The View From Sari's World

Happy Relaxation Day! According to the Huffington Post today is National Relaxation Day. I am sure many people, including my son, would use this as an excuse to be lazy. Not me I am going to relax my mind today.

Today I vow to take a break from worrying about bills, my health and the economy. I will spend the day engaging in activities that further my long term goals. Today I will skip TV watching and instead listen to Mozart while clearing clutter from my house. Sounds like work, but it is not. I will be getting rid of what is no longer important to me in order to give myself some space or breathing room.

Following my heart surgery I came to the conclusion I have way to much material stuff or junk as I now refer to a lot of my belongings. I worried that if something were to happen to me it would be up to my mother and son to clean out my house. What a terrible burden on them! Soon my son will be off to college and no longer will I be required to maintain my big house and yard. I will be free to move from Carson City in order to attend graduate school. At some point I will have to think about moving again and what I really want to take with me. A lot of this clutter just has to go.

I have been spending a lot time worrying about my bills, my health and our state’s lousy economy. Today I want a break from all this, so hello Mozart, goodbye stressful thinking!

Of course, part of my day will include reading. This always relaxes me.
What are you going to do today?

There are two things that can get me as excited as a kid; trivia and history. Yesterday I received the book Strange but true, America weird tales from all 50 states yesterday and by this afternoon I was done reading it. Thanks Lone Pine Publications for putting out such a fun book and sending a copy to me.

This is a must have book for all American history lovers, not to mention those who love American trivia. The book is broken down by state. The reader can pick and chose which stories to read as each piece or article is written as if it came from a newspaper column. I found it fun to jump around reading about Native Americans, then our presidents and finally about some of our more colorful American citizens.

My favorite piece is titled Skull ‘speaks’ of prehistoric kindness. In this article the reader is told of some 9,000 year old skulls found with their brains intact. The DNA evidence shows there is no connection to present day Native Americans. Why haven’t we heard about this in the news? I find it terribly fascinating.

Towards the back of the book there are very short trivia pieces that are as fascinating as the longer articles. Did you know several planes carrying nuclear missiles have crashed on American soil? Look under the heading When Doomsday came calling to your state to find out when and where this has happened.
This book will surely please those who love the Uncle John’s trivia books. I have several relatives on my holiday gift list who do. This is the book they will receive instead.