Steinbeck, Kindle & Cream Cheese

Yesterday was my book club meeting. Our book of choice this time was anything by John Steinbeck and I had read Of Mice and Men. Each person spoke about her book and what we liked or disliked as we went around the circle. One woman spoke very enthusiastically about The Grapes of Wrath and read us bits that she liked. Now, years ago, I started this book and gave it up because I thought it was too depressing. So, as this woman was talking about what she liked about it, I thought, "Maybe I will give it another chance,"  and right there while I was listening, I downloaded it to my Kindle! This is the first time I have ever done that sort of thing—downloaded on the fly, so to speak! {If I hadn’t already read about a third of it and knew what it was about, I would have downloaded a free sample…}

Total change of subject now. Fred went out a few days ago and bought a big pile of groceries and among them was cream cheese for my morning bagel. When he got back, I put the groceries away. The next morning, I got up looking forward to that cream cheese on the bagel, but no matter where I looked, I couldn’t locate the cream cheese. I looked on every shelf and in every drawer of the refrigerator but saw no cream cheese. I even looked in the freezer but it wasn’t there. So, back to butter on the bagel. Yesterday, Fred went up to the grocery store again but this time to get the mandarin oranges that were on sale and which he didn’t have room for when he went before. So, I unpacked these bags, and he had bought more cream cheese. As I put the food away, I suddenly realized where I had put the first one! You see, it was not, as I was visualizing, in a small plastic container a la Philadelphia cream cheese. It was instead in a box with a design in blue on it and look very like a pack of butter. So, I put this new packet in the drawer where the butter and cheese go. And yes, you have guessed right, because there was the original. When I was looking everywhere the day before, my eyes has slid right over it since I was expecting a small plastic container!

Today is a massage day…

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." –Viktor Frankl

"Nothing happens without a cause

And nothing happens unless it can happen

When that which can happen, does in fact happen

It cannot be considered a miracle

Hence there are no miracles."

Cicero 106 – 43 BC