I just wanted to take a moment in the day and say hello. Hello and thanks. Thanks for coming by and reading my mind’s words.
In the holiday season we sometimes get caught up with things we’re supposed to do or “have to do” and sometimes we forget what a special privilege it is to be able to have these responsibilities.
Of Money and Lifestyles
We are lucky. Even if times are “tight,” our tight is still so much better than many people around the world that we sometimes get caught up in our own “money problems.” But if you think about it, it’s funny that we make enough money to have problems.
Heck even in our own country, our cities are populated with homeless pushing their entire life along in a shopping cart.
I’m contributing to the SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK in my area. I am because I can and people need it.
So for a moment, think about being blessed to be where you’re at in life. If you’re able to read this… then you are blessed and one of the lucky ones.
Of Family and Friends
So have you been a little grumbly, even silently, about the arrangements and the travel or putting up with the in-laws for the holidays as your personal schedule is disrupted for a few days?
Well don’t forget to say thank you and to tell your family and friends how much you appreciate having them in your life.
Sad from the past
-One friend of mine, his father went down into the cellar to get some firewood and he never returned. When his mother went down to check on him, she found him sitting in a chair, passed away.
-Brittany Murphy started her day out like any other and now her family and friends have a hole in their hearts where the living spirit of Brittany once resided.
-A friend of mine lost his life due to a structural failure in the airplane he was flying.
-Another friend of mine met his time with a drunk wrong-way driver.
-And as I’m sure many of us can say, I lost friends in an instant on 9/11. 4 to be exact.
We never know when ours or our family or friend’s times will be up. And though it seems as if it never will be, it’s an inevitable bit of timing we actively ignore.
Now is the time.
Forget later. Later doesn’t work if something happens before then. I skipped calling my father for a few weeks and now I’m here wondering how he is as he sat in a hospital for the last few weeks, incoherent while the doctors have no clue what assails him.
So even if we’re grumbly, it’s better to be able to be grumbly than the other options.
‘Tis the season folks.
Thank you for coming by and letting me and my writers touch your lives… or annoy your lives… either way. But thanks none the less.
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Let’s all be grateful we’re here now, enjoying this holiday time together with family, friends and peers. (Yes, even you Bobby!) Take the time. Don’t put off what can take a moment.
Happy Holidays.
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AMEN brother Bruce! Words well spoken and I couldn’t agree more!!
I hope that your family has a very special Christmas and Happy New Year!
I enjoy reading your writings, your web sites are fantastic.
Now if the calendar will just move a little faster so that I can hop a plane and get to my seat in Daytona for the Twin 150′s, Trucks, Nationwide and the 500!!!
Go #88!
Thanks Leon… sorry I don’t “get by” more often to partake… and bud – don’t rush time. It runs along fast enough as it is!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!