CHRISTMAS BROOM FOR SANTA CLEAN UP

A Christmas broom is better than a Christmas vacuum? Or a Christmas mop?

Those are reminders of work to do, work left undone. Not like a bottle of Chivas, which is a reminder to let it slide, you lush.

Pour a drink and sweep while Santa pushes the Christmas broom.

If you have a talisman that empowers you, then you know it goes. And if that talisman is a big red broom from your step-dad’s garage, you know who is doing the clean up.

It ain’t Santa, but he gives good advice.

‘Watch out while you’re putting things in order. It’s easy to throw out the good with the bad, and it’s not all bad.’

Whether you’re starting out new, or clearing space where you’re been for awhile, you need tools.

Start with a good broom, a talisman broom. Call it a Christmas broom.

How to tell a good broom, the right broom? Identify it by use. A steel brush scrapes paint off metal. The same brush makes a poor toothbrush.

A water-pic cleans teeth, a power washer would blow another hole in your face. Don’t use that.

The right broom fits your hands, removing any worries about a blisters. It works before you work.

The Right Broom For All Season Santa

I talked to Santa about cleaning up.

He was pissed and lit into me.

“Clean up? We’re talking about clean up? I do what I love doing, what the world loves me for, and we’re talking about clean up?” he said.

“Relax, it’s already cleaned up Santa. I’m asking you to remind others about being tidy.”

“Did I cry or pout when I did the extras this year for people trapped by the corona virus? No, I didn’t, and neither did you. It’s like I heard you say about tree leaves. Do you remember?” he asked.

“No,” I lied.

“And I quote, ‘Everyone loves the tree oxygen, but where are they when my huge tree drops its leaves?'” he said.

“I don’t think so.”

“Yes you did, and since you’ve been a good boy, you got a quiet leaf blower,” Santa said.

“You heard me?”

“Of course I heard you. I know when you’re sleeping, I know when you’re awake, I know if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake,” he said.

“What do you mean ‘be good for goodness sake,’ Santa?”

“You people,” he said. “How many times do I have to explain this?”

Christmas Broom Does Good For Goodness Sake

To a hammer, everything is a nail; to a Christmas broom, everything needs a push.

Which one are you? I’ll take a shot with push.

I look around my place, and because I’m practicing my empathy, I try and see it through my wife’s eyes. She sees what she calls shrines I’ve made to myself, but they’re not shrines.

They need a push?

There’s my Army service paper next to my Dad’s framed Marine Corps discharge certificate showing the two military men in the immediate family. They don’t just hand those out to everyone.

If that’s a shrine, it’s about more than me.

There’s a cluster of smaller framed pictures of my wife and kids on another shelf.

That’s a shrine. But, there’s a difference. Here’s the positive self-talk explaining the difference:

Sharing a life with others fills time with the love and joys of time best spent. Not well spent, but best spent.

Like a painter with blank canvas and a chainsaw sculptor with a log, time and experience tell them what to do.

Loved ones are the same, bringing the whole load of time and experience in memories, and that’s why they’re beloved in shrines.

I showed my wife the shelf of smaller famed shots of her and the kids and said, “You’re right, this isn’t adding anything to the space. I’ll get a box.”

I put the box on a high shelf in another room, but not before taking the pictures out for another secret shrine for another day.

Instead of cleaning shelves with the Christmas broom, I changed things.

What have you changed? Are you making a list and checking it twice?