Alternative Christmas Cards
Playing catch up A chance glance during a chance 'pop in' to a shop I never really frequent, and a box of 100 postcards of the front cover of The New Yorker from over ten decades, spoke to me. Alternative Christmas cards for all the ones not sent this year. Today there is time and space to compose 'meaningful' messages to close and cherished friends. Thus a lovely two hours of tea drinking and writing alternative Christmas cards has ensued matching wonderful front cover images with specific friends. Such joy. It has also been an alternative christmas. Christmas morning, after an early phonecall and dash to see if an ambulance was needed (not was the decision), did allow for some reflective writing, a bracing walk, and creative thinking for future 'work' options. Christmas lunch plans were hastily reimagined. Later that night/early morning the ambulance needed and 9 hours in Resus followed. Thankfully, for now, slow recovery appears to be the trajec...
