Monday, December 30, 2013

Ten Rules for Saving Time

 TEN RULES FOR SAVING TIME

Managing the Lists – Best and Worst of 2013

1 – Ten best movies of all time.  This is difficult, can’t make it past “Play it again, Sam,” and “I’ll never eat cabbage again as long as I live.”

2.  Ten worst movies.  Who bothered to watch them anyway.

3 - Ten Worst Tragedies.  Contribute to a Helping Hand that you trust and then turn off TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.

4.  Wardrobe plans.  If it fits, add a sash or necklace.  If it doesn’t fit, that is a good excuse to go Bargain-day shopping.

5.  Ten best recipes, meals, menu.  Same as last year.  Start with Mom’s fried chicken and forget the rest.

6.  Bucket list.  Same as last year.  This person scratched off publishing a book (the alternate safe world of Sanctuary) but my book didn’t make any lists, so will write and replace on list with Myrt-ty-ky-ly, Fierce Dragoness. ( http://amzn.to/12D53WF )

7.  Exercises scheduled.  Ho hum.  Work on this right immediately directly after nap.

8.  Contact friends and family, at least one each day.  Friends and Family, you know I love you, please call me, and remember when my nap time takes place.

9.  RESOLUTIONS.  After 80 years of making resolutions to make me a better person, I figure I must be about perfect by now so it’s hard to find any more special rules that would make me miserable, so I might as well pass on this.

10.  I just finished the ten best lists of all times.  Here’s to a gentle, safe and secure 2014. 

Signed: Madre, mom, step-mom, grandma, great-grandma, sister, friend, aunt, internet friend.  Mariam Lewis Heiny Cheshire


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Monday, December 23, 2013

DRAGONS, DRUTHERS and DREAMS: Amazonwill be delivering a book to my adult gran...

DRAGONS, DRUTHERS and DREAMS: Amazonwill be delivering a book to my adult gran...: Amazon  will be delivering a book to my adult grandchildren “The Dragons are Singing Tonight, ” by Jack Prelutsky. The mailman wil...


Amazon will be delivering a book to my adult grandchildren
“The Dragons are Singing Tonight, ” by Jack Prelutsky.

The mailman will be delivering  “Walking the Mile”, my photoshopart/poem to my adult grandchildren.

The mailman will be delivering to my adult grandchildren and my adult great-grandchildren “Believe in Dragons,” my photoshopart/poem.

My insignificant Christmas presents stopped this year.  The children now outrank me in smarts, finances and looks.

But there is one small thing I can do. 

                 The dragons will tell you:

                 I believe in you.

                 Believe in yourself.

#photoshopart
#walkingthemile
#Believeindragons




Wednesday, December 11, 2013

WALKING THE MILE

WALKING  THE  MILE

Walking the hall, doing her mile
Fifteen laps, no longer with style

An old lady now, must do the walks
Time hasn't conquered, now she talks

Must do the laps, not her choice
Bones grow old, she gives voice

The words she produces
Bring forth the juices
to conquer fear.  Can you hear?

Fears of being wrong
She might not be strong
Might lose her song

She might not be right
She might lose the light,
. . . the fight, the might

Might lose her way - Forget how to play
She'd have to pay - but what can she say

Except

You gotta try
You want to give up?
You want to fly - Away?

But
Fifteen laps make a mile
And she'll stay awhile - longer.

Is anyone seeing this, if not you miss
Her cry of why - Why she'll try

I'm telling you
I'll tell you true
This is not goodbye
This is not adieu

There may be more
Someday

Mariam Lewis Heiny Cheshire
Nov. 23, 2013


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Monday, December 9, 2013

In the Shadows

Lurking in the valleys
Staying 'twixt and 'tween
lakes and mountain tops,
Probably can't be seen.

Some people ask the question,
But not you and me.
We don't try to answer
'cause we know how these things be.

"If you don't believe in dragons 
             it is curiously true,
That the dragons you disparage 
    choose to not believe in you.
              . . . . Jack Pretlutsky"



                           How many dragons can you find?