Current mood — and inability to understand how the world works — has Michael Budde ringing in my ears. I’m surrounded by housing markets that I do not understand or control; city and state planning projects that I do not understand or control; job markets that I do not understand or control; health care sy... tinyroofnail.micro.blog

@bbowman Ha, yup. I am helpless and I am blue

@tinyroofnail got them low down helpless blues / I'm so helpless can't even tie my shoes / so low down got nothin' left to lose / et cetera

@tinyroofnail Actually in all seriousness when I catch myself feeling this way I do some concrete useful thing like baking bread. That would be my prescription: go bake some bread.

@dwalbert Ha! I love the concreteness of this advice. Thank you

@dwalbert This helpless feelin making me wooz-/ y; feel so bad, it's like I'd watched the news, / I paid my helpless blues dues...

@dwalbert Exactly, great advice. Or work in the garden. Down in Texas, there's something cleansing about a real, good sweat when it's 102 degrees (F). (But try to keep in the shade, and drink plenty of water. Cough... or beer.)

@JimRain Definitely beer. You gotta replace all the toxins you sweat out!