Merry third day of Christmas

 

And Merry Christmas. We have been so busy, yet that is no excuse that I also need to focus on what is important.

I hope you had a great Christmas, got what you wanted and found a moment to find joy in your heart. And for those of you that normal life overwhelmed your Christmas and holidays, I hope you too can find a moment to quietly enjoy the season.

Merry Christmas and Peace on Earth. 

So, it is about that election year time again

 

First I will eventually, hopefully write a Christmas post. Right now the hectic, crazy, unsettling moments of the holidays are driving me bonkers. I know everyone wants peace on earth right now and yours truly is no exception. Which in some says brings me to what I have planned for the first of the year. If you are a regular reader you know every four years I offer a potential platform of a party not named democrat or republican. The current morass in my head not withstanding I will be putting this together for next year.

And the current morass and maybe even molasses in my head is preventing me from thinking clearly this wonderful holiday season. I cannot even write two sentences before I sidetrack myself no end. I have already forgotten more thoughts in the last two minutes than I can conceive. And another reason I am trying to write something today. I plan on including in this post an outline of what the platform may encompass once I finally get around to it after the year starts.

Some other quick thoughts. First the Cowboys have no business being in the playoffs if they cannot win two competitive games in a row.  They beat the Eagles then lay an egg against the Bills. They have to be ready to beat teams that are desperate this time of year because all teams will be or at least should be desperate for the playoffs. And I had no intention of saying anything about the Cowboys when I sat down, but my brain is on synopsis overload and nothing is firing in any kind of order. The Mavericks are still interesting at this point, but who knows where they really are as a team since they can’t get Luka and Kyrie together consistently yet. And I don’t blame Kyrie for anything, that was a freak injury situation. I just hope they let him fully heal so sometime in January we have a real idea of what this team can do. And yes Lively II is a wonderful and needed surprise along with and I am going to avoid saying role players because teams have stars and players. Some players have a specific role, but the term role player is way over used in pro basketball. For some people to say Exum or Jones are role players takes away from the great job they are doing as players on the Mavericks. The press, and this includes Barkley ad Shaq, needs to go back and focus on saying players on teams. Oh boy I am way off track.

Any way shape or fashion, it is the holidays, we need more of them, and even though I celebrate Christmas I am somewhat glad we say holidays for this time of year. Whether I like it or not, many people around the world are celebrating right now and of course for all the Western world it is followed by the new year parties, events and thinking. Now I will say Merry Christmas come next weekend and say it with complete joy, meaning and giving, yet it is nice to realize the world is round and we need to celebrate all of us. Yet by no means do I feel woke about all of this, just truthful.

And then back to reality. I do plan on sitting down and creating a somewhat comprehensive platform and topics will include economic, tax structure, social security, healthcare, education, world peace (foreign policy), and even wokeness. This is where it is headed for now. Things could change in a couple of weeks, heck in a couple of seconds. For now I do want to address these topics and thoughts are already creating plaque in those synopsis, but hopefully I can find enough electric impulses to push through the debris field that is my mind.

I had all sorts of thoughts when I first sat down and I wanted to talk more about what is happening on the other side of this keyboard, yet to say something now would be just too confusing. I will say right now I wish I was sitting on a beach with a very high dollar and fine glass of wine or stiff drink staring at the ocean doing nothing. Or even a coffee drink because I need to stop drinking coffee and right now in the middle of the afternoon I have a hankering to go make another pot of coffee. I am fighting the urge as I type, yet realistically I would even settle for that glass of wine even a “table” wine right now while I type. The better half and I just cannot get a moment to feel like we are living in the holidays.

And there was so much I wanted to say when I sat down that I have totally forgetten. Shoot I just got up for three minutes and have already lost track of upteen thoughts.

So I am going to end with this thought for you to digest with your eggnog. I know what heaven smells like. And if I shared the smell with anyone they would immediately get angry, scream at the top of their lungs that I have no idea what I am talking about. Heaven would never smell that way, and it is not an unpleasant order, definitely not. It is not flowery or has a bouquet smell or sweet or wispy or any other adjective that might create a sense of that is so beautiful it must be heaven. They would call me grinch for my smell because it creates no image of what people think what is heaven and here is the catch…. What heaven may smell like because….they do not realize we will not have our earthly senses in heaven. People want to project what they know upon the unknown. There is nothing inherently wrong with trying to do that, yet it can leave us gasping at a reality that does not exist. We have no idea what is heaven so my smell is just as viable as any other, and since we won’t have earthly senses in heaven and yes I know we may rise body and soul into heaven or at least some thought patterns suggest as much, we do not know at all. Everything that we interpret is a complete guess and yes I do believe in Christmas and everything it stands for including the knowledge the sole purpose of Christmas is Easter. I am not trying to burst any bubbles, or ruin your Christmas, but again just trying to get you to realize we are not as smart as we think we are and we need to sit back and smell the roses while we are alive. And that brings me back to one of my original thoughts when I sat down and why I try to write a better platform for our country than the garbage we will received from the democrats and republicans, mankind should have better. I avoided saying deserves or a right to something better, yet mankind can have better. It is up to us. I always pray and hope that all of us, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and everything in between and outside of those boundaries have a terrific Christmas and a life where they are treated with respect and can enjoy much of what our given earthly senses has to offer, whether it be a beautiful blue sky or ocean, a breeze blowing through leaves, a nice glass of wine or even ice tea, a rose placed on your breakfast table, a kiss from a loved one tender on your cheek, the feel of warm cotton against your skin, a drive down a wide open highway, or a horse ride across a field, or maybe just standing out in the middle of the desert feeling the warmth of the sun penetrating your being, so whatever it may be, all of us should be able to enjoy this wonderful planet we have been given with all our senses, and the ugliness of what we do to each other be washed away in a strong rain.

Cheers and Happy Holidays

Not that it really matters, but it is too late to worry about it

 

Okay okay, I am not young anymore so out of a moment of trying to act responsibly for my age, I caved. Yep gave in to rational thinking, did what I was supposed to do, behaved, and so forth and so on.

I regretted it from the moment I sat down.

We went to Braum’s. If you do not know Braum’s it is a pretty unique environment. It is simple, but has quite a bit going on. It is a fast food restaurant or a comparable step above, it is an ice cream store and carries groceries.  So you can go get a burger and then some ice cream. Simple but wonderful stop to enjoy.

I always and I do mean always get a double dip hot fudge sundae. Today though for some ill conceived notion I thought I should get a single since I was already a bit full and you know that age thing.

I sat down and looked at the puny ass serving and am still regretting not getting the double dip and it has been well over a hour since we got home.

Never again will I make that mistake, overly stuffed or whatever. Shoot at my age I should go ahead and get what I want, too late to worry about it now.

Cheers