Bah Bah Bah, Humbug

[AnnaLivia]

Just kidding!<br><br>This is the Merry Christmas Wishes/Merry Winter Holidays thread!<br><br>I’ll start off with my cheers and good wishes…and the rest of you can chime in with whatever rings your bell or tides you glad this season...<br><br><br>firstly, in honor of the indefatigable DreamsEnd, for sharing the fruits of his research and his savvy perceptions, for his generosity, his time and efforts, his honesty, integrity, dependability, humility, courage, dedication, leadership, and good judgment…and for being a jolly-fine-fellow-Finnegan…<br><br>…A Flock of Chicks has been donated in your name, DE, to Heifer International, this Christmas Eve.<br><br>Not knowing your email addy, I could not have Heifer send you your ‘honor card’, but you can read about how the ducklings help people to help themselves, here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.heifer.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=edJRKQNiFiG&b=477887&ProductID=164803">www.heifer.org/site/apps/...tID=164803</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>Happy Holidays from an’ i luvvya, DE. All my best best wishes to you and yours for happiness and health and peace and prosperity. May the coming year bring you as many moments of joy as it can hold, and bring you continued strength as you do battle in the infowars. Namaste, my friend, DE. Keep well.<br><br><br>nextly,<br><br>As a far-too-small token of my very great appreciation and fondness for the astute, patient, talented, handsome (I don’t really know if that last one’s true, but I might as well flatter the boss) Mr. Jeff Wells … and as well to represent my heartfelt esteem and fondness for the many better (and smarter) angels here at Rigorous Intuition…<br><br>…a donation of Honeybees has been made to Heifer International this Christmas Eve, in the name of The Captain and Crew of Rigorous Intuition. There are far too many of you good “crewmembers” to mention individually (just try to make a list yourself and you’ll see!), so my ‘honors’ and my hearty good wishes and glad tidings go to you all as a group. May you find yourselves up to your necks in quiet pleasures and wild joys this season and this coming year, and may peace and justice unite us and be the goal we realize together yet.<br><br>You can all read about how the Heifer Honeybees help people help themselves, here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.heifer.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=edJRKQNiFiG&b=477887&ProductID=164802">www.heifer.org/site/apps/...tID=164802</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>Hmm…flocks of Chicks, and Honeybees.<br><br>It’s going to be a very sexy Christmas?<br><br>Wink wink u birds and bees<br>Love love u he’s and she’s<br>Happy Holidays from<br><br>AnnaLiviaPlurabelle<br><br>Oh wait…one more thing…(yeah, like I forgot)<br><br>To proldic, the RI man who feels/tastes/smells/sounds most like a brother to me (though I’m probably far cuter and mom probably likes me best) (ho ho ho) …proldic, the RI man I am most proud and grateful to call ally. My whole life’s journey is noticeably the sweeter, with horizons far the broader, for having discovered this guy on the same planet with me at the same time, named proldic, and all he has brought to the table. It is good just to know he is out there… living it, and living through it, so much the same as me. Yes, the senses…the sense is…that we have both tasted (or been served up) some of the same bitter injustice that made us determined to fight it with all we’ve got, and comrades we truly be as we search for and guide to a better future, season after season.<br><br>What tribute to give to proldic along with my best wishes? <br><br>How about this one, sugar? Having run low on funds before I decided, I had to choose between a Heifer animal for you, and winter windshield wipers for the mom-mobile when my old ones tore. So, safety first, I bought the wipers, got ‘em installed, then splashed the windshield with a little champagne and christened those Heavy-Duty Windshield Wipers “prol”, and “dic”, in your honor.<br><br>And now, just like their namesake, whenever “proldic” sweep by, the big-picture view gets cleared right up.<br><br>Thanks for helping to keep/make me safe, p. I know that’s what you try to do (for us all). And it’s the best, most loving gift there is.<br><br>Namaste, my very fine friend. Namaste.<br><br>And happy holidays.<br><br>(can i drink the rest of the champagne now, if I promise to visualize falling all over you?) wink wink grin grin! (ask the wife to kiss you on top of yor head for me.)<br><br>Love, Anna<br><br>(hey youse guys? …also at this link: <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.489439/">www.heifer.org/site/c.edJ.../b.489439/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>you can read “A Happy and Healthy Holiday for Anna”, which I thought I’d throw in, in case any of you have last-minute shopping to do. methinks Jesus would like the idea of Heifer birthday presents!)<br><br>Oh and, do youse guys go out on amateur night, or shall we all get schnockered at our keyboards together on new years eve and type while intoxicated right here?<br><br>merry holidays, everybody!<br> <p></p><i></i>

[GDN01]

You kept me sane during the hurricanes.<br><br>And to Dbeach - I dream of riding a boogey board with you some day soon! Merry Christmas to you and your family!<br><br>And Sweejak - one day we will meet at a Peace Rally, or back at Camp Casey this summer. I am in touch with Ann Wright and she assures me it will be another summer of peace and love in Crawford. Peace of the holidays to you!<br><br>And I provided a gift of music for you all in the RI X-mas Caroling thread. Dbeach can't get the links to open, but they work for me - can anyone else open them?<br><br>And Jeff - Merry Christmas to you, and your family, especially that little one who is celebrating his first Christmas - May the year ahead be full of love and goodness for you all. <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

"And to Dbeach - I dream of riding a boogey board with you some day soon! Merry Christmas to you and your family!'<br><br>no charge AND FREE ADMISSION AND FREE LEMONADE AT OUR LOCAL BEACH Misquamicut Beach RI<br><br>Peace 2 U ANNA L <br><br>and see the OTHER Crhristmas thread by GDNO1 and do checkout The pause of Mr Claus by Arlo Guthrie <br>a Massachusetts native son of Woodie Guthrie<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

Thanks, ALP! To you and Ruth and whoever your own personal "HCE" may be: Happiest Holidays. Stay warm and safe.<br><br>To Jeff and everyone else, may this be a time of renewal and reflection for everyone. <p></p><i></i>

[Iroquois]

Try not to be so scarce, AnnaLivia. I'm a worrier by nature. That, and I get kind of lost here without your perspective.<br><br>And on that subject, if you're listening Homeless Halo, drop us a line even just to let us know you're Ok. Exams should be done by now. No more excuses <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><br> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

I’m not far away, Iroquois, but my shift to Australia is coming up real soon, and if I had left the planning and packing to Ruth, we’d get there with nothing but a top-notch manicure set, 3 cans of hairspray, the lime green short shorts, the purple leather bustier (and the red sequin dress and heels, of course), the secret recipe for her impossibly irresistible cookies, and the address of some sheik who’s named his stable of prize racehorses after her and keeps calling here at all hours.<br><br>I had to attend to business, you see.<br><br>And yeah, I’m kinda worried that Ann Coulter might have HH tied up somewhere and is torturing him with snippets from her book. We may have to send out a rescue party.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[snowlion2]

DE and AnnaLivia, back in the same thread....one of my hopes for Christmas has been realized. Thanks.<br><br>As for the rest of you Rigorous Intuiters...<br><br>Thanks for sharing, not only your intellect and significant ability to communicate, but your lives, your hopes, your dreams, your frustrations, and even your anger. It is exceedingly rare to find a group of folk anywhere, let alone in cyberland, who so consistently challenge each other vigorously and care about each other so sincerely. Whenever pain or fear have been expressed, someone, somehow has responded. Whether acknowledging a shared past horror or a willingness to provide transportation or housing to Katrina survivors, the response has been immediate and appropriate to the need. Y'all are somethin' else....and some of you more than that...and you know who you are.<br><br>So here's a little something for all of you to share. I was going to give you something of my own, but one of my favorites, Alice Persons, said the same thing so much better, and she wrote it first. Happy holidays to all.<br><br><br>The Perfect Day<br><br>You wake with<br>no aches<br>in the arms<br>of your beloved<br>to the smell of fresh coffee<br>you eat a giant breakfast<br>with no thought<br>of carbs<br>there is time to read<br>with a purring cat on your lap<br>later you walk by the ocean<br>with your dog<br>on this cut crystal day<br>your favorite music and the sun<br>fill the house<br>a short delicious nap<br>under a fleece throw<br>comes later<br>and the phone doesn't ring<br>at dusk you roast a chicken,<br>bake bread, make an exquisite<br>chocolate cake<br>for some friends<br>you've been missing<br>someone brings you an<br>unexpected present<br>and the wine is just right with the food<br>after a wonderful party<br>you sink into sleep<br>in a clean nightgown<br>in fresh sheets<br>your sweetheart doesn't snore<br>and in your dreams<br>and old piece of sadness<br>lifts away<br><br>by Alice N. Persons from Never Say Never © Moon Pie Press <p></p><i></i>

[Col Quisp]

What a great Christmas gift, ALP! Good to have you back again. I love Heifer International! And I love your tribute to proldic! <br><br>Merry Christmas, happy yule/solstice/Kwanzaa/Chanukkah etc. to all! <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

Happy Holidays to all RI'ers. Many thanks for treating insane subjects in a sane manner. It helps, really. <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

Dang it, snowlion2, ya went 'n' made this ol' redneck cry with that poem.<br><br>AnnaLivia, are you conspirationally suggesting that any of us here at R.I., newbies or oldies, attempt BWD??? That's Blogging While Drinking. Well, I nevah, gal!! Maybe that's a durn good idea, 'cause I quit goin' out New Year's Eve, many long years ago, an' it maht give me a reason to stay up. God bless you & yours.<br><br>Cap'n Jeff & Crew, Merry Christmas!!!<br><br>Ol' Floyd's neck might be redder than heck, but I really don't care for grits.<br><br>Last, but most importantly for some of us,<br>"Happy Birthday, Jesus!!!"<br> <p></p><i></i>

[antiaristo]

Euro time!<br>Merry Christmas to all and their kin.<br>Happy Holidays to all and their kin.<br>Especially to Jeff Wells, for making so much possible.<br>Thank you. <p></p><i></i>

[Rigorous Intuition]

Thanks Anna, and thanks all for making such a vital and intelligent community of this place. I've learned a lot here. <p></p><i></i>

[zangtang]

orm gonna hafta get me hanky!!!!!!<br><br>do i have my head up my ass....or is this the most important site on the whole fu7cvgikng internet?????<br><br>Jeff - not that its my job, but bless you.....<br><br>going to get mullah'd later today at a 'ways and strays' bash.....and perhaps the ravenhaired goddess-monster from last nights pub-a-thon will call back....hey, stranger thinger things have happened!<br><br>lets everybody have a blinding good one......<br><br>I don't know whats going to happen next year either....but i'm building me some stainless steel knickers!......<br><br>We can win this anytime we truly want to.....all we have to do is turn the love dial up till its stressing the engineering-specified maximum - we'll roast the fuckers to death...........<br><br>zangtang out <p></p><i></i>

[Connut]

Merries to all you brilliant RIers! I sit in awe of you lot, especially Santa Jeff. Let's keep those stockings full all year with the same wonderful insightful gifts as last year. Cheers, Connut <p></p><i></i>