We don’t really celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, birthdays or Easter, Valentines Day or St Patricks Day, or any other “day” that is mostly about over-eating junk food and buying non-durable, unwanted consumer goods. But, we usually do something “fun” on our respective birthdays and Christmas day. This year, was different.
But, this year has been different on a number of fronts, marked primarily as the year that people lost their ability to think with any semblance of rationality and became brain-washed by the pervasive propaganda of fear. Oh, and how difficult it is now becoming to unravel the fear and dread.
In the theme of December, which has definitely been “it does not have to be fun, to be fun” we spent Christmas eve clearing the track into our local rock climbing area which overgrows as fast as the triffids over took the world in Wyndham’s classic “Day Of The Triffids.” It drizzled rain all day, the road was blocked by a fallen tree from the latest round of wind and rain, so we had to walk an extra six kilometres in, but, life is like that. If you want something enough, you have to work for it.
Otherwise, we have been paddling, mostly in really lumpy conditions. For some reason, I have started feeling really queasy and sea sick most days on the ocean which makes it tough to put in long hours in the kayak trying to cover distance. Still, if you want something enough…
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