We made it! 2013, and a new Mayan long-count cycle, are here. Who wishes the end of the world really did happen? I enjoy living with you all on planet Earth, but I wouldn’t have minded having the privilege of witnessing the end of it all. I’m expecting and preparing to live to be well over 100, but am grateful and satisfied enough to have it end at any time.
Many, myself included, are already exhausted from hearing about it. It’s old news that has been beaten to death, but only happened a few short weeks ago. Awful, awful, awful. Yes, this is referring to the mass shooting of a group of six- and seven-year-olds. Could there be anything worse, other than full-on Apocalypse?
I may as well throw my two cents in; as they say, opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one . . . and they generally stink! I would be surprised if there isn’t some sort of mind-control element at play here. Anyone with the slightest shred of conscience or control should be able to resist shooting up defenseless children.
Still, I’m of the opinion people should have the right to bear arms. Actually have the right to bear arms, not just throw the words around lightly like a bumper-sticker-friendly catchphrase.
Tragedy aside, our friends over at Murfreesboro Pawn and Gun say that the Obama administration in general is the best thing to happen to the gun business. I wouldn’t expect that industry to slow down in 2013.
Yes, the times they are a changin’. Garfield the cat’s often-stated line directed towards those who slightly annoy him about how they should be “drug out into the street and shot” would likely get a child suspended from school if they repeated it these days.
I haven’t had a mobile phone since Thanksgiving. I’m a little glad, a little inconvenienced.
“Don’t you have to have a phone to run a business?”
No, actually. You don’t. Consider me the grand experiment—you can actually survive without a phone bill and that telephone technology that is so last century.
You want me to have a telegraph too? A Pony Express courier?
Don’t feel like you have to have anything. Reach for what you want, but don’t let others dictate what you must have and do with your limited resources. You’ll never make everyone happy. Play music, make art, visit with your neighbors and family, shop local and stay out of debt, for the borrower is slave to the lender.
Get your rest; hibernate a little these months. Get your energy up so you can do what you are good at. Even if you can’t all the time, please, make some time to do what you are good at.
Peace,
Bracken Mayo
Editor in Chief
