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I wanted to write about something happy for a change. With the world in absolute chaos some mornings, I feel like we need some sunshine. (Ironically now in Port St. Lucie it is windy and rainy and the frogs are croaking.)
This past year I have discovered alternative music. My son says I sound like an eighth grader in my praise and excitement for Imagine Dragons and Arctic Monkeys. Well, okay. Laugh if you want, but one of the very important things in our lives is the discovery of something new and different. And for me this past year it was alternative music. This doesn't mean that I've put aside Randy Travis, George Strait or the Rolling Stones. It just means that the catalogue got larger. I can enjoy Rachmaninoff and then Train.
As we grow older, it is often difficult to find fresh and inventive ideas in any art form. I still read Jane Eyre again and again and any Jane Austen, but now I read Swedish and Norwegian authors with a vengeance. I look for stories about the Mideast. I read military stories about the current conflicts like i used to read all I could about Viet Nam. World War I has become one of my strongest interests.
I took to watching more of television programming that wasn't necessarily British. True Blood with its sex and romance captured my imagination. At my age it is fun to watch such shenanigans. And, of course, the series I was reading over 20 years ago is now on Starz network--Outlander. I have yearned a long time to see a visual Jamie and Claire. They got it absolutely right. Romance and married love does a body good!
I have enjoyed this past year. As I approach my 69th year, I think there is much to be grateful for. I have found prayer again and a modicum of faith. I have been fortunate to see my Alaska again and new places lke Montana and Idaho.
My heart has yearnings, yet unfulfilled, but I am learning patience with the process of living. Therein lies a great deal of contentment. — at Aboard the MS Westerdam, Inside Passage.
I wanted to write about something happy for a change. With the world in absolute chaos some mornings, I feel like we need some sunshine. (Ironically now in Port St. Lucie it is windy and rainy and the frogs are croaking.)
This past year I have discovered alternative music. My son says I sound like an eighth grader in my praise and excitement for Imagine Dragons and Arctic Monkeys. Well, okay. Laugh if you want, but one of the very important things in our lives is the discovery of something new and different. And for me this past year it was alternative music. This doesn't mean that I've put aside Randy Travis, George Strait or the Rolling Stones. It just means that the catalogue got larger. I can enjoy Rachmaninoff and then Train.
As we grow older, it is often difficult to find fresh and inventive ideas in any art form. I still read Jane Eyre again and again and any Jane Austen, but now I read Swedish and Norwegian authors with a vengeance. I look for stories about the Mideast. I read military stories about the current conflicts like i used to read all I could about Viet Nam. World War I has become one of my strongest interests.
I took to watching more of television programming that wasn't necessarily British. True Blood with its sex and romance captured my imagination. At my age it is fun to watch such shenanigans. And, of course, the series I was reading over 20 years ago is now on Starz network--Outlander. I have yearned a long time to see a visual Jamie and Claire. They got it absolutely right. Romance and married love does a body good!
I have enjoyed this past year. As I approach my 69th year, I think there is much to be grateful for. I have found prayer again and a modicum of faith. I have been fortunate to see my Alaska again and new places lke Montana and Idaho.
My heart has yearnings, yet unfulfilled, but I am learning patience with the process of living. Therein lies a great deal of contentment. — at Aboard the MS Westerdam, Inside Passage.
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