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The Two of Pentacles/Tarot

The Lord of change–indicates necessity of change in ones life to avoid stagnation. It may mark a turning point in one’s life. from a new job to a new love who knows. It is a card that must be taken seriosly–a necessity for assessment of one’s life and overall position of the person being read — a need to go with the changes and to take ones chances with.

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So what have you been doing during the pandemic? I go out to the grocery store once a week and that’s about it. My friends are either more locked down than I am or they are going out and traveling a lot more than I feel is safe—this is a crazy time for me as I started this blog to encourage activity—Do SOMETHING—i have always insisted and now I’m locked in, so have I been doing anything?

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I have worked on the house—not fun but doing things doen’t have to be fun, just activity to keep your mind and body this side of sanity and the like. I have reorganized my kitchen, cleaned out the cabinets—-gone thru the dry materials and the condiments etc in my fridge and discarded those that are outdated and a few that technically aren’t but don’t appear to be doing too good. OK so that’s not exciting either—but it has kept me from being sedentary and comatose….

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I have taken up cooking from scratch again..something that I have not been doing anymore until 2020 came along—-I spend some of my day thinking up and/or looking up ideas for new cooking ideas—today’s efforts: the ham bone from Christmas’ dinner cooking in my slow cooker with chicken broth—an assortment of 15 different types of dried beans, chopped onions, chopped garlic cloves for an old fashioned soup that was a request of my roomie and we worked out the details along with a recipe that we adjuster and worked with kinda and I served it with cornbread muffins and cornbread dressing—-I don’t start from scratch..

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Many streets have the same name but have diferent ending such as Place, Ave., Road, Square, Street. So it’s very important to know the entire address of the place you’re going to.

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As i have recently admitted, these activitires are not exciting but they do accomplish things that make my life more comfortable, organized and it nothngg else, they keeps me from starring at the walls and pulling my hair out.

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The cooking is a more interesting and rewarding —and it also brings a plumper me which is pointing me toward making less fattening dishes to add to my new menu –its something anybody can do and there are all manner of sources that will send you all levels of recipies and the like for instance both Pilsbury and Betty Crocker have regular emails that send out recipies for all manner of foods.

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One way to get rid of a bit of those recipies after affects of course is walking—I live in a neighborhood that has little traffic—nice sidewalks along streets linded in trees and big grassy lawns with lots of plants and flower—I often take my camera with me and get pictures of butteflies or one of the many birds—we have some beautiful hawks here that I’m still trying to get a decent snapshot of—-but they tend to be quicker than I am. But walking is good for my waist line as well as a sane mind.

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The Roman emperor expected to be worshipped as a god during his lifetime and for temples and monuments to be built honoring him throughout the Empire.

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I’ve thought of taking up gardening as I have a nice size lawn—so far I haven’t gotten into that but if you’re looking for something to do you might keep up or upgrade you own lawn—-if you have a really small lawn or no lawn at all you can do window boxes or some inside planters where you can brighten your corner with flowers or grow some greens for your dinner table.

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Volunteer work is a nice option but so much of what you did or would have done before was hard to maintain a safe distancce and involved large groups in small spaces.

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You can also help out with elderly neighbors or ones with disabilities—check to see if they are doing Ok. You could arrange to curb pick up their groceries and other supplies and help them find stores that offer that service. You can share information on computer and other areas where they can communicate and or entertain themselves. And you could do this and maintain social dstancint—

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Winter Park, Florida

1883: A telegraph office was open at the train depot (built 1882) on Jan. 1. The first public school opened two weeks later at the Town Hall. In April President Chester A. Arthur visited the city at the inviatation of his friend, Judge (and millionaire) Lewis Lawrence, who owned about 10 acres of land (bought in 1875) on the soth side of Lake Maitland.

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Staying in touch with my friends has helped a lot—when crazy things happen I call and tell someone about it—the silly things my cat did, something funny I heard , all sort of other things can instigate a call to my closest buddies for just a short talk, but—-it’s there with each other and that helps all of us make it thru another day safe and almost sane……phone trees are an idea—if yo have some aquaintances that don’t have close ties to the community linking them together in a causual group to allow for calls and conversations that might help all of you over the lock down lonliness.

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I’m working on an idea for some sunny day in the near future—where my friends and I can go to this small park not far from my home that is never busy and we can set outside and enjoy the day but be on benches far enouogh away to keep us protected but still see each other—and to avoid having to talk so loud passer bys can hear we could still do a conference call on our phones…..we could also walk about the area maintain difference but see each other and get some expercies as well as exercise that are more positive than being chained to the TV set.

The followin are just a few ideas—–check your own location for some place that’s available fo you to get out—remember households can stay close in but if friends are joining you they must maintain safe distances. check out Hiking

Oh and there’s also Kayaking

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