A note before bed.\u00a0 The nights are long now.\u00a0 The sun set at 4:32 PM today and won’t rise again until 7:48AM.\u00a0 This is good news for those who like dark, cool nights for sleeping.\u00a0 I do.<\/p>\n
We’ve received a few of those letters in the mail; you know the ones, dense paragraphs filled with people you don’t know, pets and projects.\u00a0 One of them stood out.\u00a0 It was from a former partner of Kate’s.\u00a0 She wrote of a year filled with her husband’s boss, “and former friend,” indicted for several felonies.\u00a0 She went on to detail a year with the usual kind of vaguely horrific stuff that happens in all our lives, but usually goes unrecorded, suffered, yes, but not written down.\u00a0 It was wonderful and made me hopeful for this folk art form.<\/p>\n
We also get a few Christmas cards each year, fewer and fewer since I haven’t sent cards for decades and Kate hasn’t either.\u00a0 My favorite one so far this year came from cousin Melinda and her husband, Bill, aka, the Hoosier Cowboy.\u00a0 It had two guys on horses greeting each other in the snow.\u00a0 The line below them read, From our Outfit to Yours.<\/p>\n
The bookcase consolidation and purging, moving the exercise equipment and downstairs TV project moved closer to completion today.\u00a0 It would look better with built-ins.<\/p>\n
Brother Mark is back in Bangkok and Woolly brother Mark is back in Minnesota.\u00a0 Brother Mark had an accident in Phnom Penh. He was hit by a motorcycle, but not injured too badly.\u00a0 This just before he left for Bangkok.<\/p>\n
Sister Mary, in Singapore, has used all of her vacation days this year to complete her dissertation.\u00a0 She handed it in and now awaits a verdict as to its acceptability so she can move onto the next stage of the process.\u00a0 No fun, that waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A note before bed.\u00a0 The nights are long now.\u00a0 The sun set at 4:32 PM today and won’t rise again until 7:48AM.\u00a0 This is good news for those who like dark, cool nights for sleeping.\u00a0 I do. We’ve received a few of those letters in the mail; you know the ones, dense paragraphs filled with … Continue reading A Truthful Christmas Letter<\/span>