Summer Sing-Along🎵🎵

Whether we like it or not, it’s gonna be summertime.  As

a child it was great - no school!  As an adult - yikes, too hot! 

Praise the Lord for air conditioning! 😎

At least there are lots of summertime songs to enjoy out there.  

Let’s see if you can name the artist who made it a hit: 🎵🎵

(answers at end of page)

1. Here’s an easy one:

              “I’m walking on sunshine, baby!

               And don’t it feel good!?”

              (Ouch!)

2. “End of the spring and then she comes back

             hi hi hi hi there! Them summer days.

             Those summer days… hot fun in the summertime.”

📷 by AnnaliseArt on pixabay

3. Whew! Still hot:

            “In the summertime when the weather is hot

            you can stretch right up and touch the sky…

            have a drink, have a drive, go out and see

            what you can find.”

            (Although I wouldn’t recommend doing both,

            either you drink OR you drive! 😳)

4.  Well, they decided to go for a drive, so…

 “It’s a cruel, cruel summer

  leaving me here on my own.

  It’s a cruel, cruel summer now you’re gone.”

5.   But back home, it’s all good:

 “See the curtains hanging in the window

  in the evening of a Friday night.

 A little light shinin’ through the window

 lets me know everything’s all right.

 Summer Breeze makes me feel fine

 blowing through the jasmine in my mind.”

   See, summer has its fun moments too.  For some it will fly by,

for others it seems it will never end.  Oh, that reminds me, one more:

6.  “One summer never ends

  one summer never begins

  It keeps me standing still.

  It takes all of my will

  And then suddenly last summer.”

Personally, I’m looking forward to autumn.  Have a good one.

Theresa M.

📷 by Louise Dav on pixabay

Answers: (you didn’t peek did you?😏)

1. Katrina and the Waves

written by Kimberly Rew

2. Sly and the Family Stone

written by Sly Stone and Bootsy Collins

3. Mungo Jerry

written by Ray Dorset

4. Bananarama

written by Sarah Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Karen Woodward,

Steve Jolley, Tony Swain

5. Seals and Crofts

written by Jimmy Seals and Darrell Crofts

6. The Motels

written by Martha Emily Davis

A Day Without the Life

Sorrow and Grief never take a vacation.  

📷 by skeeze on pixabay

In the early morning, Sorrow herself sits by a window and gazes out, but does not see the flowers nor the grass.  She looks beyond, where the mist is still lingering near the woods.  Sorrow weeps.

Her companion Grief lays on the bed, stricken with thoughts of the past.  His eyes are open, but do not see what is happening today.  Grief barely moves. 

📷 by Lars Nissen on pixabay

Sorrow gets through the day in mechanical motion.  She eats, but has no taste.  She dresses herself, but does not brush her hair.  She may answer the phone, but doesn’t want to talk.  Sorrow feels exhausted.

Grief has more difficulty just starting the day.  He slowly rises from bed.  He slumps into a chair.  No bath.  No change of clothes.  Not today.  Not yet.  Grief feels paralyzed.

📷 by ambroo on pixabay

Evening brings more memories.  Each shadow starts to cover over the life of a loved one - as if a sheet is pulled over their face.  As if dirt is shoveled over their grave.  They will not return.

Sorrow remembers moments of love, fun, as well as the bittersweet events.  Sometimes she smiles, but mostly she weeps.

Grief replays the tragedy of lost life.  He finds it hard to accept permanent change, and thus cannot move towards tomorrow.  He lays down for a long painful night.

Sorrow and Grief.  They are a part of everyone at some point in life.  They never take a vacation.  They stay inside you, deep within.  There is a way however to move on with life.

Sorrow and Grief need to find Hope. 

📷 by Kranich17 on pixabay

Theresa M

Time Flies When You're Having None of It

Living in the moment is a wonderful experience. Here. Now. Let it be. It does take some practice. It’s kind of like meditation, as you have to let go of distractions that your mind is creating. Silly, I picture my mind’s ego as running around in and out of doors, upstairs, downstairs, looking for something - anything - to focus on other than calmness. As if being calm and focused is a bad thing. Well, it’s not. 

by johnhain on pixabay

Breathe. Just breathe slowly. That is all you need to focus on. OK, if you make funny noises while breathing, I guess that would definitely be distracting. Just another thing to not focus on.

Come on, you can do this. Close your eyes. Wait - maybe not yet if you want to read this through. You would then breathe slowly in and out, and let that ego of yours settle down and stop running all over the place.

by johnhain on pixabay

Sit. Breathe. Focus on a scene of calm or a soothing word. Here. Now. Keep trying. Living in the moment is empowering. It won’t matter what time it is. Time waits for no one anyway. *  Theresa M

                                                            

            * Well, maybe sometimes 😁😏