Some of us have the good fortune to have had an upbringing. I don’t mean a good or bad upbringing. Any upbringing. It doesn’t matter how many parents are in residence, what matters is exposure to upbringing, exposure to what direction is best to take. It also doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor. People with good manners have a better chance for better learning; they get invited into situations where doors open to higher levels of life opportunities.
 
I believe it all starts with good manners.
 
TABLE MANNERS is one. We don’t eat with our hands, so using silverware correctly is important. Using napkins, keeping elbows off the table, not reaching across anyone, not talking with food in your mouth are knowledge that can take you places. It’s not too late to learn.
 
CLOTHING. Never buy anything because it looks good on someone else. Say “No” to a fad, a passing style designed just to make quick money. You must know your body, which parts to show and which to hide; when to show and when to hide. You must know what enhances your height and weight and coloring.
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Remember, you are not the only woman with breasts, with beautiful skin, with shapely buttocks, or stunning legs. There’s nothing wrong with showing cleavage, showing skin, showing off your best features. What’s wrong is when it’s overdone.
 
The rules of dressing are also dictated by the time and place of your activities. There are tasteful ways to dress and get noticed, be sexy and desirable. A woman doesn’t have to be provocative. It serves us better to be refreshing, curious and mysteriously interesting. 
 

​Some people need to be communicators. That’s done in many forms. There is conversation, correspondence, schooling or teaching, writing and sometimes just drag-by-the-arm attention seeking. No matter how it works out, even the needy person has to find his center, has to find his point, has to be interesting enough to compel you to respond. Yo! Let’s do this.

Years ago, around 1971, Harry Nilsson released a song called The Point and oh boy, it was clever. I loved it. My daughter loved it. I rushed out and bought the album. I am not licensed to quote him but you can pull up his lyrics and it will probably blow your mind. If it does, then you and I have something in common. Our thinking. We think alike enough to enjoy each other’s conversation.

Some areas really interest me and once a month I plan to blog out! I think toward the end of month will be a good time. Let’s think about the 25th of each month when you and I and all others get together to be interesting and centered. I am a writer of some note shooting for the BIG NOTE! We can dispel the myth of Writer’s Block. People with Writer’s Block probably shouldn’t be writing. We can choose important or silly areas of serious writing.

We can make observations on family life; opinions that are followed by advice. Do I qualify? Probably not. Do I enjoy advising? Yes.
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Friends and enemies. Or here’s a good one, Life Today as compared to other times! Oh, we can go on and on about that topic. Can all this lead to our inner center?  You bet.