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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THE DAY MY CAR DIED!!!

Last Tuesday my little 

blue Mercury Mystique died

(We were together 21 years!)

 I was coming back from Lowe’s

with marigolds and begonias

in the trunk

with a Good Will Yamaha keyboard

on the backseat

and a load of groceries!! 

Holy Cow! As soon as I

heard the engine skipping,

I drove straight to 5-Star Garage.

I was so scared that I wouldn’t make it!!

But I did.

Oh, but now, I’m depressed!

Last night I took this 

homeopathic remedy for

apprehension.

Oh, the ordeal of trying out

used cars!

The ordeal of asking for more rides.

The ordeal of figuring out

addresses to “enter”

for Uber!!!

!^&#%@$^#&@

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Settle down

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So now it’s Sunday Morning.

Thanks to Krista Tippett’s

OnBeing guest, Sylvia Boorstein

and her Jewish-Buddhist

2,011 “metta-meditation:”

May I feel safe.

May I feel content.

May I feel strong.

May I live with ease.”

I’m feeling a little better! 

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SUDDENLY, I thought "BLOG!"

Yes!! Tell the photo story

of how an 80-year-old

goes about Uber-ing

and test-driving

used cars . . .

While also “Waiting for Godot,”

still on the Waiting List for a

Lanier Gardens Apartment, where I’m

 waiting for someone to die!

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Better now to stop and 

write what I've learned today.

 It's about this gift of aging wisdom remembering to "recalculate"

as the GPS voice says!

Renewing my sense of

what's really important

and practicing lovingkindness

in the world which

can nurture us, 

if we allow it to,

 and keep the right attitude.

Instead of asking, 

“Am I pleased?”

ask myself, 

"In this moment

am I able to care?”

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So, here's to the music! 

Welcome the Yamaha keyboard which

will play my old diskettes!!

And a recent garden photo

And another photo I took 

since this year is probably

my last Spring on the deck

in a little brick house

the McDaniel family of five

moved in 50 years ago.

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Tomorrow I begin my

"To Uber?"

or 

“To Buy a Used Car?”

 Adventure

I’ll be sure and take more photos!

stay tuned . . .

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Thanks for reading my blog

scroll down for

Music, a Ukulele and Love Your Fate!

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