After Thoughts

Many people dream of travel.

They save money and put it off until they are no longer able to do it.

Time is unstoppable. 

Today is the yesterday that passed.

No one knows that tomorrow will be like.

Weather predictions are often wrong.

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Better than being at a movie (often junk films) is the time you spend in libraries.

We all start life with empty brains.

Schooling is important but living “life” is the best teacher.

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Learning is forever.

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It’s a fact. Educated people earn (some exceptions) more money and “richer lives.”

Money in our society is important but who wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery (not me).

(October 29, 2021)

No Talk

It’s amazing to me that much can be said without uttering a word.

Danny makes a writing gesture by scribbling on his palm.

Chorito points her finger toward her mouth when she wants me to know it’s time to eat.

She points to my backside meaning do I want to go to the bathroom.

She gestures brushing her teeth, meaning I should.

Hand gestures have been around for “eons” of time.

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Should I stop writing, I ask you.

Thumbs up or down?

Morrie

(October 30, 2021)

Fight Against the Virus – 1918 to 2021

(August 12, 2021)

Who Will Win?

Since I’ve had a diseased gallbladder removed (countless years ago), I’ve been a healthy guy.

I’ve had diphtheria, whooping cough, measles and shingles.

I am a prudent man.

I will take all advised precautions not to be infected by the current deadly coronavirus everyday taking its toll of sick and dead people. 

It is now in “play.”

Our scientists are working 24/7 to combat it. For sure, the current virus is more deadly that the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Who will win, no one knows.

We shall wait and see.

P.S. Readers, don’t be stupid.

It’s not a hoax.

Don’t be one of the daily dead.

Passoof (Yiddish) be careful.

GoodLuck

Morrie

(August 2021, rcvd 8/26/2021)

Depression Sayings

A Poem

Movies

I don’t go to movies anymore.

They were the best source of my entertainment.

I went to very few plays.

Many scenes are still fresh in my memory, unforgettable ones such as the scene from “Phantom of the Opera” when the Phantom takes off his mask and the chandelier comes down.

People in the audience screamed and a woman fainted.

It was the scariest movie I ever saw.

The “Phantom” was one of the largest running plays on Broadway, a money maker.

Today, at the age of 107, before going to bed, I watch CNN (if I can keep my eyes open).

Morrie

(September 19, 2021)

Hunky-Dory

Betsy Doll, I know you can’t hear me.

You’re too high up.

For 80 years, I was a lucky guy. I made the right choice (50% of married couples didn’t). 

I miss you. I love you.

I’m just “checking in” to let you know everything with me and our family is “hunky-dory.”

(August 12, 2021)

Thoughts – Sculptures

Lying on my comfortable couch in my living room atrium, my mind as usual is filled with thought.

In front of me are some of my sculptures.

Staring at them, I am impressed.

It’s hard for me to believe I made them.

Made from scraps of metal I had in my shop, some copper tubing and sheet metal, they are excellent in detail.

I only exhibited them once.

The gallery owner told me that had my sculptures been for sale, she could have sold them at a “good price.”

I don’t need the money, but it was heartwarming.

(August 16, 2021)

Children Cry For Castoria

I learned early in life the power of advertising.

On almost every blank wall of buildings was painted, in the largest possible letters, “Children Cry For Castoria.”

The signs were ubiquitous. A traveler couldn’t miss them.

And why did children “Cry For Castoria”? 

They had to. They were drug addicts.

Castoria had alcohol in it.

In 1920, the government passed the Volstead Act outlawing liquor, wine and beer.

It ushered into being bootleggers and gang wars.

Speakeasies sprang up.

Every drug store sold “Virginia Dare Tonic” prescribed by doctors.

It was 28% alcohol.

My neighborhood pharmacy made lots of money filling “prescriptions.”

(August 16, 2021)