Poison ivy or paintball injury?

I’ve been at this a long time but not too long.

Long enough to know it’s okay to treat what everyone says as if said in jest.

But take it all very seriously so that the humour is balanced against the pain, remorse…the sensitivity of both speaker and listener.

I don’t know where you come from, but down here, we call it Southern hospitality and common courtesy.

Minding our own business and treating you like family with good manners.

Knowing we’re gonna die one way or another.

Dance shoes by Stephanie.

Smiles on the faces of instructors Dana, Joe and Harold (a nod to Harold and his partner (Stephanie?) inventing the Male Pattern Baldness Awareness Day joke).

Getting a bunch of folks together for clean fun, learning to swing on the dance floor in groups.

Enthusiastic learners … step-step-step, step-step-step, back-step.  Swing your partner, step-step-step, back-step.  Good stuff, class!

For my wife and me, reapplying what’s we’ve learned from each other after 25 years of living under the same roof together (and usually in the same bed, unless one of us decides to sleep on the sofa on hot, humid nights).

Thanks to Nicole at Tuesday Morning, Robert at the Rave, Connie and Rebecca at Publix, Tasha at Another Broken Egg, Chick Fil-A, Mapco, Mark Petroff and others I’ve forgotten because I was meditating in public.

I heard a strategist say they plan to get the Republican Party to pursue impeachment of the U.S. President that will get Obama reelected by people fed up with insular thinking by the minority of paranoid conservatives trying to ruin this country through corrupt and greedy business practices.

I know that major motion picture studios release films to put butts in seats.  Call it crass commercialisation, if you will, but it puts money into the local economy, does it not?

The most efficient way to make a living on this planet?  You tell me.

I’ve got a bigger picture to manage.

Meditation calls my name…

The words of “Woods of Sipsey” sung by Claire Lynch flow through my thoughts.

A great run in NCAA tournaments by the Lady Vols and UAHuntsville men’s basketball teams this year – hold your heads up proudly!  The young men on the UTK basketball team have a new coach to teach. 😉