The girls have come back to the empty nest, there’s a fire in the fireplace, my wife threw me out of the kitchen to cook some surprise, the tree is glittering, and only I have escaped the family doings for a minute to wish the RBC family exactly the Christmas you are hoping for: Christian, secular; ascetic, overflowing with stuff; feeding each other, feeding the homeless down at the shelter; on the beach, on the slopes, or on the couch…whatever rings your silver bells. Be happy.
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Your post rings my silver bells. Thanks.
A wonderful Christmas here, my mother and sister drove down to spend, respectively, the month and the week with us. Everybody loved every gift they got, the dinner turned out well, and my 2 year old, Victor, was diving from the couch into the spent wrappings pile. My cancer(s) appear to be gone, and the chemo necessitated cataract surgery has left me seeing clearly without glasses for the first time in my life. (I tell people that if I’d known the results would be this good, I’d have gotten cataracts years ago!)
Hope you’ve all had as nice a year, and as nice a holiday.
Brett, that is excellent news. Well done your doctors, and well done your immune system etc.
To Brett and to everybody else here, a happy Christmas or whatever you’re having. (Like a Jewish holiday in the Diaspora, where I live Christmas lasts 48 hours, so it’s not even as though I’m late.)
Good news, Brett. Your audience waits breathlessly to observe the effect of this new “seeing clearly” in your forthcoming substantive comments
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It should, at the very least, improve my spelling, as my peripheral neuropathy is starting to go away, (On schedule.) so I can type better, and my vision has improved to the point where I can *see* the mistakes I do make. I anticipate less stupid mistakes, as the “chemo-brain” is mostly gone, too. I don’t, however, anticipate suddenly renouncing my life-long philosophical stances…
Don’t worry, Brett - the liberal chemo will go through and remove your prior political beliefs:) Congratulations on the recovery, and thanks for the info on eye surgery (I hope to get a cataract removed this winter).
Michael, I hope that Christmas went as well as it looked like in your post.