Posted on 02/01/2006 4:44:19 AM PST by gobucks
Last night, I watched our President give a pretty great speech. "We love our Freedom ... and we will fight to keep it".
Little Gb will be a year in June, so he's too little to enjoy the speech, especially since he was in bed. Mrs. Gb was tidying up, and commented little. So it was just me watching George as he give us a straightforward account of what he saw going on with the USA, and what he thinks should be going on.
Coffee was ready to brew this morning. I punched the button, and then let the dogs out. Venus is starting to get pretty big and bright now. Said a few thank-you prayers ... struggled a bit about praying for my ex-wife.
I've been married over 10 years. It feels pretty normal. Now. During the first 4 years it felt pretty normal too, but 'normal' then was leading to a train wreck. The normal me now looks back on the normal me then... and I just can't get over it. I honestly felt really normal back then, but now it is quite clear: back then I was basically a real mess.
Our country really has that feel to me these days. I was born in the early 60's to teen parents. They were not normal, and still are not. Coffee in the morning w/ dogs and a few morning prayers? Not a chance.
But to them? Normal. I watched the Democrats sit in stony silence last night when Bush discussed 'Terrorist Survellience'. It was like a Bad Dream called 'Yesterday's Normal and Tomorrow soon will be.' I watched Mrs. Clinton as they flashed to her over and over. She is about the same age as my mother.
They keep wishing for the Big Deal for 2008 for her. It is so abnormal to even think about it - she is so totally lousy on T.V. Anyone who has watched CSpan and watched her speak knows a simple fact: Masonry between bricks begins to crumble due to the corroding sounds of her voice. It is a fact, and the Democrat purse string dudes in Ny, Miami, and LA are quite unlikely to go camping w/ her and burn all that money just to watch just how badly she will get burned...
She is 'normal' to so many people. My mother, my aunt ... they remind me of this woman, Hillary. But I've drawn conclusions at last about what normal is ... really.
Normal is when you trust your Dad. This is how you enter the problem of 'What is normal?'. Every time I meet someone new, my first kind of hazy background question is 'how did this Man or Woman' get treated by their Dad?
They recently reported that political affilations have been scientifically shown to be based strictly on emotions, not good thinking. Duh. A big duh. But they didn't bother to survey these folks and collect the oral histories of what Bedtime was like when they were little. They didn't discover whether or not Mommy and the kids awoke to find Dad in the home. Sipping his coffee. Prepared to embrace his family...
Dad is the key for asking 'what is normal'? I look at all those people who were so stony in their faces last night on the 'left side'. I read and listen to them... - waiting for a few of them to just stop it. Just stop being so unwilling to ask basic questions.
But they are ticked off. Have been all along. They remember what their Dad was like, and there is no way as they watch the Dad of two twin girls, the Husband of Laura, that he, George, can be a 'good', normal, Dad and Husband. He must be an actor.
But I listened to him. And he reminded me of my Dad a little bit. Mostly my Dad would have been wise to be more like George when he was young. My Dad was born in 1944. In a few short years, he, and my mother got to figure out at a really young age two things that all of human history never had to deal with: the Pill, and the Bomb.
Honestly, that is just not normal. We all know that. The pill simply makes stupid teenagers remain stupid teen agers no matter how many facelifts they get. The Bomb makes everyone 'live for today, because there will be no tomorrow.'. It is no wonder so many Baby Boomers struggle. So many are babies still, afraid of the 'boom'! Democrats clearly think this is 'normal'.
But I can say this rather easily - for I didn't have to be give up on the 'way it was' and embrace the new. I was born into the new. I was a witness to watching my parents struggle, and watching how ineffective my Grandparents were in addressing those struggles. My own initial attempts at 'normal' looked alot like what they did. And it felt normal. Then.
Now, little Gb is still asleep but soon our home will be listening to hungry howls. Mrs. Gb was sleeping but is getting the home ready. We like our normal routine. We love the freedom within it.
And I like it that way. It feels normal. I awoke with the words of our President in my ears still, and it feels ... normal. Today the smart T.V. people of course will be figuring out clever ways to negate his words this morning. They can't help but live in their 'normal'.
Time for another cup of coffee and then go to work.
Thank you God, for this season of 'normal'.
My geometry teacher also taught me what 'normal' is: when the intersection of one line is normal to another, the call that a 'right' angle. Heh Heh...
Thank you for such a beautifully written essay. God Bless you, Mrs. Gb and little Gb :-)
Up until last night, Dems were still attempting to wear the "face" of "normal" while hiding. Last night, the Dems wore no mask. Their side of the aisle resembled the antics of those who get themselves put in the "detention" room of a school.
John Tabin at AmSpec describes it perfectly:
Suddenly it was as if Bush said "we mustn't act like clowns," and the entire Democratic caucus had shown up in multicolor wigs and greasepaint.
I was laughing with the President, as the camera covered his reaction to the D-aisle of the theatre.
Republicans succeeded in what they set out to accomplish in last night's SOU, IMHO. :)
I asked my son:
"Sweetheart? If you had $1,000 bucks to invest -- which party would you give it to? If you had a business and was looking for solutions to resolve solid problems, which party would you go to for assistance or answers? And if you were another country's leader, which party would you prefer talking with?"
My daughter quipped in with commentary upon D-Slaughter's "multi-colored" thingee "fashion statement" and Hillary's obvious face lift(s).
I cherished that superb grin on W's face after each antic by the Dems.
Enjoyed reading that...thank you friend
All I can say is "God is working and has great plans"
You are welcome and thanks. That feeling of 'normal' has stayed with me all day!
"Perhaps there is reason to hope."
I agree there is ... and I would argue the invention of the printing press, while seismic, is nothing compared to the internet. This medium has changed forever how I look at the world, and how it works. So many, many things make sense now. Freepers have helped, I'll say that much for certain.
You are welcome and I agree ... God is working indeed!
(Go Texas!!)
"I cherished that superb grin on W's face after each antic by the Dems."
Me too. And thank you!
:-) That's wonderful!
This a is a wonderful essay. I'm so glad I found it! I need to do a find-in-forum on you more often Gb.
Ahhh, it is a few days later, and I say, thank you so much for the kind compliment.
I've haven't been in Forum much lately. More and more I work, and less and less I type as a result. The family keeps me busy, plus golf utterly captures a good bit of my 'free time'.
btw, I'm impressed with your diligence on the Chambers posts... I don't read all them but I read todays...
And as usual, it is striking. Too often, our thoughts are not at all captive, true? But at the least, we 'get' that we don't have to starve.
It has taken too long, but when I run into the starving, I have gotten so much better at being willing to stop and be empathetic a bit and drop a few crumbs around to be noticed.
Anyway, thanks again.
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