Leap, Leap, Leaping...Again

I just looked in on my stats and found that a lot of people are Googling "Leap Day" and ending up on an old post I did on the last "Leap Day", back in 2012.  So I guess I can look forward to being popular at least every 4 years.  I hadn't planned on re-posting this--mostly because I'd forgotten I had written it--but, hey...who am I to  turn my back on a grateful world...?


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"Leaping for Leap Day"

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Have you picked up my new book “The Kingdom of Keys”?
                                                
No....what's up with that???

Better hurry before they're ALL GONE...which is a lie because they'll never be all gone...never....

So why not buy one just to reward my forthrightness..ness...ness?

You might even enjoy it.


And spread the word...cuz nobody else is....

Just sayin....
 
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Your World; it’s personal....

Each of us has a tremendous responsibility to manage the world.

So get busy.

What, you can’t be bothered managing the world?

Well, if you don’t manage the world—the world you, and only you, see through your eyes—then who will?

I mean it’s not like your world would exist without you, so shouldn’t you be the one to make sure your world is nice and tidy.

What if company comes?

Okay, sure, we’ve all heard it said: “the world will go on without us”.

Seasons will unfold, people will laugh, people will cry and Taylor Swift will continue to win Grammy after Grammy...I mean, if Kanye says it’s okay.

But will your world, the one you and only you, visit every day?

I’ve written before, I believe there are as many worlds as there are people.

That the way in which the world exits—the world through our perspective—is singular to us by the ideas and attitudes we’ve cultivated and lived by since we were old enough to walk and talk.  Through the experiences, good and bad, we’ve enjoyed and endured. Relationships, travels, tastes, the chances we took and the chances we didn’t.  Satisfaction, regret...joy and pleasure...sorrow and grief.

All of it, coloring our days.

Sometimes, crushing and overwhelming.

Sometimes, too good to be true.

But most times, quiet, mundane, easy and ever ordinary.

Quiet as the first star appearing on a summer night is quiet.

Mundane as the flight of a butterfly is mundane.

Easy as a warm fire on a winter’s night is easy.

Ever ordinary as an infant smiling and grabbing your nose for the first time is ever ordinary.

We manage it...all of it...our entire world in the way we let it seep into our lives. The way we let the things we can’t control affect us. The way we let the things we can control affect others. The way we let the things that knock us, shake us and turn us upside down, keep us down...or brush them aside and pull ourselves back up.

We can do that...as soon as we understand that...we can. 

As soon as we allow that...we will.

As soon as we’ve done that...we’ve won.

It’s a big responsibility; we all have it...we all share it.

Manage our world and the big world will follow.


Simplistic?

Sure.

It really is.

It’s just how I try to manage....

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Have you picked up my new book “The Kingdom of Keys”?
                                                
No....what's up with that???

Better hurry before they're ALL GONE...which is a lie because they'll never be all gone...never....

So why not buy one just to reward my forthrightness..ness...ness?

You might even enjoy it.


And spread the word...cuz nobody else is....

Just sayin....
 
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Hope-ful or Hope-empty

Some people say there’s always a reason to be hopeful.

I, however, am not one of those people.

I’m more on the hope-empty side.

It’s been well documented.

If you’ve been paying attention.

Which I’m sure you haven’t.

I’m one of those people who’s constantly on the lookout for the other shoe to drop...that is if I could find the first shoe, let alone drop the other one.

If the light ahead is green, I’m certain it will change to red, just as I pull up to it.

And it does.

That is if my car starts up in the morning.

Over-Caffeinated Concerns

I’m a little over-caffeinated today.

I usually keep to two cups of coffee each morning, but today I totally forgot about the second cup and accidentally had a third.

Well, maybe not so much accidentally as I had to actually make another cup.

Well, not the cup—I already had the cup...a lot of cups, actually—but more the liquid that goes into the cup that contains the coffee...and, naturally the caffeine.

Well, maybe I made more than just another cup and the liquid that goes into the cup that contains the coffee...and, naturally the caffeine, since I don’t know how to make just one cup, so I actually made two more cups and the liquid that goes into the cup that contains the coffee...and, naturally the caffeine...but only drank one more...at least for now.

So I’m feeling a little more energetic than usual...you know, because of all the yada yada yada....

Not that you can tell, because you’re just reading this and you can’t see the size of my pupils...but if you could, you’d know that I’m really geared up.

I mean right now, I have the urge to paint my roof, enlarge my basement...maybe even move my neighbor’s garage.

Spaces for Places

 

People don’t live in apartments or work in offices anymore.

Instead they have spaces.

You might overhear two people speaking, while you’re eavesdropping at the guacamole store:

“I need a new Armadillo cage for my space.”

“What happened to your old Armadillo cage?”

“Nothing...I just need something new to change things up...something more exciting than what I’ve been living with.”

“In your current space?”

“Yeah...I could never fit an Armadillo cage, to my liking, in my old space.  Way too small for that kind of thing.”

Inside My Inner Voice

 

I’m told it’s an especially good time to listen to my inner voice.

Which is not an especially hard thing for me, since my inner voice never stops yammering...or asking for pizza

But I suppose that’s the point.

I guess I walk around, day in and day out, hearing my inner voice, but not really listening to it...I mean, aside from the pizza part.

Groundhog Day...Well on Our Way

 

 

 

It’s already the second day of February—Groundhog Day for those who observe—and 2016 is well on its way.

At some point this morning folks in various locales around the country will or will have already gone through the motions of annoying an oversized rodent who will predict or will have already predicted if we are to have more or less winter to come in some length or another.

I could have saved them all the trouble, including the rodent, since I’m fairly certain that we will indeed have quite a bit more winter, at least up until the early morning hours of March 20.

Yeah...I know. I’m taking all the fun out of it.