Thank you, for your Attitude of Gratitude:

Sometimes, others misconstrue your behavior and decide that you are wrong. If you know the truth, allow yourself to let someone’s opinion roll on by. Be grateful for knowing where they are coming from but you don’t have to own their take on it all.

Affirmation:  I am confident in my behavior!

 I love you, Annette Rochelle Aben

 When we were children, our local newsagent used to rent films on VHS. On one of the occasions that my sister and I got to pick, we chose Addams Family Values and I loved it. I don’t know how many times we rented it but there were definitely multiple viewings. At the time, I didn’t really consider how super dark that film was. Obviously, I didn’t. I was a child. But going back to it as an adult is weird. It’s still a great film but there’s a lot of darkness. I mean Joan Cusack gets electrocuted by a baby. It’s all a lot of fun but it’s quite a lot for a children’s film, right? And who doesn’t immediately think of Anjelica Huston’s portrayal of Morticia? Surely it’s not right for someone to be quite so sexy in a family film? So, the announcement that there was going to…

My heart aches

with a passionate mark

when the birches barren lie,

stay, pungent earth

red bruised berries,

Alaska’s growing things;

Let not winter’s hoary

white fingers

bury your resplendent face.

By Claire F.

It was an old standby, a large pot of flavorful and filling soup that fed an army using pantry staples and leftover scraps.

My mother made yankee bean soup when she had a leftover ham bone and bits of ham and wasn’t planning to make her split pea soup. She didn’t have an actual recipe for it, but used the onions, carrots, and celery that was the base of most of her soups and stews, and she threw in whatever other vegetables she had in the refrigerator.

Most cooks had their own versions of a bean soup, I doubt my mother made it exactly the same twice herself. She varied the beans too, usually white navy beans, but sometimes pinto beans or even yellow eyes. Sometimes, she omitted the tomato and made a milk broth instead, using canned milk, my dad loved it that way.

Ready for company

I had…

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Although Geroge Michael is no longer there…, a new song was released three days ago.

LYRIC

So you raise another glass looking for a different space,
I was leaning on the grass dreaming of a sunnier day,
oh it never came, how could it have baby
where the present meets the past it’s hard to be more than we’ve seen

Your daddy was a drinker he just kept drinking til the shit he was thinking sounded true,
Your mama was a thinker she just wasn’t thinking on the day that she looked at him and said I do,

Cause I will always I will always I will always I will always try to get my shit together,
I guess we always guess we always knew, that it would be stormy weather

This is how we want you to get high the way that we showed you the way that…