Simplicity is what makes our lives fulfilled. This year take
a few moments, turn on the lights of the tree find a comfortable spot on the
floor and reflect on how simple life really is.
Does it really matter?
Life gets more complex as each minute passes, we are
inundated with information, driving us to a level of perceived happiness that
will never be achieved because there will always be more. Each year 6 spends
some time thinking about the true meaning of Christmas. This year 6 would like
to call it Does it really matter? One night many years ago a child was born
under a star in a manger, the savior of the world. The family was all alone
other than the animals that surrounded them. After a few days three men
followed that star and brought gifts to the new born king. Truly a very simple
story with implications that more than any other event changed the world. Fast
forward to now. We have taken that simple event and lost the beauty of it
simple meaning and unbounded mystery. Does it really matter if he was born in a
cave vs. a manger vs. a bottom floor of a house, vs a lean-to or any other of
the interpretations of where he was born? Or does it really matter that the
three men arrived on the backs of camels, donkey’s or even walked there? Or
does it really matter if it happened on December 25th? For the next
30 years other significant, yet just as simple events took place that were just
as changing and simple drove major changes. 6 guess it does, for from one
catholic (meaning universal) church the United States now has over 60,000
Christian churches. It just amazes 6 how small details can take something so
simple and divide so many. It is no wonder that there are so many people who do
not believe at all. Have we missed the simplicity of it all for our own
personal self-satisfaction? Let’s move the subject of simplicity to our Gov’t,
we have a constitution, which you can buy at the local book store for under 5
bucks, the reason it is so cheap is that it is only 20 pages long! It is based
on Judeo-Christian values, in other words the 10 commandments. Today we have
millions of laws, all to make things better, in other words we took something
so simple, and changed it into something so complex the only freedom we have
now is the air we breathe. If we followed what was agreed to in the
constitution very simple do we really need all of those laws to protect us?
Christmas letter:
Every year we all talk about doing a Christmas letter but
for some strange reason, no one ever does it, so here is mine own personal
letter to express what an exciting year 6 had.
It was a cold dark winter, so on about April the sun finally
came out and the weather was nice enough to go for a bike rides, he was putting
on the miles until the Saturday of Memorial day so idiot, hit him with his car.
The good news was he was not hurt, but it really reduce the amount of time he
road for the rest of the year. In May (6) accompanied by 4,4A 7 and 71 took a
long awaited vacation to Kiawah. It was perfect, Walked every morning, took my
bike ride, sat on the beach drank lots of water, drank some Rex… it was a
glorious time had by me. 6 had a real treat in June, 62 took him to a Mumford
and son’s concert, and it was awesome! It was almost as good as the Led
Zeppelin way back in the 70’s! 6 attended a graduation party at 61 house, and
had the most wonderful thing happen to him. 62a asked me if he could have 62’s
hand in marriage. What an honor, by a true gentleman. The only problem was 6
had to keep that to himself! Over the 4th of July he had visitors
from Pittsburgh, stayed up way to later and as Opie puts it had a snoot full We
started with White Rex, went to Fire fly whiskey, moved on to Gentleman Jack
and was told by 62 to go to bed. Got another year older, but no wiser for how
could 6 improve on perfection. 6 got a big green egg! What a gift, 6 had been
saving his pennies for the past 4-5 years in an effort to purchase one. Over
the 4 years the savings reached $357, but it all magically disappeared, 6
thinks that 6A and 62 had enough of him complaining about the $357 turning into
a few pennies. So they wanted to” "Ta gueule”! 6
attended the good old family vacation or in his case Vacation II. It was
perfect, walked every morning, rode his bike, sat on the beach did not drink
lots of water, (found out from Vacation I if you drink a lot of water that
means many trips back to the condo.) but did drink some Rex. Started a new
tradition, meteor watching, whisky drinking, stogie smoking beach night. Traditions are good! We did have one major
event 62a proposed to 62, while the rest of us slugs stood on the pear and
watched! So next year we will have a 62A.
6 put in new floors what a pain: because it was. Thanksgiving then again
arrived! 6 and 8 cooked 3 turkey’s (one in the oven, one in the fryer and one
on the green egg). 5 o’clock came at
2:00 and dinner was at 5:30, but it all worked out just fine, in the past years
we somehow lost the wings of the turkey (0 favorite part) but this year we
found all 6 of them, leaving 0 with plenty of food! It was now time to kick off
Christmas by watching Christmas Vacation, and Friday attending the annual
Lennytown Christmas tree lighting! As 6 sits and waits for his bonus from work
(BTW does anyone ever get one), the value of tradition encompasses his every
thought, does anyone know when the tradition of putting up your Christmas tree
on Christmas eve fall out of favor? 6 means what the heck! The tree is a symbol
that had a true meaning (if you don’t know it look it up) and for some reason
we now put up the tree a couple weeks before. 6 can only come to this
conclusion: The real purpose of Christmas has changed from the birth of Jesus,
to the worship of our selves. So does it really matter? Well that is it!
Words of wisdom: Sit under the tree after Christmas, empty
your mind of relativism, and fill your heart with Hope Glory and Joy! Stop all
the distractions, and take some quit time for yourself.
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