"I have a feeling we are not in Kansas, anymore."

 I believe that I have never been accused of being a very deep thinker. However, that doesn't mean that my introspection is therefore shallow. I prefer to consider myself just a tad "quirky". My thoughts and words just tend lean toward the absurd and obscure. 

Quirky. I've written before that I would like to have the Kansas State Song, "Home on the Range" sung, at whatever type of memorial service my children would like to hold, in my honor........and the "Jayhawk Fight Song", too. I also like "Great is Thy Faithfulness". But, I don't want them to use, "Amazing Grace" or "How Great Thou Art." I'm dead serious, about these thoughts.

Absurd.So, as I currently reside "where seldom is heard a discouraging word", let's just ponder "words". "Words are friends. In bad times they keep you company." wrote Peter Balakian. I have quite a few lady friends that simply abhor memorizing words. They just refuse to do it. Not me, I have been memorizing poetry, prose, song lyrics, since I said my first word.  My first performance may have been when I was a just a toddler performing "Down Went McGinty", while standing on my Grandmother's dining room table. My head is full of memorized dittys.

Obscure. I sincerely believe that the author, L. Frank Baum, is perhaps, the greatest philosopher of the modern era. For example, noting where we were born .......My daughter and I believe, that just like Dorothy Gale, we Kansas Girls are sweet enough to help you with your heart and courage, but mean enough to drop a house on you. Don't mess with me or my daughter.  Lions, tigers and bears beware.

And, when my courage fails me, I try to remember what Glinda said, "You've always had the power my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself." Great thoughts, for any type of thinker.

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God: You are our refuge and our strength. Relying on Your strength, makes us strong. Your steadfast love endures forever.