Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 - 8:38 p.m.
Ghost Busters **************** The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. ...........................Bertrand Russel ******* I went to the drug store this evening on the way back from voting I went there to see if there was anything I needed not anything in particular just because I was in that part of town I settled for halloween candy because there was a big sale on In line I chatted with my friend Brians Gramma she laughed at me buying candy for $2 and her prescription was for $80 anything to feel good I always say t hen she told me she can't sleep at all-- for days at a time she just lays in bed in the dark staring ahead at nothing as old memories and dreams swirl around her she had been a nurse and seen lots of people die now she wonders where they all went and how they got there where her husband and sisters are and when her turn is coming she is sharp to remind me her religion is the Liberal party and she just voted for them, again, same as she always has for 60 years.. just different idiots in charge of the world so I mention to her to try ...valarian root it will knock her out "oh no, no heeeerbs thank you" She showed me a new package of Sleepy Time tea she was trying on her grand daughters suggestion " this will do fine thank you " I asked to read the ingredients while we waited in line and there it was "Contains Valerian" "How did you know that?" she asked I was raised by three eyed hippies and homeschooled in a cave with bears "no really?" I pay attention to this herbal insight stuff when it swirls by in books, conversation or the internet valerian will put you to sleep I have seen it knock out cats some plants are actually effective but most are nothing special it gives witches something to do when Corronation Street is over She had even tried pot she told me her grandson ( Brian ) got her some and showed her how to smoke it she felt foolish, a _nurse __smoking and it didn't make any difference to her, and she knew about pills pot was a lot of Hooey Brian was a lot of Hooey the Doctors were a lot of Hooey I was a lot of Hooey eveybody was a lot of Hooey she was the only one in the world who had it together her and maybe Frank Sinatra but big help he is these days I wrote out the word " Valerian" on a slip of paper and she took it home and she will ask Hooey Brian to look it up on his precious computer.. and maybe ask her daughter to ask around the Mennonites if they have some to spare for an old lady who CAN"T SLEEP the Mennonites are not Hooey people she might get some satisfaction and a break from the ghost parade now thats ghost bustin" - who you gonna call ? call Brians cellphone
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