{"id":151323,"date":"2025-08-21T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=151323"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:57:12","slug":"the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone XI”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes in My Phone is just what it says. When I hear or read something that piques my interest I put it in my phone. If the comment is from a friend, I always ask permission to use it. If not, it\u2019s fair game as far as I\u2019m concerned. I don\u2019t provide the context, so interpret it as you will. Here we go with the eleventh volume since the first on March 25, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had grocery bag hips. \u2022 I\u2019m not screwed up \u2018til I\u2019m screwed up. \u2022Every relationship has a life span. \u2022Why do some teachers shout, \u201cQUIET!\u201d? \u2022Their need was greater than my pain. \u2022What did the farmer say when he saw his two cows walking over the hill with bags over their heads? Nothing. He didn\u2019t recognize them. \u2022What are you pretending not to know? \u2022 Love is a very splintered thing. \u2022 I AM big! It\u2019s the pictures that have gotten small! (Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard<\/em>) \u2022 Nana is the jailhouse nurse. \u2022 A tower of pizza. \u2022 It\u2019s such a blessing to grow older. Just never grow old. \u2022 There are no problems. Only solutions. \u2022 I used to dance with my cats. (Jerry Wexler) \u2022 Be careful of the things you ask. You may not want to hear the real answer. \u2022 My tongue was too long for that. \u2022 Dress for the weather you want. (Elliot Willard) \u2022 She\u2019d eat poop if she had the opportunity. \u2022 Every moment I have is senior. \u2022 The first step in change is misery. (Jerry Wexler) \u2022 Every man chooses what he is. (Alex Bald) \u2022 Pomp and circumcision. \u2022 He takes stupid to the art form. \u2022 I don\u2019t like people who know what my feet are doing. \u2022 Sometimes you just have to move on without and answer. (Jeri Ryan in Victim of Beauty<\/em>) \u2022 I sent my doo-doo off this morning. \u2022 Failure is not doing what\u2019s your part. (Brum Elliot) \u2022 We\u2019re playing tug-of-war with ourselves. \u2022 He drank like a man or a woman from the Delta. (The late reporter, Bert Case, as told by Boyd Campbell) \u2022 My primary hobby is finding new hobbies. \u2022 I\u2019m gonna raise hell and put a block under it. \u2022 The good thing about being 92 is that I don\u2019t have to put up with this shit much longer. (Dr. Jeff Justis) \u2022 I don\u2019t want to f..ck it up by f..king it up. (Yours truly) \u2022 The ocean was whiskey and I was a duck. I swim to the bottom and drink my way up. \u2022 Oxford could be on fire and I\u2019d still be happy. \u2022 Winter is the killing season and spring brings new life and G-d tries again. (Taylor Sheridan, writer, 1923<\/em>) \u2022 I don\u2019t give a\u2026sheee\u2019s lookin\u2019 at me again. \u2022 Oh, he wasn\u2019t perfect, but at least he was there. \u2022Only the paranoid survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and that\u2019s the View from The Balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Certified Telemental Health Provider, Certified Shamanic Life Coach, ordained minister, singer-songwriter, actor, writer, and former triathlete. Be careful what you say around him. It just might show up in print!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and that\u2019s the View from The Balcony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Certified Telemental Health Provider, Certified Shamanic Life Coach, ordained minister, singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. He is a lover of puns, oxymorons, paradoxes, alliteration, juxtapositions, metaphors, and the like.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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