Merry Christmas; one and all!
Well another Christmas is upon us kids dreaming of Santa, and adults thinking the close of yet another year. This year wasn't a bad year, and wasn't a great year ether, but I'm not here to review 2010, that will come in a few days. I'm here to throw out some thoughts of Christmas. There has been a lot of talk about this in the media as of late. About this whole notion of Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays its BS I tell you. Cooked up by right wing and left wing pundits. To make talking points on Meet the Press, no one cares if you say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas in the real world.
So this Christmas I set out on a mission to say Merry Christmas to everyone, from the person at Wal-mart (the great evil) to everyone at work, no Happy Holiday or Season Greeting. Merry Christmas and look them in the eye and say with meaning. Not one person say anything mean back to like you mean Happy Holiday or bah bah bah.... All would look at me and smile back and say Merry Christmas. It was true so were a little taken back, the smile would come out and Merry Christmas would come back to me. I was touched by this, they seemed to like hearing that, weren't piss off or what did you say to me!
My wife and I went to downtown Chicago to "Christkindl Market" in Daley Center. The woman that helped me with putting money on my CTA card. I said Merry Christmas her and I got a big smile back and a return a strong Merry Christmas sir ,and a Happy New Year!
So see all is not lost and I do not believe there is a war on Christmas, I believe that there are media people out there who are trying to make this in too something its not. And with that I would like to say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" one and all.
May this be one of your best Christmas's ever.
I know that tons of people are out of work, and cash isn't what it once was, Christ is of the heart and no one can take matters of the heart away from anyone. As much as they would like, so if you believe in Santa, or the baby Jesus. Or any other of thing on this holiday. Its all Christmas, and its in the heart and not in what is said.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
"Holy Hell!"
Wow, look that the time. As we speed through time and space for the next great stop in our lives. Hoping you don't get caught in the corner of the room with that one family member who talks and talks would out saying a word. You know who I'm talking about we all have them, the one you never ask loaded questions too." Like how are you doing today? " That not the out for people to go into a long drawn out, of what the doctor told the last time you went to see him. It's people being nice, they don't want to here your latest blood count, or the cold weather hurt to the bone.
So here I go again summing up another holiday, and I'm not going to go there. Not this year maybe not ever. I will grin and bear it, make nice even though. I would much rather be doing something better than sitting in my house with a bunch of people I see few times a year.I'm not talking about my family, I love being with my kids. And now that they are adults it's great.
Nope I'm not going there, this is not what I wanted this to turn into was a place I would bitch about things. Things I have no control of things that I can't make better, and won't make better too. So I will stop it right here!Not taking this any further than it should be, not belittling any one thing, or calling out someone. Even though I do feel they should be called out. I will take the hight road, no good can come from what is taken. The better good is alway won!
So yes I come from this with the makings of something that can be moved and yet not worked. It is far better to know you have won, than to lose and thinking you've won!
So here I go again summing up another holiday, and I'm not going to go there. Not this year maybe not ever. I will grin and bear it, make nice even though. I would much rather be doing something better than sitting in my house with a bunch of people I see few times a year.I'm not talking about my family, I love being with my kids. And now that they are adults it's great.
Nope I'm not going there, this is not what I wanted this to turn into was a place I would bitch about things. Things I have no control of things that I can't make better, and won't make better too. So I will stop it right here!Not taking this any further than it should be, not belittling any one thing, or calling out someone. Even though I do feel they should be called out. I will take the hight road, no good can come from what is taken. The better good is alway won!
So yes I come from this with the makings of something that can be moved and yet not worked. It is far better to know you have won, than to lose and thinking you've won!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Time!
Well its been some time since I've put anything up. Had one heck of a weekend two Christmas parties one on Friday and the other yesterday. I myself enjoyed yesterdays better, Friday was fun. It was the guys and Trish, she is so cool. We did have fun. The rest of the weekend was Wal-mart and Woodman's got back before the snow and the cold started. Sunday did even go out of the house, watched it snow and some football. So see I have no new to report. Same old same old, its all the same.
My mood is better that was not a fun one, need to make some notes and let the doctor know more about that dip in my mood. Haven't felt that way in years, and if I don't feel that way ever again will be good with me. The darkness that I felt there was intense, it would pull me under so black so very black. More than I have ever seen before, no light at all and cold. Thru the years I've had some bad times, this was some thing I will not soon forget. It's been sometime since I've felt this way more than 30 years I'd say. I didn't like it,not at all. I'm glad they have the drugs that keep my safe from that darkness that lives in all of us, it is not a place I need to spend any time in.
My mood is better that was not a fun one, need to make some notes and let the doctor know more about that dip in my mood. Haven't felt that way in years, and if I don't feel that way ever again will be good with me. The darkness that I felt there was intense, it would pull me under so black so very black. More than I have ever seen before, no light at all and cold. Thru the years I've had some bad times, this was some thing I will not soon forget. It's been sometime since I've felt this way more than 30 years I'd say. I didn't like it,not at all. I'm glad they have the drugs that keep my safe from that darkness that lives in all of us, it is not a place I need to spend any time in.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
made it through!
Well as I talked about yesterday on my other blog http://bikinghillbilly.blogspot.com/ about feeling so very blue on these day around the holidays.Working so very hard not to slide down the slipperier slope of my depression, the black of this is starting to close in on me.
It's funny as I write about this it sits there on my right side like an old friend, showing me clips of past dark times. Almost like you remember this one. This was one of your finer moments.
They're not and that's why things are different these time this blackness come a calling, yes I pull myself inward into my inter light. The inter light were its warm, not cold like the black that wants to take me to places I've been before. Places I don't want to go to a final darkness so cold, I keep the warmth close.
The light in my soul will over take the blackness that wants to take me. My light has what I need to help move forward, to sustain me and help me make it. I have faith in myself that this is just a hard part of my road, and that my journey is being tested.
Still it hard oh so very hard to right a ship that is taking on water, sometimes you think maybe it just might be better if you give in to the darkness, and let it cascade over me taking me. Removing all of the good I have.
That would be wrong, to give up?
Roll over, I will on roll over. Not for the likes of you!
Then the darkness will sit and weep like a small child.
"What's wrong darkness?" you'll say. "Why are you crying?" you'll add.
With that you are taken away from all who love you, away from all who care for you. You'll hurt anything and anyone who wants to get in your way. Not caring or maybe not knowing in what you are capable of, bad things. Hurtful things! Things that would make the hard core inside turn themselves inside out.
It's funny as I write about this it sits there on my right side like an old friend, showing me clips of past dark times. Almost like you remember this one. This was one of your finer moments.
They're not and that's why things are different these time this blackness come a calling, yes I pull myself inward into my inter light. The inter light were its warm, not cold like the black that wants to take me to places I've been before. Places I don't want to go to a final darkness so cold, I keep the warmth close.
The light in my soul will over take the blackness that wants to take me. My light has what I need to help move forward, to sustain me and help me make it. I have faith in myself that this is just a hard part of my road, and that my journey is being tested.
Still it hard oh so very hard to right a ship that is taking on water, sometimes you think maybe it just might be better if you give in to the darkness, and let it cascade over me taking me. Removing all of the good I have.
That would be wrong, to give up?
Roll over, I will on roll over. Not for the likes of you!
Then the darkness will sit and weep like a small child.
"What's wrong darkness?" you'll say. "Why are you crying?" you'll add.
With that you are taken away from all who love you, away from all who care for you. You'll hurt anything and anyone who wants to get in your way. Not caring or maybe not knowing in what you are capable of, bad things. Hurtful things! Things that would make the hard core inside turn themselves inside out.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Why I am why I am?
Isn't that the big question. The one you ask all the time, the one that will wake you from a sound sleep in the middle night. You can take this a lot of ways to the far far extremes, or stay very close with it as I do. Not to be someone who pines for things that never happened. I have question about if I would done this or that differently how would my world have changed, or even the world around me. Maybe the time too make change is now, maybe small ways of changing up a day. Would those make changes, in the world we live in, and the people around us? I don't think so, we can't rewind a moment in time. A redo, I didn't say the right thing can I do it again. Time isn't like that once tick-tock its gone. So be very careful of those small morsels of time they can get away from you and the next time you know it they're gone in the wind or a tick-tock of a clock.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Why is it?
Why is it that when people are in there car's driving somewhere they will do thing they would do outside of there car's?
Say a lane is about to end and you have seen signs for this for about a miles or little more. Why do some people get in the others lane and others do not?
Would you cut in front of someone to get in line somewhere else?
And why is it okay to do in your car?
I'm just asking here cause I'm dumbfounded on this issue, people will pull more stuff in their cars than say a store or mall. I've come up with somethings I feel are why some do, and other don't. Lets call this the Badger road test. In other words I'm calling some people out to make them think about the actions they take in their automobiles, would you pull that same crap walking down and street. I believe most people would not. Now don't get me wrong some people would cause this, cause some people are just out and out assholes.
The me first at any cost, they would do straight to your face, they don't care. I'm good with that cause you know what you are and you deal with it. It's the nice people who turn into some out of there mind driver is the ones I'm talking about. You know you'll see someone out of their car nice personable, maybe smiling. Saying "Hi how are you today!" and then they get behind the wheel. Forget about it two inches off your back bumper, banging on the steering wheel wanting you to go faster. You have no place to go, cars are all around you, they can't see that we're all moving along, and yet they need to go faster.
Here is the way I see and maybe I'm wrong, if I have open road in front of me. That doesn't mean I can go as fast as you want. There is still a speed limit posted, and if it's just a plain old two or four lane I'm only doing five maybe ten miles over. Most of the time right around the speed limit.
I feel that its a me first type of thing going around, not sure where this came about. Maybe our lives are just more ramped up, with things. Have very little or even no time to ourselves? Is this it between all of the other activates in our lives we have lost any time for other people? Is this more like peoples way of eat, or be eaten. If I make home fifteen seconds before my neighbor I win, he's slow. He's the wildebeest that got eaten by the lion, and I lived to eat the sweet savanna grasses. It doesn't work that way does it, or does it? I'm the one who's wrong, the one who is looking at this backwards.
I'm not sure it is funny to watch cause people in there cars will do silly things......
Say a lane is about to end and you have seen signs for this for about a miles or little more. Why do some people get in the others lane and others do not?
Would you cut in front of someone to get in line somewhere else?
And why is it okay to do in your car?
I'm just asking here cause I'm dumbfounded on this issue, people will pull more stuff in their cars than say a store or mall. I've come up with somethings I feel are why some do, and other don't. Lets call this the Badger road test. In other words I'm calling some people out to make them think about the actions they take in their automobiles, would you pull that same crap walking down and street. I believe most people would not. Now don't get me wrong some people would cause this, cause some people are just out and out assholes.
The me first at any cost, they would do straight to your face, they don't care. I'm good with that cause you know what you are and you deal with it. It's the nice people who turn into some out of there mind driver is the ones I'm talking about. You know you'll see someone out of their car nice personable, maybe smiling. Saying "Hi how are you today!" and then they get behind the wheel. Forget about it two inches off your back bumper, banging on the steering wheel wanting you to go faster. You have no place to go, cars are all around you, they can't see that we're all moving along, and yet they need to go faster.
Here is the way I see and maybe I'm wrong, if I have open road in front of me. That doesn't mean I can go as fast as you want. There is still a speed limit posted, and if it's just a plain old two or four lane I'm only doing five maybe ten miles over. Most of the time right around the speed limit.
I feel that its a me first type of thing going around, not sure where this came about. Maybe our lives are just more ramped up, with things. Have very little or even no time to ourselves? Is this it between all of the other activates in our lives we have lost any time for other people? Is this more like peoples way of eat, or be eaten. If I make home fifteen seconds before my neighbor I win, he's slow. He's the wildebeest that got eaten by the lion, and I lived to eat the sweet savanna grasses. It doesn't work that way does it, or does it? I'm the one who's wrong, the one who is looking at this backwards.
I'm not sure it is funny to watch cause people in there cars will do silly things......
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Moved!
I've redone the blog and will be going off this one more than the other one, just wasn't feeling it on that one. So stay tuned for more from the badger world!
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