the more e-mail we respond to the e-mail we are likely to get and the better we use our time the more things we are likely to attempt. The book reminds us that there will always be more experiences that we might choose than there will be “time for so we can best find peace if we accept that instead of feeling overly anxious about it.
Every Minute is a Day... Authors: Robert? Meyer and Dan Koepell.). This is a book about New York emergency room activities and personnel and the initial COVID slam. No matter what your stance on the virus—and the virus doesn’t care what your stance it by the way—this book gives a compelling description of how some real human beings dealt with the real onset of this era in New York City.
Fiction.
Well it’s the “who-done-its” that usually get my attention and we’ll see what Scooby and Shaggy pulls the mask off about these in a second. By far the best fiction so far this year is
Mitch Albom’s.
Man in a Life Boat.
You want social commentary, spirituality, exploding luxury liners with rich people? You want tropical islands romance and more... This is the book for you. It’s a book about the real power. Of believing in something and coming to grips with the meaning of life’s experiences. If there was a Seeking Peace and Joy Universe Library, this would lead the suggested reading in the fiction section and for quite some time.
Jack Reacher and Jessie Stone are the hero’s of record in most the other fiction consumed since the first of the year. Lee Child and Robert Parker (as interpreted. And channeled by Mike Lupica) provide The good guy wins mob, Terri or its, drug cartel villain riddled adventures of quick witted good people who creatively weave justice through intense situations. There’s also Jack.Noble as a hit man (can’t remember the author) in a series of adventures I’ve read. This year. Why these books?
well... unusual circumstances happen and people act fairly decidedly which is an approach to fear that seems pretty effective and in sync with seeking peace and joy. Oh and Now back to the top and The Rolling Stones..
Running for the Shelter of Mother’s Little Helper....
Yesterday the reading pile was topped with a little dessert from the November issue of Good Housekeeping.... and lo and behold the magazine suggested that we all might share instead of getting off of my cloud and look to the promise of organic medicine... yes Good Housekeeping featured the upside of magic mushrooms and other psychedelics which are now being seriously studied for their beneficial properties....
So Betty Crocker is not only baking with stones... we might be seeing our domestic engineering magazines supporting getting stoned and baked as well?
Seriously, alternative medicine is being used with greater effectiveness every day and Good Housekeeping showed real courage in publishing this. Here is another instance where folks the bed their nose at fear and said let’s tell the story.... seeking peace and joy behavior at its finest.
Well it is time to do some domestic engineering of my own (don’t you just love a “good” Housekeeping term?
Stay warm wherever you ar Peace
Since there have been and will continue to be various calendars applied to whatever time is on this planet, in this galaxy, within this universe etc and since the world (as we know it) excepting for that pesky concept of conservation of matter/energy—will end we can simply modify when we start counting so that 2022 will mark the end just like the wise old owl tells us that it takes 3 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
So that’s prediction. Number one. Here are nine more predictions and resolutions coming from the seeking peace and joy realm and spanning what’s left of the year.
Resolution and /or Prediction 2 —Sharing thoughts about books....
Yours truly listens to an estimated 500 books a year—yes that means I’m listening to books and music pretty much non-stop. It seems that somewhere other than my gray matter should be used to record at least one quote/concept/thought to be passed along. After all, if any of “Seeking Peace and Joy” ever makes it into a book I want people to record their reflections for further review. So... do unto others. These mini-reviews are probably. Going to be jotted down in some blogs and recorded in frequent podcasts... depending on which instruments of mass instruction are most convenient. At the time. Will the reader have to cross platforms? Yep.... sorry—it’s the 21st century!
Resolution-Prediction 3 –Getting organized—This Blog has over 500 entries....500.... if you would have told me I was required to write 500 entries over the course of a lifetime I may have wiggled a solitary finger and said no way at one point, yet now that we’ve crossed that Rubicon it’s all downhill from here—unless we’re headed in the wrong direction. The point is....it is possible to index the entries and I haven’t done even a half fast (Thanks Mac) job of using labels so readers can weave their way through new and old entries. So... as the munchkins advised the ruby-slippered runaway... let’s begin at the beginning. Starting tomorrow the process of. Making sure each blog will have at least three categories attached to it begins. By the end of 2022 (and hopefully before) every blog entry will be thusly organized. Does it mean there will be some square pegs in round holes? Yep and some triangle screws will be wedged forcibly into trapezoid treehouses too.
Resolution-Prediction 4.
Drink More Water
What? This is self explanatory. I need to drink more water. It can be tap water, bottled water, vitamin. Water, and possibly even fire water (well maybe not so much), however I drink too much stuff with sugar and other ingredients. Now just a note of clarification. There are no such things as artificial flavorings.or colors. Anything you can taste has an actual or real flavor and anything you can see has a real actual color and all ingredients. Are natural unless they are ghosts which might make them supernatural. The point is I need to stay hydrated and do all things possible to enhance my supernatural immunity .
Prediction-resolution 5...
I will be using the restroom more frequently than in 2021.... see resolution-Prediction . Number 4
Prediction-Resolution 6.
If you read this blog (or listen to the podcast) you will have the opportunity to learn at least three new words (foreign or domestic) or novel concepts each month. For example the tiny glob of toothpaste left on the side of the nozzle should be referred to as crest-crust or social media that is blasting stuff your way without your control should be called MMDs Methods of Mass Distraction.
Prediction-resolution 7. I will learn to play 24 songs on the keyboard/piano (and describe these efforts in the SPJU. What’s the SPJU? remember. I said I’d be introducing a new concept? The SPJU is the “seeking Peace and Joy Universe LOL”. so I play a little already and yet it’s meager. I’m not fully engaged most the time when I do and while I can plunk out a mean smoke on the Water or Twinkle Twinkle, its time to be focused enough to echo some real melodies and chords etc. This will include at least 4 songs I write and play specifically. With the keyboard. You see, every instrument has some magic locked inside and like all experiences, unless you “paint the fence”, “sand the floor”< and “wax on wax off” it’s not likely you can gain or share the full meaning within. Therefore I’m diving in and bringing the SPJU along. There is a distinct possibility of failure here... but you’ll miss every shot you don’t take.
Resolution-Prediction 8. More “Poetry”
In the year of 20 and 21 There were some rhymes and they were fun Yet. More of them could have been done Describing prophet, pawn, or nun
for. Rhythmic words cut through the haze of words designed to clear the maze but often just disturb our days In in wacky large and little ways.
Alas new rhymes are now in store on topics one should not ignore IWith hopes of causing laughs galore or thoughts one’s never dared before
resolutions-Predictions 9 & 10 Pointing out Fear and Taking the risk and Responsibility
i will use first person. Entries more often....and shall be open with my fears and condemnation of said fears. These are two separate yet closely linked things. And it seems necessary to come right out and say so. In may of the 500 some odd posts prior to this I have avoided first person language in an effort to distance myself from some of the notions that most the readers (My readers?) have been exposed to and done so because I don’t want anyone to feel targeted or more importantly blame me for targeting ideas and folks. I use terms like “we often” when it would be more accurate to say “you know I often”.... so the thing is... maybe this shows fear and I’m so tired of being afraid and I’m so tired of people being afraid and being sold the fact that they should be afraid. If you are. Afraid. Like everyone else than you AND I. Are cloaking the process of being responsible for inaction. Well though is not enough. If I and maybe we don’t choose risk and responsibility let’s not shout. Out about our “rights” in the coming year. You see living in the now and seeking peace and. Joy really do require acting in an engaged way. They require saying ‘fear” is real, yet it only lasts until we learn to grab lessons from “failure and then fear is just a prompt to provide a menu of risks worth taking. If I want. You to take this blog or the podcast. Into your heart and soul then I have to admit it comes from my heart and soul as fed by the people I know, the people i read, the songs I hear and play and on and on. the time has come for me. To say I am here... it is now... let’s walk forward in the light we can create and share
Peace, Joy, and Love
Jim January 2022
So in the previous entry we started exploring predictions/risks etc. because we often struggle with fear in seeking peace and joy or making most chosen changes. The reality is we make guesses based upon incomplete, outdated, and very stilted data all the time. This entry will belabor that point with a few more tidbits to chew on.
Making Choices…
This set of blog entries is about making choices. Anybody that tells you they don’t worry a few times. Now and again about the choices they make are certifiable or just liars. Some, maybe most of us wonder if the choices we make will lead to heaven/nirvana / the place of 72 virgins…whatever. Well let’s say that saints pretty much have a golden ticket to that show. The odds of someone becoming a saint (once submitted for sainthood by the clerics) is approximately 1 in 20 million. Since the chance that any of my former nuns would suggest such a thing is about the same as the chance of my not listening to music on any given day (0%) I’ll assume some of my choices will end up on the “he’s not getting into the pearly gates” scoreboard. The question is…. Does that make me fear making some choices? Well no… Seeking peace and joy requires living with uncertainty and if that is translated int insecurity that’s unfortunate….however why not ponder on being completely secure in the knowledge that uncertainty will not only visit it will bring it’s pet skunk from time to time. You’re no saint, I’m no saint but we can try to. To good. To and for each other and our chances are better than one in 20,000,000 of understanding a shared experience when we do.
Moving Forward…
Well our new year’s predictions often assume things will move forward, yet why do we make that assumption? As adults we don’t always move forward and sometimes we do things that might make the universe shake her head. We are spending a lot of energy worrying about. Our mode of transportation be it electric or gas powered. One thing we can be proud of is that adults in general have dismissed less fruitful options. What options? Well kids have for generations learned to ride and bounce around on pogo sticks. One in 115,000 adults who use a pogo stick wind up in the emergency room. regardless of the zero emissions and renewable fuel of a pogo stick there is no great call for adopting any pogo quotient by the year 2040. So what’s the point. We often make good choices and then forget that we do…. So we get more anxious and less able to conquer fear with other more valuable emotions. So next time you wonder if you are making the right choice remember you didn’t go to prom on a pogo stick. Seeking peace and joy is sometimes an exercise in believing inn what we have done enough to do the next thing.
Finally Fitting in…
Sometimes we wonder and are afraid because. We don’t think we will fit in. Well truth be told sometime we wont. In fact 4.4 million left handed people die. While using things designed for right handed people every year. However, of all the left-handed people who die or don’t die using these things that bnumber isn’t very big and there is little datat on people who only do some things left-handed. I drink left-handed and given the graphics on the cup I think it might be a right-handed design. Will that keep me from raising a glass to my friends and others willing to care for their fellow man? No way … Salute.
to sum up so far … don’t be afraid of not being perfect….your odds of first ballot salvation hall of fame are slim and you like everyone are going to make mistakes. Every now and then remind yourself that you have made some really good guesses. And predictions and although you may fall down you can generally count on the fact that seeking peace and joy will be a vehicle for a joyful meaningful life. By the way my personal pogo stick bouncing up record achieved at the age of 9 was 1209 bounces without falling off or stopping…but then it was time for the Lone Ranger or Batman…priorities are priorities.
finally connecting is powerful, and yet worrying about fitting in doesn’t always have to dominate your choices…. You are sometime going to fit in when you least expect it and sometimes not….
Well one more entry on this and some “real” 2022 predictions in the next blog…. I hope odds are good you’ll read it.
Well I…yes I’m writing. In first person today. Why? This entry is about prayer and meditation and yes celebration and these are very personal matters so if I’m asking the reader to take things personally…well maybe I owe it to you all.
At least this once anyway…
for me this time of year is a time of prayer and meditation for a ton of reasons only a few having to do with Christmas, however, that day plus the start of the new year definitely contribute to my state of being/mind.
So let’s talk meditation. For me seeking peace and joy means finding ways to bring the things I actually experience in line with spiritual meanings that make sense in answering the question “why do I exist?” Peace and Joy are the products of finding insights related to that question. Meditation helps me actually experience what is going on without attaching the ghosts of what happened before and the fears of the future things I can’t possibly control… (why do i fear things? Lack of faith mostly…plusit’s good to feel like you control a lot…. Egotism is easier than humility.
Meditation places me in a grounded place where my actions have immediate meaning and where I don’t need to worry about any other place or time…. That’s a powerful feeling. ‘
Also meditation is a place where it feels like I “hear the universal sound” of the great spirit/the force/God. I can quiet my thoughts, feelings, etc… long enough to be and to learn.
Prayer…
Now I’ve mentioned this before, yet since it’s still true I’m repeating it today as something for us all to think about. We often make resolutions about what we want for the new year… we promise ourselves and others changes big and small. Well… my favorite prayer serves as a reminder about making plans and moving forward in collecting experiences and meanings.
“Give us today our daily bread”.
My daily bread is what I am able to experience and enjoy right now and what i can use to understand my spiritual existence. I don’t need to know how it all ends or who comes out on top. I don’t need to know if I’ll be successful in the eyes of my friends, family, or the world. It doesn’t say give me just a little more bread than the next guy or just a bit more than yesterday.
Forgive us our trespasses…
It doesn’t say… “if I mess up”. IUt pretty much says… look you are human and sometimes you will f**k up royally. So… please take into acccount that I will admit. My failures and get over it when the failures others have create potholes in my fast lane.
As I forgive those who trespass against me. It doesn’t say if you are right hold a grudge until the whole world decrees you were smarter, faster, wiser, and altogether better than someone else. It also doesn’t say a human’s forgiveness has to be infinite it says be reasonable people… It says take a shot at being fair and don’t whine.
It seems if I can hold on tight to these simple things it doesn’t matter what day the calendar says…
Now thank you all for reading all year or listening to the podcast… I’mhumbledby thenumbers so it is fitting. I toast you all as the ball gets ready to drop’
The road ahead may not be clear
But we’ll fly ahead with love not fear
We’ll hold each other’s spirits. High
And last year can kiss our ass good-bye
Love You All
