Copy of GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

A REMEMBERAMBLE FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 26

GEORGIA FOLK AND FARM LIFE - Good morning all. This is my first GM,Fs Rememberamble composed on our GeorgiaFolkandfarmLife.com website and then shared to Georgia Folk and Farm Life Facebook Group! I hope no one reads "shared," and assumes I have broken my rule against sharing from other sites, I have not.

You are free to share your own writings or images from anywhere, to GF&FL. But, as "Kang Wade" 1st, Kang, Emporer, and Exalted Personage, of the Greater Garfield-Canoochee Metropolitan Area, I am empowered with sharing any thing. Also, in the next day or two, I will begin scheduling these GM,Fs to post at 6:00am, here and on the group.

I reckon you saw that I attended my high school graduating class of 1976's 49th reunion, on Sunday. Fay Stapleton Burnette organized and hosted it. I have social anxiety and mild Asperger's so I do not attend functions as a rule. I had not attended any past reunions. I did not have fond memories of school, nor for my schoolmates.

Now, that is no criticism of them, with my homelife and being that "weird kid," I did not make friends and did not know how to be a friend. That is a key point right there. Somehow, when I arrived at the reunion, it was a transformative event for me, I enjoyed it, I was glad to see each and every classmate and former faculty member and their spouses.

It was like coming home again. That simple event was a treasure to me, and I never expected that it would be nor could be. It is a wonderful thing to let old self-inflicted wounds be forgotten. Notice I did not say healed, because it is not all encompassing, forgotten is on a different level. I can no longer recall them, soon I expect to forget that I ever did remember them!

You may be confused somewhat by those words, as they are so simple they seem complicated. You may have read the other day that I was quitting work due to health problems, although I am not financially in a position to "retire," I will have to get some health conditions fixed before I go back to work. It is scary, and it is no one's fault but mine that I spent my "retirement earnings" on a life of addiction to pain pills and alcohol for twenty-seven years.

I have Medicare A&B and a United Health supplemental policy, already and I suppose I will go ahead and draw Social Security when I reach the age of sixty-seven on October 31, 2025. I have a telephone appointment with Social Security tomorrow to apply for my benefits. It will not be enough to live on, but will be a great help.

As I seem to always treat my life here as an open book for you to read, I will tell you that I cancelled my Pineland Cable TV and landline phone today. In addition I cancelled my Sirius XM account, since I only listened to it while working, driving the truck. I am scaling back expenses as much as I can and as I knew this was coming, I had weaned myself from watching television, and YouTube has more than enough programming for me.

I heard a fellow southerner today say, "truspass." I smiled as I thought about how so many say "truspass," for trespass, as well as "trustle" for trestle. As you know, I love and have a deep pride in our use of language. I think I will go over to Chris Cliftons today to get some okree, he has grown and sold a heap of it, and I want some to stir fry in bacon fat and sprinkle with cornmeal as it cooks.

That old time way of frying "okree" is the very best. Thank you for being a part of my life and enriching it so. Numbers 6: 24-26 KJV ..... we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me