Voluntary Simplicity stuff

[lighter]

And I'm glad I have a lawn and no lover: )

Lighter

[Meh]

And I'm glad I have a lawn and no lover: )

Lighter

And... I'm a lover of that sentence.

You ladies are funny. Lovers aren't all that bad, are we just saying this to make ourselves feel better about being alone or old?

Young people complain about being alone, old people rejoice in being alone...but is it authentic.

I guess not having a lover is a type of voluntary or involuntary simplicity. It does make things more simple.

Isn't it even at least a small part romantic... we were stuck inside during the historical Covid19 crisis... and all that was left for us to do was entertain each other in every way possible.

[Hopalong]

I would like
a lover on
the lawn

I understand your yearning, G,
I think it's healthy and normal of you.
So much loneliness is very hard. I'm sorry.

It must be, for those who live with their
lover/partner during quarantine, such a
relief sometimes to make love and let
the outside world disappear.

Other than recommending Betty Dodson,
don't have much to offer except to say I
will be thinking of you today, really hoping
you can make friends with some scrap of
dirt even though there's no ownership, just
to have the experience of working in soil and
life and growth anyway. Even a pot. A house
plant. Some basil in a milk jug.

No more Hopstructions...you have to intuit your
own activity or ritual that will ease the sadness.
Not really for others to invent for you.

THIS TOO WILL PASS, G....I hope something
comes across to you that eases how hard it is.
You deserve some peace and especially, hope.

hugs
Hops

[lighter]

Garbonzo:
I hope you find reciprocal love, and herbs in a milk jug too.

You deserve and need touch and care.

Lighter

[Meh]

Oh brother, when you put it that way I don't want it.  (Razz here if it was working)

That lover on the lawn though, why not cake and cake and cake, sure.

nah nah I really don't want softness and compassion I just want to bitch and be pissed off about it

swinging my eyeglasses around in a loop, I should probably sleep before I fidget something into disrepair

[Hopalong]

G--

Here's an Rx for ya:
Find Marriage by Allen Ginsberg, stand in your bathroom and read it aloud at the top of your lungs with all the expression you got!

I always thought memorizing that poem to recite at the drop of a dime would be an excellent party trick.

Alternatively, try Howl, but it's a marathon.

For pure wonder and another example of astonishing perspective try Falling by James Dickey.


Hops, who just previously suggested everybody's got to find their own activity for the moment they're in

[Meh]

U R making me smile Hops. An annoyed but entertained smile

[Meh]

!!  THANK YOU 123, was looking for it yesterday.

[Hopalong]

Yes, Corso!!!! Not Ginsberg.
Thank you so much....

And I loved hearing him read it.

What an accent.

hugs
Hops

[CB123]

I thought it was Corso reading Ginsburg? I googled Ginsburg poem Marriage and got Corso.

It did make me laugh out loud, I had never heard it before.  Thanks for sharing, Hops.

CB

[lighter]

I really enjoyed that, CB.

Lately, I've been noticing feeling present, without thinking about it.  Just being present, and it's everything.  It's feeling in the right place at the right time for the right reason.  So comforting and everything is a smile or the verge of smiling. A sea change.  An entire inner universe shifting into place. 

It's not about shutting out other things. It's about being present, in the moment.  Simple, but not so simple.  Is it a groove we drop into?  Is it something we seek or is it something we relax into and allow ourselves to float on?  Thinking about it creates some worry and a shift OUT of being present, I notice.

I wonder what shifts inside us.... electromagnetically, chemically when we drop in and out of being present/alive.  I don't even know if I've done research or learned anything about it.  I assume things do shift and change, but being present means I don't run off chasing other things.

Anyway, thanks for sharing this.

Lighter

[Meh]

You ladies are the closest thing I have to a Not-Dead Poets Society.

Random: There were a handful of people I had on my Skype account from years ago. Mostly due to this isolation stuff I started chats with them again. It's reasonable to have virtual communications with people, yet in comparison to chatting with someone in real life circumstances, the online world can feel odd, it can feel odd when one realizes in their 3-D world how much of their time is being spent in a virtual world. I don't think virtual world are "Bad" exactly. Still there is a tendency to feel like what is on line isn't legitimate, or that there is some social ruling about it as if being on-line is a crutch. It's not exactly fulfilling though.

[Hopalong]

I hear that, G.

I rarely video-talked with anyone before this quarantine.
Once Zoom was the only way to hold my Covenant Group (church women thing) I bit the bullet. After awkwardness for several meetings, we've all relaxed into it.

And I've been surprised how positive and intimate my online T sessions are.

I figure I'll take whatever format's available and just adjust. It's not the same but in some ways at some times, it's more focused and intimate. That's odd but I'm glad to find a positive as long as it lasts.

Hops

[lighter]

I want face to face appointments with my T again.....  Whaaaaaaa.

I'm not comfortable with Zoom or WhatsApp. 

I miss and want the old ways.

Lighter