Blog 839 – 12.10.2017

Naughty Or Nice

If you have followed the ravings of the lunatic responsible for this blog, Crazy Dave – me, you might have noticed my recurring theme that the whole enchilada is good not just the so called nice bits but the so called naughty bits as well. To illustrate my point yet again I took the attached picture of two hot chocolate mugs given me by one of my most dear and long time lovers and friends. She is going to get me for that designation but I have been gotten before and my “fools rush in where angels fear to tread insurance” is paid in full. Don’t let me get started on my opinion of insurance companies.

Actually the words Naughty and Nice are printed on both mugs just on different sides. I just turned them to emphasis the one word on each. To further press my point I put the two adorable Christopher Robin’s Hundred Acre Wood characters, Winnie the Pooh and E’ore each in a cup with the most common word used to “judge” their most prominent character traits. Pooh’s is sunny if a bit simple and E’ore a bit depressing if often more realistic. Pooh usually has his head stuck in a hunny jar, and E’ore’s head and long ears mostly drag in the dirt from carrying the weight of all those disasterous possibilities on his back.

But Pooh is not “good” nor E’ore “bad.” Neither is the reverse true. They both of them just are and they are friends and even complement one another. As with magnets likes do not attract but they repell one another. Winnie and E’ore are great “mates” as the Australians would say, friends as most of the rest of us would put it. The Dark has gotten a bad rap and the Sun has gotten off easy, that rascal will burn you if you stay out in it long enough. I do not recall a rash of moon or star shine burns in the ER lately. I did see a great quote however, “It takes darkness for the stars to shine.”

What I am saying is what I keep trying to say in as many different ways as I can: Life is not about “Either/Or” but “Both”, not naughty or nice but both, naughty and nice. Perfection is not about purity but about holiness and the most complete definition of that word is one that sounds very much like it, “Wholeness.” As a coin and people both have “heads” and “tails” I can only say that is both pretty nice and pretty naughty or as our funny friend Mike Myers’ Austin Powers character would say, “Yeah, Baby, Shagadelic”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

On Santa’s list twice, Naughty and Nice,

David White