Your Post Pandemic Reveal
Should auld acquaintance be forgot?44 total reviews
Comment from Gert sherwood
Jay, Your watchful post about making resolutions for the unknown coming events that could happen.
Here I am in my middle eighties. And to my memory never said what I will or not do.
Is a total waste of time (why knock yourself out with being angry and frustrated)
Before a New Year is yet to arrive; my hubby and I only plan for a Festive feast of those tiny black pearls (caviar). And popping the cork.
Wishing each other; Here I am wishing you your Hopes come true, Keeping your spirits high..
And here's wishing you the very best for all your new ventures, that life has in store for you.
Gert
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Jay, Your watchful post about making resolutions for the unknown coming events that could happen.
Here I am in my middle eighties. And to my memory never said what I will or not do.
Is a total waste of time (why knock yourself out with being angry and frustrated)
Before a New Year is yet to arrive; my hubby and I only plan for a Festive feast of those tiny black pearls (caviar). And popping the cork.
Wishing each other; Here I am wishing you your Hopes come true, Keeping your spirits high..
And here's wishing you the very best for all your new ventures, that life has in store for you.
Gert
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Gert, what lovely thoughts and well-wishes. I've never had caviar, but I've seen fish poop, and that's close enough for me. LOL, thanks for your kind words and the stars, Gert.
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Jay,
You are MOST Welcome and Thank You for replying to my note
Gert
Comment from Mastery
Hi Jay. Very interesting and well organized essay, my friend. You have sprinkled it throughout with your sense of humor also which makes it very worthwhile reading. I see your New Years eve is about as eventful as mine. Only difference being I watch the ball being dropped on ABC. BTW. I had no idea you above all people are a Trumper? (Give-away is watching Fox..LOL) Happy New Year!! Bob
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Hi Jay. Very interesting and well organized essay, my friend. You have sprinkled it throughout with your sense of humor also which makes it very worthwhile reading. I see your New Years eve is about as eventful as mine. Only difference being I watch the ball being dropped on ABC. BTW. I had no idea you above all people are a Trumper? (Give-away is watching Fox..LOL) Happy New Year!! Bob
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Fox news was intentionally left out of that post. The only reason I watch Fox is because "Big Bang Theory" is on that channel. Trump? Are you kidding me?!
Comment from catch22
Hi Jay, I really enjoyed this thoughtful and reflective commentary on the year of the pandemic and how it has transformed our outlook as a species. We do need to be grateful for small blessings and the people around us, for life is fleeting (which was the big lesson for me this year in gratitude). Here's to hoping 2021 is more predictable!
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Hi Jay, I really enjoyed this thoughtful and reflective commentary on the year of the pandemic and how it has transformed our outlook as a species. We do need to be grateful for small blessings and the people around us, for life is fleeting (which was the big lesson for me this year in gratitude). Here's to hoping 2021 is more predictable!
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
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I think it will be more predictable. And yes, like certainly is fleeting. I'm glad you had a chance to read this. Thanks for your kind words and the stars.
Comment from robyn corum
Jay,
Great idea! I, for one, have never made resolutions. I don't get the whole process, really. One more way for me to disappoint myself and others. hahaha
But If I WAS going to make resolutions, I can see that March would be a better time - the SPRING!
Thanks!
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Jay,
Great idea! I, for one, have never made resolutions. I don't get the whole process, really. One more way for me to disappoint myself and others. hahaha
But If I WAS going to make resolutions, I can see that March would be a better time - the SPRING!
Thanks!
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Who doesn't love the spring? Thanks, Robyn!
Comment from Ric Myworld
The year 2020, the unforgettable year, not that we wouldn't like to. So many taken too soon. Loved ones left to linger, some alone, survivors suffering secondary conditions, and everyone wondering what's next. But, if we are lucky, what's to come beats the alternative. Hanging onto a dusting of hope we look to tomorrow and the coming year. Wishing you the best New Year ever!
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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The year 2020, the unforgettable year, not that we wouldn't like to. So many taken too soon. Loved ones left to linger, some alone, survivors suffering secondary conditions, and everyone wondering what's next. But, if we are lucky, what's to come beats the alternative. Hanging onto a dusting of hope we look to tomorrow and the coming year. Wishing you the best New Year ever!
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Thank you so much, Ric, for reading this piece and for the wonderful stars.
Comment from greyson ernst
this is really good and were in the world did you get that picture but as always keep writing and stay safe have a happy 2021
sincerely Greyson Ernst
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this is really good and were in the world did you get that picture but as always keep writing and stay safe have a happy 2021
sincerely Greyson Ernst
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Thanks, Greyson, for taking time to read this and offering your kind words and rating. I appreciate you.
Comment from RetroStarfish
Excellent essay. Dissatisfaction, hope, renewal, resolutions - these are the themes (whether or not they are acknowledged) that course through the new year - which falls so closely after a holiday of excess.
In addition to the premise, you are gifted with turns of phrase:
'hope fairly crackled with expectation....
'cast a misty veil over me...'
And imagery:
'Those four numbers, lined like blindfolded prisoners..."
A pleasure and adventure to read.
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Excellent essay. Dissatisfaction, hope, renewal, resolutions - these are the themes (whether or not they are acknowledged) that course through the new year - which falls so closely after a holiday of excess.
In addition to the premise, you are gifted with turns of phrase:
'hope fairly crackled with expectation....
'cast a misty veil over me...'
And imagery:
'Those four numbers, lined like blindfolded prisoners..."
A pleasure and adventure to read.
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Many thanks, Retro (Or should I call you Mr. Starfish). Your kind words and stars are most appreciated.
Comment from Raffaelina Lowcock
This is quite the dissertation! But so with it and on the mark. Who in this wonderful world ever needed to experience such a dire year. Was it dealt from God as a punishment for our sinful ways? Or was it a strategic plan that someone drafted to weaken the powers that be? What do you think? I think it is the latter. Watch our backs, is in the cards. Great piece Jay!
Ralf xx
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This is quite the dissertation! But so with it and on the mark. Who in this wonderful world ever needed to experience such a dire year. Was it dealt from God as a punishment for our sinful ways? Or was it a strategic plan that someone drafted to weaken the powers that be? What do you think? I think it is the latter. Watch our backs, is in the cards. Great piece Jay!
Ralf xx
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
reply by the author on 05-Jan-2021
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Since all powers were weakened, I don't think there was any strategy behind it. Or at least not thought out. No one with the mentality of Trumps big toe could have conceived of a plan that was so indiscriminately wasteful of human resources without stubbing their own in the process.
Come March, I think I'll just be working on myself. It's solitary, but relatively harmless.
Thanks, Ralf, really, for your kind words and the lovely Order of the Chartreuse Cross!
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"No one could have conceived of a plan that was so indiscriminately wasteful of human resources without stubbing their own in the process."
Except for those who do not worry about killing their own while engaging in their selfish tasks. Communists. I am not a radical.
Comment from royowen
An series of capital quenched short, but very well written excerpts, with some very witty and most enjoyable narratives, all commenting on this past year, and the horrors that consumed us during these exciting but seemingly uncontrollable, it was like my final months as an agnostic, well done, Jay, blessings Roy
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An series of capital quenched short, but very well written excerpts, with some very witty and most enjoyable narratives, all commenting on this past year, and the horrors that consumed us during these exciting but seemingly uncontrollable, it was like my final months as an agnostic, well done, Jay, blessings Roy
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
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Really! I'd have thought you never were an agnostic, Roy. But someone with the resolute strength of your faith now would almost surely have come from the cloud of unknowing. I don't even know why I say that. It just seems that incontrovertible faith couldn't proceed unbroken from birth.
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My daughter has that faith, born God?s handmaiden, she played with kids no one else would in kindergarten and school, I was overshadowed by God when I was 41, don?t ask me why, I don?t, I wasn?t good, one part of me is as cynical as you, because I know where you sit, but I feel compassion, because I know your need, I guess that?s why God confronted me. How about that? Blessings Roy
Comment from padumachitta
Jay...Gawd this was fun and tongue in check and sort of well a great heave ho frick off to this whole flipping mess.
and yes it deserves a six for it's wonderful ramble and forways and words.
See, I can be a peasant reviewer, and look I didn't even look for Spag..because well...I'll wait for the spring equanox and start over with a new grammar book and fierceness in my eyes to uncover those bad boys, those hard girls, those non binary grammitc road bumps.
Now, now, I must go and trail ink and messed up jumbled monkey mind thoughts on a very unpropossing bit of whited tree.
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Jay...Gawd this was fun and tongue in check and sort of well a great heave ho frick off to this whole flipping mess.
and yes it deserves a six for it's wonderful ramble and forways and words.
See, I can be a peasant reviewer, and look I didn't even look for Spag..because well...I'll wait for the spring equanox and start over with a new grammar book and fierceness in my eyes to uncover those bad boys, those hard girls, those non binary grammitc road bumps.
Now, now, I must go and trail ink and messed up jumbled monkey mind thoughts on a very unpropossing bit of whited tree.
Comment Written 05-Jan-2021
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Love. IT! I hold up my mug and salute all "non binary grammatic road bumps." LOVELY! I'll leave you to your whited tree. We writers must climb it unclad every day! Thank you for enrolling this in the Chamber of the Chartreuse Cross. You da bomb, Jodi!