Choices! Choices!

I have actually received recommendations for future blog content.
After my saga at the end of 2019, the blogs that told the story of the journey I took to welcome the year 2000, I got some expressed interest in hearing about some of my other trips.
Over the years I have taken a number of trips and it seems without fail, many included an adventure or two. And those adventures were not about lost luggage either.
Sharing stories of  some of these journeys just might prove entertaining.
I shall endeavor to do so in some of my future blogs.
More recently I got more content suggestions.
(Two recommendations actually!)
One suggestion was that I spend some blog space telling about the "joys" of aging!
Talk about the reality, the suggestion went.
Talk about all the aches and pains.
Really!
Like someone would want to read about the aches and pains of us seniors?
Really!
I mean, just listen in on a conversation taking place between folks of that certain age. Listen carefully.
All we talk about, or so it seems, are those aches and pains and doctors' appointments.
"How's that back of yours today?"
"When I saw my doctor last week . . ."
"Last time I was in the hospital . . . "
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera . . .
And on and on the woes do flow.
And who wants to hear of things like that?
Let's just keep our aches and pains tales to ourselves and let those younger discover them for theirselves, shall we.
Let's just give those younger ones the chance to proclaim as I have heard some in my generation doing, "How come our parents never told us growing old was like this?"
Let them find out for themselves how those doctors' appointments can fill the social calendar.
But then there was another suggestion.
I was reminded of a certain Christmas tree.
Now I know, we are on the move toward springtime. We have already jumped out clocks an hour ahead. Those Peeps are reminding us that Easter is near.
Christmas Tree?
Really?
At this time of the year?
Ah, but this is the story of a very special Christmas Tree.
Call it the Christmas Tree that wouldn't.
It's a true story.
And a sometimes humorous tale.
And it actually is a story of a Christmas Tree that has some significant ties with moments like Lent and Easter.
It's about a Christmas Tree that just would not go away!
And I accept responsibility for this Tree that would just not go away.
So if this has somehow picked your curiosity, watch for my next blog.
I am going to tell the story of that infamous Christmas Tree.
The Christmas Tree that wouldn't . . .