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10 www.DesertMessenger.com January 20, 2021 www.QuartzsiteVideos.com Watch Quartzsite Council meetings @ WE HAVE GREAT LUNCH MENUS, serving at 12 noon sharp! Suggested donation is only $3.50. There's cards, books, games, puzzles, Wi-Fi available. Community Services, Volunteers Needed! Come join the fun at Quartzsite SENIOR Center 40 Moon Mountain Ave. For more information call 928-927-6496 Senior Center open all year! REOPENING JAN. 10 Monday - Friday, 9am – 3pm A new club... Corner of Moon Mt. & Cowell • Quartzsite • 928-927-5400 OPEN YEAR ROUND Cheyanne, Debbi, Sheryl, Linda, Tonia, Gayle & Janna ARE HERE FOR YOUR WE'RE OPEN YEAR ROUND! Hair, Nails, and Pedicure Services HOURS: MON - FRIDAY & SATURDAY BY APPOINTMENT Call Don 208-255-6955 Don's Rocks Decorative Landscaping Hauling, Dumptruck & Backhoe Services WE'RE BACK! Looking forward to seeing our Friends! Not a licensed contractor SKYHAWK Due to Covid and the USA/CAN- ADA border closing, SKYHAWK will not be holding our Friday night dances at the Quartzsite Senior Center this snowbird season. SEE YOU ALL AGAIN FOR OUR DANCES NOVEMBER 2021. By Jackie Deal It's a new club and you're invited to join. No, it's not about New Year's Resolutions so don't run away. Has anyone ever asked you, "Are you doing XYZ as much as you should?" and, feeling guilty, you answered, "Not as much as I should." Well then, this club is for you. "Are you exercising as much as you should?" "Nah, not as much as I should." "Are you practicing as much as you should? Read- ing, writing, arithmetic, art, mu- sic?" "No, not as much as I should. "XYZ?" "Not as much as I should." If you're a charter member of the club you probably even ask yourself that question! Somewhere, back in my younger years, I vaguely remember reading: there are no shoulds. Nice thought, but is it true? Don't we crucify ourselves repeatedly on the cross of Shoulds? Whether we compare ourselves to others or to our former selves? It's the same result: we just don't add up. Think about that long enough and you start getting depressed, right? So, grab yourselves by your boot straps (I don't care if you have bed- room slippers on) and …and, what? Um, let's see. Turn on some lights. It's winter and everything is natu- rally darker and thus so are you. Lights! Music! Put on some bright, happy music. Smile! Don't feel like it? Smile anyway. There's a theory called "as if"; if you act "as if" you're happy: you will be. No guarantee, but you're more likely to feel better if you act better. (How could you feel any worse?) Call a friend. Seek out a friend. But only a positive one that will make you feel better. And if you work to make the friend feel better then two of you will feel bet- ter. Simple arithmetic. We kinda strayed from the origi- nal premise: a club for shoulda- failures. Maybe if the depression has lifted a little you might feel like doing some of those things "you shoulda". But don't forget, nobody, including you, has the right to tell you: "you shoulda done more or better." And you don't have to in- ternalize those things. Now have I talked you out of join- ing the new club? Maybe we should change the name from "Not as much as I should" to …. to what? Help me out: give me a name for our new club. You could even be an offi cer if you wish! Come and join the Bouse Hills Muzzle Loaders during our annual black powder Rendezvous February 13-16. The event takes place at the La Paz County Range on Highway 72 just outside of Bouse, between mile markers 29 and 30. A wide variety of competitions take place from Thurs- day morning through Sunday noon. Vendors are set up selling a variety of old fashioned items of that era. A great food vendor will be on site. Par- ticipants are dressed in period cloth- ing from the 1820's through 1840's that depict the era when the Southwest was being settled. Visitors can shoot a black powder rifl e, observe compe- titions in progress, shop and much more. Camping on site available at $5.00 per night. Additional activities each night. For more information, call Phil or Libby at 623-826-5621. Rendezvous planned February 13-16 DEADLINE : WED. JAN. 27 TH for Feb. 3 rd edition Desert Messenger News Email: editor@DesertMessenger.com 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com

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