One Day

Jan 29, 2011 by Naomi.

Today is the last Saturday of the first month of the year as well as the last day of the last week in the first month. Before folks came up with symbols people who marked the days actually marked the days with perhaps a scratch on the rock, or a stick in the cave wall. I have a handy dandy calendar – a sheet of paper with little boxes and the number of the day of the month the box represents. But then you do to so what’s the big deal? Just this: after New Year’s Day I received thirteen calendars – not a one did I request – the letter of congratulations however suggested that I send back the reply envelope noting in the accompanying box that I did indeed receive the calendar. And oh, by the way include a check in the amount of $50, $35, or $10 to help in this worthy cause. Thirteen not-for-profit organizations heavily engrossed in research for a cure of just about anything my li’le ol’ body might be stricken with. (Just to prove they knew something very special about me, there were two separate requests for money to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.) Maybe the exercise I began this paragraph with indicates a silliness towards a paper on the wall but a failing of active synapses it does not.

Posted in Social Commentary | No Comments »