Minneapolis, MN Wednesday 5/27/15

It's Wednesday, and I was gonna post a sunny picture of a Minneapolis classic piece of art, The Cherry & The Spoon. But, as I drove down Hennepin, there was a serenity about it being almost car free that I thought was more real. As you can see, the streets are still wet. There is visible standing water in various places cause it rained all day yesterday! Ha. I guess we really got luck with that last minute sun appearance on Monday afternoon. This is Minnesota though. So, we can appreciate a little rain, and I usually hear someone say, "Yea.. We need it. We're low in the lakes." I hear this and other types of comments like it, and I think they have no idea what low water or a drought might actually look like...golden!

Everything is golden brown and not some shade of green! I'm mainly making reference to California where things are golden from being dried out this time of the year...at least in the south lands. Up in Northern Cali you get more of both, green, golden brown, and shades of grey, and they have an ocean of water but not enough rain. So, I'm taking in the green and taking pictures of it cause the color of things gives the sky some character. All the blues, greens, purple and white in the clouds are so much more vivid against the horizon of greens, and brick colored buildings. I suppose this is one of the things that make the Home Land our Land. The place people say is 'up yonder'! The place where people are stoic because the weather has shown us to not only how to wrap ourselves up to stay warm but to also shield our real person with niceness so that we keep ourselves 'safe' as it is! Yes.

Minnesota niceness goes along with Minnesota passive/aggressive tendencies. The passive/aggressive component isn't too far off from Mexican culture where things happen to us, and we just happen to be innocent bi-stands with no control over any of it. Hahaha. "I didn't drop the glass of coffee all over you. The cup fell from me and you just happen to be there!"  Is exactly what that looks like. You gotta love it. It reminds me of old TV shows where someone is breaking up with the other person, but, "It's not you. It's me," when it is really them, and it is really you making the call! LOL. Passive/aggressive is a culture all unto it's own. One has to acquire the skills to actually have the outcome play in your favor when you're caught in it. I'm definitely not good at this part of life. I usually just tell people they're missing something, not doing it right, or just plain wrong, and then tell them to google it a 'right' way of doing things. Maybe the 'google it' part is how I'm passive! Just sayin.

It's HUMP DAY, and the week is already almost over! Having a three-day weekend is nice cause you actually get two days to relax versus the standard 1.5. Cause you know how it goes! You work M-F only to be exhausted to really enjoy a Friday so you do things on Saturday and maybe Sunday early. Come midday Sunday, you're already thinking about it....what needs to happen for Monday to start up again. Now you're starting to worry half way through your 'second' day off, and that just takes the relaxation out of a two day weekend and really making it a 1.5 day weekend. Having three days is really ideal cause now you not only get two days off, you get that extra half day to worry about your week's first work day! It's true. Try it. I'm sure most of you agree after last weekend...less all the rain.
That's the news from Minneapolis, 'where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average." G.F.
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