Come to Jesus
25/12/14 05:24
Merry Christmas all! Here is hoping that the holiday season brings you and yours much happiness and joy in the waning days of 2014. What the fuck does that mean? It means that you should take a few minutes to celebrate the birth of the baby jesus and throw a scheckel or two in the fountain for good luck in the new year. I know it's open season on Christians and police officers across the country but we shouldn't otherwise duck our responsibilities to family and friends just because the "Hands up - Don't Shoot" crowd is sucking the oxygen out of the cold winter air with their rhetoric and antics. If you want to go to the mall then you should go to the mall. Oh, and we can't forget the "I Can't Breathe" crowd. False narratives all but reason enough apparently to take to the streets looting, robbing, and killing as they see fit. They say we need to have a national conversation. They say they want a seat at the table. They say their voices have gone unheard long enough. What's next? Reparations? I suppose the first black president could with a stroke of his pen intitate such an executive order. Maybe what we're seeing is the dying gasp of a people who had hoped for better things under a president with whom they had skin color in common but not much else. The time for conversation has come and gone. When Al Sharpton's access to the White House is a thing of the past he too will be excoriated by his bretheren as the race baiting pimp that he is and forgotten until another opportunity arises where he can ply his trade. The end of this regime is near. That is the only conversation I'm interested in having.
But I digress. We're thankful certainly that Evan will be spending time with us around the holidays. That was doubtful as early as yesterday but all matters were resolved in the eyes of his keepers so home he will be. We'll work as a family to see him through these times which have been trying and even surprising to some. It's the train we never saw coming. We never heard it; we never saw it; it just arrived. It was threatening to be another one of those treeless Christmas's the likes we haven't seen since the days of St. Thomas. Everything about this holiday has been a chore. A challenge and not a joy. Maybe we missed the signs along the way. I'm not sure that's true. I think the signs have been there all along. It wasn't something we ignored. Evan was just Evan. Anyway, I forgot to have a chat with him about his putting something under the tree for his momma. There just wasn't time. He wasn't available and I wasn't available. So his momma bought something for herself which she will wrap and I will tell Evan to make it his gift to her. But, we had the tree up by the time Evan came home and that was good. I had all I could do to drag the tree into the house so she could decorate it and this was as of yesterday morning the day before Christmas. No sooner had he arrived on our doorstep then he was leaving the house to spend time with friends. "Better that he be socializing than not", I uttered to his momma. The tears in her eyes suggested otherwise.
I tell myself every year around this time that I will make more of an effort to look at work related things on my time off. As funny as that sounds, I have things to do that are better done away from the office. Some analysis is better done while not immersed in the distracting din of the office environment. Some reports are better prepared in the quiet of my home where I have a stretch of time to commit to them. I am in the final days of my time with this company so hope to go out with a flourish in 2015. Finish strong is what I often tell Evan and I don't say that in a half hearted fashion. Now I get to practice what I preach or not. The desire is there but history tells me that it is more difficult than it sounds. I enjoy the work so that isn't the problem. I guess we'll see. For today anyway, I will enjoy time with my family. We'll roast a chicken and some vegetables later today. We'll open presents when everyone gets out of bed and enjoy each others company. We'll ring up relatives at some point and issue the usual holiday cheer. It's all good. At least for today.
But I digress. We're thankful certainly that Evan will be spending time with us around the holidays. That was doubtful as early as yesterday but all matters were resolved in the eyes of his keepers so home he will be. We'll work as a family to see him through these times which have been trying and even surprising to some. It's the train we never saw coming. We never heard it; we never saw it; it just arrived. It was threatening to be another one of those treeless Christmas's the likes we haven't seen since the days of St. Thomas. Everything about this holiday has been a chore. A challenge and not a joy. Maybe we missed the signs along the way. I'm not sure that's true. I think the signs have been there all along. It wasn't something we ignored. Evan was just Evan. Anyway, I forgot to have a chat with him about his putting something under the tree for his momma. There just wasn't time. He wasn't available and I wasn't available. So his momma bought something for herself which she will wrap and I will tell Evan to make it his gift to her. But, we had the tree up by the time Evan came home and that was good. I had all I could do to drag the tree into the house so she could decorate it and this was as of yesterday morning the day before Christmas. No sooner had he arrived on our doorstep then he was leaving the house to spend time with friends. "Better that he be socializing than not", I uttered to his momma. The tears in her eyes suggested otherwise.
I tell myself every year around this time that I will make more of an effort to look at work related things on my time off. As funny as that sounds, I have things to do that are better done away from the office. Some analysis is better done while not immersed in the distracting din of the office environment. Some reports are better prepared in the quiet of my home where I have a stretch of time to commit to them. I am in the final days of my time with this company so hope to go out with a flourish in 2015. Finish strong is what I often tell Evan and I don't say that in a half hearted fashion. Now I get to practice what I preach or not. The desire is there but history tells me that it is more difficult than it sounds. I enjoy the work so that isn't the problem. I guess we'll see. For today anyway, I will enjoy time with my family. We'll roast a chicken and some vegetables later today. We'll open presents when everyone gets out of bed and enjoy each others company. We'll ring up relatives at some point and issue the usual holiday cheer. It's all good. At least for today.