Funky Friday: The morning after

 

I hope old blue eyes, got to you, before he got to the bottle of Grey Goose Vodka.  I wouldn't be really surprised if after weeks of listening to all of the demands, and reading all of the letters, and then a night of deliveries that Amazon needs an army of elves to come close to matching, he didn't want to let his flowing white hair down just a little.  Still I was a little worried when I found him tripped up by a sign and fallen over on the sidewalk, how he fell without breaking that bottle of vodka may be the biggest Christmas miracle of 2025.

My advice to you, is take it easy today. Sleep late. Eat and drink with restraint. Take a minute to take stock of everything we have.  There is a point in the movie "Apollo 13" where Gene Kranz calms a room full of engineers and says, we need to focus on what works, on what we have. This morning is a great time to do that. List everything that works without focusing on what does not. The solutions are in what works, not in the things that do not.  

The rest of the story of Santa sprawled out on the sidewalk.  He blew over in the wind. There were people gathered around taking photos when I approached.  When they were finished one of them picked up the bottle of Vodka, then noticed me with a camera, and said "would you like a photo with Santa?" she put the bottle back in his arm. When I finished she picked the bottle back up and went inside, back to work in the store that he has spent a few weeks standing in front of. A shop staff with a sense of humor just a couple of days before Christmas, or maybe a little liquid encouragement.