There is no point to this diary except to wish all here at KOS a very wonderful holiday season, and with the upcoming inauguration, my Jean Dixon impersonation that predicts next year will be much better then the past eight put togather. I will share a bit of sage advice in the begining here in light of the weather sweaping across the nation; When freezing your ass off in the cold do not plant trees no matter how great your commitment is to a greener planet. Young saplings have a good habit of turning into popsicle sticks. So much for my humor attempt.
Last night my wife and I were discussing Christmas and it's meaning, and she asked me about an event from what now seems to me another time, place and universe. While relaying the sad tale that happened in Vietnam and unable to contain the tears I started thinking how different in many ways we were, yet we love one another so completly and as always, I consider myself the luckiest man alive, though my friends all offer my wife condolances for her burden. After reading a diary by BFSkinner today at work I also took notice of where I was and what I do that struck me as odd, but gave me hope for the future. It also caused the atheist in me to think that maybe there was a God and we were creations and God's one big joke of all time.
Today a funny little observation once again struck me about opposits and I relayed them to my life. I hope you can follow the twisted logic here and smile at the observations and add a few of your own.
Like magnets, opposits attract:
1)My wife was originally a devoute Catholic (from South America no less) and now has converted to Mormon. Myself, when we met an agnostic and now a complete atheist, yet honestly neither one of us could live without the other.
- Although responsible and serious if needed, I love laughter, humor, prolonged tickle fights with my seven year old daughter and PC MMORP games. My wife is serious, believes life is for hard work and always worrying about the future. She cannot tell a joke to save her life and she the noise my daughter makes as I mercilessly tickle here drives her crazy. Yet she likes martial arts movies and hard rock like me, except for raising the music's volume (it's a sin not to destroy your hearing if you are a hard rock/heavy metal fan).
- My first job at the age of 17 was literally to kill people (I was a sniper in Nam). I work at the Pentagon but now as a nurse and my job is to heal people, in my role as an Occupational Health Nurse a good portion of my job consists of health promotion and wellness training. My first job out of college was as a counselor in Corrections and later a psychologist/Administrator and Internal Affairs Investigator with dual assignment to the State Police. One of my favorite diarist here is OPOL who in many ways did and lived completly opposit of what I have lived and in two brief personal correspondences have I hope and think a friendship.
- Related to humor, at work I stay completely out of office politics and frankly am quite blind to it. Yet here I am a somewhat prolific political observer and eat, breath and sometimes I think shower in politics. I often try to be humorous in my comments in diaries, sometimes very cutting and sarcastically. If I offended anyone, I meant it. Yet I more often then not am the target of my own sarcasim so if I seems sarcastic don't take it personally because it's not malicous. Should I be malicous to an obvious troll there is no humor so you will know the difference.
Most of all though since coming to Kos myself, think in the begining I was a fairly progressive liberal I have had my eyes opened further and learned alot. Being previously before I had kids a fairly strict disciplinarian, I am the one in the family that avoids the battles with our children and have never raised my hand to spank ( though I am guilty of several threats to burn some padding off bottoms), my gentle sweet wife will go in her words "Latino" at times at the kids and through my peace moderations of conflicts I consider myself as qualified as Hillary for Secretary of State.
The point and thought that kind of inspired this pontificated rambling is that in looking at so many inconsistantcies in my life, and looking at the world around me (I lived in the south through the early sixties and the civil rights movement and never thought I would see January 20, 2009) it gives me a feeling of real hope and belief that we will get better (hopefully in time) for mama earth and her people. It gives me a renewed sense of belief in my fellow monkies here (GWB, Dick Cheney and David Addington are excluded since they are snakes in monkey clothing). With that in mind I wish you all the best for the holidays, good cheer. Looking at my opposits that have somehow turned positive we all have a chance. Either that or I am a seriously F****d delusional psychotic whose meds aren't working.
Love to all.