The Crow: Getting Through Today

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Getting Through Today

Like millions of others around the world, I live with clinical depression. On bad days, if I am momentarily clear-headed enough to think outside my uncontrolled, self-imposed misery, I wonder how those others get through their tough times.

One thing that helps distract me from my omnipresent Unseen is laughter; the belly-shaking kind from watching stupid movies or drunk squirrels videos or listening to musical parodies. Political parodies reign supreme.

To paraphrase Rod Serling, I gathered and submit for your approval/amusement the following videos from YouTube (not all are comedic, some are tributes):

May laughter fill your dark moments throughout your days.

(I owe several of you responses to your previous comments. Let me say now, in case the Unseen interferes with answering you yet again, that I deeply appreciate your comments, which let me know you are still here and doing relatively well. I am cheered by reading your blog posts and your comments.)

Martha

3 comments:

Fresca said...: I will watch some of those--thanks, Martha!
I definitely need humor to get through this time (or any time...).

Along those lines,
I recently asked around for TV (Netflix) recommendations, and over and over, people recommended the show "Community".
Have you seen it?

Tonight I watched the first two episodes and I laughed out loud several times, which is almost unheard of for TV.
Super happy to have some fun stuff to look forward to watching.

Have a good week ahead!; Sunday, May 03, 2020
Zhoen said...: Have you been watching all the Randy Rainbow videos?; Monday, May 04, 2020
Michael Leddy said...: I thought the Bee Gees takeoff was especially apt. “God Only Knows” made me tear up.

Here’s one I’d like to share, which I found in the YouTube sidebar while watching these:

“Coronavirus Rhapsody,” one singer, many screens, pretty brilliant.; Tuesday, May 05, 2020

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Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)