The older I get, the more I hear doom and gloom from my peers.

We were/are Baby Boomers and this is what we grew up with:

As elementary students, we would be marched out into the halls of our schools and told to curl up in a ball in case of a nuclear attack...

this was a regular drill.

In 1962, we came within hours during the Cuban Missile Crisis of having nuclear war with the U.S.S.R. come true.

In 1963 our president was assassinated. In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr, a proponent of equal rights for all was assassinated. The late president's brother, running for president was assassinated.

We were in a bloody, senseless war in South East Asia. At home, those marching for civil rights and against the war were violently attacked.

Yes, in this century we've had 9/11 and Covid-19.

And yet, we continue on.

The bible even mentions how we will always have 'wars and rumors of wars'.

But I see that no matter how dark the skies become, we always seem to find the light.

To Hell with the nay-sayers.

Live your life to the fullest and bring joy whenever/wherever you can.

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We would all be in a better place if all of those forest fires in Canada were pot plants instead.

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I stepped on a teeny, tiny rock barefoot and bruised my heel.

It's a pain that comes and goes as I walk around.

A gift that keeps on giving.

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If you ever want to start an argument,

ask a group of people if the term is

soda, or pop.

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The ages old advice to married couples for a longer, happier marriage is:

'Never go to bed angry.'

Boy, was I ever tired all the time I was hitched.

Why drink hot beverages when it is hot outside?

People who study these things say that consuming hot drinks raises your body temperature,

then lowers it -

quicker than consuming cold beverages.

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Heard on an old sitcom from 10 to 15 years ago by an old lady:

"In my day, it was called discipline. Today it's called child abuse."

"And what we called checking up on where your husband is,

now it's called stalking."

Times have changed.

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Early this morning we had a pretty good downpour,

complete with lots of thunder and lightning.

A couple of hours later I decided to do some laundry.

I loaded up and went downstairs to the basement where the laundry facilities are located.

Nope.

Water over much of the area,

specifically both washers and one dryer.

Looks like I'll be taking a trip to the local laundromat.

It costs more, but it is quicker-

but not cheaper.

Hi-ho, hi-ho,

it's off to wash I go.

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As a former outfielder, I always applaud great catches:

At 16 I was fired from Taco Bell for passing the drug test.

They said they didn't have confidence I could make a burrito...

if I couldn't roll a joint.