The Little Words Mean the Most

Brush grooming in a blizzard

 

"Are your feet wet?" >dripping/swampy< "Are your feet cold?" >no<

 

How you know that you have good winter boots.

After a 3-hour brush-grooming session during a blizzard? All of the above: wet, not cold.

My winter boots are made from the same stuff as wet suits.

Scams are as natural as fungi; just be alert

 

This is OUR public service announcement, from Sim One and Tom, vulnerable, victim-class, because we're OLD (plus 70) and losing it? (supplementary prayer: Dear Darwin Above, save us!) whoops, sorry: wrong bulls-eye

> What happened, disturbingly:

> Today (fourth quarter, 2020), PHONE scammers successfully penetrated our middle-class household's (clearly not great) digital/emote defenses!!!

 

In sum:

... Sim One and me were almost scammed ... we were really-really-close-to-almost-outrageously scammed, sent-us-rabbit-jumping-out of the garage-INTO-our-2nd-best-car, well-terrified, heading up the highway ... PANICKED!!! you get the scrambled picture?

         ... though not-QUITE-on-the-brink-of-PAYING scammed

         ... (b/cuz at the last moment, driving up our rural road, away from our 32-year home, we FINALLY passed some nagging "we're not quite THAT gullible" test, "are we; you, me -- honestly?"

         ~ Sim One looked at me, weeping, as we flew up back roads....

         ~ I looked back at her, wondering: WHO ARE WE?

         ~ In our early 70s, are we just VICTIMS ... is that all that's left of our self-respect and being?

         guess so

         YEAH it was THAT close).

 

it was a scam; nothing more

 

 

Sunday walk, CT Audubon Society, Pomfret

I poisoned my trails tonight

 

Mostly vs. poison ivy

poison v. poison

PVP

 

It doesn't hate us. Know us. And in autumn

it's sunset gorgeous. But it breathes and it drinks

and has this oil that's easily spread from towels

across skin

into your lungs if you burn it

 

i want paths anywho can tramp

with a minimum of danger

So on a hot day like today

spray some multinational's science-breakthrough deterrent on its leaves

wch it drinks wch it beathes and the company promises

in a week the roots will die

 

Poison ivy is a human-denominated pest

and will return, because it thrives in global warming

and someday this poisoner nor multinational won't

return nor you

 

not too late, though

 

 

 

it was our first big year for wisteria

 

which I always thought made you genteel but is in fact about as genteel as a boa constrictor around your slender, gasping neck

 

 

Poppy season is done, it collapsed like a 4-day old bun

Is Tom Ahern the world's most money-making donor communications coach?

 

?

 

 

 

 

Results speak for themselves. Implemented your teachings at my org. We raised $18,342 in one month with our first ever annual appeal. The majority of gifts were from new donors...we still have til June 30! Tiffany and I will report back the results.

 

Rebekah Rianna ~ June 8, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

You move me to my marrow

 

 

past my yearning years

 

my waistline still narrow

 

never past my learning years

 

yes, you move me to my marrow