Musings of a minor megalomaniac
More so than previous years, to me at least, BHM holds new significance for the country. With racist politicians pushing Critical Race Theory nonsense, it has never been more important to recognize and process the African American situation in this country. George Floyd struck a chord. Let’s see who’s really listening.
I’m not exactly familiar with JRR Tolkein’s work. But I can tell from this little snippet of his lesser-known writing, what a genius he must have been. Halfway through this long-forgotten letter, an allegory emerged for me. Our North Polar Bear has been doing much better this season, and the house is getting less broken, despite pandemic stress, long-distances and challenging health issues. Here’s my Letter from Father Christmas, to everybody:
The house at 5712 was turned upside down and seemed lost three years ago. Evil healer elves from Big HMO hurt Father Christmas and refused to admit it. Everybody doubted him, just like they did ever since the before times. Exceptional juvenile misdeeds left him known as a no-good, not to be trusted. He eventually learned the reason for his behavior and got better at dealing with daily challenges over the years.
The evil elves denied what they’d done and tried to hide it after Father Christmas told their bosses what happened. Official records and subsequent surgery eventually cleared that up, but it took a long time to penetrate their secret society. Even Father Time cannot turn that back, and no elves wanted any talk of the past. Now time is on nobody’s side. The good healer elves can no longer stop new sickness because too many people don’t trust them. It will take much longer to get things done correctly now, because liars have time for little else but covering their words.
Father Christmas has not accepted what happened to him, because the worst of the evil healer elves appear to have gotten away with it, so far. Until those truly responsible are held to account, true happiness seems unlikely ever again. Try to accept the suffering and overlook the dishonesty at it’s roots. And Do not attribute to malice, that which is adequately explained by stupidity. North Polar Bear is getting better, and we are a great team!
Everybody changed for some reason after the truth finally came out. Don’t be sad about the truth, regardless of it’s implications. It deters the worst of the wicked, and leads to a better place after they strike. Good healers outnumber the stupid by a wide margin and science always prevails. Let’s just hope the win still includes human beings some years hence.
Happy “whatever-your-irrational-belief-system!”
I bet she’s the most thoughtful person I wished I’d knew. Everybody knows this stuff, if they would just think about it.
Seems to me like it’s getting hard to tell. But every so often something pops up reminding me the world has not gone totally to shyt. Yet.
It was bound to start happening sooner or later – old friends going away. But this was way too early:
Steve and Dixie got divorced a long time ago, but this is how I remember him – with Dixie and the most amazing big family. RIP Steve – we had a good run, back in the day…
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