Thanksgiving Day in the US

Oh bargains are great and when I was a shopper, nothing like them....today my shopping is the market and for clothes etc online...and I buy only for a "lift" as I'm forever getting rid of years of shopping from my closet.....

Science of Mind philosophy says: get rid of stuff and give to others who need, so you can create a space for something new....

A friend just lost her husband after 50 yrs of marriage and he was a horder and buyer and she is up to her ears in getting rid of his mounds of stuff.....  I won't leave that for my daughter....

One friend says she goes shopping in her closet... 

Well, thanks for the good wishes and I'm headed out soon for my daughter's house who is only about a mile from me....sure glad she and kids are close by.....

Be well and take care all.   J...

Hello Joy,

I like the hoely logic you apply to your shopping. Tomorrow I shall slim down my garage. Hapiily we live in today.

George

Yes, George, get rid of, clean out, give to others in need, I talk this with my grandkids who are in their very early years of acquiring.....words can last forever in minds, once planted....

Had a lovely dinner and catching up with those busy ones in my life....brought home a couple turkey dinners, think I'll call my neighbor and offer her some leftovers tomorrow.....she was alone and I'm sure she will appreciate a day later turkey dinner.....night all.     J 

Dear Joy,

Yes putting right ideas in the minds of the young is so important. I remember yet a time when I thought everything my parents and dradparents did was the correct way to do things. Gradually I learnt to distiguish between what was cultural and morally neutral and what was morrally right I have changed culturally very little but accept that things are done differently in other countries and in the UK differently by region as well as class. 

A turkey dinner for a neighbour sounds a splendid idea. It is always interesting to taste the dishes of other cooks.

George, I can remember some very wise words from the elders I've met in my life who have gotten me thru some big bumps in my life.....so much wisdom in the older folks.....   My 15 yr old grandson thinks he knows it all....good grief, I tell him,  you have a long life ahead of you Ryan....take your time, it will all unfold......he's smart but impatient.,....J 

Dear Joy, it is a wise young person who learns from the old. All too many I fear mistake the slower pace for irrelevance.

Everyone goes at their speed and sometimes we hear others and sometimes we don't.....I can still hear my mom saying many years ago "save your money, joy".... I said "yeah mom I know".....I started later in life, but I started to save....could I have saved more, yes, but I did my life at my pace....same  goes for everyone....better late than never....J

irrelevance only for those moments  back then....things are turning so much  towards introspection and inner reflection ...slow is the new now and 'where its at' !

When I often talk about "how things were" to my daughter and I don't do it often but STUFF to survive on is so expensive TODAY....how poor people can even survive, good grief.    

My daughter and the new generation say "it is what it is"....

I have a bridge bridge who is 82  and very very wealthy and talks about lack and complains to the point I want to scream....  she never walks in anyone elses shoes, to me it's sick.  She's never enlightened herself.....sick and sad but she's stuck in that MUD....

Dear Marey and dear Joy,

I had not made my meaning clear. The young see the slow and perhaps faltering pace of the old and perceive the slow memories of them. They perceive the difference to their quick mind and actions and think that any advice or instruction must be faulty, tired and irrelevant. 

oh I got that!

But some respect the wisdom of their elders. In my circles  there is a lot of interest in meditation...and precisely in going slow and its the younger ones who are taking the lead...making vows and helping by their slow steadyness to change the world. They want slow!

oh dear how frustrating!

stillthank goodness you can and do influence your own!!