COASTING

GOT CLAMS?

                               The roller coaster of life continues giving me a queasy feeling in the bottom of my stomach.  Fortunately if I remain calm everything will work out.  I'm comatose right now.  The cement mixer for the addition next door started at 7.  I arose at 6:30 awake but with insufficient sleep.  I have all my windows closed to keep out dust and noise.  I think I'm lacking fresh air.  It's time to put on the AC.  Too bad because we are having fresh,warm clear low humidity weather.   It's a day to open all the windows and luxuriate in the Spring air.  It's a low in the roller coaster of life.
                                 My husband still has 20 boxes to fill by tomorrow when the movers come.  He packed my new sheets and I had to find the box and remove them.  He's lost in a time warp playing old Gene Pitney songs.  So:

QUEASY?

 KEEP CLAM!

TCB BUT PLAY TOO

FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

                             Yesterday I packed and cleaned and then packed and cleaned some more while my husband did the opposite.  I finally played on that beautiful low humidity Florida day at sunset when I sunk a few putts on the sixth hole behind my townhouse.  I also took a snooze because I arose before dawn after only six hours of sleep.   Today my horoscope says:  Let it rip once and a while.

KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM

                                 I must hold my cards close to my vest and not reveal my true plans.  For a woman who rarely plays cards, that's not easy.  I'm married to a man whose family plays cards together on every holiday.  It's all peace,brotherhood and family love until the knives come out as they compete at cards.

ONE HUNDRED MOTORCYCLES

                               I went to the beach today next to the Kennedy Space Center.  It was crowded with lots of surfers and college students playing beach blanket bingo.  It was hot and looked beautiful.  I dangled  my feet in the surf.  I don't swim in the ocean.  Thee were a lot of riptides.
                                 On the way back the police stopped the beach exit traffic so 100 motorcycles could come through the intersection without stopping.  Since 9/11, you can't drive on Route 3 straight thrugh the Kkennedy Space Center.  You used to be able to unless a rocket was being launched.   The motorcycles were on a benefit run and had permission to drive straight through.
                                   Hopefully the motorcycle rally was to protest the killing of an unarmed teenager by a neighborhood watch captain.  The 17 year old went to the store at night for some Skittles and ice tea in his step mother's gated neighborhood in Sanford.  On a 911 tape from a neighbor's phone you can hear the Black teenager yell for help and then the gun go off.  The White neighborhood watch captain was not arrested because he said it was self-defense.  There are protests all over America including Titusville and Sanford about this STAND YOUR GROUND killing. 
                              On Christmas Eve in the 1950's,an NAACP leader's home was firebombed near Titusville in Mims..  Harry T. Moore the schoolteacher activist was killed and his schoolteacher wife  died a few days later.  Their infant daughter Evangeline survived.  The Brevard County Courthouse is named after them.  Some want the State Road 46 to Stanford named after them too.   Their killer was never found.
                                   Titusville is named after a Confederate Colonel.  I saw a Dixie flag flying off the back of a  pick up truck in Daytona last week.  Killing is rampant in Florida.   Sanford is particularly dangerous.  Black people are not safe from guns in white or black neighborhoods.  Whites are in danger of guns too.  Everyone has one and is proud of it.  It's true all over Florida. 

Before the Kennedy Space center in the 1960's,Titusville,Mims and Sanford was all fishing,orange groves,boating and trains.

                                        So why the motorcyclists hit the road and stopped traffic I'm not sure.  I certainly am shocked to hear that boy scream for help with a man with a gun standing over him. Talk about small government.  Who died and elected him God?   Same thing for neighborhood boards.  They are always telling you what color to paint your house,what tree to plant and whether or not you can fly the American flag.
                                       Actually it was  450 motorcycles raising $20,000 in the Brevard Law Ride to honor Barbara Pill a Brevard Country Sheriff who was shot in the face by a 22 year old Black Man when she stopped his car as a suspect in robbing a Melbourne motel of furniture.   Barbara, a white woman had been a policewoman for more than 30 years who never flinched from pursuing criminals.  She died immediately after being gunned down at point blank range.

FOX

                                          THE RED FOX HURRIED PAST MY BACK DOOR ALONGSIDE THE SIXTH GREEN TODAY AT 8 AM..  THE GOLF COURSE MAINTENANCE CREW HAD MOWED THE GREEN,INSTALLED THE HOLE POSITION AND FLAG FOR THE DAY AND A LARGE WATER TANKER SPEWED CHEMICALS ON THE GREEN.  SOON AFTER THE FOX SCURRIED BY AS THE FIRST GOLFERS ARRIVED IN THEIR CARTS TO PLAY THE FIFTH AND SIXTH HOLES.  A COUPLE WHO PLAY THIS HOLE EVERY DAY HAD A BALL IN THE WATER TODAY.  THEY HAD TO USE THEIR RETRIEVER.

SALAMANDER WAITING FOR THE FOX TO STROLL BY THE SIXTH GREEN

                                    THE FOX WAS THE ONLY CHANGE.  I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM ALL YEAR.  DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND THE EARLY SUNRISE HAS CHANGED HIS ROAMING HOURS.  THE SKIES ARE DARK AT NIGHT WITH JUST A CRESCENT MOON SO HE HAS TO HUNT DURING DAYLIGHT TO KEEP THE FAMILY FED.

EXPLORE NEW IDEAS LATER IN THE WEEK

SUNRISE

SEVENTH HOUSE OF PARTNERS

                       The sun is visiting my Seventh House of Partners.  That's when I can revisit previous discussions and iron them out.  It's been gorgeous with low humidity.  We went to Playalinda Beach yesterday.  it was practically empty with sand and dunes stretching forever.  It was high tide and the ocean waves were crashing onto the shore.  I  walked along the beach at 5pm on the last day of Winter.
                        Spring is here today.  Why isn't my heart singing?

SEVEN SACRED POOLS-MAUI