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Raoul’s Two Cents: December 26, 2025

Unpredictables

If you don’t want to ponder, move on to the Jokes.

It’s after Christmas. If you’re like me, you’re still in social limbo. It isn’t really a holiday anymore but neither is it a work day.

This has been a very strange Christmas for me. I know several people who are grieving the loss of a loved one and a few who took a financial hit. Then there are those who are celebrating better health and better wealth — a perfect Yin Yang, Day and Night, Black and White paradox.

As we come to the end of the year, it’s a coin toss of which path to take — the road to optimism or the road to fear and depression? If possible, I’d like to wait at the back of the line and observe what awaits people’s choices, but I know I can’t. We’re all riding the same train of time … always moving forward together. Is life half empty or half full? So I guess it’s that old attitude that makes a difference.

Don McLean’s attitude was quite clear when he wrote Dreidel (a Jewish top) and his lyrics come to mind:

DREIDEL
I feel like a spinning top or a dreidel
The spinning don’t stop when you leave the cradle
You just slow down
Round and around this world you go
Spinning through the lives of the people you know
We all slow down

[Chorus]
How you gonna keep on turnin’ from day to day?
How you gonna keep from turnin’ your life away?

[Post-Chorus]
No days you can borrow, no time you can buy
No trust in tomorrow, it’s a lie

During moments of uneasiness I pick up my Bible and flip through the pages of wisdom. Often, it allows me to take the next step — not always with full confidence in my abilities but with faith knowing that a power beyond myself is there to guide me onward.

But this is just me.

TGIF people!

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Quotes of the Week

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” — Psalm 20:7

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” — Proverbs 3:5-6

Joke of the Week

Thanks to Art of Sierra Madre, California

Parting Shots

Thanks to James of Los Angeles, CA

Thanks to Art of Sierra Madre, CA

Thanks to Jennifer of Los Angeles, CA

Thanks to Tom of Pasadena, CA

Thanks to Mona of New York

Thanks to Norm of Encino, CA

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