Beaver County News

JIM CHRISTIANA FOR SENATE issued the following announcement on August 12.

Sometimes we all live in our own little world. My world is a very small planet moving in an extremely narrow orbit, but I can’t control it. I have no control over so many things. There are laws that govern my little world. What I don’t want to happen, will. Whatever can’t happen, will. I know I can’t control much, but I would like to have some power over my own tiny little sphere.

I shouldn’t complain because mostly good things happen, but there are things I would like to change in my world.

Gravity is inevitable; what goes up falls down. If I drop a piece of bread with peanut butter it will fall face down and stick to the floor. It is the law. If I leave dishes in the sink, my friend, the one who can spot a speck of dust at 10 feet in a dimly lit room, will come to visit for the first time in three years.

Before the pandemic when people just dropped in I found that the worse I looked, the sweatier I was the more likely I am to get a surprise visit from someone immaculately put together, fresh from the beauty parlor and fashionably dressed. The solution was to always look fresh and tidy, which is really too much bother. Of course, I don’t need to worry about that anymore. I hate to think there is anything positive in these strange times, but I quipped the other day that I’ve probably saved a lot of money on lipstick.

Recently at a Women’s Network meeting in the park, we were all commenting on how much money we have saved on gasoline and eating out -- to say nothing of haircuts, manicures and all those other wonderful indulgences.

My world and your world has changed, but we are still in our own little worlds doing the best we can. I can’t change my world or anyone in it, and I can’t change your world and anyone in it. I can only change me, and that is a challenge with a capital C. One of the problems I need to confront is my mouth. Well my mouth is really just fine; it has all the parts and pieces that make it work correctly. My problem is using it to speak. There are times that I wish I hadn’t said what I said. What was I thinking? I wonder if that has ever happened to anyone else.

My mouth is often too quick to respond. Many times if I had taken the time to think I would have said ‘no’ instead of ‘yes.’ I would not have been so eager to volunteer, to sign up, to join up and step up. I think it is described as speaking before my brain is in gear.

Christopher Morley said, “There would be no laughter in a perfect world.” That, too, is a law in my world. Think about it. If everything went perfectly we would never have anything to laugh about. Things become funny when they go wrong. I am a living testimony to that. When I goof up I do it publicly, and that is not on purpose that is just one of those laws that govern Louise’s world. I have literally fallen on my face in public three times and I was stone cold sober. Obviously the bad new is that I suffer from a serious case of the clumsiness, but the good news is that I have given some folks a good laugh.

In my world, chocolate is a problem or rather my addiction to chocolate. Ron Geddes once told me that if you let chocolate sit for 10 seconds the calories all disappear. That may not be a scientific fact. He probably made it up, but I know it won’t work. I am a magnet for chocolate, it wouldn’t last 10 seconds if I could reach it. Ron said I should show some restraint. That won’t work either. Since I can’t change me, chocolate will have to change.

Of course, I could consider changing me, but I have considered that and I’m moving on. That’s the problem. It would take too much discipline and effort to change me so I want things to change beginning with chocolate and gravity.

I want a world that runs the way I would like. I want a world where I would have more time to go more places, do more things, meet more people. I know I have just as much time as anyone else, but I want a world where there is always time to do one more thing.

Louise’s itty-bitty world is a figment of my active imagination, so while I’m fantasying I want a world where everyone is kind and loving and everyone forgives me when I goof up.

Original source here.