Just the other day, the temperature was about.......oh , 80 degrees, the sun just touching the end of our garden table, that sits on our deck.
to never disappear
the whistling of the birds
the smell of good wine
friends always by you side.
that's what life is all about)
Margot's lovely potted flowers finally feeling the needed warmth, a nice glass of wine and my thoughts. I had just finished lunch and now watch a single ant........ trying to make off with the tiny remains of my liverwurst sandwich, lightly covered with Grey Poupon dijon mustard. I really did not know if I was asleep, dozing off or just day dreaming....but whatever it was .......it induced me to start to chuckle and then all of a sudden burst out with a belly laugh................how stupid.........but an interesting concept of life.
Think about this!!!
What if, ones life was be lived totally in reverse.
Now , my concept is this.
A person is actually brought into this world at the time that he is actually leaving life.. Your life ........to begin in total reverse than it presently does.You begin as an old, grumpy shrivelled up person on retirement, collecting social security, and on medicare. ....... .and end as a newborn. What a concept. You presently end your life......for the most of us.......as an old fart with no teeth and a pacifier in your mouth. Under my new concept you will end up very young ...........with a pacifier like item in your mouth. Just take a moment as I did and think about how you would live your newborn life.........or does this REALLY happen..........after life as we know it. Do you really reenter your totally new life as an angel and work back? When someone finds out........shoot me an email!!!! I would love to know the answer.
Anyhow , that ant is still trying to pull that breadcrumb.......with liverwurst.....off the plate and will he be surprised as he gets closer to the side of the dish...........that's when he falls over the side ......the sandwich bit will fall on top of him and kill him.......or I will just give him the thumb of death and take it away from him.
I've just now noticed that my........trained birds......are beginning to appear to help Margot clean up any crumbs left behind. I feel as though, I'm sitting in an out door cafe in Tuscany at this moment, with all this action going on. HI SENORITA!!!! there is my neighbor, starting to BBQ her kimchi.........she's Korean but likes to think of herself as an Italian living in Tuscany also. OH what a glorious life.
This summer has not been necessarily one of the better ones..........perhaps for just a few happy moments here and there. Weather not so very good. Cloudier than normal, rainier than normal, but never the less the 5 perfect days we had was much taken advantage of. I'm thinking about writing something around............."The five days of summer" but just get my act together.
Now, while my latest batch of Vierlot is fermenting, I decided to tackle a really tough problem that apparently 535 congressional members plus the amount in the WH have not been able to do. Actually Margot told me this and I'm just lending a little bit more to it. This was an article in the St. Perersburg, FL Times. The business section asked readers for ideas on:
"How would you fix the economy?" I think this Old guy nailed it This from a senior citizen around 80 yrs of age.
"Please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan".
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings- Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN car. Forty million cars ordered.- Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing crisis fixed.
It can't get easier than that!!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes.
Mr. President,while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare, I'll bet both programs would be fixed."
Now to carry this persons idea one step further, I am soliciting for 23 volunteers to join me in following through with extending this to show Congress that 24 people with BRAINS can do more than 535 without BRAINS!!!
Now that I have got all this heavy thinking off my chest...............only one thing left to do. Name this group!! They had................A GROUP OF SIX. They presently have A GROUP OF TWELVE. It can only get better with our new GROUP OF TWENTY-FOUR.
