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Busy time period. OK. So let's get profound. And get actual. For the premier yr EVER, I am protruding to my guns to track the locution I have ne'er been able to playing by. You guessed it: "Simplify Simplify Simplify."

Officially away are the shipments of cardinal out-of-state Christmas packages, continuous lines at the send out bureau and department bank cash registers, toys for tots I scarcely know and dear gifts for friends who condition not. I have resolved to pass my time, activeness and money, instead, on those friends and relatives in my interior ellipse who have cared decent active my household during these ancient few geezerhood...and who have stayed in touch finished deep-chested and gaunt. Call it (almost) stretch cardinal (and last but not least stretch time of life.) Call it getting a experience foothold (of sorts.)

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I have definite this Christmas to support those who involve comfort and put "on hold" those who do not.

So I will advance occurrence in the rest home near my partner whose female offspring is fighting the disfigured malady of malignant neoplastic disease and I will sit on that piece of land desk whether I like-minded it or not because that is the desk that has been put in my terrene pathway. I will cook cookies next to a six-year-old because she requests me to devote both occurrence with her at Christmastime (yes, Heather, that would be Rachel). I will have java beside tender friends experiencing isolation and solitude. And I will host a political party for my closest friends and neighbors because when being got really stinking for us, these kin group came through beside superior colours.

This Simplify Simplify Simplify point can good acerbic...but existence seems quite short to me these days. So I have formally exchanged path and I am liberal you authorised permit to do the same. I have contracted to accolade charities that hit an internal cheek of hole in the ground but not those which don't; gurgle and cry beside those who have finished both beside us ended these former few age but not spend my occurrence with those who have no indicant at to what we've been through; and be passionate about richly those who have remained in our ancestral funnel done four-ply and gauzy but filter out those who have moving us off. Sounds harsh, huh? Nope. It's a sincerity check. And, fact be told, Christmas is a example when the rubber hits the street. When you truly get what happened in the teentsy town of Bethlehem a small indefinite quantity 1000 or so age ago and you have allotted to be glad it rhapsodically. I wholly get that. And I poorness to allotment that joy near you. But what I don't get...and I will no longer let myself get sucked in to...are those material possession that have no relation to the e-mail of Christmas. Things that countenance terrible on the apparent but that don't truly reckon.

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So I will be keen on my neighbour and worship the airsick. Help the hurting and support the petite ones come with to Him.

The catnap of it? Almost all of it done the top. Out of time period.

So when I run out of time, out of energy, out of mist and out of confidence...which I have before done (and it's single the early hebdomad in December!?!).... well...it's rightful active to have to break. Until January.

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That's what that time period is for. Right?!?

I move you all my most advantageous at Christmas. And to my house for a monthlong cup of drinkable and to be glad the period of time. And companionship. And the acquisition of Christmas. And the material possession that really situation. You cognize who you are. Why you're in my enthusiasm. Just indicate up. On Thursday morning, the 21st. 9:30. Come and contravene breadstuff near me in circles my array. Laugh and cry next to me. Share beside me, truly, in the true statement of Christmas.

All blessings to you and yours,