In January 2016 I began a series that I was intending to publish as a book but instead I shared on the blog in a series four years ago and I hope new readers to the blog will enjoy reading.
The R’s of Life by Sally Cronin
The title came about as I dipped into a Thesaurus to find some words for a poem I was writing. I noticed that a great many words that reflected key elements in our lives began with the letter ‘R’.
The posts are a bit longer than the average…so I hope you have a cup of tea handy!
RESPECT
It is always so easy to criticise and I don’t want these observations on the aspects of life that I have experienced to be completely negative. However, there are some human traits that seem to be devolving rather than evolving and I don’t believe…
December 31, 1999, in the evening, I wondered if the world would end 12:00 a.m., January 2000. We went to a party. Later in the night (11:30 p.m. or so) I was tired, I’ll just take a little nap in a bedroom.
When I woke up, maybe 12:15 a.m., the world didn’t end. I wonder if I WAS awake at 12:00 a.m., the world WOULD end though? Well, in any case, you’re welcome everyone. 🎉🍾
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“I know that I should be standing on the premise of “When they go low, we go high” (Thank you, PRESIDENT BARACK & MRS. OBAMA for always exuding the highest level of dignity and decency), but what I am hearing today, has me outraged…on another level. And, for the record, I don’t have to have brown skin to feel this way, and the same applies to you.
Logged into my Twitter just now and this is what I find…
How sad was that? So, I ask – if you voted for him, has he gone too far yet? Has he gone far enough for YOU to vote for something different in the coming election? If you don’t think that this person is inciting hate and spewing the worst kind of venom ever, you are either wearing blinders that are too tight OR you’re just like him, and he’s doing exactly what you want him to do. Yes, I said that and I didn’t stutter when I did.
When was there another time in our history that we had such a person running our country? When?
When was there ever a time that our country was the laughing stock of third-world countries? When?
When was there a time in our lives that we had to hang our heads in shame because we belong to the America that is now?
When was it ever this bad? I mean, those babies at the border are still babies…no matter the shade of their skin…right?
MAGA? Make America great again? My America was great long before this person took office. Now, my America looks more and more like a cartoon with every tweet that he sends from the Oval Office.
MAGA? What does that mean to me coming from him? Let me turn it around the way that I like to do when I’m putting a different spin on negativity. Let’s get rid of MAGA and turn it around to AGAM. You know what that means? AGAINST GOD AND MAN, because everything that he does and every word from his mouth goes against God and Man.
You’re welcome, person.
If you voted for him hoping that he would make some real positive change, I sincerely hope that you can now see that he is what is wrong with our country.
If you’re not happy with any of the candidates lining up to run against him (and there are many), meet “Bart” and his wife “Sally”…
They’d be happy to step in and MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN, and I love their campaign slogan more than anything! They’ve got my vote!
“Hey, person, all the hate you give won’t stop us…WE WON’T MOVE.”
Oh, and if you’re wondering why I have crossed out the word person as it applies here, well, here is the definition of a person: a humanbeing as distinguishedfrom an animal or a thing. Understand now why I can’t even refer to him as such?
How do you feel about his latest incite of hate? Voting for him again?”
“He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one.
And tho’ sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,
All his Legion buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.
But we’ll hear his tales no longer for old Bill has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer, for a soldier died today.
He will not be mourned by many, just his children and his wife,
For he lived an ordinary and quite uneventful life.
Held a job and raised a family, quietly going his own way,
And the world won’t note his passing, though a soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell their whole life stories, from the time that they were young,
But the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung …”
When I was 16 years old, I worked at Round Table.
When my shift was done, I changed back to my real close; but I still kind of smelled like pizza sauce. So I sprayed Ralph Lauren perfume, and no more pizza smell on me! … Then 5 minutes later, my close smelled like Ralph Lauren AND pizza again 😐
Someone actually posted this on ebay: (Vintage) “Lauren by Ralph Lauren, 1 fl/oz Bottle, Approximately 1/2 Full”
(?!?! — Who would buy this half empty perfume bottle?)
Maybe she works at Round Table, and she knew that Ralph Lauren doesn’t hide pizza smell too?
Maureen Twomey 