Category Archives: Earworm of the day

Just Looking Around

Posted on July 12, 2025 by daeja's view

It’s mid-summer, up to now quite thick with a sultry humidity, filled with iced tea and slow-moving. I’m too hot and lazy to delve into any subject too deeply. I just want to take a bit of a mental sabbatical … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Animal Stories, Birds, Daeja's Garden, Earworm of the day, Gardening, Holidays, Memories, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized | Tagged 1960's summer love, art in nature, barn swallows, drumstick allium, echinacea, fireworks, fledglings, flower duets, goldfinch, Lupines, milkweed, Miss Rumphius, nuances of summer, pine, poplar sphynx moth, porch tomatoes, privet, Red milkweed beetle, sultry heat, summer flowers, teenage summer romance, toad, What I Am | Leave a comment

Sploot

Posted on April 23, 2025 by daeja's view

There appeared to be a dead squirrel on the back deck yesterday afternoon. It was sprawled flat out, looking rather like a small, worn out old rug; on closer observation it resembled a flying superhero, sans cape. Upon approaching further … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, Daeja's Garden, disability accommodations, Earworm of the day, Gardening, Hearing Impaired, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wildlife, Wow! | Tagged April, Earworm of the day, eastern flowers, eastern flowers of april, Fence Dino, Fence Dinosaur, garden, Gardening, magnolias, rando tulips, second spring, splooting, splooting squirrel, spring flowers of the East, springtime naps, Squirrels, sugar magnolia, the neighborhood | Leave a comment

What’s On Your Nightstand?

Posted on January 23, 2025 by daeja's view

It has been too easy to hunker down, gazing at winter skies, finding excuses to ride out the coldest moments indoors (unless you are one of those winter outdoor types – me, not very much). Despite a predisposition to remain … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Friends, grief, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, Uncategorized, Weather, Winter | Tagged a lot of books, books, books on my night table, cozy, distractions, e-readers, friends passing, papillon, reading, reading more than one book at the same time, snowy days, the nightbird, too cold, unfinished, unfinished books, winter | Leave a comment

Summing Up Twenty-Four

Posted on December 29, 2024 by daeja's view

Scrolling back over the past posts of 2024 puts it right in my face that there was plenty about nature, food, weather, and just mindless, ambling summations. That, and a couple of Rants here and there. At the beginning of … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Animal Stories, Coping, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Gardening, Holidays, House plants, nature, Perspective, Photography, Rant, Regrets, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Vent, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Wildlife, Winter | Tagged 2024 in retrospect, celestial phenomenon, clouds, colors, Cooking, earworms, impressions, little dog, mind-spinning, oddball thoughts, ROYGBIV, serenity, snow, Stuff, the Zone, Weather, whimsical observations | 1 Comment

Retrograde

Posted on November 4, 2024 by daeja's view

Whenever a string of mishaps and unfortunate events of daily living transpire, inevitably someone I know will say “Mercury must be in retrograde.” Considering the backward-moving appearance of Mercury that occurs a few times a year is merely an optical … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Are you kidding me?, Autumn, Coping, Dogs, Earworm of the day, Friends, Holidays, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™ | Tagged a string of mishaps, Autumn blessings, everything is broken, Halloween, homecoming parade, look for the light, mercury, my sick papillon, nostalgia, parade, retrograde, when things go wrong all at once | Leave a comment

Paint It Black

Posted on September 16, 2024 by daeja's view

In NYC, wearing all black appears to be de rigueur. It has been an observation over the last number of years that the sudden appearance of so many people dressed primarily in black has often been one of the markers … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, Earworm of the day, Perspective, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™ | Tagged black exterior paint, black painted houses, exterior paint trends, goth houses, Paint It Black, spooky color houses, trending house colors, urban sprawl, urban transplants, witchy houses | 2 Comments

Silver Linings

Posted on August 28, 2024 by daeja's view

There has been a dark cloud around my heart lately. It happens sometimes. I think pretty much everyone knows the feeling. Late afternoon, heading out the door with the dog, leash in hand, pausing for a moment on the porch … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Coping, Earworm of the day, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather | Tagged cloud rays, clouds, dark cloud, dark feelings, emotional pain, God-light, grace, Grateful Dead, hope, hopefulness, light beams, onward, silver linings, sun rays, Touch of Gray | 2 Comments

The Purples of May

Posted on May 31, 2024 by daeja's view

I can’t keep up with it, how is it possible these days of spring are blowing by? A glorious May it has been, filled with heady fragrance, breezy blue skies, gentle rains. On this last day of the month, here … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Earworm of the day, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Wow! | Tagged a garden of bracelets, blooms, End of May, garden gems, garden gemstones, Gardening, jewel tones, jewels, last day of May, May, purple, purple haze, shades of purple, siberian irises, the garden, the purples of May | Leave a comment

Not Waving

Posted on May 24, 2024 by daeja's view

It was a few seasons back when one of those universal symbol lights popped up on the dashboard display of my car, warning me of something amiss which required attention. It was the first time I had seen that symbol … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Coping, Earworm of the day, Perspective, senior musings, Uncategorized | Tagged aging, capabilities, car care, dashboard icons, gift of a laugh, i'm not that clueless, isolation, loniliness, lonliness, low tires', not waving but drowning, perspective, small laughs, what do you see?, what is in your heart? | Leave a comment

The Green Cathedral

Posted on April 28, 2024 by daeja's view

Whenever I find myself walking deep within shaded forest pathways dappled with sunlight and enveloped in a holy hush, it is pretty much a certainty that the same beautiful and moving song will suddenly fill my head. “The Green Cathedral” … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Perspective, senior musings, Uncategorized | Tagged childhood assembly songs, earworms, elementary school chorus, emotional childhood songs, Green Cathedral., holiday assembly, in the woods, school chorus, The Green Cathedral, triggers | 3 Comments

Waiting for the Sun

Posted on April 10, 2024 by daeja's view

So many of us get excited by celestial phenomena, and I’m mostly on that train, having repeatedly found myself shivering in my nightgown while standing on a back deck covered in snow – at 2:30 am in sub-freezing temps – … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, Earworm of the day, Flashback, nature, Perspective, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weird, Wow! | Tagged 95%, celestial phenomena, connections, crescents, Earworm of the day, human connections, Neighbors, sharing an event, solar eclipse, The Doors, totality, treasures, waiting for the sun | Leave a comment

Funny What the Weather Will Do

Posted on January 27, 2024 by daeja's view

January is bouncing all over the place in both weather and emotions these days. Views From the Urban Porch have been varied and unpredictable. One day I’m staring at an atmosphere so vibrantly blue that it conjures up tropical skies … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Cooking, Coping, Dogs, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Friends, grief, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Weird, Winter | Tagged Changes, changing weather, diversions, earworm, grief, ice, January, january deaths, mood, most deaths in january, passages, personal history, retail therapy, sky, sky changes, snow, snowmelt, weather changes, youth | Leave a comment

Gifts From a Bathroom Window

Posted on January 22, 2024 by daeja's view

Every winter my bathroom window provides some wonderful ice art. Although other windows in this house face the same direction, this is the only one that puts on a show. Some mornings – even very cold ones – there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Earworm of the day, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, treasures, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Winter, Wow! | Tagged abstract ice, bathroom window art, earworm art, earworms of the day, from my window, ice pictures, views from my window, window ice | 1 Comment

Summing Up Twenty-three

Posted on December 31, 2023 by daeja's view

Every time it gets to the last days of writing for the year, I visualize a cartoon of myself wiping my brow and saying “Whew! Made it! So here we are again. I’m scrolling back over the posts for this year … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, baking, Birds, Bucket List, Cooking, Coping, Dogs, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Holidays, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized | Tagged 2023, aging, another year, baking fail, Christmas, dead monsters, earworms, end of the year, Holidays, letting go, New Year, senior musings, senior reflections, summing up, the holiday curse, whew! | Leave a comment

Okay Boomer

Posted on December 23, 2023 by daeja's view

To celebrate the Winter Solstice and welcome the soon to be increasing light, I picked up a small bag of chocolate treats. I’m sitting here staring at the screen while eating one dark chocolate amaretto-filled cordial after another. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Are you kidding me?, Coping, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Holidays, Perspective, Rant, Regrets, Seasons, senior musings, Uncategorized, Vent, Winter | Tagged boomer contributions, boomers love their children too, effects of amaretto cordials, get over yourselves, it wasn't supposed to turn out this way, not all boomers are bad, the next generation, we had high hopes, we tried our best, what will you do for the next generation?, winter solstice thoughts | 2 Comments

That Was Fast!

Posted on December 9, 2023 by daeja's view

It occurred to me one night after I had crawled into bed….. and then almost every night afterwards. Much in the way a dog will circle and paw until they finally decide they have found their sweet spot and plop … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Autumn, Earworm of the day, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, Uncategorized, Weird, Winter | Tagged back in bed already, busting up the routines, comfort in routine, days blowing by, déjà vu, here i am again, how our brains process time, is it a senior thing?, perception of time, time goes faster as we age, time is moving too fast | Leave a comment

Patience

Posted on October 22, 2023 by daeja's view

Not too many days ago a friend and I were lamenting to each other on the phone about how the autumn foliage is not as dramatic, that the absence of serious color is a bit disappointing. How everything is either … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Earworm of the day, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather | Tagged colorful leaves, everything in its own time, fall foliage, get centered, late october, slow autumn, waiting for foliage, where is the color? | 1 Comment

A Tisket, A Tasket

Posted on September 23, 2023 by daeja's view

Impatience is not the greatest trait to have in general. When it comes to the creative processes involved in crafting or art, impatience can make things especially disheartening. The struggle with this is a real and ongoing one for me. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Are you kidding me?, Autumn, Coping, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Perspective, senior musings, Uncategorized | Tagged accepting your differences, ADD, adult ADD, can't finish projects, crying through a project, frustration, hate to roll paint, hate weaving, i can't knit, impatient doing crafts, losing focus, sad little basket, unfinished crafts, unfinished projects, unfocused | 2 Comments

Stepping Out of Limbo

Posted on September 13, 2023 by daeja's view

Mid-September. I’m awaiting a burst of productivity to occur, but it’s not happening. Earworm of the day, recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1971: Sitting here in limboBut I know it won’t be longSitting here in limboLike a bird without a … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Cooking, Daeja's Garden, Earworm of the day, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather | Tagged almost fall, colors of early autumn, easy recipe for the unmotivated, feeling in limbo, late summer colors, no motivation, stagnation, waiting for Autumn, zucchini for dinner | Leave a comment

Hit the Road Jack

Posted on August 31, 2023 by daeja's view

What a beautiful, breezy, blue-sky day! I sit here on The Urban Porch ™ with Rudi, watching the busy proliferation of bumble bees, honey bees, black wasps, Blue-winged wasps and swallowtail butterflies hovering about. There are all sorts of smaller … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, Autumn, Coping, Earworm of the day, nature, Perspective, Rant, Seasons, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Wildlife | Tagged aggressive hornet, earworm, hateful hornet, most hated insect, nasty insect, stinging insects, wasps, wasps i have known, yellow jackets | 2 Comments