Today

Christmas shopping.
It’s got to be the penance we all pay to take some time off at this time of year. I’m amazed at all of the junk that piles up in the stores at this time of year. Someone must be buying it. It reminds me of all the stuff you see at duty free in the airport. Who buys the 6 lb bar of chocolate? Someone doe,s because there are racks and racks of industrial size Toblerone. Watches…….Who spends $2000 on a watch at the airport? Don’t they have to pay duty on it when they arrive?

Back to the shopping today: The whole thing was like a rugby scrum. Unsmiling grim determination…….People were looking at, “never would think of buying this at any other time of year” stuff, with a combination of desperation and resignation. Stress, debt and pushing and shoving…it all ends in the inevitable Christmas dinner family fight……..

Scrooge or what? I need to lighten up..

Here is a pic that I took a year or so ago….It has nothing to do with Christmas or any of the above….but it’s kind of a nice picture.
I remember when I took it I figured it was something special. When I saw it on the screen it seemed sad full of unstated meaning……I don’t know it’s a good picture though.

Stay Healthy….and Happier than the scrooge I’m becoming!
Terry