No longer seeking to know the truth
nor trying to understand with words,
I only sit
and listen to the sound of wind in the trees
and watch the shadows of the evening
lengthen into night.~ Blue Iris Sangha
Month: December 2006
A tale from the death zone
So it’s Christmas Eve and I’ve got the turkey in the brine and a pot roast in the slow cooker. Those are in the plus column. In the other column, I’ve yet to wrap the gifts for my wife and my youngest is running around the house butt nekkid. Back in the plus column, it’s snowing again – putting a top coat on the several inches still left on the ground from the storm on Wednesday.
I went to Wal*Mart last night, and I came out alive. Granted, I didn’t go directly into the death zone (toy department) but only skirted the perimeter as my mission did not call for that level of hazard. I admit, I went to Wal*Mart on Christmas Eve Eve just so I could say that I did and made it through in one piece. Cheap thrills.
I think it’s time to open the wine.
Lest we forget
mmm Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The fountain of content
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
~ Samuel Johnson