Mixed Bag

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
~ George Burns

Yup—there now.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.
~ Debasish Mridha

Can life still be beautiful in these years of bullies unleashed to terrorize the rest of us? I live in Massachusetts where, to my mind, it would be unthinkable for me to to be refused service (or kicked out of church)  if I didn’t  remove my mask. More likely, a person who refused to wear a damn mask would, rightly, be refused service.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
~ John Lennon

I KNOW not everyone in the South is crippled inside but it’s easy to forget when I read about all the anti-vaxxers who scream “Muh FREEDUMB” as long as it’s THEIR "freedom" to which we all adhere.

I'm too damn old and broken down to tolerate this smelly-ass, rabid weasel shit.

Oh youth, why did you leave me, to fend for myself against time?
~ Anthony Liccione

Youth hasn’t left me to fend for myself—I have friends, housemates who do so much for me. Fer instance, last night, I was sitting in a low chair, one that I knew was gonna be problematic to rise from. It was. I couldn’t get enough momentum going and my walker is too flimsy to pull myself up. Yup, I kinda fell, mostly just slid to the floor. Didn’t hurt myself really but I needed Jen and Oni (Ten was already home) to drag my none-too-bright self up to a standing position.

Yep, this morning I have aches, pains and feel like an idiot. I’ll still have PT though. Possibly it’ll help to work out some of my kinks (NO, not those sorts of kinks!).

Random aside—I’m 63 years old and it STILL feels weird to call my friends’ parents by their first names.
e.g., Jens’ father is Jack—I call him Pop. Jen’s mother is Donna— that’s what I call her. It feels ODD and somewhat disrespectful. But I’m 63!

Random aside #2: I dreamed that I was watching one of the original Star Treks except all the sets and costumes looked like they were constructed in the late ‘40s, early ‘50s. Bones was going out the airlock to save someone on another ship but he wasn’t wearing a helmet. I was panicking and worried about Bones.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.
~ Lawrence Block

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.
~ Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement

Well yes, while long ago, I quit giving a rat’s ass (or even a wee mousy’s butt) about a lot of things, I do want to appear human unless, of course, I could be Vulcan. That’s only logical, right?