A new year is just around the corner..If your year was crappy, I hope that 2009 is a vast improvement. I am looking forward to it immensely. I’d like to challenge my Christian friends (of which I have a few)  to watch the video below and then consider what it says. My hope (albeit a vain one, I am sure) is that you will use the conclusion that you come to as a way forward in the new year.

Watch and enjoy

About a year ago… I started conversing with someone. Someone that initially I had (I thought)reason to either dislike or at least distrust. Naturally.. as with almost anything, I was wrong.

During the ensuing year, my new chum told me stuff like: “you are very judgemental”… “you are wrong”..” we can’t all be geniuses”. It’s stuff that most people wouldn’t say to me.

It’s not that I am fearsome or hard to talk to (I hope), It’s mostly  that not everyone can say that stuff without fear of offending.. I don’t mean just me but anyone. It’s the hardest thing to be honest enough to have an effect but not to worry that the effect you have will be a shut out.

Anyway , to conclude.. this chum has made me self edit..and I think that I am somewhat the better person for doing that..

er yeah.. thanks nameless internet chum.

I don’t have a vast coterie of friends. I’m not that great at making new ones and I tend to lean on the ones that I do have. Some of that leaning includes my own special brand of “intellect” which is really just me saying things I think are true in a loud angry voice.

Fortunately my friends are very tolerant. They put up with my yelling in their houses and on their blogs. They put up with my far from reasonable behaviour on the front steps of my house. They put up with me being much less civilized than I like to imagine I am.

I am always amazed that people continue to talk to me after any length of time. This is mostly because I am so intolerant and inflexible myself that I know that there is no way I’d cultivate my own friendship if I had just met me.

This is a testament to them.. To you. I cannot fully express how important you all are to me and how much I appreciate your friendship. Your love makes me a better person…..albeit verrrrry slowly. To all of you…The brave..the proud..the few and the tenacious, I send you my love and a good hard clasping to my manbosom.

Peace

/me blows nose loudly

oh and by the way… no  comments please..just shut the fuck up