Home Alone

For the last week and a half, I have been without my spouse, who is visiting our daughter, son-in-law and grandson in Dallas. Not a lot to say about that. Sucks. 'Bout sums it up.

Mood Haberdashery

Don't believe for an instant that I wear a hat. I'm not a baseball cap sort of guy, nor stocking cap, beret, fedora or cowboy. I simply prefer hoods. Hats make my head itch. Making that clear, I wear all sorts of hats. Depending on my state of mind, my head coverings, though symbolic, represent an array far exceeding any less spectacular physical cap in existence. Run the emotional gamut from joy to rage and you'll sense my mood from white to red, though way, way beyond the limitations of physical color. While I can't fully explain my cornucopial psyche in technicolor, let it be known that my mind knows what it's thinking and my reaction relates the thoughts. Blue mood. Red rage, pastel passivity, yellow.......... well, I don't really know what yellow represents- canaries? Some might see purple rage- I see grape. Colors from the spectrum lay out a weak representation for emotional content and hats do little more than give a lame example of the same. A black ski mask might suggest different symbolism from one to the next. A blue beret has little meaning to me, but might influence another. A Nazi helmet with a bullet hole it it will always procure positive connotations in my mind, and a dirty girl scout cap will always cause me to worry. If I find one on my head, I'm certain to be REALLY worried. Nuff said.

I'm Back!

Just a reminder that my new year's resolution did not include not posting on this blog. JUST YOU WAIT! (and not for long)

New Year, New Year

For those of you insulated from the cold, the recession, the job losses, the war thing(s), Tiger Woods, the benching of Payton Manning, girl's basketball at St. Vincent's, our dumped governor, Stephen King's 1,100 page book, kooks taking up their own plan to kill and terrorize in the name of al qaeda, probably unknown to them, Mayweather's ploy to sabotage a fight he's scared to make, Downey Jr.'s brilliance, Tasmanian Devil's fight with cancer (yes).........yada, yada, yada..................... consider this your year to find the time in your busy lives to collect diverse information from around the world. Make what's happening out there part of your collected intelligence. Then you can consider yourselves a part of it. Awareness can prohibit the rise of ignorance. Don't turn from events that you believe have nothing to do with you. The only way to really survive in this world is to know it. Otherwise, like voting, if you don't, you affect nothing, and as a result you're simply a supplicant. Either be aware, be involved or be nothing.