Here we go again... BLOG..fun!

Who would have thought it would be okay to tell the world what you are thinking?

or that any one would have any interest --we will see how this

all plays out--and if I have the fortitude to continue writing...

More questions...and some answers I have been reading about turning 60 on the Internet--what does it mean to me? I have bragged that I was turning 60--I don't think I look 60 (even tho I might), and I know I don't think 60 (whatever that means)...I don't really know my age--is it chronological? is body driven? is it society driven? I only know that I can't put my age into words but I can say that I still love life and I really like to laugh and explore new things and listen to my friends talk about 'crazy' stuff.

I don't like to get so serious about the things people get so uptight about--politics--oh, God, please don't make me listen to anyone talk politics--so tired of it!

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  what is your level of Faith and what is your faith in? Do you attend a house of worship regularly? Are you a Christian, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim? What's your story? Do you believe you need a community of faith or that as an individual you can meditate or pray as you wish? Or like my former husband who thought God was speaking to him--when in reality it was him agreeing with himself about his thoughts...
  

I am an Episcopalian and am quite liberal. Although, I believe in Jesus (you know--the BIG THREE-Father, Son and Holy Spirit) it is not a prerequisite for my friends to believe as I do. I'm of the idea that God accepts us for who we are, meaning straight, gay, a believer or not believer and that He is always calling us to HIM....remember years ago the sign with the pciture of the urchin --God don't make no junk....that's how I roll. Read the book 'The Great Divorce' by C.S. Lewis

• I heard on the radio the other day that younger people do not know what WASP means--seems that was a term heard many times in earlier years...never anymore. I always thought it meant narrow minded people-- what did/do you think? One BIG group thinking the same thoughts.
  
• What kind of funeral do I want--definitely cremation...cheaper (so... I'm thrifty)...and my Mother's service was wonderfully uplifting! but where will the ashes go?--a little here a little there (Mobile Bay, New York, Mobile Public Library?)--who will visit my 'grave' site if there is one--I never go Pinecrest where my Father is buried --although I do go to Trinity Episcopal and visit my Mother's burial (ashes) site...it's a garden..I like it... my great nephew (Oslin--do you think he will ever have a classmate with his same name?) goes to Trinity for Mom's Day Out..so I'm right there...Many of my Mother's family is buried in Magnolia Cemetery and her parents at Pinecrest--I guess my grandfather thought real estate was real estate...


• Yes, oil is in Mobile Bay--Tony saw Dolphins yesterday morning..pretty close in--at the end of the wharf next door. that's kinda scary because we don't usually see them until much later in the summer. Could it be the extreme heat or is it the OIL? What in the world is going to happen to us and our "Bay" Way of life??? What is the toll??? on the wildlife? the sealife?? yes, the Gulf is giganitic but what about the bays and canals and beaches??? AND HURRICANE SEASON??? Will you let me come and stay with you? Do you have a generator??? I have 2 dogs--so watch what you say>>>>
• Can you beleive how much our way of life has chagned in the last 60 years...in the evenings we once sat on our screened front porches to escape the heat. Or we took a walk around the neighborhood to pass the time. We played in the street with our neighbors till dark or sometimes --a while after dark.
• The Blacks I knew were the guys that my older sister (the Tomboy) played baseball with at Hannon Park (until she was about 12) the Seller's maid (Cora?) and the postman (Gus) and Peter who worked for my Daddy, our maid, Mary and later Ella--and then by high school we were going to a slightly intergrated school--the bad times had passed ('62?) and would come again in the early 70s....
• There were no "little leagues' for girls 'back in the day'...so my sister's ball skills were used to teach us--Later we found out that girls were playing ball but of course our Mother would never have let us do anything like that...who were those people? Not that we were lady-like--it just wasn't done. My poor mother was so bound by the teachings of your youth...
• What are your questions???