Old Photo Friday

My parents, not sure the date.  But this is one of many pictures of them out someplace, and my mother used to say that in every one of the pictures, her mouth is open.  My parents were true extroverts, which was a good thing for them, since we moved around a lot.  Us kids would be lucky to know two other kids after a couple of months, but my parents would already have a group of friends to play cards with, go to dinner dances with, etc.  Especially now when I think of it, I'm glad they had such a fun time, since life was not all that easy for either of them.

I hope your weekend is full of friends and fun!

Remembrance

Here we are, another September 11.  Another beautiful, early fall day, when the sun is shining, and the world is full of possibilities.  But the date is now not just a date, but important for what and who it represents.  Anyone who was at the age of reason that day remembers it, the same as those who lived during the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Even if you didn't lose someone in your family, you stop for at least a few seconds each year on this day to think about it.

There is nothing wrong with remembering. Just as there is nothing wrong with moving on.  Those of us still here, those of us living, should never feel guilty about it, but instead realize that the dear ones lost would not want us to be sad or static forever.   Because it is against everything that love is to stay in one spot, never ever letting time change, or change us.

In one of the stars, I shall be living,

In one of them, I shall be laughing.

And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look

 at the sky at night.

-- Antoine St. Exupery, The Little Prince

Furball Friday

Jetsam and Pip looking out onto the deck

I have no idea what (if anything) was out there, but it sure must have been interesting!

Have a good weekend - and hopefully it will be interesting as well!

September

Well, here's another topic that I wanted to take on:

Ten Things You Love About September

1.  During September (even if it is towards the end of the month), fall starts.  I love fall, particularly after the really-crappy-way-too-hot-and-humid spring and summer we've had.  YAY!

2.  More than January, September always feels more like a fresh start to me.  I guess it's the leftover school-starts-in-September thing.  But it's another chance to start anew.

3.  Sweetzels Ginger Cookies start to appear in the supermarket.  They are regional, I think, and soooo yummy!

4.  Things are a little quiet in the museum at work.  Summer day camps are over, so they aren't visiting, and school field trips don't start right away.  It's nice to leave the library and not be run into by screaming and misbehaving children, and their "chaperones."  (In quotes because, well, they don't seem to be actually paying attention ...)

5.  Apples.

6.  New TV shows.  I'm not one of those types who a) doesn't even own a TV, or b) only watches PBS.  Granted, there are not a lot of shows I go out of my way to see, but I like to check out what's new each year.

7.  Walking and bicycling.  Theoretically at least, the weather is nicer for enjoying these activities.

8.   Coziness.  Fall weather leads to the feeling of cozy, as far as I'm concerned.

9.  Better knitting weather.  It's more fun to knit a hat, or mittens when you can actually imagine actually putting them onto your person.

10.  The holiday season is not too far off.  I don't want time to speed by, but I really enjoy Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmastime, and once it's September, those - as well as our anniversary and the BD of The Tim - are looming on the horizon.

YAY September!!

Labor Day

What does labor want?  We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; 

more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities 

to cultivate our better natures.

-- Samuel Gompers