A good friend recently told me that I had “lost my mojo.” What did he mean? What is “mojo,” anyway? Why did I lose it and do I want it back?
“Mojo” according to my slang dictionary is that magical power that allows someone to be effective and usually successful in whatever they do.
Why did I lose it? Well, I am getting older, and occasionally have the “blues.” My state and my country are in trouble, and the world is a mess. And I do have to continue to clean that “stuff” out of my house and garage so my loving survivors will think well of me when they don’t have to take care of those chores when my time comes.
The clean-out is particularly slow-going these days usually because of all those good, along with a few not-so-good, memories from days and decades past.
I have made a list of 2018 New Year’s resolutions, but wonder, are they sufficient to get my “mojo” back?
1. Smile more in order to create fewer wrinkles.
2. Take time to have some fun with family and friends and maintain the balance in my life between the sad and the fun stuff.
3. Study the governmental issues that bother me, then support with my time, my money and my vote, candidates who will at least try to do something about the issues.
4. Give most of that backroom “stuff” away and just toss out what’s left.
5. Better appreciate — while we have it — the place in which I live, the 35-town Last Green Valley. For specific sites, I will visit the website http://tlgv.org. Also, Last Green Valley members receive the National Heritage Corridor magazine “In Touch with the Last Green Valley” which features in its latest issue the nine land trusts working to keep the Last Green Valley green.
6. I will visit all those Last Green Valley places I haven’t been to yet and revisit locations that I’m particularly fond of. I’ll bring along friends, particularly the young and those who no longer are able to drive themselves.
As for that missing “mojo,” it will some take time but I am already working to get it back!
Marge Hoskin, a Quiet Corner native, is a retired naval officer. She is the former chairwoman of the Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor, Inc. Board of Directors and one of the founding members of the corridor. Her column appears every Tuesday. Reach her at mlhoskin@sbcglobal.net.