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No one is certain of the origin of the quote, "Be kind, everyone is fighting a hard battle," but the lack of an authenticated source doesn't mean it isn't true.
Ms. G has a hard row to hoe right now as she grew up in a time and place when everyone ate white bread, sugary cereal was the morning staple and you ended every day with ice cream or cake or pie or dessert of some sort.
During her growing and early adult years it wasn't a problem as she was active with swimming, fishing, golf and flipping houses, doing a lot of the carpentry and other work herself as she was muscular and fit and could lift and fetch and tote and swing a hammer with the best of them.
Back injuries, knee injuries, ankle injuries, surgeries and the simple passage of years all take it out of you and she battles to control her blood sugar and fights to stay away from the food she's simply eaten all her life.
It would be easy to dismiss her on sight as just another older woman who has "let herself go."
Everyone's life is more complicated than it looks from the outside.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Row.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Special delivery
by The Owl Express,
and whooo it came from,
you'll never guess.
Your cousin Leander
trained carrier pigeons
but changed to owls,
we're cheaper by smidgeons!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful for #1 Son, whose birthday was yesterday.
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Today is:
Air Conditioner Day -- the first modern electrical air conditioning unit, invented by William Carrier, began working on this day in 1902
Constitution Day -- South Korea
Feast of St. Kenelm -- saint mentioned in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of The Canterbury Takes
Feast of the Clockless NowEver -- can't find any confirmation on what this one is, but it sounds like fun if i don't have to bother with a clock or schedule
Festival for Victoria and Virtus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of victory and god of bravery in warfare)
Get To Know Your Customers Day -- third Thursday of each quarter
Gion Matsuri -- Yakasa Shrine, Kyoto, Japan (one of the largest and best Gion festivals)
King Letsie III's Birthday -- Lesotho
National Peach Ice Cream Day
St. Alexius Day (Patron of Alexians, beggars, belt makers, nurses, pilgrims, travelers)
Wear Crazy Socks to Work Day -- at your own risk
World Day for International Justice
Wrong Way Corrigan Day -- anniversary of the flight of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who was supposedly heading for California from New York and ended up in Ireland instead
Yellow Pig Day -- mathematics festivals at various universities, celebrating the number 17 and the yellow pig with 17 eyelashes, created by mathematicians Michael Spivak and David C. Kelly
Birthdays Today
Tash Hamilton, 1982
Alex Winter, 1965
Dawn Upshaw, 1960
Mark Burnett, 1960
Aaron Lansky, 1955
J. Michael Straczynski, 1954
David Hasselhoff, 1952
Phoebe Snow, 1952
Lucie Arnaz, 1951
Camilla Parker Bowles, 1947
Diahann Carroll, 1935
Donald Sutherland, 1934
Phyllis Diller, 1917
Art Linkletter, 1912
James Cagney, 1899
Berenice Abbott, 1898
Erle Stanley Gardner, 1889
John Jacob Astor, 1763
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 1744
Isaac Watts, 1674
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Yellow Submarine(Animated film), 1968
Punch(Magazine, first publication), 1841
Today in History
Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians, the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world, 180
Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China, 1402
Catherine II (the Great) becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia, 1762
Londoner Thomas Saint patented the first sewing machine, 1790
The first issue of Punch magazine was published, England, 1841
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston as the first dental school in the U.S, 1867
On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1918
The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost, 1918
An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain begins the Spanish Civil War, 1936
After being denied permission to make a transatlantic crossing, Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan, 1928
Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California, 1955
An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations, 1975
The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team, 1976
The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business, 1997
A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless, 1998
A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, 1998
South Korea develops a long range cruise missile, 2010
Astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three-month long mission, 2012
In an effort to curb obesity rates, the United Arab Emirates offers its citizens one gram of gold for every kilogram of weight they lose, 2013
The discovery of the oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, is announced by archaeologists in a dig at a 14,000-year-old site in the Black Desert, Jordan, 2018
Typhoon Talim makes landfall on China's Guandong coast, forcing the evacuation of nearly 230,000 people, 2023
US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially exonerates all 258 Black sailors who protested work conditions after the 1944 Port Chicago Disaster, 2024
That would be my favourite mailman ever. Nice verses too.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, we all fight a hard battle, and we're only winning temporary victories
My mailman does bring packages to my door instead of the cluster mailbox, but he's a bit different from the owl. That beak is perfect for carrying parcels.
ReplyDeleteA long white fence.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Mrs, G and I have this in common. I just retired last year after working in food service for 47 years- and the difference in what I am used to being able to eat and what I can eat now without gaining weight is staggering.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their struggles and many you never know as they are not seen from the outside. After Mom's health scare four years ago, she changed her entire diet. The first year was tough as sugar is an addiction. She has always been fit and still is but now she enjoys her new way of eating. Almost everything she at for most of her life is axed but now her body craves the new foods. Hopefully Ms. G has the willpower to make the change. At least Mom can still be active.
ReplyDeleteFun photo for a fun poem. I agree that I'm fortunate at my age that I figured out quite a few years ago to leave off the sugar and the white bread. I was raised on that stuff and I guess any child born in the 50s was.
ReplyDeleteMs. G's battle is a good reminder to all of us to try to adapt our diets and our lives so that we can enjoy a healthier old age.
ReplyDeleteÉs complicat parlar de la vida dels altres, has de saber tot el que han passat...
ReplyDeleteM'agrada el canvi del carter al mussol, sembla que ho fa molt bé. ;-)
Una tanca molt bonica, com la que m'agradaria tenir a mi.
Per molts d'anys pel teu fill i que ho podeu gaudir amb molta salut! 🎂🥂