Granny-O Speaks

January 9, 2022

Thank you. Thank you so much for reading my blogs. I am thrilled to be sending out possibly good vibrations that might add to your happiness. All I wanted during my entire life was love, and to be able to help as many people as I could to reconnect with their own happiness. When our son, our only child, was born in the middle of the night a little more than 46 years ago, I made two wishes for him. #1 That he would be happy. #2 That he would like us when he grew up. A mother’s wishes have come true. He is happy, and I think he does like me so many years later. He also loved and liked his father. His father died eight- and one-half months ago, but our son has continued his connection with his father in his heart. Our son is married and has two sons. Love has passed on to another generation of our family. It makes me smile just thinking about it. Something that adds to your happiness is if your parents love each other. Parents loving each other teaches their children how to be loving adults. Love is expected, but not always appreciated. The three of us never took our love for granted. It is no surprise a child loves his parents, and his parents love their child but liking your child or your parents goes farther than DNA. Liking is a conscious choice. The point I am trying to make here is happiness has been important to me for pretty much my whole life. I want to spread happiness around the world like Johnny Appleseed spread apples. I want the world to be happy. Having a blog, helps me reach more people. It makes me even happier than I usually am when I see some people are at least thinking about their own happiness. Thank you very much for letting me connect with you. Have a great night. It is 11:49 PM. I am awake, and I am appreciating my life and have incredible gratitude I have it. As your head again hits the pillow, from me to you, I pray all your dreams will come true. God bless you.

Granny-o

January 8, 2022

You know. You know you have the right job when you love your job so much you would do it even if there were no monetary compensation. You love your job so much you would be really good at it, and you would come to work every day dancing in the street. You would get there early, no time clocks necessary. You would be happy; you would be friendly to your fellow workers and work together to get the job done. Success would be a team effort, and everyone on the team would be important. Management would be there to assist you not to criticize you and judge you. The interesting thing is that when you are really good at what you are doing, you get paid the big bucks to do it. You don’t have to chase the money; the money finds you. What is your passion? Have you spent so long chasing the mighty dollar, you have forgotten you were ever passionate about anything? Have you sold your soul so that you can take your paycheck to the bank on payday? Is your compensation enough to allow it to take away the joy you have for living for forty hours every week? Do you even have any idea what is really important to you? For as long as I can remember the thing I wanted most in life was for everyone to be happy. When I was little maybe even three or four or before I lived a life in which children should be seen and not heard. I did not have a voice. My importance had no importance. So, I spent a great deal of my time watching other people. Listening to what they had to say and trying to figure out what made people happy. If there were moments of sadness around me in my life it made me sad. I wanted to be happy. So, I watched. I listened, and if someone were unhappy, I would wipe away their tears. Adults did not listen to the opinions of children back then, so mostly I spent my time drying the tears of children who were younger than I was. I just wanted everyone to be happy. I guess it was my passion because all these years later I am still watching. Sill listening, and still am trying to help my fellow human beings find happiness. Did I mention I am 73 years old? Why I am saying it again is to let you know passion is not a thing that you get, and then throw away with the morning trash. Passion is something you are born with that grips your very soul and lives in your heart. It is God’s gift to you. You have a passion. Everyone was born with a passion for something. Throughout the years you become more passionate as you learn more about the world you live in. The more you are able to express and experience your passion the happier you will be. I do not and did not think of myself as a popular person because I take myself out of the equation. One day I counted up the number of houses I slept over at as a child. I counted 24 different families who were sharing their dinners with me on Friday nights. I was always somewhere with a friend. I loved sleeping over and seeing how other families did happiness. I used to walk down the street with what I needed in a grocery store paper bag. I never got a ride, I walked to where I wanted to be, and always had a smile on my face as I put one foot down in front of the other. So, was I popular? I don’t know. But I was happy. I enjoyed my friends and their families, and I was invited back. It was not important if I were popular. I just wanted to share happiness. It was, is and always will be my passion. Maybe I never got paid the big bucks, but when you are happy you do not need to buy as many things because stores don’t sell happiness. Maybe in reality I had more money than the rich man had. Be passionate. Be happy. It is never too late to figure out who you really are. The clock is striking seven, figuratively speaking, and the sun will be rising in the winter sky before long. Bundle up and smile as you go outside and see who is happy today. Before you go, take a look in the mirror and see if your face is smiling. Wow. To be happy or not to be happy that is the question. There is only one answer. Have a simply wonderful day. Just in case you are wondering, I like happiness better. How about you?

Granny-o

January 7. 2022

Snow. Snow has turned the green grass white. I imagine there must be four inches or more, and of course the sky is bright blue with sun shining on the snow on the ground and the snow on branches. Wow. It is so beautiful. I can’t go out and frolic because my walker wheels would probably get hung up, and besides I do not have any boots. So, I have been taking pictures as morning light has allowed. Snow. How incredible is snow? Especially if you are not forced to go anywhere. Cozy and hot chocolate are better when you are looking out the window at the whiteness of winter. Maybe next year I will pile up on a sled or toboggan and hit the hills. Perhaps not. If I do fine. If I don’t, I have memories of when I did. It is best to do what you want to do when you can so that you are not sad when you can’t. Wow. This snow is so beautiful. Snow fascinates me. One flake at a time it accumulates unheard and unnoticed, and then wow you open the drapes, and everything is covered from here to as far as my eyes can see. Snow comes quietly and stays until it melts away. Happiness is like snow in a way. It comes. It just shows up and you experience something that you have experienced before, but it is always brand new. Happiness defines the minute as it sees fit. No rulebook for happiness. Happiness is as different for each person as are their fingerprints. As different as is every snowflake. Wow. It snowed during the night, and the joy of the snow is a gift to my cartoon eyes. Good morning world. Thank you, God for creating such a magnificent, beautiful vision as the sun rises again in the sky. I thought I was really happy when I woke up, and then all of a sudden, I got happier. Wow. I just can’t get over it. God, you have thought of everything. I am so impressed.

Granny-o

January 7, 2022

Glad Day. Today is a glad day. An I am so incredibly happy to be alive day. It sounds like I am a broken record where the same words play over and over again because of scratches made by poorly placed needles. Incredibly happy. Incredibly happy. Incredibly happy. Wow. It is so far beyond my understanding. It is like crazy good. I am so overwhelmed because happiness is happening to me over and over again. Wow. Circumstances do not determine my happiness, but my happiness determines how I will react to circumstances. It is like a peaceful euphoria. I am 73 years old. I keep saying that because want to tell everyone who is younger than I am to look forward to the rest of your life. Treat each day like another opportunity to appreciate all that you have. Live your life like there will be no tomorrow. Live your life with joy in your heart and a song on your lips. Life is a magic carpet ride that takes you from day one to forever more. Wow. Tell that to your children or grandchildren. Let the generations to come know you have a handle on happiness. Let children grow up knowing what a gift you have been given, and what a gift they have been given too. Let there be laughter and let there be love. Let there be understanding between the generations that we are all blessed. Let all the generations get together in each other’s arms to wipe away the tears that occasionally fall out of our eyes. Let all the generations to come know there is magic all around. Let there be peace on earth and let the peace live in each of our hearts. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. It sounds like all my records are broken. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Love is all you need. Let all of the generations to come know appreciation and gratitude. Let the generations to come know the fun of riding down a slide on a piece of wax paper. Teach children cheap fun memories are the best. Wow. Another glad day. I am so incredibly happy. The secret is you can be so incredibly happy too. It is 5:50 AM. My cartoon eyes are excited. I am ready. Bring it on.

Granny-o

January 5, 2022

The solution. The solution is the answer to a problem. I have the solution. Now I guess you want to know what the problem is. The problem is that not enough people are happy. The problem is there is too much sadness in this world. Life happens, and sometimes that is the cause of the problem. The solution is to listen to your heart. Your heart knows happiness. Know without a doubt that your life is a gift no matter what the weather. When you know life is a gift, life happens better. Did you ever notice happy people carry umbrellas as they run through puddles? Did you ever notice happy people are happy even when it is raining? Unhappy people don’t smile even when the sun is shining. Unhappy people are drowning in their own self-imposed misery. When the sky is blue the birds are singing. I think birds must always be happy as they start their day. It is impossible for me to sing, even a sad song, if I am not happy. So, logically speaking, maybe birds are happy because they are singing. Happiness is not something that you find somewhere else. Happiness is the way you feel no matter where you are. Happiness is an appreciation of life. Happiness is knowing you understand the meaning of gratitude. You are loved. What else could you possibly need to be? Wow. If you wake up grumbly, then get a grip. Stop thinking grumbly thoughts. Happiness is a choice. You can think happy just as easily as you can think grumbly. Choose happy. Life happens. When you know your life is a gift, life happens better. Some things are worth repeating. Make a wonderful choice. Your day will be as you create it to be.

Granny-o

January 3, 2022

Today is the day my heart is beating in my chest. Today is the magic all over again as I open my cartoon eyes. Today is the magic of everything coming together right here, and right now. Today. Wow. It is 3:29 AM, and today is the only thing I have. Today is all I need. God never promised me anything more. God actually never promised me anything. It is all a gift, and it is a twenty-four-hour gift. Today is all I have. Tomorrow never comes. When this twenty-four-hours end it will be today all over again. I believe life expectancy is a lie. Today is all I have, and if I were to die today it would be okay. It is not mine to know. Pretend today would be your last day on this earth. What would you do differently? If this, were it? What would you be thinking about? I don’t know if today is my last day or not, but today I am thinking about how blessed I am. I am thinking about how I appreciate all I have and am amazingly grateful I have it. It is all a gift. I will look around me and I will say thank you. This has been a pattern for me for many years. So, today I am ready to live the best day of my life so far, and I am ready to die if this is my time to die. Today, I am again happy. I am living a most incredible life. It is not because of me, that my life is incredible. It is because God has created me to be living this life that makes it incredible. It makes me smile just thinking about it. Here I am again. Wow. I can feel the corners of my mouth pushing my cheeks up again. Wow. What a wonderful day. Thank you. Today is all I have, and today is all I need.

Granny-o

December 31, 2021

Weddings. I wonder how many weddings will be taking place today. The last day to have another tax deduction for 2021. Is the justice of the peace still available? Weddings. White lace and promises and a new tax deduction to boot. Wow. Or as they used to say, “What’s it all about Alfie?”. Hurry. Hurry. Read all about it…more weddings scheduled for today, than in the whole month of June in 2021. Hurry. Hurry. Time is ticking away. Wow. What is it all about Alfie? Everyone writes his or her own script of how they want their life to play out. If that is a true statement, then why isn’t everyone happy? Why isn’t there celebrating without having to uncork the bubbly? Even if the bubbly has a screw on top. Why is tonight at midnight the biggest celebration of the year? Why can’t there be celebrations in your heart and in your life every day no matter what the calendar says? Every day is a 24-hour opportunity to reconnect with the wonder of it all. Wow. Always remember life is happening all around you. Sometimes, like clouds in the sky, there will be tears. Sometimes you have to look a little deeper to find appreciation and gratitude, but life is waiting to see you smile again. A new year. No one has any idea what the year will bring. That’s life. And yet we celebrate the ending of the old and the beginning of the new. Was the old so bad? Is the unknown of the new worth putting all our faith into it? I wonder if we all made the same resolution at the stroke of midnight would it come to be? Let’s try it and see what happens. Let’s make a resolution, one and all of us to be happy. The super bowl of resolutions. Happiness for everyone. Let us all rally around each other. Let’s all get on the bandwagon to help each other make 2022 the best year ever. It is not about you or me finding happiness. it is about you and me finding happiness. Let’s help each other in the days to come to be able to get through our temporary troubles, troubles are always temporary, and to help each and every one of us have a better year. The words you will hear throughout the world as the clock strikes twelve will be HAPPY NEW YEAR. So, the world is already on board. I am not reinventing the wheel here. God bless everyone.

Granny-o

December 29, 2021

Waking up. When you were waking up, did it take you a minute to get your bearings? For a nano-second did you not know where you were? You live your life in two existences. One is real. Is the other one real too? When you are dreaming, the dream seems real. Sometimes weird but real. You do not say, you were having a dream until you wake up. When you wake up you might know that you had been dreaming, but unless you write down your memory of the dream it is soon forgotten. Was it real? What is a dream anyway? Waking up, once you have gotten your bearings, is opening your eyes to the familiar. The room you are in is identical to the room you were in when you went to sleep. You are waking up to reality. But wait a minute. What is reality? Isn’t it possible we are living a dream? Isn’t it possible that our waking up is just changing venues? Couldn’t our reality, in reality be a dream? Let me repeat that, ” Couldn’t our reality in reality be a dream?”. Reality is mostly determined by the familiar. Ok I am standing on the top of a mountain, and I decide I can fly. So, I jump, and I die. I cannot fly. Now, If I am standing on a mountain and I jump and start flying then is that reality or is that a dream? Most likely because it seems impossible that I am flying; I will categorize it as a dream. My reality is determined by time and place. For instance, if I were now a ghost. I would be untethered to my body. I would be unable to communicate with humans for the most part, but I could do things that I could never have done before. I could move through walls, and no one could see me because I would be invisible. Again, my reality would be determined by time and place. What is reality? Reality is what you are experiencing as you are experiencing it. Everybody has their own reality and reality changes. In the twenty-first century we are all waking up to a new world of possibilities. Our realities are so much different from those who were dead and buried before us. What is reality? Reality is a time and a place. Reality is today. Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a figment of our imagination until it becomes today. Waking up, we can all wake up to the miracle of now. Every moment is reality. Make love, appreciation and gratitude part of your vocabulary today. Be happy today because today is all you have. Ask yourself is this a dream? You will never know until you are waking up.

Granny-o

December 28, 2021

Walkers and blogs. It tickles me to think of those two words together in one place. I am old. I am 73 years old. If I tell someone I have a walker, they nod. It is expected of someone of such an old age to have a walker. If I tell someone I have a blog, they are amazed, and I usually hear the words, “You have a blog?”. It really tickles me. Isn’t it funny how you are misinterpreted or misrepresented by your age? I don’t even mind having a walker, that might surprise someone. Who would be happy having a walker? A walker fits my needs at this time of my life. It is a good walker. It is lightweight, sturdy, and easily collapsible. What else could I want from a walker? If I wanted a walker that could bake a chocolate cake, I would be terribly disappointed. The walker keeps me from falling again and I am glad that it is doing its job. I would recommend the kind I have to someone who would use it and appreciate it. The blog part is something of a surprise. My daughter-in-law told me I needed to have a blog, when I told her that I wanted to be able to share my ideas about happiness with the world. I didn’t know what vehicle to use. My daughter-in-law did not have a blog, but she learned about how to do them and helped me set mine up. And as they say, the rest is history. When I told my brother yesterday, I had a blog. He said he did not even know what that was. He also still plays golf and does not even entertain the idea of a walker. So, our gene pool obviously treats us each differently. I told him how to get into my blog. I wonder if he will check it out or not. It is up to him. We all make our own determinations for our own lives. I did not ask him if he were happy or not. People my age 73 and his age 75 are not meant to be happy. Again, we all make our own choices. So here I am at the end of another year. I have learned a lot this year. About death, about family, about adjustment, about appreciation and about gratitude. I have known about these things for a long long time. This year I have had to put my knowledge to a test. Never during my lifetime have all my resources been needed to be activated at the same time. Walking the walk is sometimes harder than talking the talk. Well, A walker and a blog sums it all up. Sometimes life gives you what you expect and at other times life gives you a surprise. Isn’t life wonderful? Happiness has also been a part of my life for a long long time. I love being happy. At this point it is not a surprise, but it is always appreciated. When I tell people I am happy, they cannot figure out how happy can compute for an old person. Isn’t it said that happiness belongs to the young? It does, but happiness belongs to everyone else too. It is like oxygen. We all need oxygen. The same goes for happiness, we all need happiness. Walkers and blogs. Put it into perspective. Sometimes life can have hidden surprises. Always appreciate what you have, and then be surprised by what you never expected to be so good. Have a most wonderful day.

Granny-o

December 22. 2021

Another wow moment. It is one of the reasons I am glad to be old. Because being old I have retired from the demands of reality. If I look at the face of a clock, I do not need to see numbers because it doesn’t matter where the hands of the clock are pointing. All I need to know is, it is another wow moment. I am so excited to be alive. I am so appreciative for the gifts I have been given, and so grateful for everything I have. It is 4:33 AM and guess what? Another wow moment is happening right now. I am so incredibly happy. I cannot even think of the words to describe what is going on in my heart right now. It is like I have a butterfly fluttering around inside my chest. It is so wonderful. This minute is so wonderful. I am feeling so in the zone of appreciation and gratitude. I am feeling so loved and so happy. It is again another wow moment. I am 73 years old, and I just keep on saying wow. It is like if a sightless person could see for the first time. He would be having a wow moment. If a woman just gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby, she would be having a wow moment. If an Olympian just won the gold medal, then that person would be having a wow moment. Wow moments happen all of the time. My wow moments are a little different. I am thinking of how much I am loved. It is a wow moment. I had the stitches taken out of my hand yesterday, and the wound has healed. Another wow moment. I am in a warm house, when it is 35 outside. Another wow moment. I am alive and so happy. Guess what? Another wow moment. Oh, did I mention how much I like to see a rainbow? Another wow moment. I cannot name all the things creating wow moments in my life. How great is that? Appreciation and gratitude for what I have bring great joy to my day. Appreciation and gratitude create wow moments over and over again. I never take anything for granted. It is all a gift. I believe every age has its own gifts to behold. I know wow moments are not reserved only for the old, but the old have time to appreciate them. Old is not a destination, but rather it is the culmination of many wow moments. Remember. If you want to have good memories, then remember the good. If you want to have wow moments, start opening your cartoon eyes so you can see all the gifts you have been given. Wow my right elbow is twitching. I must have said something important. “If you want to have wow moments start opening your cartoon eyes so you can see all the gifts you have been given”. Some things are worth repeating. Have as many wow moments today as you can, and I guarantee you will be happy when you put your head on your pillow tonight.

Granny-o