As much as I would love to stay here and get into some things, I’m afraid my schedule presently makes it impossible to chow down and mince it up. The term “burning the candle at both ends” comes to mind as the business as usual that was mentioned in the news section continues to eat up the majority of my spare time.

The main reason I’m posting this is to wish all of you that come visit a happy and prosperous 2012 and to sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous amount of email that you’ve been sending my way. Please understand that (even though several still preface their communications with “You’ll probably never read this”) I do indeed read everything that is sent unless it is of an overtly solicitous nature.

Also it’s simply impossible for me to answer all requests as I’ve previously explained, for varying reasons. Such a thing would be overwhelming not to mention time consuming. Just know it is all appreciated, including the chiding I’ve received lately for some of my ruminations. To those folks let me say that much of what I ponder on in these observations is for the most part tongue in cheek and merely batted about in order to stimulate. Having said that, like ‘em or not at least the Tea Party clean up after themselves. You won’t find a candy wrapper after those Crackers leave a rally.

See! I can’t help myself. If time allows in the next few weeks I’ll get back in the ring with you and rustle up a topic or two that might be getting in my craw or blowing my skirt up. But for now duty calls so I’ll leave you with one quick thought.

Do you ever hear a line in a movie and think "Wow! That’s really profound" only to think about it later and realize it isn’t remotely so? Try this on for size.

"There are two moments that matter in a man’s life: one when he leaves home and one when he returns."

I thought it was pretty enigmatic in a poetic sort of way until I revisited it and thought not much of a life if those are the only two things in it that matter.

Later.