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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Happy New Year!


May 2020 be kind to us all: health, happiness, and prosperity!


HAVE-A-LAUGH ADDENDUM (Thanks, Warren!):

15 comments:

  1. Best wishes to you and Mr. AOW for the New Year and to your readers as well. I will be thinking of you as you transition to your new destination. Thanks for all you do..

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    1. Bunkerville,
      All this cleaning out is a huge task. **sigh**

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  2. Funny Vid. Yes, at least have a Healthy 2020. If you have that the rest is a breeze eh?

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  3. All the best for 2020!

    I wish you comfort, ease and freedom from disease
    And high hopes that what all you meet and do will please!

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  4. THOUGH NOT A CLICHE THIS IS RELEVANT, BECAUSE IT DEALS WITH THE EFFECTS THE PASSAGE OF TIME HAS ON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERCEPTION

    __________ STARS __________

    Sometimes we know when they arrive.
    We watch them grow; we see them thrive
    The blossoms they produce give joy.
    Sometimes their private lives annoy.
    We watch them mellow then mature.
    For passing Time there is no cure.
    We hate to see them start to fade,
    Begin to dim, move towards the Shade.
    As we grow old, we can look back,
    Review their lives as ours grow slack.
    We lose our grip, as they lose theirs,
    Yet of us they’re caught unawares.
    It doesn’t matter that the Affection
    Moves from us in one direction.
    What they have given us will last
    After their own brief lives have passed.
    For they gave meaning to our lives
    Through losing husbands, changing wives,
    Raising children, our careers
    Without them might conclude in tears.
    But at their best the Empathy
    They evoked helped us to see
    The Laughter they put on Display
    Gave us Perspective, showed a way
    To see less egotistically
    To think far less derisively
    To act with more Compassion
    Our point of view refashion
    To lighten Burdens, keep on smiling,
    Know Good Humor is beguiling.
    The worst things have a funny side
    Knowing that, the sunny side
    Of life is reached more easily
    When we behave less sleazily,
    Shun the lazy, cheap and foolish,
    Wasteful, hateful, weird, and ghoulish.
    We owe these Special People much
    They’ve taught, enriched, filled Gaps. They touch
    Our Hearts long after they have passed.
    What they gsve us we know will last.
    Performance Art transcends the faults
    Performers lives have as they waltz
    Above to Music of the Spheres
    Where Uplift cheers, and then endears.
    And so though Stars, like us, may fade
    Flicker, dim, move toward the Shade
    Their Light will last with Certitude
    If we love Them with Gratitude.


    ~ FreeThinke

    H_A_P_P_Y ... N_E_W_ ... Y_E_A_R_!

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  5. The vid can't be played for me, but...

    HAPPY NEW YEAR to YOU and MR AOW, old buddy....love you and wish you such a marvelous year...YOU DESERVE IT.
    And to ALL your readers...God bless you all!

    Ducky, even you...if you're reading, I do hope you're recovering very well.

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    1. Z,
      The video plays for me. Strange glitch of some sort preventing your seeing the video.

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  6. Ah, but she went back for another.

    Happy New Year!

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  7. Blessings to you and Mr. AOW in the upcoming and challenging Year of the Move.

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  8. I accidentally found the video can be played here: https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1210636550473764864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1210636550473764864&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Falwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com%2F2019%2F12%2Fhappy-new-year.html

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