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Goldy is at it again.. it doesn't sound like much but I have a new coffee cup today -----in the cabin....... there has been only one coffee cup here that's big enough to take the third button on the Keurig coffee maker... it says “Boss Lady “ and I've had that cup for years and then I find that Janine is also drinking out of the same coffee cup for the same reason sometimes when I'm through with my first cup to wash it out and have her first cup etcetera and today when I went To reach for that cup it was in the dishwasher but there was a cop slightly larger on the shelf... and I found it will take the 3rd button brewed coffee from the kerig... now I have opened every package that has arrived here the last six months or a year I've opened them online and I don't ever remember getting this slightly large coffee cup.... And I've certainly never walked into a store and bought 1 so I have not a clue where that cup came from... but however. GOLDY... seems to have found a way to get it in our coffee rotation and I find that very interesting... because I don't know how that happened. there are so many things around here which defy reason... Simple things like the coffee cup-- which I suppose could have been left here by somebody who was working on the place--but -- however it got here I prefer to think it was planted by Goldy... Unfortunately I don't always have time to notice but thinking back to the brand new pair of shoes -- my size ---still little sealed shoebox... found upstairs during some mail call when I was complaining about having sneakers that were too tired for reasonable work... all the way to Mary showing up the help out with Judy on vacation.. there have been so many ----the purple frying pans are a favorite...
Speaking of pieces of the puzzle which make up goldys farm--- let's look at my rope collection? between the boxes of brass... spools of rope.. snaps... rings of all sizes... Including a 5 gallon pail of pieces of rope too short to use... I bet my rope collection value has something into at least 4 digits !!
I am totally enjoying being the Johnny Appleseed of the monkey fists.. I cannot tell you the simple pleasures I have given to so many people by giving them a monkey fist... with the marble inside... so in case they lose their marbles they have one left.. everyone in the last two hospitals who in any way assisted me got a monkey AS A thank you... including one of the big names at Beth Israel.. who came back into my room the doubly thank me for the monkey fist and the joy it had just given her in a very busy day..
With that in mind it would be criminal for me to sit around and do nothing... when it less than 10 minutes at a cost of less than $2.00 ( which is the cost of the snap) I can pass on a smile or two.
Ok.... Wwe all can't live forever--- who is to carry on My monkey fist distribution should I not be able to continue ? Who has it's significant intellectual curiosity--- time--- financial resources ---- to deal --- with the strings and marbles-- which are the details that are the monkey fist movement? I would like to leave this collection to someone who at least might attempt carry on the concept of a simple pleasures--- very similar to walking the dog through some of these assisted living places... or having Carly walk through with the chicken on her head... There are so many ways to pass on a simple “lift” to those people working very hard trying to keep their head above water financially or intellectually --- as the poem says... “there is only one lifter for 20 who lean...”--- so I struggle to identify what some might consider the idiot fringe of people capable coping with the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” --- as per hamlet “To be or not to be? Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them…”
The somewhat loose association goalys warriors... Shows amazing resilience... and every morning I check to see how the henny penny is doing consider that activity a definite vote of confidence.
