Chattin ya

[hester_prynne]

So, my days at the Free Clinic are winding down, my last day is next Tuesday, and I am sad to go. I have gotten nothing but wonderful feedback from them regarding my work and my abiliities with clients needing help and i'm not bragging or anything, but it does feel good to get good strong kudos, especially for a gal like me who sort of always feel like i'm not good enough....(thanks mom)
On the other hand, the adventure of a new endeavor awaits, although I'll be working in a much more rigid environment, that being the State.
I think I can handle that though, and I think I will have opportunities for helping people in this gig too.
Most of all it's going to be exciting to be making so much money. I got myself a little strong box and i'm going to pile up ready cash in it, in case things really go to hell I'll have a stash. My hope is that I will be able to have this job until I retire....in about hopefully, 13 years. There are good retirement benefits, and there are alot of benefits for me and for the first time really i'm thinkin about that.
I will miss working nonprofits though....the creativity, the wingin it, the elbows-in- the sink of it.....sigh.
Before I start the new job on October 1st, I'm going down for a nice long visit to Astoria, to see my Stella, see some of my old friends, revisit my old life....a nice place to visit.
So. I'm on the countdown, destinations are getting closer, i'm getting a bit loony, making another transition into the big city of Seattle. I dropped off a load of my things to my sister's, (I'll be there temporarily until I find my own digs), and on the way back to Olympia I strolled through the Seattle public market and ran into an old friend believe it or not! I took it as an omen that Seattle is indeed my next stop.....
Just thought i'd share some of my real life shit with you all.
What's up with you?
H

[judih]

interesting times. shalom to delicious non-profit - well, hi to new more traditional. retirement? they have something here called 'early' retirement. people at age 55 are doing it, but you need an excuse, a viable reason. i'm not sure i want a 'viable' reason (and they don't count salvaging sanity as 'viable' enough)

meanwhile, i'm emerging from the shock of having to teach. i'm still here in the sand dune capital of the immediate area. the kibbutz is getting stranger all the time. people think that capitalism is the new saviour (what a bunch of idiots) - gimme gimme is slowly replacing give to the community, and it's not cool.

still, it beats the madness of city living, so i'm here.

writing for me is mostly jamming - haven't got a thought in my head that isn't rooted in response to my surroundings.

here's to a good fall and a great turn of the planet!

[stilltrucking]

da da
for me
will always be about politics
not art
interesting times
we are maybe going to have a choice for a change
no more repubs and dems
they have been superannuated by new political categories
McCain could be our first da da president.

Just chattin
never planted for retirement
always lived day to day
a dharma bum with 18 wheels
18 balls and chains
or 18 hammers
ringing out a song of
the freedom of the road
then one morning in a truck stop
off interstate ten
near Gulfport Mississippi
I woke up too old
and hung it up and rattled round my friends and family
like a ghost
with no idea what I was living for

and I stumbled on litkicks
and thought I had found my place to be
that would fill the void in my life that used to be the road

chattin
not rattin
hoping I don't live too long
and there still is something left in the SS security fund for you kids when all us old farts die off.
Retirement is sweet
like money for nothing
some people don't survive a year after they [die sic] retire]
pretty typical statistic
the anniversary deaths
almost to the day they retire they die
maybe because with out a job
a reason to get up in the morning
and go to work
they can't find a reason to get up at all
so they check out
they choose to die
my opinions
going to kill me one day
like too many farts in a space suit.


Good old days
these are the good old days
"before the phones go dead
and the children burn the place down"

A couple hundred more years will tell the story
maybe less
maybe a base on the moon would be a good idea.

Or maybe it is me that is dying
and the world will be fine

so what is the answer
Tell me Alice
Cause Gertrude wanted to know what was the question
"to life the universe and everything"
women know
oh yes you do

yes chattin a GO

another careless fart

dam those Brussels sprouts
I think I have acquired a taste for artichoke and quackamole dip

Maybe now that things have settled down a bit for you we could look to hearing more of your music. I am living for the day when you do a virtual studio here or at least maybe get some more songs posted. I mean please.

Enjoy Hester
I am happy for you
Thirteen years seems like a life time to me
Just keep your eye on the prize
that is everyday
is the prize.
{that's what I tell myself as I struggle with my health issues that are self inflicted)
How can I bee so grateful to be alive
and so destructive in my life style at the same time.
Self-pity I think.
Trying to seize the day
freeze the clock
like summer vacation
fall winter spring
what ever the season
life is beautiful
________________________________________________________-
random quote
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France

[hester_prynne]

Judih, thank you for your words....indeed life gets younger as we get older, younger and more bizarre when age hones your sights some.

Still, you are a good smellin "careless old fart" I like careless farts, in fact i've edited the words of careless love into careless farts, the senior version of that song....heh.

You know still, you are so wonderful to read......your take on things very informative and mind opening, encouraging and humane. I dig it.

Hardly a careless farting!
You'll be hearing about my travails on this path I am now about to embark upon, which probably, if i'd a been more careful, I would have embarked upon it 30 years ago.....

H

[Arcadia]

great to know about hester, best wishes for the 1st of october and beyond!!!!!!

Here things are calmer after three really crazy months, but institutions & people always feel and keep acting conflicts with some delay and with more complexity than expected, so we´been having more dificulties in school with kids, co-workers, authorities, and parents than usual.
Somehow introspective times for me. They feel good, but sometimes I need to rise the radio volume!!

see you!,