All I want for Christmas
Peace on earth, joy, my true love devastatingly handsome in his new sweater, kids giggling over stupid mechanical dancing hamsters, one gift so thoughtful that I get weepy, dogs who would rather snooze than chew the tree and all the presents underneath that I have now re-wrapped four times, cats who vacate my chair gracefully (and vacuum up the hairs they left behind with the minivac they so thoughtfully purchased), snow, silly string, the ability to forget the year when the only thing I desperately wanted was toe socks, our landlord informing us that he likes us so much that we can have the place for free, a slow divine meal, good riddles in the crackers for once (once!) in my life, Christmas calls from across the sea that don’t leave me wading in a puddle of maudlin, one magical instant where the whole world stops, takes a breath, feels a tingle, and realizes it doesn’t have to be like this. A day so fine that there’s no place on earth we’d rather be.
Batteries included.
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- ditto… except the part about Dean in the sweater…
— Terry Eaton Dec 22, 7:48pm # - And health. Merry Christmas.
— Heck Dec 22, 9:00pm # - Food enough for the world to eat, clean water supply to bathe and slack the thirst of babies of the world; a better understanding among humans that humans have a tendency to be shits and the ability to take the path above such tendencies; literacy for everyone and giving those persons one book that becomes a favorite for them; to know that the good I’ve done helped to create more good in the world; to see my daughter’s face in the morning; to kiss my Gran on the cheek and smell her face cream and be reminded of the few happy childhood times; to sit full, relaxed and warm and count the blessings that are my friends; to laugh at Chevy Chase antics as Clark Griswold in NL’s Christmas Vacation no matter how many times I’ve viewed it; to continue being grateful for being a privileged individual living in such a rich society that I can help others knowing my own family doesn’t have to go without…
And dark chocolate.
— roggey Dec 22, 10:33pm # - That everyone will stop, look around at those around them and realize that this, this spirit of happiness that prevails this time of year; this is what it means to be human.
— B Dec 22, 11:15pm # - Could not have put it better! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
— abi Dec 23, 1:12am # - All I would like is just an end to general stupidity (or at least force the stupid ones to wear signs)...
— Jerry Dec 23, 1:52am # - I’d be content with a good turkey dinner on the 25th.
— Simon Dec 23, 5:14pm # - Thank you for the little lump in my throat, Gail, and many thanks for all the wonderful words you string together in such lovely ways.
Even though I am not a Christian, I still feel my heart swell during this time of year with the promise that is the birth of hope.
Many happy days ahead for you and yours.
— Jeff Dec 24, 3:06am # - Merry Christmas, Gail and thanks for Brackets and best wishes for the coming year.
— steve Dec 24, 5:48am # - I’ll ditto those best wishes. Thanks for all your great posts over the past year, and may you be blessed with many more visits from your muse(s) in the New Year…
— michael Dec 24, 8:49pm # - I’d like your slacker boyfriend, Dean, to suddenly get an urge to begin blogging once more (and the peasants rejoiced!) and for the blog muses never to desert him again (no pressure, though)...Or at least get that image of Smirky-Boy down lower on the Textism page so I don’t have to see it every time I stop by…
I wanted a new country for Christmas, so I’m going to Canada (Vancouver), of all places. Just checking it out, sniffing around…
One of the best parts of the past year has been visiting your glowing hearth on the web, joining the conversations, laughing at the goofy, lovable dogs over on their page. Thanks for the humanity, intelligence, and humor. You are a light in the darkness indeed!
— wizmo Dec 24, 9:37pm # - Oh yeah. Dean. Where’s Dean? That’d be nice for Christmas, too.
— Heck Dec 24, 10:19pm # - Merry Christmas to you and yours – with thanks for what you do for me and mine.
— ~Alberto Dec 25, 9:47pm # - A Black Adder marathon and a bottle of Lagavulin (after the divine food). We’re rather modest in these parts. All the best!
— katatonik Dec 25, 11:29pm # - Joyeux Noël !
— mickael Dec 25, 11:47pm # - Thanks for all the warm wishes.
Hope you had a great day, and that today isn’t a slump of nursing excesses, only enjoying the finest leftover sandwiches ever, while being thoroughly entertained by the tube, your new book, and that damn dancing hamster (which, with luck, will soon done in by the dogs, once they stop being terrified of it and figure out that, hey, we can totally take this thing).
— gail Dec 26, 4:12pm # - Hope every single thing came true, and that all the batteries were the right size.
All the best to you & your family always, Gail.
— peggy Dec 28, 6:13pm # - Toe socks ! Le détail qui tue !!
And you wish “the ability to forget” ?? But forgetting is the natural tendency of life itself ! I wish a full, detailed, precise, frightful memory.
— Papotine Jan 2, 2:27pm # - “Good riddles in the crackers.” You have no idea how confusing that was to this reader, to whom a cracker is something you eat and a riddle is, well, something you are.
— Prentiss Riddle Jan 6, 8:07pm #
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