GOOD LIST? SOMEONE NAUGHTY? SANTA? FATAL FUN-GUS. ALRIGHT, ALL YOU PSYCHIC SCROOGE VAMPIRES, DARK GRINCH DRACULAS, AND ANTI-SANTA CRYPTIC ZOMBIES . . . CHRISTMAS EVE IS 14 DAYS AWAY, AND THE STREETS ARE DARK, AND NOT EVEN A MOUSE CAN SEE! CHALLENGE, IN THE NAME OF CHILDREN, EVERYWHERE, JUST ONE, BRIGHT, STRING OF CHRISTMAS, OR HOLIDAY, IF YOU WILL, LIGHTS, ON A DOOR, IN A WINDOW, ON A BUSH IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE, OR LINING A FENCE, A LIGHTED STAR, A CANDY CANE, OR PLASTIC SANTA, ELVES, OR RUDOLPH, A MENORAH, SCENE OF THE HOLY BIRTH . . . COME ONE, HISTORICALLY, CHRISTMAS EVE IS THE TIME THAT WARS HAVE STOPPED OVERNIGHT, IN GOOD WILL, THAT MIRACLES FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE ARE PERFORMED, THAT GESTURES OF NEIGHBORLY LOVE OR THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY, COME INTO PLAY. CONSIDER THIS A GIFT TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT DRIVE THE STREETS, IN HOPE OF FINDING JOY, PEACE, LOVE, SHARING AND CARING, THAT CAN BE AS SIMPLE AS ONE SINGLE STRING OF LIGHTS. REMEMBER, WHO SIMPLE CHARLIE BROWN'S CHRISTMAS TREE WAS DECORATED, AND HOW POWERFUL THE MEMORY OF THAT LITTLE SKINNY TREE, ALMOST BENDING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE LIGHTS, STAR AND CHRISTMAS TREE BULBS . . . THAT IS MAGIC, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE MUCH . . . AND THE GIVING IS WORTH MORE THAN THE GIFT, A COLLECTIVE GIFT TO MANY, TO ALL, TO BE GIVEN UP, ON THAT SILENT NIGHT, WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN, BRINGING PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MAN . . . GIVE CHILDREN, SOME OF THE NOSTALGIA WE GOT, BACK IN THE 50'S WHEN FAMILIES WERE TOGETHER, AND AS I REMEMBER, THERE WOULD BE ONLY ONE HOUSE IN 50 WITHOUT CHRISTMAS OR HOLIDAY LIGHTS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND . . . MAKE PEACE HAPPEN! LET'S END THIS YEAR, FILLED WITH MAGIC, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT LOVE, JOY AND PEACE WILL RING IN THE NEW YEAR, AND THESE LIGHTS ARE SYMBOLS OF A NEW BRIGHT AND MAGICAL FINISH TO THIS YEAR, AND A BRILLIANT DETERMINATION TO MAKE THE NEXT YEAR THE BEST, YET TO COME . . . MERRY CHRISTMAS!

It's A Wonderful Life

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings . . . but when the innocent are shot and killed, all the angels weep . . . (Koterda, Chicago)

Poverello Center for the Homeless

Between you and homelessness, can be just one missed paycheck, one child's broken leg, or 201 university jobs cut.

So, what might we do now?  Contact any of the following organizations: Partnership Health Center, United Way's "Reaching Home" program or the Poverello Center.  An easy way to help and learn it to spend a few hours on January 29, 2016, during Project Homeless Families and Individuals, about 200 volunteers are needed.  Contact skennedy@co.missoula.mt.us.  'Tis the Season . . .

Homeless Resident at the Poverello Center, Missoula, Montana--Soft Christmas Landing

Santa . . . Montana Board of Regents Needs to Be on Your Naughty List!

One University in Montana, is killing the other University . . . these are federally funded, state universities, entitled to due process and equal protection, for funding, grants, endowments, support, matching state funds to federal fund allocations!  Just for a second, let's pretend that the Montana Board of Regents, is the parent, and the Montana State University and the University of Montana are both, children, both with different talents, attributes, contributions to the state, nation and world, different, but should be equal, in the love and devotions, a parents, would put into and support, each children with a unique personality, drive, and goals, and because it 'tis the season, it might behoove, a parent figure, to turn to the good Book, and see that parents are admonished, not to allow children to fight, quarrel with one another, or to compete for love and attention; therefore, being the one in charge of the distribution of joint and several appropriations, monies, gifts, endowments, foundation allotments, faculty pay and distribution between the two schools, any wise, parent figure, would treat, both children, fairly, given their distinct and different abilities, all being part of the contributory whole of the wellness of the state, with a high priority on the value of not only getting well paid jobs, after graduation, but, in truly, loving knowledge, wisdom, philosophy, the arts and humanities, seeing how empty the mind and world, no less Montana, would be without them,

I Love Missoula, Love the University of Montana, Love Montana, and Fucking Love the Humanities and Fine Arts! 

Christmas Cheer From the Missoula, Montana, Bus Terminal

Happy Holidays From the Break Espresso Cafe'

Home and Study Hall for the Griz . . . Don't Sleep Next to a Grizzly!

EACH HOUSE, APARTMENT, STORE FRONT . . . LIGHT UP OUR WORLD WITH ONE BRIGHT STRING OF LIGHTS FOR CHRISTMAS PEACE AND JOY!

Talk about the Break Cafe' . . . As a Christmas Gift to You . . . I Am Not Going to Write for Two Weeks, Until Christmas Is Over!  Give'n You a Break!

Bad Ass Con Law Chick, Reporting from the Poverello Center, Missoula, Montana

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!