Music – To be

9 May 2020 Superman

May 9, 2020 by saymber, posted in Exploring numeric value of words in English language, Health, Leading Life by Example, Music, Short stories, Spirituality and Religion, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

Hello to you. How are you doing today as you visit here? I hope this finds you well. I’m kind of in a weird space inside. Every time I turn on the news I feel more anxious. I’m still waiting for the good news that this whole Covoid 19 pandemic is behind us! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bunch of Superhero’s and or meta humans like the The Flash to help us out?

I’m finding comfort in telling stories. I hope they are they are enjoyable to you too. The inspiration for what I’m writing today came from the time before finding my current husband. I can remember looking up to the stars and asking, “where are you?” One of my husbands and my favorite superhero’s is Superman. I know there are a bazillion different renditions of how Superman came to be – mine cuts through the chase of all the baby stuff lol.

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It was a long long time ago, well may be not that long ago, a lonely woman was standing out in the darkness. Her weary eyes scanned the dark night sky. She whispered under her breath, “Where are you?! I am lost. God can you hear me?” The vast sea of stars seemed to respond to her words. A single star stood out from all the others and twinkled at her extra special brightly. Speaking in star speak so to speak!

Many moons, stars and suns passed and the lonely woman began to wonder if she had been forgotten. Again she found herself standing out under the night sky and just as she began to speak, a familiar star shot out across the sky! She exclaimed to the darkness, “Is that you?!”

Now star time and human time are not the same. A single day for a human is light years for a star. It takes a long time for messages to travel back and forth but they do get exchanged. Little did that woman know that many miles away from where she was standing that shooting star landed on earth. The surprising thing was it was no longer a star but had transformed into a man. The man knew why he was there and knew either he had many miles to travel or the one who had summoned him to earth did!

There were many rotations of earth. There were many risings and settings of the sun and moon. There were many rotations of the constellations before the man from the stars and the woman would meet. When they did finally meet she had one word for him, “Superman.”

“Superman” in the English Ordinal system equals 107

“starman” in the English Ordinal system equals 86

So it’s Saturday. It’s looking like the weather is going to be really nice out. Tomorrow is Mother’s Day in case you forgot. I hope you have a wonderful day. I’ll probably be back later. Writing seems to be helping me adjust to what I’m going through right now.

Love the blue guitar he uses!

5 May 2020 Uncomfortable Silence

May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 by saymber, posted in Art and Poetry, drawing, Exploring numeric value of words in English language, Health, history, Home, human rights, In the News, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Movies, Music, Television, Veteran Affairs, Writing and blogging

Hello to you. How are you doing today? Hopefully you are doing well.

Something that comes to mind this morning is the phrase uncomfortable silence. As I write, I’ve got an alternative station I found that I like, 103.7 fm on as background noise. I’m getting to be one of those kind of people that has to have the sound on in my world. That thing called comfortable silence is uncomfortable for me and it never used to be.

This radio used to belong to my brother-in-law Todd – still useful!

My mother-in-law used to follow ratings for television shows. I seem to remember her talking about CSI was one that always had high ratings. What was behind that a certain demographic, usually older Americans, put the show on as background noise even if they weren’t watching it. I though that was funny at the time until this situation of having to stay home alone more! I’m becoming one of those people!

So today I give thanks for local programming and the radio stations that keep the world interesting for me. Right now I don’t have access to streaming services without paying for it. I’m trying Amazon Prime video and took a look at Patrick Melrose yesterday. I couldn’t get through the first episode. It was hard to see Benedict Cumberbatch being such a convincing addict. I much prefer seeing him as Sherlock Holmes (minus the addict part) and Dr. Strange! There are some other interesting shows to check out whilst I work on my afghan.

I find myself going a bit stir crazy staying in the house so I’ll meander out for a walk. This isn’t such a bad thing as I gained some weight during my hospital stay. I’m starting to remember why one can lose your mind a bit being trapped in the house. In the past, it was just because of extremes of weather. I can remember being in a shelter in Mississippi during a hurricane and how tough that was. I was in a shelter with a bunch of other people and it was dark and even smelly at times. We ate peanut butter and crackers in the dark. As tough as that was, there was an end in sight. With this virus and containment, there doesn’t seem to be a definitive end. I understand better why there are protesters in different placing demanding things get opened back up. We are social creatures and are made to do stuff besides staying at home.

I wonder if this is the plants way of healing itself? For all the bad things that have happened and tragedy, good things have been happening for the planet. The biggest thing is a reduction in air pollution! I wonder how can we keep that going once life starts to resume it’s course?

https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/3-ways-the-coronavirus-is-a-boon-to-the-environment/

First drawing with markers – thinking of breaking through barriers in my life.

“a uncomfortable silence” in the English Ordinal system equals 213 – (ironically month and day I was born!)

3 May 2020 The Little Things – morning coffee

May 3, 2020 by saymber, posted in Exploring numeric value of words in English language, Food, Health, Home, In the News, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Music, Spirituality and Religion, trust, Veteran Affairs

Hello to you in your today. It’s Sunday as I write to you and I am blessed to have a cup of coffee beside me, power to run this computer, Link asleep yet in the bed and my health. My mini gratitude list! The little things are mostly what makes up the average life if you really take a look. All those minor things that when you are in a different situation, you find yourself missing and when they are back in your life you find yourself so grateful.

When I was at JPS, they had morning coffee and what a spectacle that was! Talk about a reason to get out of bed! We practically ran down to the coffee cart and then each person had their, what I refer to as, the “dark morning ritual.” I call it a dark ritual not just because coffee is dark but if you mess with people, sometimes even speak to them, before they have completed their individual process, they can get so fussy! Each person had their own process and it usually meant quite a mess for the cleaning people or one of us. Powdered creamer and the variations of sugar got all over the place as each person frantically, in some cases, opened the packages of creamer and sugars. Some people used ALOT of artificial sugars for their mix!

My thanks to the coffee maker, which changed from morning to morning, was often profuse. One morning I even had tears in my eyes when I said it to Cole. Cole was one of those who actually had the formula down to perfection on making the coffee lol! It’s the little things that can make a time that seems almost unbearable….well bearable. Sometimes routines are not just routines to those on the receiving end.

When you look at your life as it is, what is it that you are grateful for? There has to be at least one thing. When I find my life has taken a turn I’m not comfortable with, asking myself that question helps bring me back around.

morning coffee:

“morning coffee” in the English Ordinal system equals 130 – a peace

“one three zero” in the English Ordinal system equals 154 – a love

“one five four” in the English Ordinal system equals 136 – a child

“one three six” in the English Ordinal system equals 142 – a self

“one four two” in the English Ordinal system equals 152 – a earth

“one five two” in the English Ordinal system equals 134 – a one

I requested to listen to this song a lot when we had recreation time. I like the video attached to it for a time called The Adventures of Jasper Morello.

I hope you have a wonderful Sunday and that you find yourself grateful for at least one thing – even if it’s just waking up today.

8 February 2020 Amusing yourself

February 8, 2020 by saymber, posted in Art and Poetry, drawing, Exploring numeric value of words in English language, Home, Leading Life by Example, Mental Health, Money, Music, Nature, photography, Science (Keshe Foundation and other innovations), space, Spirituality and Religion, technology, trust, Veteran Affairs

Hello to you. It’s Saturday afternoon as I write to you in your here and now. How are you? I hope well. I am having some shall I say, “alone time” right now and find myself challenged to find things to do. Today I took out the trusty cribbage and chessboards and found myself quickly bored with the board lol. I write and draw a lot, sometimes paint, take pictures, enjoy almost every genre of music (some more than others), love to dance and be physically active, enjoy good food, truly enjoy being outside with God and sometimes play a video game here and there. I enjoy making things but don’t really have an outlet for the things I make. I think it is safe to say, at least for my house, you can have too many home made blankets! Hobbies can get expensive no matter what they are. When you are on a fixed income you have to watch your spending, at least that has been my personal choice about it.

Living where I do, most of the activities that I could participate in require me to spend money. Driving to even a “free” place can get expensive over time. So I have learned to amuse myself the best I can in the parameters in which I live. For many, I think, it would be quite a dull existence.

I have planted a seed, if you want to call it that, for the God of my understanding to gradually and tangibly, put people in my life that are interested in the sorts of things I am interested in. Some time ago, I had a “tribe” here, but everyone went their separate ways and all are extremely busy with their lives and pursuit of their dreams and or livelihoods. Some of what I’m interested in may be considered “fringe” type things – much of which is in the spiritual, scientific and paranormal realms.

Sometimes when you plant a seed with God it takes time and the right “soil” in which for the seed to germinate.

https://www.ridingthebeast.com/gematria-calculator/

seed = 33

“one two five” in the English Ordinal system equals 134

“one five eight” in the English Ordinal system equals 125

“one four zero” in the English Ordinal system equals 158

“one five zero” in the English Ordinal system equals 140

“one three four” in the English Ordinal system equals 150

“one five two” in the English Ordinal system equals 134

“one four two” in the English Ordinal system equals 152

“one three six” in the English Ordinal system equals 142

“one five four” in the English Ordinal system equals 136

“one four four” in the English Ordinal system equals 154

“one two six” in the English Ordinal system equals 144

“one one two” in the English Ordinal system equals 126

“three three” in the English Ordinal system equals 112

“seed” in the English Ordinal system equals 33

germinate = 92

“one three four” in the English Ordinal system equals 150

“one five two” in the English Ordinal system equals 134

“one four two” in the English Ordinal system equals 152

“one three six” in the English Ordinal system equals 142

“one five four” in the English Ordinal system equals 136

“one four four” in the English Ordinal system equals 154

“one six two” in the English Ordinal system equals 144

“one zero zero” in the English Ordinal system equals 162

“nine two” in the English Ordinal system equals 100

“germinate” in the English Ordinal system equals 92

“one two five” in the English Ordinal system equals 134

soil = 55

“one five eight” in the English Ordinal system equals 125

“one four zero” in the English Ordinal system equals 158

“one zero nine” in the English Ordinal system equals 140

“eight four” in the English Ordinal system equals 109

“five five” in the English Ordinal system equals 84

“soil” in the English Ordinal system equals 55