Category: Imagination

KICKING THE TIRES OF JUNE 1, 2019

S R Janssen
Roses and Honeysuckle are the flowers for June

Feeling Good with Music

In honor of June, started looking for a recording of Carousel for the song about “June busting out all over.” Naturally, I found it on Amazon Prime music, along with the original sound cast recording of CAMELOT which I played at full volume. When I was seventeen, I knew the lyrics of all the songs by heart. I had a glorious, solo sing along this morning.

Don’t Worry Listen to Music

Woke up in the wee small hours of the morning and got to thinking about the ways I think G should change her behaviors for her own good and her own health. Concluded that it would be a good idea to have a serious conversation about this. What a stupid conclusion: a conclusion that evolves from thoughts that feel bad is a conclusion doomed to produce bad feeling results. After sixty years I am finally getting some smarts by managing my own feelings and keeping my nose out of other people’s business. Wish I had been that smart when I was fourteen and focused on my own feelings instead of wasting my energy on trying to manage my parents. Better late then never??

KICKING THE TIRES OF MAY 29, 2019

S R Janssen
Graphic of an a circle cut fire opal set in yellow gold with a diamond surround.
If Wishes Were Horses, I’d Have a Horse

If Wishes Were Horses, or Playing with the Impractical

This morning, I played a game where I had to spend about five hundred thousand dollars (imaginary). Would you believe it? After I spent some bucks on a new computer with all the whistles and bells, I had a hard time finding ways to spend the money. My imagination has become so narrow and restricted from practical habits, that it could barely lift off into a flight of fantasy.

Finally, I remembered that I love fire opals and would enjoy owning a very expensive one as I find them more interesting than diamonds. Then would you belief it? I had to remember that all my life I have pined for a horse. At my time in life, I want an Icelandic horse that is low to the ground, smart, bomb-proof, and as smooth to ride as a sofa on wheels. So I spend a lot of imaginary money on some opals and a really fine Icelandic of Vikingsholm breeding. Still had a lot of dollars left over.

My imagination really needs to be dusted out and taken for an airing