santa miss the flight

Santa missed the flight today, so he sending mine by express mail next week. That is a whole next confusion but I am still enjoying my Christmas and Carnival without my Christmas gift, but if you live like me everyday is Christmas. Every day we need be thankful to GOD for being alive. The people's enemy is out there running wild looking looking for who it can devour, and many of us are playing into its hand, thinking that we are smart or smarter. Every day we need to seek divine protection to avoid being in any "accident", because 'accidents' happen when you are not prepared, not looking, and it is often not how it look, but how it is. Capiche? I am working with santa and not letting off on him today.

Sometimes I wonder about santa because if you take the "N" from in the middle of santa, and put it on the end, it is a whole different entity. I wonder if they are related, and maybe we should wonder about a whole lot more.

Anyway, santa says that his missing today's flight which was all set up and good to go since winter began yesterday, on time as usual, was not due to any global warming situation, nor had anything to do with the size of donkey required not being available this year, but because he could not guarantee to be available worldwide until January 4th, 2012, after he had sipped his first Carib in the VIP lounge at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport today. I not getting in santa business.

I was on the College Street sidewalk overpass today taking in the Bay Road Christmas traffic scenery, the new Chinese building, the Carnival Victory and Celebrity Solstice cruise liners at Port Zante [I should have made a panorama shot], the BBQ vendors, and the New York City sort of movements, when a local lady passes by and does the Shakespeare thing, you know, talking loudly to herself but for me to hear. How she would this and that to people if they take she picture. I think I could understand her position, because she was all tied up with slings about her neck to hold her hands above her waist. Now who would want to take a photo of so unfortunate a person. She should give GOD thanks that she is alive to see today and be praying 24x7 to get healed for Christmas.

Many of our people are still living in the dark ages and in ignorance. I usually keep off these topics, and should just drop this where it is. Some things we have to live with, but the question is, whether we have to live with it by accident or by design. In any event it can be fixed, and in my view, it needs to be fixed. The next question is, do we want it fixed? I leave that for the people who think that they are doing the right thing. I am not saying that this could point to people having reasons to do what they do, in regard to certain violent activity, but it all adds up, and when people can't take it and  don't see a way out, they create one. I do not wish that on us, but it happens, unintentionally.

 The Bay Road is the BBQ center for the season, before and after. Chicken is the most ate relish in the world. I see tourists come ashore just to get a BBQ chicken, and we have some of the best prepared in SKN. GOD created Eve to assist Adam, but I am not sure that she can do a BBQ chicken better than him, yet. Miggy, please remind the bro that the use of proper headgear for the assisting chef is a health requirement. I would not like for him to be shut down for the season. The health authority is not making any joke with the nation's health for Carnival, or at any other time. Do the right thing, all the time.

This week and the next the Basseterre Bay could host a few pleasure crafts of various categories. I notice that every Christmas season we have visitors who come for the lime. The Port Zante Marina is usually full and the remaining boats are moored in the Basseterre Bay, which I understand is sheltered. I am sure that White House Bay also has its select visitors too.

Another visitor in the Basseterre Bay earlier this week.

The Police bike patrol on Port Zante. I would have thought that we might have a dozen police bikes and riders by now, but I suspect that will come. Once upon a time policemen had large size-28 man framed bikes, but maybe that was the prime mode of transportation back then, and crime was practically non-existent then. Today a bike patrol is a necessity in every modern City, including Basseterre.

This is the season, and the transformation of the Basseterre landscape for the next 14-days has begun. At best everyone descends on Basseterre for a lime everyday, and with another couple hundred persons from the two and three daily visiting cruise liners ashore, as some people does describe it "the place going look stink"  ... I don't try to interpret that expression, but I think the City sidewalks will be jam pack. Who not here missing it, but sometimes it is better to be here in spirit than in person, but for most of us "on the ground" the real thing can't be beat.

 All our people will not have a jolly good time, either Christmas or Carnival, because it is their nature not to have a jolly good time. We cannot be sorry for them, that is their choice, we must ensure that we have a jolly good time, and not at the expense of anyone else. As long as you are alive it is incumbent upon you to treat yourself to a jolly good time, sampling all the joy and happiness and love available for the season. Life is short, and no matter what pain, suffering, or whatever you may have, that will pass, and sooner than you think, especially if you want it to go away.

I have found the solution to most and many things in SK is to live like a tourist and to live everyday like it is Christmas.