“Business! Mankind was my business!”

by chuckofish

Yes, what my mother wrote is true. A new puppy AND a new job! Things are busy for me. And my parents who are planning on welcoming both me and my puppy into their home while I search for a new place to live. Yes, change is ahead in 2023. But we can’t let the end of 2022 pass us by unnoticed.

I am very appreciative of these pretty flowers my sweet sister sent last week.

And, of course, it is cough drop and spicette season.

I am doing my annual reading of A Christmas Carol. I love the Alastair Sim version and the Muppet version (which is really just the Alastair Sim version with muppets and Michael Caine).

“A small matter,” said the Ghost, “to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.”

“Small!” echoed Scrooge.

The Spirit had signed to him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their hearts in praise of Fezziwig; and when he had done so, said:

“Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your moral money: three or four, perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?”

“It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

The book is full of good reminders.

And here’s some doggy content.

Yum, that’s a good stick.