Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Aspirations

Humorists are writers who look at the daily grind of life in a funny way.
Erma Bombeck and Andy Rooney are two that come to mind although they've been many over the years including Samuel Clemmens AKA Mark Twain.

These are the kind of people that make our stupidity not so darn awful and our microscopic examinations of rituals and flaws at times quite enjoyable.

Andy Rooney is the only one of the above still with us though.
He takes weekly ordinary topics and makes them amusing during the last few minutes of Sixty Minutes.
He's riveting in my book! I do pay attention for the whole time he speaks, but then I realize his topic chosen is something so mundane and ordinary, and that I had agreed with every bit of his verbiage that he uttered. This is surprising since we have almost a thirty year generational difference in our age and our observational perspective.
Mr. Rooney is usually quite hysterical in his own benign way.

The late Erma Bombeck was the one that helped me with my child rearing in the days when it occasionally got tough. She appeared regularly on Good Morning America.
You all must remember such books as the Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, and If Life is a Bowl of Cherries; why am I living in the Pits?
Wacko and definitely one great lady!

Life can be quite humorous when one looks from the outside in, and tries darn hard not to get emotional.
Someone told me...I think it might have been my Dad to try and see the humor in life, don't take anything too serious.
My Father had a magnificent sense of humor, and was loved by all. And when I was a teenager and got angry at the silliest things he would laugh at me and make me realize how ridiculous I was!

In my early years when I wrote for my own pleasure as a young mother I did find humor in parenting and that was my topic for release of any anxiety in that period of my life brought.
My sons were quite comical at certain attempts in growing into the fine men that they eventually became.

These are some of the people I do so wish I could write like.
I suspect these are big aspirations for a simple mind that is working overtime just to think, period on some days. But this is the direction I hope to eventually attain, please bear with me as I go on this marvelously wild journey.

Good night to all and to all always think of ways to tickle that funny bone, and so will I!

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