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Like Water Off A Duck's Back
The beginning of the end —Branding. When the shelves of big box stores overflow with underwear, cookware, t-shirts and accessories with your face on them, watch out! It's happened to the best and worst of them.
Duck Dynasty — Duh, it's a reality show, I knew it was going to be controversial. If it quacks like a ducks —you know the rest. Opinions—yada yada yada, we all have them, hence this blog.
Aren't we all a tongue slip, blinking cursor or mic away from inciting either anger or love? Most call them the train wreck shows. I liken reality TV to cooking a white fluffy marshmallow on a coat hanger over a campfire. I plunge this perfectly good marshmallow that was getting along swimmingly with other like-minded fluffy mallow's onto a coat hanger to cook precariously over a campfire flame. I admire it as it warms and turns golden brown and does what I want it to do. Then, I let it linger a second too long and Poof!, just like that the unstable marshmallow becomes a blazing inferno before my eyes!
If a neighbor dances drunk in their skivies on their porch every weekend with Budweiser bottles lined up on the railings, that is their business. I may have my own opinion about it, but when they fall over the railing to land on the Holly bush, I'm not going to act shocked or appalled.
I appreciate everyone's constitutional right to express their views freely. However, that doesn't warrant lewd, abusive or violent behavior, unless of course they are lewd, abusive or violent. You see it's a slippery slope. I love diversity — It screams we are free! We aren't clones.
I detest racism, past present or reverse, prejudice, legalism, self-righteous indignation, rabid politics or religion. Now, doesn't that sound like a lot of us? Common ground.
I realize that I have been inundated this year with political crap, religious crap and commercial crap. I have spent way too much time thinking about what she said, what he said, what he did, what the fox said.
So for 2014 I have declared focus my resolution. Focus on the good of the bad. Focus on humanity and not hilarity. Focus on things of lasting importance. Denying myself a negative reaction to a ludicrous position taken, an insidious idea, a temptress, a barb, an insecurity.
Expunged negativity — That would have to add more focus for the good and peace would be it's side effect.
Don and I were watching ducks swimming happily in the pond during a downpour recently. I made the statement that they looked comfortable even in the rain.
Don replied "Like water off a ducks back." And that my friends is my mantra for 2014. Happy New Year Everyone!!
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