OldSouth: Christmas 2011, An Interlude

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas 2011, An Interlude

OldSouth is on extended holiday, as it is referred to here in the UK. He is here to visit family and friends, to walk the streets of a university town, to eat, drink, read, spend time with the sainted Mrs. OldSouth, to slow down and reflect on a momentous year.

He is about to head out the door to walk the streets of that university town, and looks forward to services today and tomorrow in churches that sing the Christmas carols in full voice. He arrived two days ago, to end the day at one of those services with over 2,000 others, singing in full voice. It's quite a sound, full of hope and cheer, and it struck OS once again that the carols were written for us to sing, not for pop artists to mutilate and sell to us.

So, OS wishes all who are kind enough to visit and read his scribble a most Merry Christmas. He may or may not write over this holiday, because, well, he's on holiday.

It is a dark world, run by idiots and crazies, always has been, and now more so than ever. Our hope is not here, but he did break in upon us in that birth, and in his life and death, The idiots and crazies killed him stone dead, and he defeated death in the process.

Merry Christmas.

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Since he tends to rant at times about things economic, OldSouth wishes to remind you that he is the last person on earth you should look to for economic advice, and he sure as shootin' is not handing any out, in any form, directly or indirectly. He's doing well to keep his own enterprise together, and has no wisdom to offer about yours.

If you read something here, and are inspired to buy or sell something, or launch a new business, or get married or divorced, or whatever, and things don't work out well, OS is not to blame. You probably are; but sometimes, things just don't work out like we plan. Don't ask the old boy how he knows this. He has ugly tales to tell. You don't want to know.

If you are inspired to do something because of something you read here, and something happy results, feel free to tell your friends and neighbors.

If you can't understand this plain language, you need to be doing something else with your time anyway, like earning your GED.

And, by the way, OS does assert his copyright on his work. If you quote him, he's flattered, just give him the credit. Be polite, remember that Golden Rule thing, and we'll all be fine.