Thoughts w/edit

• EDIT: I found it! It was in the pocket of the coat I almost wore yesterday! This is a full-length coat with a long zipper. When I am in a hurry {and, I swear it knows} the zipper gets caught on the fabric underneath it. I was just trying to untangle it when the friend who gives me a ride called to tell me she was outside waiting for me so I wriggled out of it leaving the zipper until later and put on a coat with buttons! I have NO recollection of putting the phone in my pocket. That I looked there at all was only because it was lying on a chair right in front of me!

• I am so glad I don’t have a television. It is not that I am not sad about and appalled by the shooting in Connecticut but that I do not wish to be almost forced to see the current horrific event repeated over and over and over and over again. I wonder how people can stand it. Well, of course, most people do what Fred would do which is change channels or turn the TV off. I find myself thinking about the parents. If they watch television, they must feel battered…
• I am now at the writing-little-notes-to-myself stage of getting ready to go to MS for Christmas and then on the NC for New Year. I have never found packing difficult but what *is* difficult is remembering everything I need to take. Well, actually, packing is a little more difficult this time than it usually is because MS and NC have different weather so I have to be prepared for both. I also have to travel as lightly as I can. I take one case which is actually small enough to go on board but I prefer to have it go right through without me. I have a cross body laptop computer bag that fits under the seat in front of me which, in addition to my computer, has a change of underwear as well as money, and other assorted necessities.
• OK, now I am starting to panic a bit because I can’t find my cell phone. This is different from the two times I "lost" it in the car {although I will go and look there.} I went to the book club meeting yesterday and thought I had put it as I usually do in either the pocket of jeans I was wearing or in the pocket of the coat I was wearing. The annoying thing is that I can’t call the friend who drove me or the person in whose apartment building meeting room we met to check those two places for me. Well, I will go over and borrow my neighbor’s cell phone a bit later and call them both. And call the phone to see if I have left it lying around the apartment somewhere.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

– Oscar Wilde

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. ~Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers}