At work, but in the spirit.....

Fa la la la la , la la la la .

Good thing it only comes once a year, or help me, I would be even more of a lunatic. With the traffic, crowds, and assorted riff raff, you can barely get the smells of the season up in your old wazoo. You got to admit, the frenzy that takes place around this time is truly amazing. We get more people on the road here than the roads can support. The traffic sucks. I wonder where the hell they all are during the other days? Thank god they aren’t on the road like this all the time. Stressed out parents, kupuna (elders), merchants, service industry folk, the whole kit-n-kaboodle of humanity, all roaming the aisles of the world at once.

It is wondrous, ‘tho to find that small essence of the spirit of Christmas amongst the flushing sounds of commercial hype.

Lady C and I were doing some last minute carousing, (get those minds outta da gutter, peoples) for stuffs. There is plenty of crowds. So at this one store, a small gent is carrying a load of items, with the world oblivious to his struggle. This young man, from a ways away, steps over, and helps him to his destination. Not employee type help, just out of pure kindness.

Yesterday, I was picking up a cup of good old Joe at the local joe dealer. And in the parking lot was a sight impaired lady crossing the parking lot, at a ill advised corner. A young teenager, in her car, parked, hurried out of her car, and went over, and led the lady to a safer area to cross. Pure, unfiltered. Kindness.

A harried check out girl went out of her way among a throng of consumers to get the price right on something we had purchased. The she gave us 2 $10 gift certificates, ‘cause the Maile girl was helping her bag other purchases people were making. Cool kind niceness.

There is a lot of joy out there, it takes some doing to see, process, and digest as true season stuff.

Guess we all need to look around, see what is right there, and experience joy.

Hope all your holidays are bright with joy, peace, and true love.

Mele Kalikimaka.

Aloha.