My Mama's Mustache & Other Inherited Stuff  

   "Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought." Author Unknown 

 "People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
Kurt Vonnegut 

 "Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
Kin Hubbard 

 "Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
Charlie Kaufman 

 "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." W.C. Fields   "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
Frank Tyger

I talk about life, the good, the bad, the funny and sad.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
 George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
 Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
 Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)

I talk about life, the good, the bad, the funny and sad.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

 Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
 Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

Serious? Well, sort of. Life is far too serious to be too serious about it.

I recall a funeral I attended, a brother-in-law. My sister found something funny in whatever another sister whispered in her ear during the flag folding ceremony and broke up laughing.
Bev loved her husband; he was about the best thing to ever enter her life. So when she laughed, we laughed a little too, a bit nervously.
We all knew there would be enough pain and tears in the coming days. There would not always be laughter.

I also remember an evening when my friend Dot and I walked into an AA club laughing so hard tears were popping out.
An elderly gentleman with many years sobriety said, "Alcoholism is a serious subject, nothing to laugh about." (words to that effect)
Dot and I put our best mock serious faces on and scurried into the as yet empty meeting room and laughed ourselves silly. We were not laughing at Alcoholism. We were laughing to lighten the load of reality.

Today I am going to talk about my fight with living in reality. I will not be able to finish today, so the subject will continue next Monday.
I will be spending more time on this blog in the future. And expanding my broadcast to 60 minutes next week. In addition I am planning a broadcast dedicated to the topic of sexual abuse. Sometimes I too like to distance myself from the reality of it. But it harms too many people, and there are no winners, only victims.

My broadcast is about my experience with change, acceptance, fear, making decisions, and other life stresses. I value your input, whether you leave a comment, rate my show, or call and share your experience.