Picture this.....two folks sitting on the back deck, on a perfect summer evening. and, an owl starts hooting, in the near-by valley. One person listens to the sound, remembers and carefully recites, word for word, a poem that was displayed, on the wall of a science classroom, around 60 some years ago.
Amazing, you say. Well, of course I thought so, since I was the one who had memorized the poem. Actually, I thought my companion would be favorably impressed by my elocutionary skill. Certainly, Mr. Ernie Nelson, our Junior High Science Teacher, would have been. He was the one who had hung the posters. Let's face it, Science was of very little interest to me, which is probably why I memorized the the poems. on the walls of the classroom.
The reason for writing this particular blog, was my companion's reaction, to my compelling recitation of the Owl Poem. He said something like, "You didn't much follow that advice, did you?"
I was, only briefly, taken aback. He was right. I talk a lot. I really talk a lot. Years ago, About the same time, I was sitting in Science Class memorizing that poem, another teacher told me, "You talk so much, you don't even know when you're talking." He was right. Today, I can phone my friend Judy, and we can talk for an hour or so, barely taking time to breathe. We have a lot of opinions. We have a lot to say, to each other.
That's the reason, of course, that I write this Blog.And, have written it, weekly since 2008. My musings are what I believe and what I'm thinking about. Oh, I'm awfully glad that you are reading them.
Life is a Hoot.
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