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So, my writer friend Elise Stephens<\/a> does this thing on her blog called \u201cFriday Five\u201d, which is what it sounds like ~ five topics with two to three sentences each. Although I\u2019m certainly not going to steal her idea, I decided I could do a post on deep<\/del> random thoughts I\u2019ve been having\u2026 ones I don\u2019t think I can flesh out into a full blog post. Or ones that aren\u2019t worthy of one. So, here ya go\u2026 and remember, told you they\u2019re random!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>iTunes really is a genius sometimes<\/span>.<\/strong> Tonight it played Cyndi Lauper\u2019s song \u201cHe\u2019s So Unusual\u201d (off her album She\u2019s So Unusual<\/em><\/a>), and right after, it played \u201cFemme L\u2019a Dit\u201d by the group Feufollet<\/a>, off the Oxford American\u2019s 11th Edition of Southern Music<\/a>. This pairing shouldn\u2019t work \u2013 it\u2019s 44 seconds of little girl voice and piano, then 4 minutes, 21 seconds of French sung in a woman’s sultry accent to zydeco music. But somehow, it does.<\/p>\n

Change your perspective.<\/span><\/strong> This one seems wildly obvious, but sometimes we forget that to change how we look at things, we literally have to change what we\u2019re looking at. Silly case in point: I\u2019m in the grocery store, looking for sunflower seeds. I\u2019m in the right section, but I just don\u2019t see any. A guy walks by with his cart. I stop looking and smile at him. As soon as he\u2019s gone, I see the sunflower seeds. Like, right that second.<\/p>\n

Which leads to my next random thought: smile<\/strong><\/span>, even if you don\u2019t feel like it. (For more on this topic, please visit my friend Jerry\u2019s blog<\/a> and read his take on it.)<\/p>\n

I had a moment with a young buck.<\/span><\/strong> Seriously. Before I went to the grocery store, hubs warned me that deer are all over and to be careful. (Remember, I live in rural Arkansas.) I didn\u2019t see a single one on the way there, but on the way home, I passed one, standing still in a neighbor\u2019s yard. I slowed, stopped, and looked in his eyes. We shared a moment. Of what? I don\u2019t know how to describe it. But, \u2018twas tres beautiful.<\/p>\n

\"Maggie<\/a>

This is my darling puppy Maggie. Notice she’s on a leash. If we let her off, she’d be a teensy black dot in the distance in no time. She’d come back…eventually….<\/p><\/div>Being an alcoholic is expensive<\/span><\/strong> (or how I accidentally spelled it first, \u2018expsinvie\u2019). Okay, I\u2019m not really an alcoholic. But I do enjoy a drink every now and again, and I don\u2019t like beer. My poison of choice is Southern Comfort (and not just because SoCo was Janis Joplin\u2019s drink of choice) (expensive) and diet dr pepper (getting more expensive by the day). I would go flat broke if I actually became an alcoholic! (Which I won\u2019t.)<\/p>\n

My dog can totally jump over the fence, but she doesn\u2019t.<\/span><\/strong> She doesn\u2019t know she can. And please don\u2019t tell her. Also, compared to the dogs featured on the website dog shaming<\/a>, she\u2019s an angel. (Go look at those pics. They\u2019re hilarious!) This makes me think: how many things can we do, but like Mags, we don’t know we can? Are we too afraid to try? Or do we just need to consider new options?<\/p>\n

Which leads directly back to change your perspective<\/strong>.<\/span> This one probably deserves a full blog post, but I do want to remind all seven of my faithful readers that sometimes, you just need a change. Get away from your desk. Get out of the house. Go antiquing, or for a bike ride. You might find that whatever problem is bothering you either no longer bothers you when you\u2019re back, or that your subconscious has figured out a solution.<\/p>\n

Now, go have some deep\/random thoughts of your own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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