There is no cold when love is warm.

Today's Tids Issue 3,763

For a Loverly New Year:

As we come to the end of a year, I thought I’d jot down a few random notes about love. --Once love enters a heart, it never leaves. While love may fade, it never diminishes. Love may flicker; There may be clouds of doubt obscuring a steady beacon. When it is love it is in there. True love is unequivocal. Unyielding. Eternal. --Love is at the core of mythology, poetry, prose, drama, comedy, song and philosophy. Wars have been fought over love. Mountains have been scaled for love. Oceans have been sailed for love. Love is motivational. --The wise speak of love: “Love conquers all.” “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” “If I can’t find love, I’ll take chocolate.” Statesmen or authors, actors and comedians, educators and soldiers write of love. Love has been defined, divined and refined. Love is inspirational. --Love can be between a man and a woman. A woman and a woman. A man and a man. Parents love children. Children love parents. Friends love friends. Coaches and teachers love players and students. There are romantic fools. And those hopelessly in love. People give love generously to people they don’t know, they can’t see, they have never touched. Love is human. --Through the eye of cinematographer, love is two people running slowly through fields of daisies. Hair flowing. Clothes flaring. Eyes connected to eyes. Until they enfold each other in their arms. When the warmth flows between urgent bodies. --It is a glance across a crowded room, a glint and a response. You may see love connected on battlefields, in courtrooms, living rooms and ball rooms. People sing about love, tap dance for love, act silly for love. Sweaty bodies writhe, Smiling faces kiss. Longing arms embrace. Love is a fantasy. Actors always know what to say. –Yet there are no script writers in life. Sustaining love can be hard. But working at love strengthens love. Love endures through understanding, listening, feeling, learning, giving. You bite your tongue. You laugh and cry…together. You support. You share. --There is unrequited love. There is puppy love. There is tough love. –There is innocent love. A child may only know what it feels when reaching up to a giving hand; though the arm that may be riddled with hypodermic marks; the mind clouded by raging substance. The child feels the only love it knows. Love is wanting. Love is confusing.--Love never falters. Love is support in intense darkness. Fulfilling love’s demands is a challenge that never ends. Love is always fighting to bring back the goodness. Once love enters the heart it never leaves.

How could you not like Debbie Reynolds. I never follow stars personal lives. I just look at how they dazzle on the stage and screen, and nobody could brighten up a room better than “Tammy”. I first remember going ga-ga over the gal with the smile in Three Little Words, the story of songwriters Burt Kalmer and Harry Ruby staring a huge cast in which she stood out -- Astair, Skelton, Ellen, Dahl, Wynn and DeHaven. But, she is the youngster who fought Gene Kelly all the way as she tried to match that star and super dancing partner Donald O’Conner. She survived and won the praise of Kelly who never wanted her. She was a battler there and throughout her living, making comeback after comeback to survive after being looted by Husbands. She never looked down to me. Never dark, not morose. She went out with her head held high. That’s the way she was.

First, an apology for all of the missing commas in yesterday’s Tids, and a few egregious typos too. I hope you found the meanings beyond the grammatical fog.

It appears to me and many that the outgoing Prez is dropping a lot of Political Poison Pills has he walks towards the door. Historians are saying that the last President who went out creating new problems for a successor was Herbert Hoover, the Ex who was bitter over his defeat at the hands of FDR.

The Question:

Name five movies and three songs generally attributed to Debbie Reynolds. I’ve already given you plenty of hints.

The Headlines:

--US Jobless Claims Down; Markets Flat; Santa, Post Trump Rally Losing Pep; 20,000 Quest Waiting for Next Year.

--Syria Announces Truce Backed By Turkey And Russia.

--Debbie Reynolds Dead A 84.

--Kerry Anti-Israel Stance Denounced In Congress By Dems And Repubs.

--Obama Irks Repubs By Creating Two new Monuments In Utah And Nevada; Closes Lands For Natural Resource Exploration.

--Toshiba Nuclear Misstep Could Wipe Out Shareholder Equity.

Just in case you haven’t been keeping score, the UN has voted for more resolutions against Israel than for Iran, North Korea and Russia combined.

I didn’t like keeping score last weekend as my picks went down in flames like the last bridge in Mosul. Maybe I was getting cocky after a series of strong weeks, but 156-83 -2 is not what I was hoping for. It is that season when upsets can be common as some teams give up, some try to save a miserable season, and some play sub after having it locked up. That will make this week’s picks a little more difficult too. OK we know that NE is Playing a good Miami team where a win will give the Pats#1 seed throughout. Miami is in regardless and is playing a number 2 QB. NE was embarrassed last year and they will win it. Another meaningful game for the NFC North is Detroit and Green Bay. I see GB winning. Surprisingly, with that Detroit loss, The Skins are also still in it but must win against a very good Giants team who is in it for sure. I’m picking the Skins. But if the Skins and Lions both lose, the Carolina at Tampa Bay game becomes meaningful. I have TB winning. So with my scenario above Washington gets the nod as the last wild card team.  The only other X factor game is Oakland at Denver where Oakland could have shot at #1 overall seed depending on what NE does earlier. I’m picking Denver. The rest is a big guess. I’m going Pitt over Cleveland (in what traditionally has been a rival game), Philly over Dallas, Houston over Tenn, Buff over J-e-t-s, Minn over Chi, Cinn over Balt, Indy over Jax, Seattle over SF, Atlanta over NO, KC over SD and Arizona over LA.

An analysis of Obama’s 8 years of foreign strategy comes to the conclusion that it was diplomatic malpractice.

I believe that the Baseball Classic is one of the most ill-conceived sports events of all time. All it does is subject players to possible injury when they should be in Spring Training getting ready for the season. I have no interest in who wins or loses. All I want is for my players to come back whole! Get rid of it!

By the way, I lied Debbie Reynolds in The Gazebo, with Glenn Ford. We all have obscure movies we enjoyed tucked away in our brains. This one popped out yesterday.

I was in the advertising industry all of my life, and this morning I realized how out of touch I am when reading that Taco-Belle in a one day effort with a “Sponsored Lens” received 240 Million, that’s Million with a capital “M”, views in one day! (Note: A sponsored lens is a camera digitally built in to the

There are many times when I just don’t feel like talking. So, the makers of all of these new devices that shout out in their promotion, “Now you can talk to Alexa or Siri,” don’t impress me at all. Basically, I have always been shy around strange women.

In case you are keeping score, the IPhone 7 features did not impress Galaxy 7 owners. Galaxy 7 Owners moved to newer phones within Samsung. –Maybe the real tech battle is between the social networks who are looking to get the edge with new technology. The biggest battle so far is being waged between Twitter’s Periscope now with 360Dgree live video streaming and “Facebook Live”. My brains aren’t big enough to keep up. And, my contentment factor is strong enough for me to remain complacent.

It seems that celebs are being slammed for saying that as kids they thought Carrie Fisher was cute. Too sexist the PC’ers say. So I guess my opener about Mom Debbie will send me to hell. But, to a 13 year old kid, the 18 year old Debbie was as cute as it gets.

I’d like to think that Charles Sheen’s antics throughout his life would not be those followed by young people. This eternal rambunctious child must have been on whatever he has been on for most of his adult life yesterday when he tweeted, “God, Take Trump Next” (After Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). Why do we give airheads microphones?

The Answer:

Debbie wowed audiences with “Hey, Look at me Now” from the Unsinkable Molly Brown.’ And then there is “Tammy”. She also is remembered for “Good Mornin’ ” from American in Paris and the quirky Abadaba Honeymoon. Her movies were American in Paris, Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Gazebo, Singing Nun, Meet me In Las Vegas, Bundle of Joy, This Happy feeling, The Rat Race, June Bride and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis.

Hope you all have a lovely day.