Category: The Senior Side of Life

All about living the third stage of life which lies between 70 and 100

KICKING THE TIRES OF AUGUST 17, 2019

S R Janssen

What I Fail to Understand. . .

Summertime Shadow Flowers

At 9:55 A.M. this post started as a rant and rave. A prior commitment forced me to walk away. At 3:24 I have returned to finish this post. I have a choice. I can finish the rant and rave and take a carpet ride on unpleasant feelings.

I am sitting on a cusp point. I can chose a different set of feelings by thinking a different set of thoughts. Am I repressing the rant and rave feelings? No, I am electing not to perpetuate a habitual feeling response, I am choosing to drop one feeling as a toddler drops a toy and pick up a different feeling simply by shifting focus to a different set of thoughts.
That’s an act of creative imagination

KICKING THE TIRES OF AUGUST 16, 2019

S R Janssen

Flat Tire Today

I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna do this;
I don’t wanna do that;
I don’t wanna be around anyone;
I don’t wanna anyone around me;
I don’t wanna any trouble today;
I don’t want difficulties today:
I wanna day that goes smoothly;
I wanna day without aggravation:
I wanna a day when I do what I want to do;
I wanna a day that is productive;
Like Greta Garbo, “I want to be alone”