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         I only watched two football games all season and those were the last two games that the Minnesota Vikings played in January as they approached the Super Bowl but didn’t arrive.  Neither game was a waste of my time.  As a matter of fact, each of them had my full attention from beginning to end.  Better than Avatar.  Many of you might say the same thing.

         I like Brett Favre, a gentleman, an athlete, a sportsman.  No wuss or wimp is he as far as I can see.

         After the huge win against the Dallas Cowboys, I had Brett and the entire Viking team high on a pedestal.  After their disappointing loss against the New Orleans Saints (a team that looked and acted more like orks than saints), I kept Brett and the entire Viking team high on a pedestal.

         Several years ago, when we watched the Vikings faithfully every Sunday afternoon with the kids -- it was a “family event” -- I seldom put the Vikings or their quarterbacks on a pedestal.  When they won a game, it was seldom decisively.  But when they lost a game, it was often decisively.  And I don’t recall putting Fran Tarkenton or Tommy Kramer on a pedestal. 

         So much for my limited knowledge and attention in regard to sports.

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         Cold enough for ya?  Not fit for man or beast, they say.  Might I add, “... nor any other living creature including those of the female or plant persuasion.” 

         Pass the global warming in this direction, please, and throw in a couple quilts in the passing.  Put another log on the fire, heat the stones, roll the hot water bottle to the foot of my bed, and wake me up when spring arrives.

         So much for my limited knowledge and attention in regard to weather.

***

         Seems people who drive pickup trucks make headlines today, while people who drive Cadillacs with dark tinted windows do not.  Well, add me to the list of people with pickup trucks, where my windows are not only transparent, but usually clean.

         Once a month I pull my truck out of storage (the garage) and head to Hutchinson to pick up 4,600 issues of the Gazette.  That’s enough papers for every home and business in Victoria plus more than a couple thousand for subscribers who live outside of Victoria, many of them just up and down the road from us.

         “So what kind of truck do you drive?” asked Father Bernardine

         “It’s shiny white and has four doors and it’s pretty, but it’s rather bare bones.  It does have heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer,” I replied.

         “What kind of truck is it?” repeated this Franciscan caller from St. Louis, Missouri.

         Knowing he’s a little bit hard of hearing -- after all, the dear man is 94 years old -- I continued, “Well, it’s white, as I said, and it has a nice topper to keep my Gazettes dry when it rains or snows, and it’s got a good radio.”  

         “But what kind of truck is it?” the padre persisted, then added, “What is the make of it?”

         “Oh, I get it!” says the editor.  “It’s a Ford.”

         “Typical girl,” says Fr. B.

         So much for my limited knowledge and attention in regard to trucks.

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         Seen any good movies lately?  Me, too.  As mentioned in my first paragraph here, we went to see Avatar a couple weekends ago, and the weekend before that we had seen Blind Side.  We thought they were both excellent and exciting as well as good for the tender part of our hearts.

         Some reviews of Avatar warn that the movie is propaganda for the New Age religion, where people become like gods with god control, or Pantheism, where God is everything and everything is God, like the Life Tree.  Well, I happen to know better than New Age or Pantheism, which allowed me to be enamored with the 3D effects and the human-avatar imaging and the extraordinary flights through forests and floating mountains.

         As for Blind Side, I always appreciate movies based on true stories.  The character played by Sandra Bullock did an extraordinary thing in inviting a grown stranger into a settled family unit and home.  Truth is always stranger than fiction.

         There are scads (and scabs) of other movies out there that I do not wish to see and I will not give them attention, which accounts for my limited knowledge of stage and screen.

February 2010