Christmas 2014

Though most of 2014 was a bust and much of it very painful, excruciating and many things had to be cancelled or postponed I still treasure it for its gifts and joy.  The cold that we had all November and December is behind us, I hope, I hope! and we're prepping for Christmas.  I might say we are enjoying delight as we sing from the cantata.  Funny I want to do that again.  I sat down here with the idea of opening up, say 10 pages off the top, some of it relevant, some of it silly.  I had a massage today... nice, very very nice,  Which reminds me of Cat's Cradle.. another of those bizarre items I picked off the shelf.  It was in the school but not its curriculum.  Navigating that was no trouble, the kids lied the book, got the point and enjoyed the humor Vonnegut gave it.  It was a kind of treat, a novel I'd throw in just before Christmas because it takes place at Christmas and has a sorta Christmacy essence to it.  I guess that relationship would be in a wonder world, scene splitting, time gauging.  Still, you can't go wrong with hh.  Salinger can take kids into a reality they don't know and like.  It's also over a vacation, again Christma, and must be presented carefully lest students think Holden's self-destruct in deftly avoided but the Caufield are a sorry family, money, prestige, maids, chauferrs, private school and still the kids turn out rotten, some do, some down.  He's my brudda the onr wiaf says about another when asked about their relationship the fact they are cutting school.  Plus give kudos to Salinger who frames the modern neolithic with the two bruddas.  Ah Pittsburgh, though should be flourishing.  There's talent in them there hills, real talents, sports, science, comedy, writers.  For towns slung onto rocky mountains, the folks do as best as they can to cling on... hey clingon.  You get the idea, them western hills around Pittsburgh produce some remarkable people, your speaker among them.  ha ha,
So it comes to this.  One doctor on a surgical mania thinks i should have a robotic neural surgry to trim back parts of the 3nd and 2nd facial nerves of the trigeminal.  It's th nerve of function conecting the necessary eye teeth to the brain, allowing the brain to gauge snd chew.  So the assurances are that I have an 80% of never having this neuraligia headaches, the cautions that there is a 20% chance of some pralysis twenty or more years away.  What a classic approach-avoidance dilemma!   More information is needed and I need to consult both my family doctor, dentst and dental clinic.  Lots of calls and visits to doubt.  I am willing to look into it, see what others say, consider how I want to go forward.  The dental neuralgia can't be ignored.