There is nothing new under the sun

Toe,
I like your depressing Bible quote. That quote is in proximity to the more famous "There is nothing new under the sun," if I recall. I actually like the Bible a lot, especially the old testament. Although I am an agnostic now, I find the stories to be interesting, and the idea of God is also very appealing to me, so I take a kind of comfort in the idea, even if I don't really believe it. I don't know if that makes any sense. I have to think about the feeling I get from the Bible some more and get back to you, because it is more complicated than I want to go into right now.

I have been traveling this week a little for work. I feel somewhat tired today, and a little sick. I drank too much the other night, and what had been the tail end of a cold turned back into a cold. At least that's how I feel right now. Perhaps it is a cold-like two-day hangover.

We may be having Thanksgiving at home for the first time in years. Not that any family will be visiting us. If anything, we may have some friends over. Or hell, we'll go to another childless young couple's house and have a T'day dinner. I like a holiday where there are no overarching theologies, one where we can all just cling together for companionship rather than splinter apart over dogma. A holiday where we can all agree on the fact that food is good, let's be grateful for this marshmallow-flecked sweet potato dish.

C is home this morning, and I am catching up on a long-forgotten work project. It isn't high priority, but it has reached the point that it needs to be done or else forgotten forever. I like that kind of choice. It makes me want to do something, but in a relaxed kind of way. This work I am doing is unimportant, and unlike the Ecclesiast, I take a sort of comfort in that, at least today.

All right, give me some sugar. Have a nice weekend.
Love,
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