Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 02, 2021

Stars galore all in one area. Could it be scripted? Chose Little Feat on the bluetooth devices. Gather in the kitchen for munchies and picture taking. Pull out a game board and all aboard for some fun. Go off to the local pub with friends and foe beers. Having a blissful time.

Too many of those in my life.

Hear Hear.

Competing monologues. Disconnection. Irrelevance.

And if you keep on talking to the people who don’t listen to the things that you are saying who do you think’s gonna hear?

My in-laws, every Christmas.

Well, what did you expect, a PROversation? B^/

I’ve been talking for years, but nothing changes, so I guess nobody’s listening.

It’s better to remain silent and let people think you’re ignorant than open your mouth and remove all doubt! Yakety yak, don’t talk back!!

They put ya right to sleep, don’t they?

https://vimeo.com/431226391

Better ways to go, I guess…

Listen, that’s what I do. Names Friday Joe Friday, and I’m a cop.

Her body language just captures the ennui, doesn’t it?

Seeing this made me yawn … but it’s early … CaFfEiNe …!

Another whiny and cheesy event.

Let me tell you about my grandkids…

Wait, wait, back the truck up, this only applies to the younger generations. So self absorbed, texting away, not listening to anything I want to tell them about my grandkids.

That’s not a conversation. It’s a babble, sometimes referred to as a “meeting.”

Quite an eclectic blog today …!

That is, unfortunately, the very definition of so many “conversations”! Also, it helps explain why I was, in group social events. always so taciturn, even laconic. My physical presence alone was my contribution to the Groupspeak, sometimes a babble (or was that Babel?) of many tongues, both literally and physically….

Shades of “My Dinner with Andre” (not the giant.)

…I am listening…

…but no one can tell me what to do…

…nobody’s right if everybody is wrong…

…your lips move but I can’t hear what you are saying…

… hooray, my covid-19 came back negative…

…listening is a lost art…

…sort of like Pogo…

…stop, look & listen…

…that’s the sound of the men working on the chain gang…

…the sound of silence…

…listen up, pilgrim…

…we’re gonna Rustle up some leaves…

…ssh, are you going to talk during the movie?…

And the dangling conversation and the superficial lies, are the boarders of our lives.