Boxing Day

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I haven't been on here because ... well ... because I have been on TikTok watching and hoping against hope that something shifts in Palestine. Well spoiler alert, nothing has shifted. If anything the Israelis have doubled down and managed to continue their bombing campaign through Christmas. Meanwhile in a completely tone deaf Christmas message from both the White House and Downing Street, they have put out moronic Christmas messages. With Rishi Sunak playing cricket with tins of Coke (which is supporting genocide in Gaza btw) and there are people tap dancing to the Nutcracker in an almost uncomfortably racist video - just you know black people tap dancing, of course. 

But I am not here to go on about people who actually, it wouldn't make a difference if they didn't exist. No one on this planet would miss Sunak nor Biden if they disappeared. They are the faceless, ineffectual puppets which are put into power by those who stand to benefit from them ineffectitude. How comes it that people can only seem to make any bank by being actually evil? How comes it? The marriage of Lucifer and Ahriman is taking place right before our eyes and the people of Gaza, where Christ appeared two thousand years ago, their blood is being split. Maybe the conspiracy theorists are right after all. This is a blood sacrifice to the unholy spirits. Death at Christmas, like some strange anti-Christ ritual as the evil is birthed into the world. How terrifying is that thought? That these people are ushering a new era drenched in blood, some strange Satanic ritual is being conducted before our eyes.

I barely sleep. Barely. I have been drinking too much. Really. So my New Year Resolutions, in addition to:

Art - complete the zodiac

Piano - everyday

Write - daily

Run and exercise - daily

Get the house in order - I mean each room to be organised properly

Work in or on the garden - daily

and all of the rest is to drink much much less. Like once a month less.

I will need to find other ways to 'unwind'.

I think I will go straight to Bannatyne after school. I can do these things now. 

Go there and do admin and then run, etc

Such is life.

I fully appreciate the wonders of my life here. Fully. As Oisin would say.

Today, I find my life again. I did promise myself that. 


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