I don't believe in God.
But I do believe in Christmas letters, even with the word "Christ" in Christmas. However, my wife and I prefer to call it a Holiday Greetings, in part because some years I don't write it before Christmas.
This year, though, I was amazingly early -- a secular Christmas miracle.
The theme is how an asterisk should have accompanied our usual reply of "Fine" to the query of store employees, "How're you doing?" In our Holiday Greetings we add the asterisk: Fine*
Here it is in both PDF and JPEG formats.
Download 2021 Christmas Letter PDF
This reads like it was copied verbatim from the Babylon Bee.
Posted by: Tendzin | December 25, 2021 at 03:50 PM
Happy Christmas, Brian, to you and yours. Much (continued) appreciation for your lovely blog.
And to all of the gang here, Spence, Dungeness, Tendzin, Osho Robbins, Manjit, the single-focus GSD-bashers Uchit and Manoj, and Ron, and the rest of you (as well as one-time commenters and now possibly occasional visitors and silent lurkers, like One Initiated and Tucson and x/cc, et al): Have a great holiday season and New Year, everyone. Cheers, all.
Posted by: Appreciative Reader | December 25, 2021 at 06:55 PM
Thank you Appreciative!
Merry Christmas to you, Brian Ji, and the rest the rest of the misfits as well.
Posted by: Spence Tepper | December 25, 2021 at 09:42 PM
Oh, um, you too, obviously, if you're seeing this! :---). My best wishes to you for Xmas and the New Year.
Posted by: Appreciative Reader | December 25, 2021 at 09:48 PM
@ AR
> Oh, um, you too .....<
Hahahaha ...and ....thank you AR for your appreciated wishes.
Posted by: um | December 26, 2021 at 01:59 AM
@ AR
Conversing with a french scholar he send me a quote of this man:
https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/does-any-of-this-still-apply/
There are some on that page about the way how people think. He addresses the matter of thinking about democraty but it should be no problem to free it from that topic and use his quotes in general terms or specifi others.
Yes yes protocolists forgive me the trespassing .... regulations after all are there to serve humans, but humans do not exist to be controlled by the same regulations....these are days of peace .... hahaha ...and light.
Posted by: um | December 26, 2021 at 04:30 AM
@ Brian's boisterous blog band (4B club)
Yippie ki-yay, keep dem bloggies rollin'!
May all things you're missin' be waitin' at
the end of the ride.
Happy belated holidays and to all a new year of insights.
Posted by: Dungeness | December 26, 2021 at 08:20 AM