HOME…THE RETIRED OLD FELLA

We are home again from The North. For awhile.

And we are busy.

Busy is good. Often it is good. Maybe that is what perfection is: that things are often good. One cannot really expect to have it all. Or rather, one cannot really have it all. We can expect it.

At any rate, the world is full of all sorts of anomalies.

A few:

Scott McClellan - How could he have acted as he did and how can he act as he is acting now? Did he just see the light? Or is there a lower motivation?

A G.I. Bill that encourages first-enlistment military persons to leave the military - How can that make any sense to anyone but a g.d. national dem liberal or ignorant American citizen or resident? Insanity.

A presidential candidate who associates with wacko idiot clergy and wacko liberals - How could anyone ever trust such a piece of work?

Presidential candidates [pcs] who speak more of retreat and defeat rather than attack and success – How can anyone take them seriously?

Conservative Republicans who can even think of not voting for McCain with the only other choices being b.o. and hillary – We do not have a choice.

A pc who thinks his uncle or whatever liberated a concentration camp in WW2 which Americans never got to – He misstates, exaggerates, or is very, very economical with truth and his supporters swoon and drool over him.

A Congress that decries the ‘energy crisis’ facing our nation and the world but which forbids fixing the crisis by means of more drilling, exploitation of oil sands, gasoline recipe sanity, more refinery construction, etc., etc. – This dem-led Congress must be one of the most ineffective on record.

And the list could go on.

I realize that my list above concerns national issues only.

The average person deals with them very remotely, very intermittently.

There are so many other issues which very rightly should concern and interest us, concerns and interests which call for non-remote, more constant attention: chores and repairs around house and property; church issues; fraternal issues; family doings; vacations plans; health issues; money concerns; and on and on. We all face them.

Over and over I am reminded of the verse:

It’s [its or it’s?] not whether you win or lose,
Rather, it’s [same] how you play the game.

This is not to say that it does not matter whether one wins or loses.
I recall the quote in the Patton movie: I don’t give a whatever for anyone who can lose and laugh.

Rather, it declares that you do your best regardless of the outcome, giving, as it were, a maximum effort, regardless of the odds.

And, trying to follow the above advice requires that one focus on the doables [is that a word?].

I will conclude this rambling narrative by observing that I know it is easier to criticize than to solve or fix; that the armchair ‘expert’ is not in the field, not ‘on the ground’.

This having been said, and with the above disclaimer, I will still wonderingly and happily or sadly continue to criticize and question and praise.

Such is the way of this retired old fella.