For the next couple of weeks, I am re-releasing some old comics from a few years ago at the rate of one-a-day until July 1st.
1. Kansas. In 2008, I went to Kansas to visit my husband’s family.
2. The Sunflower State. I didn’t know what to expect. It was everything I had expected and more– including a tornado! Stay tuned.
For the next couple of weeks, I am re-releasing some old comics from a few years ago at the rate of one-a-day until July 1st. Enjoy!
1. Kansas. In 2008, I went to Kansas to visit my husband’s family.
If you push any button long and hard enough, eventually it’s going to go out of order. Whatever you are pushing will stop (which isn’t completely true, because everything moves according to its volume, pressure, rotation and vibration; there are always internal degrees of freedom). A watch that can stop time is theoretically possible (inasmuch as anything is possible “in theory”) –and I want one. I want a watch that can create time by stopping the universe at my whim and leisure. At first, I’d be content with just one more hour of sleep, but eventually I’d tack on another hour for wakey-time. Pretty soon, I’d be up to 48-hour days and 48-month years and 48-year decades. I’d have time to work and finish my studies. I’d have time to be with friends. I’d talk to my family. I would use the same tea bag over and over until the string finally breaks. I’d make daily comics. I’d do something with my hair. I would become more generous. In the natural order of things, I’d be the one pushing the damn buttons (instead of the other way around).
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II
Few of us will make any individual mark for mankind to remember. What we can do today is make our lives meaningful in the moment. Future generations will remember none or few of us as individuals; our legacy is the world we leave for our children and their children.
I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.
Quotation from Dorothy Parker
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau
“What happened to the chocolate?”
“I ate it. It was there for three days. You had as many opportunities to eat it as I did.”
Symptoms of chocolate toxicity include: hyper-excitability and hyper-irritability; increased heart rate, restlessness and urination; muscle tension and tremors. Complications include hypothermia, seizures, cardiac arrest, even death. Death can result from intoxication… No antidote exists for chocolate poisoning in a dog.
Quotation from VetInfo.com, My Dog Ate Chocolate: How Much is Toxic?
There’s no road map on how to raise a family; it’s always an enormous negotiation.
Quotation from Meryl Streep
I’m not a mother but I still like to nurture and make pancakes.
I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try and make us pancakes.
George Carlin
Did life turn out the way you thought it would be when you were a kid? What you expected is probably what you got (unless you were unlucky); and if you didn’t expect much, that is also probably what you got. But no matter how well you planned (or didn’t plan), be honest– your life didn’t turn out exactly like you thought it would happen. For better or worse, one thing is certain: There were surprises and exceptions along the way.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Quotation from Dennis Wholey
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau
It’s the day after Christmas. This is also a time when family violence increases. People are together more, amid the additional stresses of holiday spending and often alcohol. Don’t allow it in your life, or in the lives of your loved ones. Domestic violence is NOT acceptable, even at Christmas.
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) if you need help or shelter.
A wish for world peace from me to you. Merry Christmas.
Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious.
Quotation from Francis C. Farley
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Quotation from Janice Maeditere
The negotiations have begun. We don’t want to disappoint loved ones, but we don’t want to stress our finances either. If you want that iPod, I get a new camera. What will it take to make you happy?
Three in 10 Americans report a job loss in their household in the past year; among the rest, nearly half are worried about it happening in the months ahead. That makes it an uncomfortable time to spend.
Quotation from ABC News
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Quotation from Dalai Lama
I’m on my way out, she said,
like she was picking up keys
after finishing the grocery list
and buttoning her coat
before quietly closing
the door after her.
Poem for Aunt Lucille, recently diagnosed with incurable liver cancer.
Here’s why I’m afraid. When we got engaged, my
mother-in-law told hubby he could do better than me.
Outwardly nice, she chopped off my limbs one by one.
Each time she did that, I replaced them with another made of tin.
I have a tin heart. I am The Tin Girl around her.
The Tin Woodman of Oz (Wikipedia)
Tin Man: My… mmm-my, my, my, my goodness. I can talk again!
Dorothy: Well, you’re perfect now.
Tin Man: Perfect? Oh, bang on my chest if you think I’m perfect.
Go ahead, bang on it! It’s empty. The tinsmith forgot to give me a heart. All hollow.
Script from the movie, The Wizard of Oz
“I’d be tender, I’d be gentle
and awful sentimental
regarding Love and Art.
I’d be friends with the sparrows
and the boy who shoots the arrows
if I only had a heart.”
Lyric from the movie, The Wizard of Oz
Today we’re coming home from Kansas!!! Real-time
Encore Seraphine updates begin again this weekend! HUGS!
Pentheraphobia is an intense fear of Mother-in-Laws.
It’s the fear of things that (theoretically) pose no
actual danger. It’s kin to the fear of computer cookies,
singing karaoke, being medicated, or being
microchipped (labeled) by strangers or family.
Isn’t there also a phobia for waking up in strange places?
Pictures of Phobias (FreakingNews.com)
Pentheraphobia Treatment (phobia-fear-release.com)
“There are various forms of the disease in which the victim
is unable to say “No.” Some of these forms are more serious
than others, and often lead to electrocution or marriage.”
Quotation by Robert Benchley
I’m currently in Kansas on Holiday. I’ll be back soon.
I’m currently in Kansas on Holiday.
(And no, I didn’t ask for her opinion)
“Satan should be her name
Mother in law, mother in law
To me they’re about the same
Mother in law, mother in law
Everytime I open my mouth
She steps in, tries to put me out
How could she stoop so low?
Mother in law, mother in law
Mother in law, mother in law”
Lyric by Huey Lewis, Mother in Law
Some people have the greatest relationship with their mother.
Other people don’t. I’m embarrassed by some of the things I
did to my parents as a teenager. Nobody’s perfect. We got
along better as adults. My mother died last year, and I miss her.
The Mother of Mother’s Day: Anna Jarvis (Mother’sDayCelebration.com)
“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes
who appear once a year on a greeting card with their
virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt
a hand for life and play each card one at a time the
best way they know how. No mother is all good or all
bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry.
Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”
Quotation by Erma Bombeck,
Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.