Musings by Tulis

...here is to the New York drivers who don’t know where they are and keep on moving. May we all take a page out of their travel guide. Chances are, if you keep moving, being lost will be an adventure.

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... on 911 Danny the bartender in front of me was 11. “I was just a lad,” he said. “Can you imagine?”

... On 911 I was 51. That made Danny the bartender 40 years my junior. Forty years. And here he was the little pipsqueak pouring me a glass of wine. What was going on here? As they say in the old country – I was gob-smacked.

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... on 911 Danny the bartender in front of me was 11. “I was just a lad,” he said. “Can you imagine?”

... On 911 I was 51. That made Danny the bartender 40 years my junior. Forty years. And here he was the little pipsqueak pouring me a glass of wine. What was going on here? As they say in the old country – I was gob-smacked.

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You weeren's born. You were evicted. Your mother had to work to get you here. Why do you think they call it "Labor?"

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The other day I signed up for a Lifetime Membership for a Meditation App. It seemed like a no-brainer, until I heard myself think, “Wait a minute – how long would I have to live to make this lifetime membership worthwhile?”

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My life is like a quiz show. I have so many names, places, things, summer vacations, Christmas Carols stuffed into my head that it is difficult to sort through them all on a moment’s notice. More and more I depend on the kindness of strangers.

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“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” Someone said that somewhere and it is now on coffee mugs all over the planet.

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this epidemic of good deeds and dispositions was out of my control. I watched as the Samaritans began to multiply out on the street. A pizza guy stopped to hold a door open. A woman stood still while her dog said hello to a puppy. A man on his phone paused his call and executed a tiny soccer move to stop something rolling down the street being chased by a panicked teenager. And when I asked the angel bus driver how close he got to my desired street he said, “I will stop there for you. I have time.”

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Creating a budget is just like aging. Nobody tells you anything except the people who whisper, “Don’t get old,” which is not a conversation starter. There is no guidance. You sleep through a few stops, and when you tell the conductor you would like to get off and take the train back a bit, you are told there is no getting off the train. Just like you cannot unspend your money. There is only forward motion. You’re stuck.

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I am feeling vindicated today so watch out. I heard an interview with Alice Walker the other day and the interviewer referred to her relationship with another female writer and used the term “you guys”. Walker stopped him cold. She said, “I don’t like to be referred to as a guy.” The interviewer apologized and said he was not even aware he had used that phrase. “Most people aren’t.” she said.

Newsflash - I have been saying this for years!

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