Ninasusan

Happiness gently landed on my shoulders

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  • Sunday noon at Perkins

    Just your typical after church crowd jammed into the lobby of the Perkins Restaurant in Ames this morning. It’s mostly an older crowd who know the drill, searching for an incognito place to stand while waiting for the adorable hostess with a voice like the reverb of a shotgun, to call your name. The petite Read more

  • It’s not even 1:30

    I was left alone overnight and today. He left me the truck and said “you’ll be fine, it’s kinda fun to drive” which sounded rather manipulative but he was loving and probably didn’t realize he was talking to the intelligent part of my brain. This morning started out fine. I took a walk on this Read more

  • Can anyone name the song playing in my head?

    This morning, I told the little white haired lady at the checkout counter that I was always happy to see her face when I pulled into her lane. Her eyes lit up with just enough of a smile on her lips that I knew her heart opened up. After I payed, I looked the obviously stoned sacker Read more

  • Making the bed…the enlightened way…

    I washed sheets today. The whole “chore” of washing sheets (it’s not like I had to use a washboard in the stream) and remaking the bed became a mindful experience for me. Instead of focusing on the facts associated with this chore, I was shockingly finished and walking out of the room without thinking “why Read more

  • So the thing about lists

    I wasn’t quite sure how to start this one out…perhaps something like this: During an afternoon Zoom chat group, the topic of lists came up and I said quite innocently that I don’t make lists. The group got very quiet…one person shyly spoke up and said, “you are truly living life on the edge!” That’s Read more

  • So many thoughts 9 more hours

    There is absolutely nothing going on today. It’s breezy, barely over 60 so I decided to use this day as a ?mental?health day which turned into I really need to find something constructive to do….I’m bored! My last thought as I was cleaning up lunch dishes and putting silverware in the dish washer was a Read more

  • Where do tree frogs actually reside?

    I wondered from afar if the rock would be smooth enough to paint and draw a design to go along with my other kindness rocks around the house. As I got closer, I noticed it glistened. As I leaned it to pick it up, I realized with a sense of total panic that it was Read more

  • I had no idea the parents died in the movie

    If it weren’t raining for day number 40 of 40 days and 40 nights, I possibly would be in a better mood. Even though we have had a few days….and I mean VERY FEW days…. without rain since our unseasonably cold days, I fear that little scream that has been bouncing around inside my head Read more

  • Move to Missouri she said….

    You know those moments when something someone has said to you in the past comes back….repeating like you are seated side by side, say, in a movie theater and she whispers…you guys should move down here we hardly ever get snow…..and honestly I have bragged to my northern friends that…oh ya, we are always 10 Read more

  • OH YA…..WELL WATCH THIS

    The title being in all caps is the reality of the disturbance in my head…I steal the term, disturbance, after hearing it used by a tv weather guy. Talking about the Canadian air mass sitting over the region for two weeks….”cold temperatures and smaller “disturbances” equals more chance for snow. Seriously…disturbance? from the news media Read more