tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post6393953905119793972..comments2024-02-16T18:19:13.539-08:00Comments on Ramblings From Yet Another Stranger on the Bus: Learn From YesterdayLeslie Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-72561101162286329062011-06-15T13:47:20.238-07:002011-06-15T13:47:20.238-07:00@ CramCake ~ Well, certainly not an alcoholic unle...@ CramCake ~ Well, certainly not an alcoholic unless she has "hit her bottom". Insider's term meaning "nothing left to burn and nothing left to lose". :~{Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-29629827727628961002011-06-15T13:43:54.303-07:002011-06-15T13:43:54.303-07:00Well, then that makes sense. Who is gonna do anyt...Well, then that makes sense. Who is gonna do anything they don't really want to do?MoreCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997966214729747678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-29497183150380869622011-06-15T08:52:51.908-07:002011-06-15T08:52:51.908-07:00@ CramCake ~ The WORST, as we've been discussi...@ CramCake ~ The WORST, as we've been discussing so recently. Something I have learned at AA: mostly change is hard because we don't really WANT to change. Yet. It is wearying.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-90004600221029412322011-06-15T08:35:43.723-07:002011-06-15T08:35:43.723-07:00Change is hard.Change is hard.MoreCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997966214729747678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-85101504073221584662011-06-14T19:29:09.456-07:002011-06-14T19:29:09.456-07:00@ Rachel ~ Yes, I've shut the door on more peo...@ Rachel ~ Yes, I've shut the door on more people than events, I suppose. That's rather sad, but sometimes necessary.<br /><br />I'm not admirable in any way, Rae, but I am the product of all that has happened whether TO me or DUE TO me. We just keep learning, hopefully right up to the end.<br /><br />The Hours! I need to see it again.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-50307827128527646472011-06-14T16:29:39.822-07:002011-06-14T16:29:39.822-07:00I haven't shut the door on the past - only the...I haven't shut the door on the past - only the people from it!<br /><br />I'm sorry you had to go through what you have without support, but if going through it has made you the humble person that I like, respect and admire, then so be it. SO long as we learn, eh?<br />Watched "The Hours" for the first time night before last - was thinking of you and VW...<br />recharge, look after yourself and the rest will follow xRachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-64503184400309648472011-06-14T08:45:11.839-07:002011-06-14T08:45:11.839-07:00@ Rraine ~ Youth is highly overrated, I'm afra...@ Rraine ~ Youth is highly overrated, I'm afraid. Along with "the past" whether we gild it or demolish it in the retelling. However, I VALUE the past, even the worst experiences, because it forms a frame of reference for me. I guess I am one who needs the entire array of experience to draw from.<br /><br />In AA there is a recital that is read at every meeting which says, in short part, " . . we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it . . " When I was a newcomer, I thought, "Yeah, well, I'd slam that door hard and loud!" No more. It is a deep well full of good and bad. All part of my story.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-85889101251005918672011-06-14T07:37:36.092-07:002011-06-14T07:37:36.092-07:00i have gladly traded my youth for the truth. our m...i have gladly traded my youth for the truth. our memories of the past are tainted and twisted. the present is work enough.rrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06457746929116908077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-45688992698156110822011-06-13T19:46:54.166-07:002011-06-13T19:46:54.166-07:00@ the Badger ~ how's this?
When I can look Li...@ the Badger ~ how's this?<br /><br />When I can look Life in the eyes,<br />Grown calm and very coldly wise,<br />Life will have given me the Truth,<br />And taken in exchange - my youth.<br />~Sara TeasdaleLeslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-85609709263466688932011-06-13T19:02:51.860-07:002011-06-13T19:02:51.860-07:00The perils of aging is our memories of what could ...The perils of aging is our memories of what could have been, and what was..., and what is...Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11938379025774754317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-65067753764969494992011-06-13T18:53:09.994-07:002011-06-13T18:53:09.994-07:00@ Kirk ~ Yep, that's the whole story, I believ...@ Kirk ~ Yep, that's the whole story, I believe. I think I actually knew some part of that once long ago.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-2432010124800300192011-06-13T17:29:51.979-07:002011-06-13T17:29:51.979-07:00I just clicked on the vultures singing on YouTube....I just clicked on the vultures singing on YouTube. When they sing they sound more like a barbershops quartet than the Beatles. So I clicked on Wikipedia. Seems Brian Epstein made an agreement with Disney that the Beatles would play the vultures, but when John Lennon found out he nixed the idea. So they came up with Faux Beatles instead. Originally they were going to sing Beatles-style, but Disney was afraid that would date the movie, so it was switched to barbershop quartet style.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-15132962400571725912011-06-13T15:38:10.767-07:002011-06-13T15:38:10.767-07:00@ Kirk ~ Thank you. I don't sign up for troubl...@ Kirk ~ Thank you. I don't sign up for trouble any longer, but I've had some. We all do. And we all go after it in our funny (funny as a heart attack) human ways. Because of my own self-doubt, I have to revisit tough times when I came through all right. I believe this will be a lifelong thing for me. I nearly always think "I can't" but then I "just do". Sometimes a face-plant, sometimes smelling like a rose.<br /><br />Let's see ~ Ex. He was full blooded native American. They have a terrifically high incidence of alcoholism. It is both physical/mental malady and custom. But now that I know about alcoholism more personally, I'd just say "that's what he was". Mental obsession/physical allergy. They say we do it so we won't have to feel what we are feeling. I buy that. <br /><br />He blew out his heart, Kirk. When I just looked this up on Wiki, it made me feel badly that it's so cut and dry, black and white. The description doesn't fit the misery watched in person. Sorry I didn't make it a link. Dumb. Going too fast.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_cardiomyopathy<br /><br />Jungle Book came out, I believe in 1967. Do you recall the flock of vultures who spoke in Cockney accents and were clearly a Beatles ripoff? Amber would say "Mommy's Beatles!" having no clue what that was all about, but she paid attention.Leslie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702472429383639709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195616894993495285.post-19287538934270368922011-06-13T15:10:35.290-07:002011-06-13T15:10:35.290-07:00You didn't say what ailed your husband. If it ...You didn't say what ailed your husband. If it was chirrosis of the liver, isn't 38 kind of young even for a heavy drinker? Did you ever find out what it was that made your husband want to drink so much? Very sorry you had to go through all that.<br /><br />Whenever I hear "The Jungle Book" I think of Baloo, the voice of Phil Harris singing "The Bare Necessities" R+B for the grade school set. It's right up there with the jive crows in Dumbo.<br /><br />I've been pelted with all kinds of changes in the last 5 years. Thought they were all over and done with when I got pelted with some more. Even if things end up turning out all right, I'm not sure if makes up for all the sleepless nights. Good luck, Leslie.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.com