This is a satirical website, hopefully that is obvious… This video, however, is less so. She is advocating some of the strategies I have implemented attempting to ride out the tormenta de mierda that is El puta pendejo naranja.
When Awe Is Provoked Within Us
From Thom Hartmann:
Geeky Science. Feeling awe and wonder actually improves your health, both mental, emotional, and physical. Multiples studies over the years have proven that the more often we can provoke that feeling of awe within ourselves — be it through looking at the stars at night, viewing awesome art, or just simple spiritual exercises like prayer — the more it improves our body and mind. Figure out what triggers your awe-button and turn it into a daily ritual; you’ll see a whole cascade of improvements in your life, according to all this research.
Crazy, Crazy Weather
This picture of Señora was taken this Christmas Day. We were riding around August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in my MX-5 Miata, top down, no coats, no heater.
This is the forecast for Sunday night going into Monday morning, we are going from 75 degrees at 1 pm to 14 degrees at 7 am. It has been springlike most of the Christmas week. Golf courses have been covered up and impossible to get on. Mother Nature is giving me whiplash!
Or if you prefer you weather in Celsius, we are going from 23 degrees to -9 degrees:
Quote of the Day – Fred Allen
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Hanging is too good for the man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.” ~~ Fred Allen
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Word of the Day – Weltschmerz
Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
- Noun: Weltschmerz
- mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
- a mood of sentimental sadness
- Note: Another word we borrowed from German and that we never gave back. Ranks up there with schadenfreude for me. A word I learned twice. Once from one of my brothers attempting to show off his erudition, although it was the mot juste for that moment. And a second time from Mr. Sikeston who loves trivia.
- Synonyms:
- ennui
- tiredness
- weariness
- apathy
- melancholy
- doldrums
- dispiritedness
- Encountered: While watching an offering from Great Courses Plus , one on vocabulary, go figure.
- Usage: When I asked daNet to use it in a sentence, I got this:
“After reading the news, she was overcome with a profound sense of weltschmerz, a deep melancholy for the world’s suffering and imperfections that felt too heavy to bear. “
Which is pretty much where I am these days. It depresses me so that as individuals, some of us, at least part of time, can be so noble, but as a species we are so incredibly stupid, base and at times downright evil. Of course, going back to my biology degree, the job a species is to propagate itself. We have done an incredible job of that, actually too good.
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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #1,811
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Overheard…
I was standing in line at the supermarket, well, Schnucks, if you must know. In front of me were two young women, thirty-somethings, who, from the contents of their shopping cart, looked like they were buying for a party.
First one says to the second, “I heard your ex-husband had a blind date last night. Good for him.”
“Well, maybe,” said the second one, “I am still good friends with the wife of one of his buddies. She told me he told his buddy that his date had been a well worn pincushion full of little red flags.”
“Does not sound like there is going to be a second date,” said the first gal.
“I would guess not,” said the second.
They went on to other topics less worthy of my eavesdropping.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #6,812
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
I made a run to a local grocery store, Schnucks, as I was out of my eponymous cerveza, Dirty Bastard. As I was walking in, an elderly Chinese couple was walking out. Okay, the Chinese ethnicity is an assumption on my part, probably a good one, as there is a large Chinese population in the St. Louis area. In fact our neighbors to our left are from Taiwan. But I meander. The wife (another assumption on my part) was jabbering away at her husband in what I assumed was Mandarin.
Trouble was that she was eating something and had her mouth so full that the words were very garbled. I just could not understand anything she was saying.
My Current Mantras
Mantra is defined as: originally in Hinduism and Buddhism) a word or sound repeated to aid concentration in meditation. It has also come to mean: a statement or slogan repeated frequently. This is the sense with which I am using the word.
The phrase I have been saying to myself most frequently of late is “be gracious.” Obviously, I am saying this when I am feeling anything but. It is something I am finding harder and harder to do with this “Me First” culture that seems to be the norm these days. I kept telling myself I do not want to be that guy when I have an urge to be less than gracious. Although, frequently, my technique for being gracious is to remove myself from a situation when I find it difficult. I keep trying to picture myself as a kindly, white-haired, eloquent, elderly gentleman allowing the trials and tribulations of life to wash over me as gentle waves. Yes, yes, I know in that string of adjectives, only white-haired and elderly would be used by most of my acquaintances and relatives.
I would have thought that when I retired my level of stress would have diminished. After all I am not the person responsible for making sure the payroll software does not hinder getting the payroll out every two weeks, or any other roles I had in other jobs that involved large sums of money and much scrutiny by other departments. It does not seem to have worked that way. Clearly, other, more personal things are stressing me at this stage of my life.
The second phrase, which I frequently pair with the first, is, “don’t judge.” As an INTJ being judgmental is hardwired into my personality, especially as I have an analytic turn of mind… “don’t judge, be gracious.” I still would like to think that everyone is doing the best they can, although I do not truly believe that anymore. Oops, there I go being judgmental again.
Lastly, and as it affects me most often, the most necessary, is the phrase, “do it now while you are thinking about it.” All too often of late, I think I need to do this or that, saying to myself I will do it next, or in five minutes, or whenever, only to completely forget about it for an extended period of time.
So, there you have it, my self-talk.
Go listen to some Rickie Lee Jones.
Quote of the Day – Mark Twain
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” ~~ Mark Twain
My red-headed mother – the child of sharecroppers – seemed to go back and forth between red-headed and auburn…
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Word of the Day – Snollygoster
Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
- Noun: Snollygoster
- a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician – US dialect.
- Synonyms:
- Machiavellian
- opportunist
- knave
- And many more… Synonyms for Snollygoster
- Encountered: While watching an offering from Great Courses Plus , one on vocabulary, go figure.
- Usage: Well not usage, but my thoughts on the word. When I first heard the definition I immediately thought of El puta pendejo naranja currently stinking up the Oval Office. I began playing with how the word sounded as I pronounced it. On its own it changed from snollygoster to Snollygoster-in-Chief. For a brief moment I thought it a good euphemism for President Baldy Locks, but I then thought it sounded much too cute for that, like a character in a Dr. Seuss book. However, there is no way his heart will ever grow three sizes in one day. In fact it seems to be shrinking more and more with each new day, almost as fast as his cognitive decline.
- More:
- If you want to get your nerd on here is an article on the origin of the word: What’s a snollygoster? Even lexicographers are wrong sometimes
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