It’s Cyber Monday today.

It’s the online version of Black Friday.

That sounds like something to survive….like a time when the Terminator would show up in my driveway….naked in a cloud of teleportation fog….ready to find and kill me for some future transgression.

Or….it could just be a day when online retailers are setting the Postman up for a hard week with all their deep discounts.

Even knowing that I might be making it hard on myself if I ordered anything, I found myself gravitating towards sites that might show me what I could possibly want….or what I could imagine someone in my family might want.

And, like most folks in the world, I was working hard in my head to invent a need.

I need to sharpen the knives in our kitchen….but….wouldn’t it be nice to add to the collection and get something that was a little bit better….or….a little bit different if I already had what was good enough?

A new tool?

Something to educate me? Make me better than I am? A “thing” that might heal something broken?

Something better than what already filled my life?

I love that feeling of being able to say,”LOOK WHAT I GOT YOU!”….but….I don’t know what anybody in the family really needs right now.

I’m not ready to jump into the pool of consumption on a specified day.

I’m not ready for the pressure of inventing a need.

Still…it’s tempting to check out the deals.

It’s a national pastime….waiting for the day when availability meets invented desire and the consumerism that is everywhere explodes…..BAM….I WANT THIS! I WANT THAT!! OH!!! I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THAT I NEEDED THAT!!!”.

Ahhhhhh, who am I kidding? It’s hard to do anything after a rough nights sleep….much less be a good and energetic hunter/gatherer.

I guess that if you’re going to buy, it’s wise to “buy smart”.

Today is good deal day….why not jump in?

Anyway, it’s a good thing to join the horde and descend on the new grain….locusts eating when they aren’t really hungry, locusts caught up in the cloud of compatriots….strangers side by side, eating until they can’t fly and they fall to the ground, anchored by “need”.

Things will be different when I’m fully outfitted to live the simple life!

I wonder if there’s any good deals that will help me downsize my posessions?

I should look in the “simple life” aisle.

What do the people in my life need?

They need “new”….that’s what they need.

We need new.

What’s so hard about that?

New….for a moment.

New….and wrapped … a present.

A present….like an unexpected flower from a Winter field.

Good grief….just surprise me.

It’s Cyber Monday.