Merry Christmas
- I never imagined a simple greeting could morph into an attack line as it is spoken forcibly at the face of an apparently not Christian enough person, but that is a thing too.
Yes there are a lot of things in 2015 I did not foresee that have become things, too. This is the year nearly all of my high school classmates will test the question posed by the Beatles so long ago. A song I first heard on AM radio at the farm. “will you still love me when I’m 64?” My parents weren’t even 64 at that time and now it will soon be me. I have to ask myself, because I alone am up at 6 AM this morning. I will explain how this freakish occurrence occurred in a bit. ‘How’s it going six decades in?’ The honest answer is very well and I cannot be grateful enough for my family. Those generations who went before me and my children. I am so grateful for my wife. Nancy and I will celebrate our 33rd anniversary this year. Now I was rather disgusted Sunday as she insisted I should go to the Ecumenical Singers concert in Monmouth. I would have protested physically, but then she would have just kicked me in the hamstring of my left thigh causing me to crumple in agony. I went along, partially, staying in Smitshire and relaxing the muscle instead of testing it further on the hard pews of Immaculate Conception in Monmouth. I also threw in a nap. My regular Sunday routine at church from 7 to noon had overworked it and the consequences of this muscle’s complaints were going to be heard, ah felt.
L-R: Gertrude, Winifred backrow Steve, Nancy, Laura, Erik
I suppose I should relate the tale – “For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;” – Richard II – Shakespeare which I have mostly learned from Star Trek quotes. Normally I would run on and on about my now three and a half years at this fit of fitness Nancy and I have undertaken. As I come to the thought of relating fitness goals there rings the paradoxical truth of 2015, some of my friends need no Christmas update at all; ...
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