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Merry Christmas Everyone…

Hello everyone, how are you all doing out there in the world? Just got up, poured myself a cup, plopped on the couch, opened up my laptop and here I am ready to go.  There is a slight chill in the air, no, it is cold as a well digger’s ass in January, 34 degrees but it is clear and sunny, supposed to warm up to 47, beach weather.  The Geer household is beginning to look a little festive.  We have put up our Christmas tree, decorated it with all the ornaments and lights, just find it difficult to comprehend that we are just 23 days from Christmas, time is passing us by at quite an alarming rate, don’t you think?

I listened to the speech that President Obama gave last evening regarding Afghanistan and it doesn’t look good.  We are about to send another 30,000 troops there.  What is up with that? We are suffering the worst economic times since the Great Depression, how are we affording to do this?  I recall when Osama bin Laden said that he was aiming to bankrupt our country and guess what, he is right.  The estimate for sending a soldier to the front through next year is one million dollars.  It would be a whole lot cheaper to run some covert operations with a few men to get the culprits who they say are on the other side of the border in Pakistan.  It is hard for me to fathom that all this is being done over a hundred or so members of Al Qaeda.  I voted for Obama hoping that he would get us out of those two quagmires, Iraq and Afghanistan.  Please make the right choices, please keep our boys home, safe and sound.  Mike, I know that his speech last night was a bit distressing.  Here you have your son, Gary, home with his new bride and he seems to think that he will be deployed there, that sucks big time, no doubt.

Sorry about that, had to express myself.  Let’s get back to happy thoughts. Christmas has always been a special time for me since my childhood.  The smell of the tree permeating the house, the lights twinkling, the Christmas music playing on the radio.  I just had a thought on a past Christmas when I was about 7 years old.  One of the gifts that I received from my grandparents was a pair of ice skates once owned by my father.  They seemed so huge to me back then, never thought that I could wear them and I never did.  It just seemed so funny to me.

My favorite part of the holidays is the shopping for family and friends.  I used to love to shop for my mother before she passed away.  We would have her over our house on Christmas day, made sure that we had some egg nog for her and then watch her open up her gifts.  I’ll never forget her expressions as she was opening them, she was like a small child anticipating what it could be.  I miss her greatly and will always have fond memories of the good times.  She had endured so much in her life, very difficult times since I can remember.  If reincarnation is a valid thing, I believe it is, that she is now living a wonderful life to make up for her past life of pain and suffering.  I love you mom, you did all you could with what you had.

I know that we hear  a lot about the commercialism of Christmas, where we have lost the true meaning of this wonderful holiday.  Let’s look at it again through the eyes of a child, the hopes and dreams, the birth of Christ, what he meant to the world.  It is not all about the shopping, the gifts but to look at where we are, to be grateful for all that we do have now, to get into the spirit of giving to others without any expectations.  I am looking forward to this Christmas with our dear friends.  I do have one wish though, I would love an opportunity to spend at least one holiday with my brother, Kevin.  We have yet to do that, ever. I did not meet him until I was 25 and here I am 61 and we have not had one Christmas together.  He is the only family member left bedside myself.  Both my mother and father were only childs and as far as I know, we are the last remaining Geers.

So, let’s all get into that holiday spirit, I will.  Let us all make it the best one ever, be joyous, sing along to the Christmas songs, wish everyone along the way a very Merry, and with feeling.  It can’t hurt and if you have a chance, watch the children as they experience their holiday, look at their eyes of wonderment, it is truly a beautiful thing to see.  Learn from them, we too can be joyous and have that same sense of wonderment, we just happened to forget through the years.  Merry Christmas everyone.