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[imshakydad]

the first blog (of 2017) -living with PD in tough times...

imshakydad.wordpress.com/20...

[Enidah]

For the first time I read your blog and then read more of your blogs and then more. I enjoyed every one of them. You have a wonderful balance, haha, perspective, between irreverence, humor and sincerity. Thank you.

[imshakydad in reply to Enidah]

enidah - thx ever so much for ur comments and for taking the time to read my blog. it means so much to me when i get this kind of feedback...very nourishing to the spirit! thank u and best wishes, rk.

[imshakydad]

i hope I'm wrong about trump. i hope u r wrong about another WW.

I'm fearful if we are not!

thx for the read and ur comments!

[Astra7]

Nicely written. I too miss Leonard Cohen and have been driving to a cd of his greatest hits just today. He was the kind of man we need more of in the world.

[imshakydad in reply to Astra7]

thank u. indeed we do! cheers, rk

[Hikoi]

Sobbering account of the year.

As to the American political choice the world watches incredulous and bemused.

[Jamielee1]

I liked what you wrote. 2016 was a very difficult time for me too but it could have been worse. It's difficult to complain when others have death sentences. I'm praying that 2017 is a better year.

[imshakydad in reply to Jamielee1]

thank you. me too! cheers! rk

[Hidden]

I get it now. The "last post" was the last of 2016

I resist reading international news, and have not seen a TV news program in 3 years. Many years ago, I realized that my Grandmother could not differentiate between TV programs and TV news. She worried about a child missing in California, and a family burned out in Ohio and Edith living with Archy Bunker. She died at 58 yrs from Angina and stress did not help save her, because we could not convince her to stop fretting needlessly.

Be informed but be careful, be happy

Sometimes you need to push it all away and think about other things, like, why will dogs not eat cucumbers.

[imshakydad in reply to Hidden]

i didn't know dogs don't eat cucumbers?! that's outrageous! do other people know about this? I'm going toset out to rectify this situation.... i hear ya and thx again for ur interest and comments!