A promise of a collection of short thoughts I would like to share for no good reason at all.
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September 21, 2025
<p>Hello, Welcome. I’m Renée Valentina, and this is Musing Interruptus. Listen to Musing Interruptus if you like stories and learning idiomatic phrases in different contexts. You can read along; just click on continue reading in the description to open a Google Doc with the transcription of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, subscribe, follow, and share, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Drop a comment with your answers to today’s questions! I love hearing from you! </p><p>We need to carry on for the living. </p><p>Some have children, some don’t.</p><p>It is important to find a reason to care, things that move us in life. The <strong>living’s</strong> well-being for one, your <strong>own</strong> well-being, is a great place to start. </p><p>That which gives meaning to your life can change throughout your existence. What you want to experience in your lifetime is fundamental knowledge. Where do you want to go, what do you want to see, what change do you want to be a part of? What do you want to create? How do you want to be remembered? The path becomes clearer when we start to answer these questions.</p><p>I was thinking about all of this because a dear student has been struggling with an ailment. She suspended our work, temporarily. Just until her health picked up again. We worked together, one-on-one; our classes were sweet, sometimes funny, and we did homework together. And there were stories.</p><p>I’ve told lots of stories, or parts of them. Shared thoughts. Some of my favorite stories are in music. When we listen to music, we get a part of the story. What the writer was feeling is revealed and accompanied by music and instruments, all of which communicate a piece of a greater tale, a description of a person, or the depth and hues of the atmosphere. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/3r6wwfd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Continue reading</a></p>

August 25, 2025
<p>Hello, Welcome. I’m Renée Valentina, and this is Musing Interruptus. Listen to Musing Interruptus if you like stories and learning idiomatic phrases in different contexts. You can read along; just click on continue reading in the description to open a Google Doc with the transcription of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, subscribe, follow, and share, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Drop a comment with your answers to today’s questions! I love hearing from you! </p><p>"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Do you know who is famous for saying that?</p><p>What a go-getter.</p><p>Go-getters are quite a breed of people. </p><p>I wonder if you can become one yourself if you are more of a procrastinator, or would rather be a lover than a fighter, maybe even just sit around doing nothing at all, waiting for the evening to roll in. This is less than procrastinating. Procrastinating would imply some sort of resistance to doing something right now, postponing it for later. I mean, the type of person who is not doing anything now, and never mind later.</p><p>If you are that type of person, there is hope for you, yet! Go-getting might be in your future. This is not something impossible to attain. Once this happens, you start making lists, prioritizing what needs to be done, until eventually, your morning is packed with activities you never knew could be important, like taking out the organic trash before the acids eat through the plastic container or cleaning the tops of the cabinets in the kitchen well before the grime reaches 4 inches and you need something to scrape it off and bucket to haul it away with. Oh, the things you can accomplish before 10 am.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xf4fbwc" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Continue reading</a></p>

July 14, 2025
<p>Hello, Welcome. I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. Listen to Musing Interruptus if you like stories and learning idiomatic phrases in different contexts. You can read along; just click on continue reading in the description to open a Google Doc with the transcription of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, subscribe, follow, and share, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Drop a comment with your answers to today’s questions! I love hearing from you! </p><p>Today, on what it takes to have a heart-to-heart. </p><p>It sounds like two hearts talking to each other, doesn’t it? If it weren’t a metaphor, that kind of invitation would seem frightening because of the implications. </p><p>When we get through this, you’ll probably come to realize that that image is child’s play. The reality behind this type of conversation is not for the faint of heart. This is hardcore. Hero stuff. The kind of activity that requires you take a deep breath before you start. Wax on wax off. </p><p>If someone is inviting you to have a sit-down to talk, and mentions heart-to-heart, you’d better believe that they are looking for the most punk version of yourself, and they want the opportunity to be honest with you as well. Be prepared if you accept. </p><p>That’s someone looking for the real thing. Not everyone can offer that, and not all the time, and definitely, not to just anyone.</p><p>The utopia of having everyone be as honest as possible might be appealing to some, but to others, it is a nightmare, especially if the person on the other side lacks the awareness and sensitivity to identify what messages are necessary and which are unnecessary and hurtful. I think these people tend to get off on reactions and shield themselves behind the overused I’m just saying it like it is. I’m guessing the antidote is empathy, pertinence, consent, and context. </p><p>You know, underneath clothing, we are all naked; we don’t need to see all of each other all the time. But there is a valid point in there, somewhere. Remembering we’re all just naked can go a long way to being gentler, keeping an appropriate distance, unless invited to shorten the distance. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fZnAzqeRoUdGsG2w_p9vgQYQw8EkvygYFD36y3kTbo8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Continue reading</a></p><p><br></p>
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