Today is January 1, 2011.
We had a fine Christmas with the kids around us, and we’re really feeling the love.
My pretty little wife is as cute and lovely as the day we met. We’re as much in love today as any two people ever were. Our love is the kind of love you read about, some poor people only get to dream about. But we’re living it, baby, every day!
We got some stuff going on in our lives that really ain’t all that good, but taking things one day at a time, in spite of everything, these days are still pretty sweet.
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I find myself listening to Churchill more and more, maybe even a little obsessively.
I’m focused in on this period from 1940-41, when after the inglorious fall of France, and before Stalin switched sides, Britain stood alone in the world against Hitler. Through the fall and winter of 1940 the people of Great Britain withstood a punishing bombardment of their ports, airfields, factories and even populated centers, all the while lacking any means of retaliation. These days I sometimes think of ourselves as if we were Londoners under the blitz. Churchill said at the time that “the British people would withstand the merciless onslaught with grit and determination and in the sure knowledge that they would survive and ultimately prevail against the cruel menace.”
Later, after many dark days, but when the hour of victory finally seemed to be approaching he allowed himself to admit that “it would have been a rash man then who could put down in black and white exactly how we were going to do it.”
So without getting too philosophical or anything, when the road is dark and the times are hard, all we can do is focus our entire energies and concentration on the immediate task at hand, sometimes with little more than our own faith and courage to sustain us.
As they say, its always in God’s hands, and sometimes it just takes times like this to remind you.

aint she sweet

Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all!