Friday, March 11, 2022

I Know You've Missed Talk Of Keith

So I guess I'm a little bit sick. Not very. Just a little bit. I did not sleep well last night and I'm congested and achy although I don't think I have a temperature but I haven't done much at all today. The main thing I haven't done is to deal with the protection of my porch plants. I think that Mr. Moon may have to actually be the one to scoot those things closer to the wall of the porch. Some of those pots are just so huge. It's very hard to believe that we're actually going to get this fierce weather they keep forecasting. We've been warned about high winds, thunderstorms, hail, and then dropping temperatures. So far it's barely drizzled today and it's humid and about seventy degrees.  
I feel like I should apologize for talking so much about the weather lately but weather is a big deal to us as I have said. 

I caught up on the daily crosswords I haven't been able to finish because of time constraints for the last few days and did a few loads of laundry. And Wordle, of course. Best five minutes of my day.
No. That's a lie. The best five minutes of my day are when I get in bed and open my book. 

I went out to pick greens and gather eggs. Violet is still laying her tiny little eggie. 



I haven't been finding as many eggs recently and I'm a bit suspicious that I have wily hens laying them someplace else to sit on. I hope not as it's one thing to have a hen brood in the hen house, another entirely to have one brood outside somewhere less protected. I have seen that scenario come to grief more than once. If only I could post a list of instructions for them to read and follow. But they are like cats in that they will do what they want where they want and my thoughts on these matters are of no concern to them. 
Maurice just gave me a look. I am pretty sure she can read my mind. 

A Facebook and real friend messaged me this morning that Keith Richards is going to be on the CBS Sunday Morning News Show this weekend. I am not sure how she knows of my obsession with the dear boy but she must. I will watch it, of course. The Stones are about to announce another tour in Europe this summer and Keith has a re-release happening of an album of his made with his "other" group, The Expensive Winos so I'm sure he's out flogging the product. Which delights me. Last night he and the Wino boys and Ivan Neville played at a benefit in NYC and I've watched some of the footage. 


Now honestly, I am not asking anyone to watch the entire thing but if you want to, watch like the first minute just to see how good and healthy Keith looks. I just think he gets more handsome by the year. And he just looks so damn happy. 
I've always been one to see the most beauty in different and interesting faces whether of men or of women and Keith's face just gets more interesting every day. I can appreciate the beauty of a young human as much as anyone but the older I get, the more they look like eggs to me. Eggs in the sense that they are all smooth and relatively perfect, different in some ways but life has not yet had its chance to carve the faces into the essence of who that person is, as unique and as different as the lives they've led. 
I despair at the people who try with surgery and fillers to try and recreate their egg-ness. It never really works for one thing and for another, it generally just creates a sort of alien visage. I have seen Hollywood celebrities erase everything on their faces that gave them the distinct beauty of who they were in trying to perfect something that was already perfect. 
Of course, if someone offered me the chance to get rid of certain aspects of the results of my aging, I might take them up on it but maybe not. It seems like such a painful and weird thing to do. And no one's paying me to be pretty. But I'd be lying if I did not admit that I miss the way I used to look. 
Ah well. Such is life. 
And say what you will about the ancient dinosaurs we call the Rolling Stones. Yes. They look old. Guess what? They fucking are. And they earned each and every wrinkle, crag, crevice, droop, and gnarl they have. I hope they are proud of those faces carved by their lives, the joys and excesses and passions and years. They sure should be. 
And in a way, they help me to be more accepting of mine. 

Well, happy Friday, y'all. 

Love...Ms. Moon

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  1. Oh thank you for your wise words and for bringing us My Main Man and his X-Pensive Winos.

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    1. Gotta love those Winos. I did misspell their name, didn't I? Oh well. I doubt they'll sue me.

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  2. Feel better soon. I wonder if you're tired from all your recent errands, some of them of mercy, I'm guessing.

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    1. Maybe not mercy exactly but all added up, I think I just got tired.

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  3. I'm not sure that's a tiny Egg or if your other Hens are laying Dinosaur sized Eggs, that Brown one looks enormous!

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    1. That is the biggest egg I get. Not sure which of my ladies lays it but Violet's egg is so tiny. It doesn't feel like it weighs anything.

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  4. The only person I thought succeeded at plastic surgery was Jane Fonda. Sadly, that was about two surgeries ago.

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    1. You got that exactly right. Lord, she needed to stop awhile ago.

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  5. Hubby and I saw the Eagles in Tampa recently and they were great! But that Joe Walsh! The man has to be pickled and burned out (it took him three tries at rehab to get back in the band!). But the minute he picks up that guitar he’s twenty-five again, shredding the hell out of it. He and the other Eagles (RIP Glen Fry) are 74 years old! 74 (except for the youngun Vince Gill, whose only 64)!! How the hell did that happen?

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    1. Yeah. Mick and Keith are both 78. I mean...SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD! They put me to shame.

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  6. Oh dear lord, He truly is the spark of life needed and you are correct, he just gets better and better and better. How is that possible, aging backwards but not in a silly way. Made my evening, thank you so much! So lucky to be alive at the same time as this man, this tasty talent, delicious, awe inspiring soul, lordy lordy

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    1. Do you suppose his shirt was unbuttoned on purpose? That cracked me up. Are you going to watch him on TV tomorrow morning?

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  7. I miss the way I used to look too, but the me of then, is not the me of now and I don't mind aging at all.
    Keith certainly does look well and happy and sounds good still too.

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    1. He does, doesn't he? I love how he's adapted his rock star look as he aged. He's like the coolest grandpa in the world.

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  8. I dislike all the cosmetic surgery so many are getting - and seemingly younger and younger. I mean, did you think you had wrinkles at 30???? Maybe it's not quite the same thing but I thought Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) was lovely with her slightly wonky nose, and while she's still a beautiful woman after straightening it, I think she lost something, somehow. Oh and talking of Wordle, did you know there are Wordle Archives so you can play away to your hearts content. And if you do manage to teach those hens to read ....!

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    1. Oh no- I agree with you about Jennifer Grey. She was unrecognizable after her surgery. Same with Uma Thurman who I always thought was about the most beautiful woman in the world. After her surgery she just looks so very different. Thanks for the Wordle Archives information but I think to keep it special I need to just do one a day!
      I'll let y'all know if I teach the chickens to read.

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  9. I never considered myself really pretty and I love that now that I am old, I don't have to fuss with myself at all. I can be plain old me and nobody cares about that.

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    1. You're right- there is some relief in not worrying. I agree.

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  10. We did not get a drop of the rain we were supposed to get but it did get fiercely windy and cold but not, that all the gods, as cold as the most frigid prediction. 30˚ when I got up this morning at 7:30.

    Young people are eggs. I love that comparison. You are so right. I happened to see on TV the other day about a woman who got a complete body plastic surgery makeover...sucked out fat, tucked skin, implants, something with her eyelids, etc. When the big reveal came her two friends were oohing and aahing but all I could think was how unnatural, how fake she looked.

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    1. I told Mr. Moon that Ellen, my Texas forecaster, said it didn't get as cold as it was supposed to where she lives so maybe it won't get that cold here either.
      Have you ever watched that British show about plastic surgery gone wrong? Oh Lord. It's so scary.

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  11. I miss my young face sometimes but it would be odd to have a young face and an old body. The big guy and I have been sick with a GI bug that laid us low yesterday. I had to lay on the floor a few times as I felt like fainting. We both felt like shit and Gracie's family wouldn't take Jack because they were sick too. Poor Jack had crackers and milk for supper and slept in his clothes because I just couldn't do anything else.

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    1. That is such an awful feeling- being too sick to really tend to a child or children. I can remember that from when I was a mama. I'm sure Jack survived. I sure hope you feel better today.

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  12. "I can appreciate the beauty of a young human as much as anyone but the older I get, the more they look like eggs to me." Now that's a quote for the ages! I too miss how I used to look, I particularly wrestle to love the loose skin on my neck, maybe even more than my girth, but what choice to we have but to do our utmost to love these bodies that have brought us this far and will take us further still? I am sorry you are feel a little under the weather. My daughter and her love both tested positive for covid this week. They were supposed to travel to your state for the week, but had to cancel, and now they are quarantined at home. She was pretty sick, but is on the mend, he had no symptoms at all. This thing is still out there, circulating. I hope it misses your house and the houses of your beloveds. It's sleeting here in NYC, and rather cozy inside. I shall think of you in that weather you have coming. Hugs.

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    1. You and I are sisters. WTF with all this skin around the neck? Where did it come from? And actually, where is my neck? It's so freaky.
      I'm sorry your girl got covid! And her man, too, of course. Glad she's on the mend. As we have said before, we will probably all get it before it's over if indeed it is ever over.
      It is getting cold here! I am so grateful to have a cozy house to stay in. Y'all stay warm!

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  13. I hope that broody hen (if in fact there is one) keeps herself out of danger! Chickens have good instincts but they're not really thinkers, are they? :)

    I laughed at equating young people with eggs -- it's so true. And I have never understood plastic surgery, although I think within certain subsets of the population -- the rich and famous -- a certain amount of plastic surgery is expected and almost demanded. It's a standard of beauty for the one-percenters, one that the rest of us do not share.

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    1. Chickens are not good thinkers in some ways and just like with humans- our instincts do not always serve us well.
      You're right about the people for whom plastic surgery is just a given. A rite of passage. I'm glad it's not expected of me!

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  14. thank you for that Keith clip! Yes, I agree he only looks better! so does Mick! The lines and creases only add to their beauty. when I see *famous* people and what they have done to their (in my opinion) formerly beautiful faces, I cringe. may we all age into our own skin with some grace. We try, though looking in the mirror IS a shock at times. I hope you are feeling better today. You've had a busy week or two so perhaps you just need to S L O W down!
    Susan M

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    1. I suppose that people who make their fortunes with their faces have more to lose than the rest of us when those faces begin to age. I always say that the Rolling Stones never did look like they were "supposed" to. But I'm very glad that they've let life have its way with their faces. They certainly look like who they are.

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  15. Kenny Rogers destroyed his handsome face with all the surgeries he had!
    Yes, I wish I was still 5'9-1/2" and 130 pounds but at 78 years old ... It'll never happen!

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