When I’m Feeling Blue

September 19, 2023 / animar64 / Leave a comment

For #100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY– My self care plan

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I am a great believer in self care- after all if something happens to me what will happen to my dog?

So here are some things I do to keep myself on track when times get tough and the holidays ( which can be depressing ) are upon me:

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No matter how much it pains me at time- I get out into the world and I explore it, participate in it, find things that are good about it. The bonus is I get get a lot of exercise when I do this.

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I watch my diet- by that I mean I eat regular meals on plates and not out of a microwave dish while standing at my kitchen window and NOT seeing what is outside.

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I hang out with people- my family, my friends, people I ride the train with. I don’t isolate myself. People are ok. I like them just fine. Not as much as dogs, but still-I do enjoy the company of humans. Most of the time.

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Most important of all, I write every single day.

The math is simple- when I write I like myself. When I don’t write I find I am just existing from day to day- when I eat at my kitchen window and ignore the big bad I don’t like myself.

So I write and I create and I look forward to doing it the tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the next day –

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So there is my day to day self care plan- maybe some of it will help you out or maybe some it will just make you smile. Either way. I think that is okay.

amm

Welcome To Caturday!

September 16, 2023 / animar64 / Leave a comment

Haapppy it’s almost October Caturday everybody!

I hope you enjoy my Caturday pictures that the Gods of the Internet provided to us and see you next weekend,

amm

Round About The Cauldron

September 13, 2023October 1, 2023 / animar64 / Leave a comment

#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY-Potion

No doubt about it- this is the most famous potion ever brewed by a witch or witches

Photo: Pumpkinrot
2016

First Witch
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe (30)
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes-

Open locks, whoever knocks

#100h