TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

OJAI,  CALIFORNIA_ "HOME SWEET HOME"





by: Kat ( Mary ) Carlson




Back to "HEAVEN" on earth......beautiful ,  gorgeous,  no place like it ....breath taking,  wild & free,   plenty of wild life,  horses,   foxes,   squirrels,   quail,  emus,  rabbits,  basically critters of all varieties, including humans,   LOTS of  "happy,"  " friendly,"  "warm " "humans !"    Walking the streets,  roads,  FOLKS  passing in cars  ( as I walk to town)  people "nod & wave!"

If there is a "prettier place" on this planet,  I haven't seen it first hand!  Grateful that I have the privilege of living in this.. "DELIGHTFUL "  burg"


More bragging rights  (LATER)  as I settle into "country life"  at an age when one is "eternally grateful" for the magnificent experience of  "LIVING" !!!! 


"LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING" ......




(_A Wink & a Smile_)...........................................:) 





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SMILES

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It's because of this little kitty..."Lily" that I got started in my real life & writing these happy blogs ..."happy" for me.  And of course, its entitled lily makes me "smile"....& does she ever?

by: Kat ( Mary ) Carlson


This a.m. & very, very early on.....I began to plan on my "MOVE" to Ojai, California this Friday,  May day !.....yep, that was one of my favorite days in grade school ( Fairview..(Richmond, Indiana)
We danced the May Pole dance and it was "fantastic"...oh what a good memory.!   I can still see & feel the excitement.  The paper mache'  "streamers" were exquisitely colorful,   so many beautiful colors woven around the May pole by each of us who participated.   Now, we got to really dress up in beautiful pastel colored skirts and white peasant blouses.  It's entirely possible that one of you followers experienced the same kind of childhood experience and are grateful to this day.  I know I am.!!

So, back to my MOVE again, to another place of extremely happy memories.  Ojai, is a place you "HAVE" to experience.*  See my blog "LIVING WORDS" for more On this amazing city/burg!

As I was thinking and planning ,  my ever " faithful music" was playing!  Many songs grabbed my heart, of course and set me in a space of contact with my Heavenly Father,  my friend,  my confidant and more!  The last song was  "SMILE",  by Nat King Cole.   As the ends of my mouth started to turn up,   I noticed/observed for the very first time  ....  how my entire body started/appreciating the transformation.   I guess I have smiled a million/zillion times before,  but "THIS TIME",   I could tell how "Healing"   "smiling"   really is as I witnessed the change in my BODY.    So,.. go for it, everyone,  keep on "smiling"....it   "IS"   actually  "good-for-you!."...................:)

oh yeah !!

(_A Wink & a Smile_).............................:)


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LAW & ORDER _ an OXYMORON

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Yep,....Lily "IS" a feature image for this blog

 ........:)

by:_Kat ( Mary ) Carlson....* author/publisher


I have become intimately "aware" that organizations,  institutions,  businesses, * government agencies
policy makers,  everywhere do NOT "have it together."    Most,  at best,  "go to work",  "fill out the necessary paper work",  follow rules (guidelines) set up by other people who go to work,  do the necessary paper
work,  file " & " follow rules ( guidelines) set up by "AGAIN,"_ "other people who"....and so on down the line.  If you follow the  NEWS,  POLITICS, and all the inner workings of our "WORLD'S SYSTEM", ( including HEALTH CARE AGENCIES....YIKES! )
you have already discovered,  " NO ONE'S MINDING THE STORE",...in other words,  NOTHING actually gets to the point where important issues get "CHANGED",  at least not for the better for the "GREATER" good!   Not to the point of "putting-an-END",  ( period ) at the end of the sentence!  For
THAT "matter",  what exactly "IS" _ "THE GREATER GOOD" ??......
 
The  "POWER"  to affect that particular kind of change isn't within them.  So chaos and disorder, covering up and FEAR   .."rules"... to the point that more of the same ensues.   It's a "PITY",  folks !
"LAW"  begets more  "LAW"   and so for and so forth.   On and on it goes and _ WHERE/ WHEN " WILL"_ it stop ?   " ORDER"......IS there ANY ?   (Other than more of the same?)   NO,  I don't believe our world system " HAS"  the  "ANSWER"  folks,  do you?   But _ we "DO"  have more "CONFUSION"  ,  right ?

MOST of us thinking FOLKS  have/are  learning to "TRUST"  "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE" !    It's "mighty _  powerful  " FORCE"  capable of handling  " ALL "   that we need in this world !

( _ A Wink & a Smile _ )................................:)

Kat (Mary) Carlson

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BOGUS...promises

BOGUS......promises,

See the "LION" in the middle....it belongs to POLITA BARNES,.... everybody,  &... didn't the lion  "NOT HAVE a HEART",  in WIZARD OF OZ.........or maybe he did & just hadn't discovered it yet !!!  Maybe there  IS  HOPE !

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Guess what.....another chapter in my life coming up.  So much to do in so little time !  However will I manage ?  However, this article/blog is devoted to living in these so called "Assisted" (?) Living communities.  In 2004,  I moved to Glendale, CA and became a part of Casa Glendale Assisted Living family & lived & played there for 7 yrs.  I established a host of friends,  including staff.  ( Still friends to this day, 4/15). I soon became enormously active.  Loved my friends (especially at meal time) and all activities  Bingo was  led by a well loved couple Ken & Zelda !  Later, I became caller of BINGO for three years and traveled by wheelchair upstairs to the game room every night at 6:00 right after dinner in order to do so. 

Why I am leaving these facilities is on the minds are wonderful friends everywhere....(that's a gift I get to take with me....great supportive friends....:)_  )  I do have FOND memories of people who will be supportive for life.  Many friends/staff from Casa Glendale ( 7 yrs.) still email and call me.  I go visit them as well ! I get to join them in Kareoke from time to time !  FUN!.....:)

So ,"all in all" these facilities have been valuable and I give thanks for years of love & happiness. 

In coming blogs/posts I will address this operation and attempt to clear up what makes certain personnel & owners..  behave the way they do !  "WHAT IS ADVERTISED IS NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU GET ! " _ It's  smoke & mirrors, folks " !_

  13 years with them gives me perspective.   Buyer Beware !  Fortunately,  I cut-my-teeth (so-to-speak) in these places so I'm the  "lucky one......" !

Still a believer in  "real LIFE," no matter where you live. !

 (_A Wink & a Smile_).................................................:)

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HUNGRY....anyone ?

Red Robin....Van Nuys,  CA ,  a special day with Mom , Dad  & Thomas, my brother ( one of them) at a valued eatery,

This picture was obviously taken,  LONG AGO. ( 25 yrs to be exact)   * Note,  the hair, it is not white.......:)

by: Kat ( Mary) Carlson_author/publisher


My inspiration for this article was several nights ago, when I was served chicken  (again) in the dining room,  Leisure Vale, Glendale,CA.  I turned it down and left for my room,  knowing I could fix something that I felt I would like better and so forth.  So, I took out of my refrigerator,  fresh mushrooms,  kale, yellow squash,  zuchini squash, canned water chestnuts,  bean sprouts and started to prepare a meal to my liking.  ( I DO THIS ALL THE TIME)  and usually in the evening.  One of my major fixin's is homemade soup.....a variety of bean types.   mmmmmmmm !  

In addition to the above ingredients for this particular meal,  I put in ( for flavor),  a little leek soup mix, ,  soy sauce,  a little "I can't-believe-it's-not-butter", real olive juice from a "real green olive" jar ( omitting the olives..:),  cooked the whole creation in my microwave for about 10 minutes.  The results
were "very enjoyable".  I made plenty for left-overs.  Later meals,  I added some brown rice, and more soy sauce.   I can't get enough cooking and cooking tasty,  healthy meals !   This kind of meal does SAVE.. on the budget as well as the heart.....:)    Folks, our "arteries" need LOVE,  too.  So unplug them and enjoy yourself at the same time. !    "IT'S A GOOD THING"
 Move over Martha Stewart......................:)  More on this topic coming up !!

Eating well is something I place high on my list of How-to-really " ENJOY MY LIFE".!!

(_A Wink & a Smile_)..............................................:)

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PEACE.....that passes understanding

Yep,.....I think Lily looks pretty PEACEFUL...don't you?

 

 

By: Kat ( Mary) Carlson


As some of you know,  I am in the throws of going head-to-head with some organizations with power and authority,  battling for my own rights as a individual agent,  seekng protection from these so-called
agencies,  appointed by our system/government !   Well,  this particular night,  I awoke (having slept well for many hours), still,  found inside a battle of my own.. ( that's where it always is anyway)!

Restless, back up against the wall,  tormented,  muscles fitfull, tight, straining !  I first listened to my CLOCK,  * read "TICK TOCK" blog published (                    ). let go a little, decided on taking
my usual POWER SHOWER,  helpng a lot,  then I decided to go to the front lobby (night receptionist for a back rub....:) * thanks my friend,  then back to my room, put on music Barbra Streisand (Duets),  ( another good idea),  snacked on blueberries,  ( I eat them like peanuts...just pop them in my mouth),  re-arranged my pillows, sat back and "rested".......then came this happy friend of mine  "PEACE",  with that event,  of course I cried and cried tears of joy and thankfulness for it's glorious PRESENCE!

It was then that could put almost everything that is going on in my LIFE in PERSPECTIVE along with this compelling thought.  For a VERY long time I have enjoyed the presence of  PEACE,  it's very own self....yes, PEACE IS,  it is my "VERY BEST FRIEND",  forever & always.  In all times, and especially in times of trouble,  PEACE avails itself to me and offers a hand up,.... "I accept"..  & I am saturated by it..  ( Peace,  the kind  that passes understanding.)...the only "real"  PEACE there is !! 

So, I am passing on  this message to you,  just to hopefully find you engaging in peaceful co-existence
"INSIDE" where all of our LIVES originate.  I LOVE IT,  really never ever realized it WAS what it was....REAL,  POWERFUL,  SUBSTANTIAL.... ....to me !!  

 

ALWAYS remember to be "REAL",  it's the BEST !!

(_A Wink & a Smile_) .................................:)


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"CLARITY", sister to Perspective.......:)

Move over Lily,  today RIP is on board, ......:)   Welcome RIP.,_  RIP is my friend too.   I named him RIP because it stands for. Rip Van Wrinkle ,  a Sharpee'.....:)   See his wrinkly forehead.

by Kat (Mary) Carlson_ author/publisher


Once in a while a reread my blogs.  This morning I just finished reading a few.  The one on "PERSPECTIVE" brought to mind that so very often,  ( while my brain is healing),  I need to ask for "CLARITY".    Sometimes I get confused about what the message is and I know if it isn't said in LOVE,   I hold out until I "hear" LOVE or FREEDOM.    Actually it is close to the same as my blog on PRESPECTIVE.     But words , (semantics),  are different for different people,  so it helps if things are explained again only using another word in it's place.

I'm a little excited today because I have prepared a little neighborhood YARD SALE.  So at 2:00 a.m.,  I went outside in the dark and put up signs.  I turned on the garden hose for putting some water in a bucket and wouldn't you know,  it had a HUGE leak ( I got wet)  and the bucket ended up having a huge leak too.  I was amused.....tee hee !

But the task is done  ( SIGNS are in place)  and soon after breakfast,  I will be ready to sit for about 2 hours (only),  and help "plenty of buyers"  with all kinds of goods.  May your day be a pleasant one,  folks.  

HAPPY SUNDAY........all day

P.S.  Anyone following BASEBALL these days ? 

(_A Wink & a Smile_)...............................:) 


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