221221 A Few Odd Thoughts

Sometimes these thoughts just pop up in my head.

I’ve received several beautiful Christmas cards this year. All have brightened my days and I have them on my desk to look at and appreciate. I can remember from childhood in the fifties until the early two thousands when families sent out and received 20-30 cards every Christmas. I always wrote something with each card I sent and appreciated every card I got. Then when the internet became something most people had, cards started to be fewer in number every year. Joyce and I would do like our parents did, buy boxes of cards after one Christmas when they were on sale and use them for the next Christmas. Times and our lives change. Now I usually send out Christmas greetings in an email. I do however appreciate those actual cards I get through the mail and thank those who still send them.

Christmas this year as last year, Joyce is no longer with me so there’s no baked turkey and oodles of side dishes meant to please guests. We used to host up to twenty or so happy revelers every year. No one could put on a Christmas spread like Joyce did year after year. Life has changed so much for me in the last 15 months. I still talk to her every day, but as yet haven’t heard her reply out loud to me. I feel her presence, or at least think I do. Joyce made my life complete. Now there’s a void that cannot be filled. I still drink my beer every day, but it’s not like it was when Joyce was by my side. She was all I ever needed to be happy. I have developed a routine I follow and that is helpful to get me through the day. I have a good life these days, but it will never be complete again. That’s the way things are and I live with it.

Millennials these days seem to think they are the center of the universe, while the older set doesn’t think so at all. So here is my thinking, if the universe is infinite as scientists have suggested, then no matter who or where a person is, they are the center of the universe. I hope that clears things up for everyone.

One last note, I watch a lot of movies these days and have found that young women in movies since 2021 and in 2022 have hair styles that look like they woke up in the morning and forgot to ever comb their hair. I realize that movie actors don’t do their own hair for the movies, that is done by highly paid hairdressers. All I can say is who thought that was a good look on an attractive young woman? Those actors who portray their mothers always have nice hairdos. I suppose it’s just me, but I don’t care for the disheveled look that I see on those young women.