I'm up, off and away today, lunching with one friend, taking tea with another, delivering Christmas cards to two others and then to my theater group Christmas party where we shall all spend some happy hours telling each other how marvellous, no, really, darling, absolutely marvellous, we all were! Well, if we don't tell each other, who else is there?
Anyway, as you can see life is simply one round of pleasures, well, for me, at any rate, because I will be leaving the 'Memsahib' behind to deal with two hefty workmen crashing and banging as they rip all the tiles off our shower which sprang a leak before,hopefully, re-tiling the entire thing. Such fun!
In the meantime, a somewhat sardonic joke, courtesy of my e-pal, Andra, to get you through the final week before the holiday.
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.
So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was,
walking slowly up to the holy site.
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.
"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?"
"Morris Feinberg," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man. I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests."
"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"
"Like I'm talking to a fucking wall!"
