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ReplyDeleteMisty ~ I hope your 93-year old father is doing well—or at least as good or better than expected.
My best wishes to your family, as I putter here alone around the house for the next ten days—
while my wife and her mom are traveling to Phoenix to coincidentally celebrate her uncle’s (her mom’s brother’s) 93rd birthday.
Die Welt is klein, nicht?
”It’s a Party, Animals!”
When folk spot Harvey’s
lanky sight, prancing a dance,
they raise a clamor!
~ OMK
"Perfect Party"
ReplyDeleteThe engaged couple celebrated their romance
by hosting a lovely family dance
where their guests could frolic and prance,
which created a lovely sight
on this night of total delight.
The event had happy clamor and glamor
with reviews neither lanky nor cranky,
that did all participants enamor.
So the party was a great success
and all did the party animals bless.
Thank you for the kind comment about my Dad, Ol' Man Keith. He is sadly failing, and has been returned to the nursing home from the hospital. We will talk to my brother on Zoom on Sunday, and my son will fly to Pennsylvania a day or two later, to help as much as possible. How wonderful that your wife and family will be able to celebrate their Dad's 93 birthday party. It's great when relatives reach that high age, isn't it? (I liked your German comment).
ReplyDeleteAnd your verse, as always, was a delight this morning. Thanks for that too!
A rollicking poem from you today, dear Misty!
ReplyDeleteNeat internal rhymes and alternate couplets with a triplet, all to favor an engagement!
Reminds me that even for my most formal marriage (the first), we did not think of all that much celebrating. Just a rehearsal dinner, now that I recall. Engagements were never that big a deal. I guess the range of wedding hoop-de-dooing is pretty broad.
My sons had fancier marriages than I did.
On another site, we're debating whether you have to be religious to say "Bless you!" I maintain, No--a divinity is not necessary to empower a blessing. One may bestow one's personal favor by granting a blessing.
Of course, if you say "God bless you, " it's different. Then you are asking for God's grace.
I agree with your poem, where it seems the benefits of the joyful party were capable of blessing the guests.
~ OMK
For what it's worth, Chet and Lois had a return engagement last night . Or are people sick of C&L rhyming.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't unjumble #3 today which left the riddle-solution ungroked. Nice play on words.
Both of you came through today. OMK with economical use of J's and Misty's happy party animals unlike those nuisances at the zoo party
WC
Thanks for the FLN Reminder, Wilbur; I would've missed it otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI was beginning to worry--that we hadn't seen you for quite some time.
Anyway, checked it out, and gather from its cautionary tone that AA really does take serious, hard work, that it is easy to fail w/o steady effort.
Chet & Lois were both well warned to "come early/stay late" and take every step to heart.
Good advice for just about every difficult project we encounter, eh?
~ OMK
Went back to last night, Wilbur. The description of AA is great, though I didn't really get the man bites dog analogy at first. Thought for a bit, and think I get it now. But AA success is more common than that, I hope.
ReplyDeleteSandy ~ It is hard to pin down exact figures, but the best stat I could find suggests that a little over a third of those who start in AA manage to stay sober. Whether for a year, or five years, or longer, it is hard to say.
ReplyDeleteThere are many competing studies, and this was the BEST result I found.
Good results require a combination of factors, including regularity of attendance, family support, personal responsibility (that's a good one!), and combining AA with other treatments.
On the other hand, a thirty year University of Calif. study found that "moderate to heavy" alcohol consumers (2 to 3, and more drinks a day) will reach 85 or older without dementia!
Much better than for non-drinkers. I would never have guessed!
However, "excessive drinking can lead to dementia." I could not find the border line between "heavy" and "excessive."
~ OMK
OMK, surely not ALL of those moderate to heavy drinkers reach 85 without dementia, or even reach 85. There must be a percentage.
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ReplyDeleteSandy, an anonymous fellowship by definition is hard to pin down, statistic-wise.
There was a special type of meeting for beginners and two of them that successfully got sober told me that they were the only survivors.
The founder put it this way in italics on p24 of the Big Book
"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink."
Ergo all the action items that a successful sobriety entails which Chet has talked about.
WC
That's kind of scary, Wilbur. I suppose we're all closer to some sort of personal tragedy than we ever realize. And never will realize, much of the time, fortunately.
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ReplyDeleteI only found the summary, Sandy, but it referred to the average subject in the UC study, however many that was (?).
These reached a minimum of 85, a surprising conclusion, to be sure sure.
So some didn’t make it, but not enough to drag the average down.
~ OMK