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Holiday Unholiness? - Top 5 Colorado Humbug-to-Happiness Tips from The Jones

12/12/2014

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Holiday Unholiness? – Top 5 Colorado Humbug-to-Happiness Tips from The Jones
by M.L. Crider
December 2014


Oxford Dictionary:  Holiday:  Old English - haligdoeg, “holy day”. 
Holy?  Right. We may earnestly hope or wish for such, but ah-hem: How about some good old holiday holy honesty first?

Let’s: 

Humbug.  December 1:  The close of this year’s clock just tocked its almighty ticking: The pressure.  The jingles.  The ads.  The annual tunes just began blaring their jolly shrills while echoing out of the mall speakers a week before Black Friday—which may don the unholy award for titles responsible for ringing in an alleged holy season—hiccupping like the confused needle on scratchy old vinyl, minus the romance.  As if scored straight into your brain without its consent, the generic holiday verses blare, buzz and tease like flies that each cunningly escape your devout attempted swatting, swirling daftly around instead back up into their automatic aerial holding patterns up there…repeating Here Comes Santa Claus bell-clanging choruses and such. There is no end to this random music poisoning. Your mental attic has now become the full-swing flipping Fly Festival for their noisy December, rent-free.  No voting allowed.

Just guessing, but a literal million of us may by now unanimously nod that the competitive vendetta of keeping up with the Jones this season grew straight into obsolete fetish an attention deficit decade or three ago.  But has it?  Who are The Jones anymore? Do we even know them? Too much has happened lately.  The Login Gen has soaked each of us in time-sucking password commands for all things that beep or alight, save our own brains for now.  2014 history books have fattened with glum. We’re all just trying… to get by.  So, who has the time to even ponder The Jones family now, let alone the obnoxious flashing state of their candy-cane flanked driveway?  Yes, alright, we know that the social gravity of the almighty microwave coerced the 1970s plump red Bing cherries into peeling right off the housewife’s apron with a thud, evaporating into the thinnest air of early morning fluorescent politically correct co-ed cubicles.  Just around the time that Gloria pronounced that fish don’t really need bicycles, the overly ripened aprons swiftly saluted after the cherries fell, victoriously slipping off of the housebound estrogen fishies, dead scales and all. A co-ed world remains.  Forgetting hormones, who now male, female, or snail has ample time to staple-gun lights all over the roof with that plastered rage-concealed Chevy Chase holiday smile?

The voice upstairs keeps bantering.  Yes, The Voice that talks to thyself—the one that allows the mall’s musical flies to incessantly encircle the mental airport hanger upstairs, The Voice that just retorted in your mind, “Voice? What voice?... Rubbish, my mind doesn’t talk to itself… Nooo, I don’t hear a voice, dear…”

Ding! That’s the one. 

It yammers on, begging judgmental whispers about what we have not yet done for the house, the kids, and our dusty dreams of ago:  
“The Christmas tree isn’t up yet.  The fake one with green bushy limbs that saw its golden day ago was smashed up from the big divorce move and is probably hiding like Harrison Ford’s prized chalice under a couple of hulking book boxes that the sociopathic movers dumped on it, while ignoring my carefully intentioned Sharpie labeled “fragile”!  This tree-saving word is now not facing outward in order so that I can locate it pronto this weekend, before the second snow barfs its nonchalance all over the driveway.”

And yes, it is an urgent buried box. I’d like to have the dang thing up and plugged in before beholding the nostalgic neighborhood pseudo-confused-Jones’ freshly cut trees that will be twinkling through their foyer windows, pointy star and all, for procrastinating neighbors such as myself to begin sighing over.

Someone . . . H e l p!!!? 

Swallow, inhale. OK: The Voice just sauntered in again, rationalizing, embellishing to justify for a beat while scratching your head:  Did the Jones have ample time to snuggle up and tuck in with the kiddos to re-watch Chevy’s apropos holiday rage in the original Christmas Vacation after having stuffed someone else’s charity-baked buffet turkey into their kids?  The undying neighborhood vendetta and my nostalgic dreams of youth that didn’t come true, they keep knocking on my wreathless door.  This morphed neuroses of somehow beating each other in a yard-light race to happiness via prickly trees and pointy stars now looks like one big slapped displacement that has literally been projected itself all over my neighborhood by way of loud lights, fake snowmen with fake coal as their noses, and fake trees from a basement box.  Truly?  Is this it?  Jones or Smith, these days slightly after the crack of dawn, a much deserved estrogen yawn, and exactly one cup of generic-brand coffee poisoned by chlorinated tap water at such cherry-less, apron-less mod-woman’s early morning obnoxious cancer-making fluorescent petri-dish-of-a-desk, the ads smothering the radio waves don’t help, but the neighborhood vendetta itch still begs. 

Shall we stuff away the dreamy family tradition we occupied as wee ones?
“Oh, Yes! The very weekend of Thanksgiving, I will have my own family. We will skip into some forest somewhere giggling after carefree warm eggnog. We will find and cut down a Christmas tree…together! Yippee!”

Oh, humbug.  Reality now pales in comparison, so I’m just gonna say it: The first few of weeks of December have become an unending dirt-pile-straight-under-the-rug sport with the ex-wife, deciding tug-of-war style (between hang-ups) exactly which 24 hour periods during Christmas weekend that the kids will be shuffled like some card game in Vegas between house stays post-vitriolic acid smothered phone calls betwixt their parents since our recent split. The question of which grandparents are still married (or alive) that either of us must agree to accommodate for three whole days and long nights in one of the kids’ twin beds at either house after their guilt-laden Christopher Columbus haul from their Floridian or Californian balmy beach house—that’s still on the front burner--boiling, as it were.

Meanwhile, back at thy own humble homestead when in a rush beyond rushes yesterday morn, you staple-gunned some cheap orange and white tacky holiday light strings from the grocery store run’s last minute holiday aisle for dummies section to the side of the house. You were just pitching your initial shy attempt at participation in the neighborhood Jones’ unspoken rage of aesthetic Yards-of-Lights game—when low and behold you learned that the soot-singed smoldering smears on the peach paint post-plugging the dang thing in can not be wiped away with the Dollar General bleach water you keep in the specially designated Sharpie-marked bottle in tandem with the trusty grime-rag that you still try to keep for such special smoldering occasions as this.  Heck, you’re just feeling grateful that your finger and thumb are still available. Painting over the insipid blackness now must wait until the spring bucketlist kicks off when the plant by the door yearns to return from the dead, as you will.  Then? That Voice again.  It prods as usual, but this time, it seductively sashays around up there like Cruella DeVille’s less-nice sister masquerading as Marilyn Monroe: “Do people send snail-mail holiday cards anymore?  Did my addresses sync with Gmail from my phone?  Should I print labels and hard mail people?  Is there an app for that?” 

The Question: Who exactly is it that we are driven like some ferocious invisible engine to “keep up with” anymore?  Do we even know The Jones? Do they exist?  And if we did know them, is the relentless frumpy yard and tree racing honestly necessary? We seem to do well just to keep up with ourselves while firing up neighborhoods via singeing our houses ablaze and hunting basement boxes for fake green limbs as a result of the deficit sustained from our insatiable childhood yearnings.  Is this how we decide that preparing for the “holidays” should be for us?  You’d rather swallow forks than to bear another 24-hour period of such madness.  Agreed.

The Other Question: What is holy about living during the holidays?  Dictionaries are handy:
Oxford Dictionary:  Holy:  Old English - halig aka “whole, sacred, morally and spiritually excellent!” Oxford Dictionary: Living:  Old English - libban, lifian, “perennially flowing”. 
How do we now have and enjoy a “perennially flowing, sacred, whole, morally and spiritually excellent holiday”, Ms. Jones?! Do tell!

Top 5 Colorado Humbug-to-Happiness Tips from The Jones to The Smiths:

1.     Help someone who doesn’t have a house for a tree; they have a body with an empty stomach:  Denver Rescue Mission 1130 Park Avenue West, Denver.  Got cans?  Left over soup from last night? Hit the soup kitchen. Hope begins here with $1.92 if you feel it. Volunteer or just show up. Web: https://www.denverrescuemission.org +1(303) 294-0157.

2.     Sit with your eyes closed for 5 whole minutes tomorrow morning allowing the sun to gently laser its warm beams directly into your forehead, then scoot down to the Tri-State Denver Buddhist Temple, no matter your religion or lack thereof; perhaps ask if they need anything over the holiday season after taking a mental walk throughout.  Scoop: www.tsdbt.org +1(303) 295-1844.

3.  Take a stroll with your newest date or the kiddos through Denver’s one and only holiday Zoo Lights.  Bring a touch of cheer via a hello to the fuzzy pals behind bars.  Happening now! Available every single night at the Denver Zoo:­ 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. through January 4th! Web: http://www.denverzoo.org/events/zoo-lights-2014 +1 (720) 337-1400

4.  Oh, Denverites, Denveradians, Denverinos? Question: What do Cheesman, Washington, Civic Center, Confluence, Sloan’s Lake, Commons, Skyline, Centennial Flower Gardens, & Bear Creek have in common? Answer: A grassy invitation for your flower-filled stress-free holiday season enjoyment. Toss together an easy fun picnic and walk—no wheels, yes, shoes—with someone you love or someone from #1 to one of Denver’s top fave lush parks.  The mile high city boasts more than 4,000 acres of traditional parks and parkways, which include 2,500 urban natural acres, over 300 acres of parks designated rivers and trails, and an additional 14,000 acres of spectacular mountain parks.  Downtown Denver is blanketed in such lush sophistication, so cop-a-squat on its kind green floors, wiggle your toes around in the wetness, and exhale in deepest gratitude that you live here. [Psst! -Picnic Tip: Local King Sooper has family deals at the deli for a fun picnic basket: fried chicken, mashed, and pick a side.]  No excuses. Cool? Cool. Web: http://www.denver.org/things-to-do/sports-recreation/denver-parks/ +1(720) 913-1311

5.   ColoradoWood – Galactic Mental Matrices: Hollywood’s piping hot new blockbuster, Interstellar, starring Matthew McConoughey and Anne Hathaway, has ricocheted and echoed our awesome state’s NORAD literally all over the galaxy and into realms unknown this season.  Learn how cool you in fact are, Colorado. Endeavor out of the humbug rigamaroo for a half-day to understand with thy own feet for thyself exactly what your Colorado offers to our world by booking a tour of NORAD.  If time isn’t kind enough to incorporate NASA & NORAD brilliance into the thick Dayrunner, then perhaps just opt to revisit “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” with a trusty tub of ice cream and the remote.  Dopamine & Netflix should be proven fact by now in the obliteration of holiday humbugs, if only for a single December night.  NORAD Tours: http://www.visitcos.com/cheyenne-mountain-and-norad or help them with The NORAD Santa Tracker: http://www.noradsanta.org/.

No time? Google “Haagen-Dazs” or pop on by next door to share some with us.  We’d love to show you our tree!  Yes . . .

Love,

The Jones

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Tailpipe

12/5/2014

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Tailpipe
by M.L. Crider
November 2014

The rumble of the tailpipe 
leaks its snot in spurts 

drips on the cracked pavement
He revved the accelerator twice
to warm it

His fingers, winter bones
He breathed on them to thaw through his shirt
Nineteen degrees in December
Sun on the rise over the wheat
He had to work.

Humble are the ones
who trudge the thickest snow

who calculate the bridges' strength 
when no one else will know


For you, for me, for him, for she
Humble gets a name
In anonymity; quiet invisibility

without, we would never be the same
 
The architect of a bridge
The mastermind of the overpass
These are the real keepers of worker bees and queens,

and of each of us in between


The local school line cook
feeding your cherished 
they wake before the sun
no matter the weather

their duty never to perish

The Daily Heroes

their silent duty
Stitching and uniting this ubiquitous quilt

The rumble of the tailpipe
the spurts, the pavement drips


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No One Likes War.  No One...

12/5/2014

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No One Likes War.  No One.
by M.L. Crider


It is "#We #Time".  "Generation Me" is out.  Ditzy is out (Marianne always says that and I agree wholeheartedly).  #Responsibility is in. It is and has been knocking kindly, and now loudly on Our Door.  We can all feel it, I know this.  So I feel this:


No one likes #war. 
No one. 

For the sadly brainwashed who believe they might, it must be remembered that these have no free mind with which to choose to decide.  Does anyone "like war" at home?  No, they like love, food, warmth, and kindness. People like peace at their own homes.  That is all I need to know.  This in and of itself is devastating and says much about why our government "finds" new recruits at the likes of WalMart parking lots--people who truly mean well, but do not have other winsome options by which to make a living.  

No one likes war.

No one.

Just as we now ubiquitously agree that slavery was a savage and insane idea, the time is nigh for us to now agree again that war is, was, and always would be a mad idea. War is nothing less and nothing more than a mentally deeply ill mass murder sport, an insane mass unaccountable faceless homicide, which I believe IS the definition of irresponsibility and shame. War is, was, and always will be an insane idea and utterly neurotic practice.  Is it now high time that it be decided amongst Us that war IS an illegal way to make money, that war now become a planetary crime.  Have we as one planet not experienced enough blatant evidence of this obvious fact in our seeming "progression" as a species? Would you now, today, tell me that we are not brilliant enough together--as the Whole that we in fact Are--to now ubiquitously decide, strategize, devise, and implement a better way for ourselves, for our country's finances, for other country's finances, for our global ethical code? Do we have a "#global #ethical #code of #conduct" that is understood as #permissible?  As long as the #planet does not agree on a singular global ethical code, as slight and slender as it may take form as of yet, then what merit does such singular planet possess to be deserving, in your one mind's eye, of continuation?  Why? Would you condone such if you never witnessed it on your planet, but heard that it was happening on another?




No one likes war.

No one.

If we display such disgust of human life, then what are we all doing making money... to "live"? I know this in my bones of bones:

If We as a Planet are to come up with a "Department of Peace" or "Peace Initiative" that made as much money for countries as war seemingly now does (which it does not eventually--it only makes debts of the worst kind imaginable), then this new Department of Peace (in lieu of our current Department of Defense) would be in full swing. When America can make money...and have fun doing it, I think that our country gets with it...and fast.  We would make it so.  Can there be a better way than war that can make practical sense? Of course there can. We know this but are afraid of change.  Deep surrender to major error is a very beautiful and life-giving action.  Love is mocked by fear here in this plane where we live.  Fear/ego knows that it has an expiration date; it knows that it is not eternal.  So why, Why, why, are we taking fear's bait?




Peace can be here. 




No one likes war.

No one.


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My Thoughts on Sexuality, etc. ~  a response

8/3/2013

 
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The Book of Love:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnDXRJ7btE

Well, Hello Out There/Here,

I have received several inquiries lately regarding some of the roles that I have played as an actor and kind questions about my personal sexual preference and my personal thoughts on the gay community. Thank you for those. They made me smile. ;~} So, thought I would take a moment and share a bit in the way of being clear to those interested in knowing my thoughts. I have played all sorts of fun characters and though I would love to, for instance, be an FBI agent, that does not mean that I am, have been, or ever might be an FBI agent in my personal life. In the same way, on the subject of my own sexuality, I am unequivocally and completely supportive of any human being (I would underline that, but there is no option to embolden or underline here) who chooses to love, parent, marry, partner, or divorce any other human being, regardless of sex, religion, color, tongue, creed, country, family, friends, or the plethora of any other "category" we silly humans falsely construct. P.S. I happen to personally date/dig men, well, certain men, lol. P.P.S. If any of my "friends" here consider themselves in their heart-of-hearts to be "anti"-gay/straight/any religion/color/creed/etc., then I offer many blessings to you and I kindly and solemnly suggest a book:  The Way to Love by Anthony DeMello.
Thank you.

Enjoy this day...

Seriously,

Missy

Fun melodic memories ~ Concrete Blonde "Endless Sleep"... I miss singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzw1RXMXZtY

7/17/2013

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Fun melodic memories... Concrete Blonde "Endless Sleep"...
I miss singing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzw1RXMXZtY

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Anniversary of much today .

10/13/2012

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My mom's 64th birthday and my anniversary with LA: October 13, 1992.  

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Thinking. . .

5/6/2012

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Interests...
Nature, Philosophy, Physics, Creative Writing, Violin, Banjo, Music, Lyric, Poetry, Rivers, Children, Children’s Books, Words, Reading, Cooking, Décor, White Stargazer Lilies, Blue Irises, White candles, Amber lighting, Antique Lamps, Rock climbing, Kink,... oh, and... Love.  The Real Kind.

The idea of owning a country, drawing imaginary lines in dirt or water that you did not create, is as ridiculous as that of illusional ownership of a planet, star, or galaxy - when mere human beings were not responsible for how it came to be, why it is there under their clay feet, or have any clue as to how to go about controlling its spinning, the set degree of its axes, or its final fate or destination.

The universe is a busy waitress. It is most efficient to tell her exactly how and what you would like on your hamburger. She's busy. She is attracted to mannerly patrons who hold a clear idea of what they would like from the menu of life. The more specific and decided in delivery, the more efficiently that ticket will go to the front of the fervent cook's line. You are hungry. She knows this. Relay your order specifically, simply, gently. She will bring it to you as closely as you visualized, and faster than other more complicated tickets. + + +

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