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
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