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When the phone rings, it's often an 800 number scam, but every now and then someone awesome like EVERSOURCE calls. They had an automated message I took a minute to hear and am Glad I Did! (I also learned that the 'back slash' is on the far right below the BackSpace of my keyboard so that's a handy tip~)

 They said to call this number (800-286-2828 in CT and maybe Western MA)  if you wanted to learn about managing your account for Electricity (and some people heat with 'electric heat' and that gets pricey very quickly, so turn those thermostats Down and only use when in the room, that's my

Remember playing hide and go seek and counting by 5s to let people hide? We'd call out, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 (boy the numbers were getting up there...what comes next? Oh yeah..) 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90 (surely, everyone's got a good hiding place by now and it could be hard to know where to start looking since everyone hides so well in our big yard around the house along the woods even with boundaries one couldn't go past..) 95, 100! Anyone Around My Goal Is It!

What if we thought about the numbers as Years of Our Lives, counting by 5s and 10s... It dawned on me that I

How can one blog address an array of topics, from the personal to the political, sometimes local and national to even global (and beyond..yes, talking about the nature of time, life, multiple lifetimes vs Yolo (you only live once) and questioning 'what happens in the great beyond').

Striking up a conversation on an important or even easy-does-it topic is not easy to do in person, and really few people have ways to meet folks 'outside their circle'. We all have some biases (and may be blinded to seeing in a more comprehensive manner by our biases).

Read any post leisurely a bit at a time,