"I Don't Need No..."

Steenkin' New Year's Resolutions...

Happy New Year to all of you...

I can't believe that 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 is gone.

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...

Into the future...

What is it about the past that we each remember so?

Are the memories of good and wonderful things?

... or do we remain haunted by what went amiss?

... things that just didn't turn out the way we wanted?

Is there some form of 'Pre-destination' 

that we follow through Life???

Or, are our Lives and our ultimate ends/destinations 

more determined by Karma??

Are the events that we experience directly related

to how we have lived our lives and treated others?

Is there really a difference between the two?

I wonder why I selected 'Calvin and Hobbes'cartoons for a post that asks rather serious questions?

What makes a good cartoon be a 'good cartoon?'

I always have enjoyed the messages from comic strips like 'Calvin and Hobbes,' or 'The Far Side'...  Some of the creators of such strips have such a wonderful insight into the  psyches of our souls, it seems. They seem to capture those fleeting moments and thoughts that we have all experienced...

A counselor that I was seeing after the death of my Dad and during my divorce suggested that I hide a great deal of hurt and pain behind humor... I do suppose that there is a great deal of truth to such a statement.

I fear that my direction has been determined

by the method indicated in the cartoon above...

... that I have just let things happen and I've drifted along with the flow.

Like clouds in the sky...

Like a limb in the river...

Like a fart in a whirl wind...

In 2013, I would like to be more direct in what I desire for the rest of my Life.

I will be more pro-active.

I will take some of my own  advice that I talked about at commencement...

So...

What are your goals, desires, aims for

the upcoming

2013?

I love these guys...

Happy New Year!!!

~shoes~

It's finally a Merry Fuckin' Christmas here in ShoesVille...

It's amazing how way too many alcoholic 

beverages changes muddies one's perspective of things..

Things about why a particular daughter no longer works 

where she's told you she was working...

Things like why a son can't do what he's 

promised you he was going to do...

Three times...

... and the last time he just leaves home without

letting you know he was leaving...

It's amazing how alohol just dulls one's senses...

especially when one has way too many...

So... she shows up when I conduct a search

for margaritas... 

I guess her name is Margarita or something...

For the record, I've never seen her there...

Merry Fucking Holidays...

~shoes~

(it took me four times to type 'shoes')

"Just One More..."

That toy piano there at the end just gets me every time.

One Last Merry Christmas...

~shoes~

"Merry Christmas One More Time..."

We, Three Kings Of Orient Are...

I think my favorite Christmas Story is that of the Christmas Star and the Three Wise Men...  at least that's what we called them back then... today we know them as the Magi...

According to the Gospel of Matthew, The Three Wise Men found the Baby Jesus by following A Star...  whch later became known as the Star of Bethlehem...

History makes allowances for many names for the Magi, but Western Christianity recognizes them as being Balthazar, from Arabia, Melchior, from Persia, and Gaspar, from India.

Each of the Magi brought a gift for the Baby Jesus... Gold, frankincense, and myrrh...
Myrrh was the most ominous of the gifts... Myrrh was an embalming lotion and was symbolic of Death.

Luke 2:10-14

¹⁰ And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
¹² And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

By no stretch of the imagination do I profess to be a very religious person, but this Bible passage, for some reason, gives me great hope...

Merry Christmas to All...

And to All a Good Night!!!

~shoes~

"More Christmas...

Music...

This song by 'The Tractors' best captures my mood...

I love 'Silent Night' in the background vocals...

This is one of the John Denver songs to which I referred in the comments of my previous post...  I think the latent cowboy is coming out in me... I wonder how much a mountain in New Mexico and two mules would cost?

'Christmas For Cowboys'...

Augh... how is it that a stupid song can make my eyes water...

*sighs*

~shoes~

"Christmas 2012..."

Well, The Mayans were wrong...

Weren't They?

I can't believe that Christmas  is almost here again...

I'm not ready for it... I'm not in the mood for it...

I did put up my tree, but it's just not working this year.

I long for those Christmases Past'... I think I miss Mom and Dad more at this time of year than at any other time...


I always love hearing these Christmas songs... I know I've written about them in past Christmas blogs.  I love them both... not really Christmas standards by the measurement of how one would define 'standards'... but I love them... these are the two I most prefer to hear...

And what a great song this is... 

... and what about this one by Vince Vance and the Valiants??



I continue to search for the ornament similar to the one that was my favorite when I was a kid... Robelyn at  Red.Neck Chic    found this one her many journeys!  I do believe this is IT!!!

Thank you SO much, Robelyn!

It's insane, the amount of happiness this ornament has brought me!

I shall never forget the Christmases spent as a child with my parents... I shall never forget the Christmases spent with my children when they were small... 

Merry Christmas

From

The Mississippi Delta...

Happy Holidays...

~shoes~

"Fisting..."

HAR!!!!!

First I have the commencement address... 

and now...

It's strictly routine...

so the doctor says...

butt there is nothing routine about running 

a hose up one's back side...

My doctor looks NOTHING like her...

Dammit, Jim...

I'm sure this is some kind of

'cat scan'...

This tends to happen when

doctors check my ears...

Anyhoo...

By the time this thing posts...

I should be back home.

~shoes~