THROWING BEADS AT MARDI GRAS
Here’s a picture of me with some awesome friends ( Mike and Holly, Dave and Ann plus the world’s most kind and gentle wife Kisha). We spent my birthday in New Orleans this year for Fat Tuesday.
We brought with us 850 strings of beads and found a balcony. I learned a lot — most unusually the value of beads. You always hold on to your nicest beads and throw the cheapest. Some are for Showin’ others for Throwin’.
Mardi Gras experts encouraged us to taunt people on the ground from our balcony and then they show you, their boobs! The value of the beads is high unless they drop to the ground.
If they hit the ground, they, at that point, worthless. So, to some, where in twenty feet of life a valueless string of beads goes from people showing themselves off all the way, to hitting the ground and being worthless! Wild huh?
THE ANTICIPATION OF SUMMER… AND THE APPRECIATION OF SUNSHINE
Life is a lot shorter than we think.
Summers fly by while winters seem to linger. When I was a small child, summer lasted forever. We would wake up, go outside and play all day long. We enjoyed games like baseball, tin can alley, spinning the bottle with the Hogan gals and Helen L. We kept busy building forts — sometimes in trees and sometimes underground. The underground forts often flooded because as eight-year-olds we didn’t understand drain tiles or irrigation!
I appreciate life more now than ever. There isn’t a day that I don’t think about Mom, Dad, John, Janet, or Dom… and friends like Keith, Teesa, Steve, and Buddy. To this day I think about my friend Keith Baker often. His parents gave him everything all the time and I was so jealous. Now and then I saw that Keith didn’t have any hair. I had no idea what leukemia was or that his life would end at the tender age of sixteen. Life is not always kind. Enjoy your summers because life has a finite answer.
Summer is so important! You only have so many. Make your dreams come true, buy the boat, rent the RV, or just go to the beach.
But fair WARNING… do not let time slip away
Do not take life for granted…
Praise the Lord and go out and explore the world! This is not a dress rehearsal! Enjoy your Summer and thank you for reading my column.
~Jim High
AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION AT A DOCK BAR…
I was sitting at a dock bar contemplating life when I met nurse/consultant on her way from Pittsburgh to Boston.
Wendy and I chatted bit at the R and R Dock bar at the airport BWI. She explained she was a very valuable overpaid consultant.
I realized that underpaid consultants are like a going out of business sale for Fortune Tellers. Never take their word for it and make life your own fortune!
