Baby Alligators

The Gator state – from whence we have just come – is a marvelous state for vacations. Where else can you crack open fresh coconuts, ride 4-wheelers, and call lizards “baby alligators” to entertain the children? Even more entertaining of course is seeing a real alligator, that relic of peanut-brained reptilian evolution. Alligators work well as threats for the kids: “don’t go in the back garden because the gators sometimes lay there”: as training in safety – “when an alligator runs after you, run and change directions because they can’t turn easily”: and as prophecies – “if you keep complaining you’ll turn into an alligator yourself”!

Children must be kept firmly in check on vacation. That’s why we gave them sugar cereals every morning, Dunkin’ Donuts surprise stops, fresh-squeezed orange juice, endless digital movies of their antics, and pool time till they turned as blue as the water itself.

As for the parents, it’s hard to overstate the value of doing no work for a stretch. Somehow the spatial distance from home, the 80-degree weather, and fresh mahi-mahi made many issues shrink in importance. Greek grammar can’t argue with the beach and sunshine helps gloss over the grey hairs. The sun also baked out every runny nose or sniffle in the children. What’s more, January 6^th was Theophany on the Orthodox Church calendar (a.k.a. The Baptism of our Lord) where a service takes place called The Blessing of the Waters. A true title is many respects when one thinks of fish, the ocean, and even those rivers which have those pesky alligators.

St. Nicodemus

Comments

[G Comney]

Orthodox church has much apology to make in Western World:
protocommunist massacres by Palamite Zealotes under Hesychast
hyperventilatory halucinations, Cantacuzene taxation driving farmers
to embrace Turks, Komyakoviac Obshchina giving birth to soviet
communism as reactionary casuistry opposing Napoleon's
defeudalization, Cosmus Aitalius being patron originator of of modern
genocide as seen by the massacre of Turks in Crete by Venizelos. Is
all masochistic because reject Original Sin. THeir hypnotic incantations are designed to turn listeners into terrorists. Russian churches have Islamic Minarets for such reasonings.

[Miles Berkedge]

Hypocrits! It is true, much of America has contributed to freedom in the world, but those in America who consider Eastern Europe to be corrupt are from papal clique that gave America Tammany Hall. Roger Taney who wrote Dred Scott was Catholic. The hygiene crisis in America with food poisoning is from Catholics. The work ethic in America is dead because of Catholics. Catholic casuistry drive litigation explosion. They are turning America into Mafia Fascist Molestor Banana Republic. Their customers are turning to India to find reliable workers.

[Miles Berkedge]

Hypocrits! It is true, much of America has contributed to freedom in the world, but those in America who consider Eastern Europe to be corrupt are from papal clique that gave America Tammany Hall. Roger Taney who wrote Dred Scott was Catholic. The hygiene crisis in America with food poisoning is from Catholics. The work ethic in America is dead because of Catholics. Catholic casuistry drive litigation explosion. They are turning America into Mafia Fascist Molestor Banana Republic. Their customers are turning to India to find reliable workers.