neither here nor there

we've had a very busy six days of holiday visiting, eating, driving up and down the roads, walking in the woods, eating, looking at christmas decorations, eating, playing with children, cooking, and,  oh yes, eating.  now we are left in peace and quiet at an almost end-of-the-year tuesday afternoon, to pick up the pieces and get back into a resting groove.  i still cannot save or edit an entry in the normal fashion on AOL journals, despite the joyful announcement on Christmas eve that all had been solved.  so i am still using IE to get into my journals and write an entry.  this is a pain in the neck.  but i am going to spend some lengthy time later today, or perhaps tomorrow, reading other journals, reading the internet blogs i frequent, reading news, catching back up with the world.   my brother in law is a newspaper addict, and he went cold turkey with nary a Post or Times, Sun or Enquirer brought into the house.  i did nearly the same thing with the internet, except that we all felt a need to keep up with the events in Iran.  it makes me wonder wonder wonder, why we feel compelled to inflict so much pain and injury on one another as human beings.  nature, life, "Acts of God," can devastate us so utterly.  we should all be here on earth acting only as agents of loving-kindness to our fellow creatures, of whatever skin color, nationality, language, religion.  my soul aches for the people of Iran who have lost so much. 

so, i'll be back to talk about my holidays, what i'm reading, thoughts on this, that and the other pretty soon.  vacation continues for a while, i say with supreme gratitude.