CHRONICLES AT EIGHTY!

HELLO FRIENDS!

I've MOVED!

Here's my new little

patio apt. at Wesley Woods of Athens.
 I moved in on July 25.

This photo is from behind my long sofa.

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This is what it looked like empty.

(friendly maintenance guys)

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My door! Apt. 108

(framed Album covers print)

I'm trying to decorate it
in an interesting style.

Bedroom with my
dancing women creations.

(A crazy decor of an aging musical diva.)

Mirrors help make it feel larger.
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Here's a journal entry after
three months:

Nov. 1, 2019:

Dear Diary,

A new journal begins, finally. May this next month be healing. I’ve been so low energy, nose stopped up, ear, too. The only thing saving me is reading old journals. Yes!

They are a saving grace.

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Thank goodness I packed up

 all my old journals

 and brought them with me.

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These three months have been

a huge adjustment.

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Mon. Nov. 4, 2019

Dear Diary,

Am I better? Maybe. But my “can-do” has no muscle or will, focus, or inspiration!

What do I have to look forward to - to rev me up?

I can color in this page to inspire tomorrow. Maybe make a photo . . . a blog post . . . maybe Chronicles at Eighty?

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Here's the tiny kitchen.

I was asked if I would submit

an art piece for the

Resident's Art Wall

Seeing my watercolor on the resident's wall was a life affirming experience.

I need it!

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However, my energy can only go

to one place and I want to publish

Love Your Fate!

(Draft of a cover design)

stay tuned . . .

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THANKS FOR READING!!

Scroll down for more posts:

(A Strangely Delicious Breakfast

Brave New CyberWorld

The Day My Car Died!)

Strangely Delicious Breakfast!!!

My day starts with 

A STRANGELY DELICIOUS BREAKFAST

See those sliced onions?

I buy them in bags now.

Maybe they keep me healthy

because I didn’t have a cold

 or any kind of illness all winter.

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I thank all of you who sent me an email response to my blog

The Day My Car Died!!!

There she goes!

I donated my little blue car to GPB. 

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I’ve been maudlin

 over my circumstances

with no car 

lying on the sofa

looking at this house I will soon

be leaving.

Yikes!!! Lying on the sofa I saw

a black snake on the carpet

at the end of the sofa!!

Scared me to death!

I slowly grabbed my cellphone

as it slithered to the closet door.

I knew it wasn’t poisonous

and got the broom

 and opened up the back door.

What kind of message is that?

Get OUT now?

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The next week I got a message

a Lanier Gardens patio apt.

 will be available

 at the end of July.

Relief and throwing out more

memorabilia! Lots of clothes

which are like costumes to me.

Here are a few airing out last Spring!

 The long pink quilted  skirt

 goes back to the 60's!!

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On a more productive note:

Yesterday my son Todd

 drove me to the Honda dealer

and I bought a used FIT.

EARTH DREAMS!

What a strangely delicious engine it has!

Maybe I'll be able to load my

 Album Cover Exhibit

 in the hatchback!

My Life In Album Covers

I envision this as a stage presentation!

But a blog post

will do

for now!

It's just another

Silent Dream.

In the meantime,

here’s the album cover I designed for

Because of Love 

a song on a CD album 

(CLICK TO HEAR)

(It's a crooner song!)

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Thanks so much for watching!

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Brave New Cyber World

The Day My Car Died

Music, Ukulele and Love Your Fate!

Second Coming of Age

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BRAVE NEW CYBER WORLD!!

Brave New Cyber World

Believe me

you could love the world again

if you turned off

the six o’clock news

and didn’t surf the internet

every single day.

The birds that

flutter in my garden

do not know

that we elected a forty-fifth

president that also tweets.

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Now that I no longer have a car,

what a seismic shift for me

 to figure out how to download

the LYFT app

and warily

 add my PayPal Password!

Soon a message:

“Charlotte Chip”

 where do you want to go?"

I type in "EarthFare."

In less than a minute

there’s a message:

“Your driver,Wanda, in a Nissan Versa

will be there in 8 min.”

That’s how I bought my

groceries yesterday.

Outside EarthFare

I press the magic buttons again:

“Your driver, Kenny, 

will be there in 5 min!”

Kenny even put my groceries

into the kitchen,

something I struggle with.

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So here’s that blend

 of these two worlds

  my i-pad and my deck and garden

where I can watch old movies

like  Hollywood Canteen, 1944.

(It's a FREE app called

Watch TCM.)

We were in third grade.

Tomorrow there’s a 65th class reunion

 of that class of 1954.

I won’t be there.

But here's a HELLO!

I like to remember us all

 the way we were back then.

THIS

"BRAVE NEW CYBER WORLD"

has made it possible

to email this Blog to my

Brown High School Classmates!

We graduated on May 18, 1954

exactly 65 years ago!

And if I don’t make it

to the Broadway Stage,

here’s the aging diva

waiting for her big comeback.

A recent talent show I performed

my song: I Wanna Be Frankie B. DeMille!
(photo: m. winkler)

I’ve left some of my 

photo memories on YouTube!

and my piano solo

Morning Tears.

Take a look!

Better than a tombstone!!

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(Thanks so much for

reading this blog-story!

Scroll down for another exciting

blog adventure . . .

The Day My Car Died!!!)

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