This week is slow for everyone. Certainly, the market is slow, and I am slow, especially after a week of pounding rain that has made this little spot in paradise a muddy bog. Okay, it’s not that bad, but it sure feels that bad. Okay, maybe it doesn’t feel that bad either. Yes, but it sure did rain a lot.
Actually, I am slow because this time of the year robs me of my energy. The lack of light and the low levels of it add to my slowness. The cold weather steals a bit from me as well, not to mention the general slowdown of the work cycle because everyone is simply taking advantage of the holiday season, which brings me to the point of this article – this sense of slowness I am feeling will disappear in about twenty minutes when I head into town.
Unfortunately, since my girlfriend just had knee surgery, we somehow lost track of the grain supply for the horses. In other words, we find ourselves running out before the next shipment comes in so I have to go to town on the day before Christmas Eve, and I can assure you, there will be lots and lots of people all around me, everywhere I look, in every turning lane, intersection, and parking lot. In fact, there will probably be a horde, no a vast crowd, no an unbelievable throng of people in the feed store when I go in just to pick up a bag of Purina’s Enriched 32, our choice of feed for our horses.
All right, all right, I know I have to do this. I know I have to close out this article, post it, and then get up and out of this chair, get in the car, and go to town. I know I have to do this, but can I? Okay, okay, this is the time of the year for giving, and our horses need me to stand up and think of them, not myself, in this time of need. So here it is. I am closing out with these final words …
If I can do this for my horses, go into town where the mass of people could easily swallow me whole (never to be seen again), you can most certainly turn to someone you care about, or, maybe, someone you do not even know, and say to them, “Happy Holidays.” Yes, If I can put my life on the line for our horses, you can do this simple thing. If I … All right, all right, I am going. Just quit bugging me. After all, it is Christmas.
Happy Holidays to all …
You see, I can do this simple thing, even as I am just about to step into the Twilight Zone, a place beyond our imagination … Okay, I am going …
Trade in the day; invest in your life.
