WHAT CAN I DO
TO HANG ON
UNTIL THE ELECTION?
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One day I'm up
One day I'm down.
I NEED A HAPPINESS PROJECT!
I sketch in my journal.
"A cupful of stars"
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I LOVE MY APARTMENT!
I'm GRATEFUL to have a meal
hung on my apartment door
every day.
But how can I STAY happy???
I write to myself in my journal!
Dear Diary,
A new chord struck
from the tuning fork
in my heart . . .
I've answered my own question!
TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY!
IT'S THE ONLY DAY I HAVE.
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This IS MY HAPPINESS PROJECT!
To heed my own words!
"This is the only day I have."
AND TO COLOR IN MY WORLD!
I begin to color in my sketches
with more color
and more
care.
I don't color in a sketch until later
this is what a sketch looks like
as I was writing earnestly
in my journal.
"TRUST THE PROCESS!"
If I take time to color
I'll lose my train of thought!
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Before:
IN THE MEANTIME
Here's our Wesley Looney Toons
Ukulele band
led by Rosemary Woodel
We played outside for Rolandwho is 99 years old!
TIPTOE THRU THE TULIPS!!
THIS IS A
HAPPINESS PROJECT, TOO!
(Rosemary's wonderful YouTube Channel!!)
Thanks for watching our videos
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And now . . .
Here's an entry from my new
self-published book,
LOVE YOUR FATE
A Poetic Odyssey
Growing A Soul
During those wild, wilderness years,
I’d scrambled myself up a Fortune 500 ladder,
from mail room to corporate communications.
Honed a few skills I didn’t know I had.
Bought a leather briefcase.
Dressed for success.
Flown on a Lear jet to Jefferson City,
sitting behind the pilots,
watching the altimeter climb to 20,000.
After twelve years I started throwing up.
Is it food poisoning, I wondered?
Could it be undercooked chicken?
That smorgasbord at the Greenbrier conference
with Ben Bradlee as keynote speaker?
No, it is my soul vomiting.
Vested interests strangling me.
A new kind of meaning
has come my way,
through poetry mostly,
May Sarton,
Mary Oliver,
Marge Piercy.
Time to stop
and smell the roses
and grow a soul.
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