Change Of Direction Today

      I had a blog post subject ready to go this morning, and then I made the mistake of turning on the television news....*sigh*...Another shooting. This time in a Path Mark grocery store in New Jersey....Robin Roberts (of 'Good Morning America'), her mother passed away overnight....as did some people in Louisiana. Casualties of hurricane Isaac...*sigh*
         I couldn't be all light and airy, funny and wordy, like I planned. I had to change direction this morning...Hurricane Isaac...*sigh*...Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Alabama area are  looking almost exactly like they did seven years ago when hurricane Katrina hit. :-( More torrential rain, wind, tornadoes, deaths, people being rescued from the top of their house roofs, and flooding...

 (Long Beach, MS from The Weather Channel on Facebook)

(New Orleans from The Weather Channel on Facebook)

                So, showing you my brand new boutonnieres is all I got today...*sigh... 

        I tried something new with two of these...(These will be in my Wuglyees shop later today, by the way)...I sewed a seed bead right in the center of them...That was labor intensive work, putting that little bead on there!!...But not as labor intensive as having to find somewhere to live, or having to be rescued from your roof!...*sigh*...See what I mean?!...Kinda hard to talk trivialities today...Maybe tomorrow.
      Have a good day, everybody...especially those in the path of Isaac. :-( It's gonna be a tough day to find something to be positive about, but let's do it anyway! 

How Can You Be So Positive

"How can you be so positive
with everything so bad?
When folks are so unkind
and all those doctors make you mad?"

"It's easy!" I assure them.
'Cuz one thing makes it okay.
I wake up every morning,
and I'm breathing every day!

When I can't move a muscle
and can barely lift my head,
I think of all the folks I've known
who now are gone, yes, dead!

No matter what my problem is,
and if I stand or lay,
I'm thankful that my mind still works
and I'm breathing every day!

So how am I so positive,
When things sometimes seem bleak?
It's easy, 'cuz my breathing
keeps on going every week!

Oh yes, I have a choice!
I can be miserable and whine;
Be mean to folks around me,
Be demanding and unkind.

But who would make that choice,
when there's a better way to be?
I mean, who's breathing every day
and writing poems?...ME!