Miss Kitty's Monday Greeting and Lent Advice

 

 

Miss Kitty says: 

 

 

Take some time for fresh air and exercise!

 





Happy Easter from Miss Kitty!

Miss Kitty says:

I'll be sending a Easter card every day during Holy Week.  Feel free to send one in the comments section.

 Palm Sunday



 

 



A Least Two Shades of Annoying



If your friends are talking about what they're wearing for Easter and you tell them that is bourgeoise or Pharisitical, you just might be an annoying Leftist or Christian.

If you add quotations, you really are!





During Easter Dinner, if you tell your nieces and nephews that coloring eggs is wasting food and that plastic eggs are polluting the environment, you just might be an annoying Christian.

If you add that Jesus never had an Easter basket, you probably are.

If you add that He never even got a jelly bean,

You really are!



Tangled Up In Green

I've been trying to figure out what to write about. There's so much:  Identity Politics, the Green New Deal, the soda tax in Philadelphia (which now has been expanded to include any drink bought in a store or restaurant.) Not only is the money going to Pre-K, libraries and museums, but the tax will keep everyone's weight down and save their teeth.

As Billy Joel said “I can't take it anymore!” (“We didn't Start the Fire”) I've been there and maybe even done that forty-some years ago. Every so often a report would be issued about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, an inconvenience, to say the least, to those of us who depended on Tab to keep away from the Reese's or anything else good to eat. When a new report came out, I would hoard whatever was available.

I never heard of identity politics (Of course, I didn't get around much.), but the personal was political and one's politics had to be correct. That meant not telling ethnic jokes or stereotyping. Of course, you could tell jokes about your own ethnic or religious group and be offended if a non-member did. Since my ancestry is Scottish, German, and English, I didn't have a lot of material. (How many cheap jokes are there?) And Groundskeeper Willie didn't come around until the 80's, when getting offended wasn't in fashion.

There were movements that could be part of the Green New Deal and various ways to participate. You could try to get your town to require recycling or disapprove of other people's cars. There was even talk of overpopulation, with books and articles about the joys of being “childfree”, which always included warnings about overpopulation and often made remarks about “selfishness”. So along with feeling guilty about losing patience with your kids, you could feel guilty about having them.

I don't think I knew any registered Socialists, but there was a feeling that liberals (as I identified myself) didn't get it. I felt guilty and, even worse, stupid, and wondered if I was a hypocrite.

I didn't know of any Socialist superstars, but we certainly have them now! I think of them as The Socialist Sweeties, because I want to sigh, “Oh, sweetie” when I hear their ideas. Sometimes, I want to yell, “What the f**k are you talking about?” and “For God's sake, stop frightening the kids!” (I'm sure the kids aren't the only ones frightened, but I don't want to look like a wimp.)

How should Christians feel about the Green New Deal? I'm not a theologian, so I can get away with saying, “You got me there.” Yes, this is a cop-out, but aren't most people who are not desperately poor copping out?

Perhaps all we can do is to try to do the best we can and “Keep on keeping on.” (Bob Dylan, “Tangled up in Blue")



A Suggestion from Miss Kitty

Miss Kitty says:

"Now that you're woke, smell the coffee."

Happy New Year From Miss Kitty

 

 

 

Miss Kitty says:

 

 

 

My New Year's resolution is to not wish anyone "a puurrfect New Year"! 

 



The Best Advice About Christmas Stress Ever -- in the World!

 





 

 



In order to reduce my stress load this Christmas, I am reposting last year's Christmas Stress post instead of writing a new one.

Do you feel that Christmas is a disruption in your life?  Are you overwhelmed by trying to provide the best Christmas possible?  How do you feel when you read an article or hear a discussion on a talk show telling you that you shouldn’t try to create the “perfect” Christmas?  And don’t forget all those movies about a burned out parent (usually Mom) who has a revelation and cries and berates herself for not seeing the meaning of Christmas.  Do you feel guilty because you would have been satisfied with just “real nice”?  Or are you shooting for perfect and feeling guilty not only for not making it but for even trying?

No matter where you turn, someone is saying something about the stress of Christmas.  I stopped reading articles about how to avoid stress, since reading them and trying to put them into action just took up time and led to more stress.

Maybe we just ought to accept that fact that we are going to strive for “the best Christmas ever,” no matter what we read or see on television and hear in church.

But I have a thought.

Christmas disrupts our lives, just as it has disrupted the world.  Mary and Joseph had their lives disrupted; so did the shepherds and wise men.  When we decide to follow Jesus, our lives are going to be changed and change is disruption.  It is a miraculous disruption.

But wouldn’t it be nice to find a little peace?

Maybe on the 26^th or the Saturday after Christmas, we can enjoy the leftovers, watch the DVD’s we got, and really read the Christmas cards and newsletters.  I’m going to keep the 26^th in mind tonight as I wrap presents and worry about whether everyone will like them.