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Post Cards Home (A Retrospective)
Celebrating Five Years of Post Cards
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Wherever you are today, I hope that you have something to celebrate!
Don Bergquist - December 28, 2012 - Lakewood, Colorado, USA
27 December 2012
Holiday Travel
I cannot believe I have been in Minnesota a week already!
HOW could this be possible!? Can a surfeit of cards, games, and food – taken in
the presence of friends and family, really constrict time so markedly as to
make an entire week disappear that quickly!?
26 December 2012
Boxing Day In Minnesota
Boxing Day
noun
(in
Britain) the first weekday after Christmas, when Christmas gifts orboxes are
given to employees, letter carriers, etc.
Origin:
1825–35
Karma
Disclaimer:
In
the interest of complete clarity – I must admit that this post is being delayed
until after Christmas so as not to spoil the surprise gift mentioned below. This
was written on the morning of December 16, 2012 and is an accurate depiction of
actual events.
Dictionary.com defines karma like this:
kar•ma [kahr-muh]
noun
25 December 2012
Christmas Day
The gifts are all given; the mess has all been managed; and
after all is said and done, what remains is the love the family has for each
other to bask in. The glow from the heart out-warms the glow from the hearth.
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24 December 2012
Christmas Eve
When we were children my siblings and I would eagerly await
the arrival of Santa on Christmas Eve. As midnight neared Miami, the Bergquist children
would eagerly await the mysterious multiplication of the mound of presents
under the tree.
23 December 2012
The Vortex
I have yet to understand it; but this place, more than any
other home I have ever spent significant time in, seem to emanate pure relaxation. There
seems to be some vortex here that serves to suck the desire to do anything
active out of one. Unless you bring work with you to do, it seems that the time
of day has no meaning here.
22 December 2012
A Lovely Day Draws On
Santa’s Elves must have come along between the time I wrote
that and the time I finished getting ready to head into town. Nearly everything
is back in its place. The wrappings have all been tidied into their box in the
corner of the office; the table as been reclaimed by Flo’s sewing. My step-mom,
last seen wrapping-up-a-storm is nowhere to be seen. I hear snores emanating from
other rooms, it is as if the previous flurry of activity was all a dream.
Three-Days-And-Counting
It looks as if one of Santa’s elves exploded in here! There
are bows, bags, and gift wrap all over my dad’s office.
For weeks my step-mom has been putting aside things for
wrapping. Gifts for cousins, siblings, in-laws, and assorted friends are strewn
all over the room in various stages of decoration. A few stocking-stuffers that
I had sent here to be wrapped are set to one side; they were sheathed in
brightly colored paper earlier today.
We have boxes of ornaments off to one side, we’ll be
trimming the tree in the living room a little later-on and then we can pile all
the tinsel-covered packages around the base; the apparent aftermath of a tragic
sleigh accident.
The mess in this room will be clear, the present strewn,
tree-festooned corner of the living room will be all lovely for a few days and
then the mess that I am surveying here will be a pale presage of the chaos that
will be all over the living room. But what fun we will have on Christmas morning,
sharing time with each other, like red-and-green pirates surveying the booty
that Old St. Nick has left for us.
It truly is a magical time of the year – even if, it at
times looks a bit like elf-barf!
Wherever you are today, I home your holiday prep is… uh…
Don Bergquist – December 22, 2012 – Kensington, Minnesota, USA
21 December 2012
Busy Day
My folks were waiting when the shuttle arrived. I think I
may have dropped off a couple times but I really got no significant sleep on
the shuttle. We had a bite to eat and it occurred to me that the reason that I
was so hungry was that other than a buttered and toasted roll in the Butt-Ugly
morning before I had left for the airport, I had not had anything to eat all
day. That Rueben was delicious!
20 December 2012
Coffee ≠ Sleep
Once again I am led to the inescapable conclusion that I am
no longer young. As if the creak in my bones that never used to be there, or
the tendency to become upset with people doing patently stupid things –
especially if they are young people – weren’t enough to tell me that I am no
longer young, the fact that I am no longer impervious to pain and occasionally
require sleep certainly clinches it.
Flying Coach
I am sitting on the plane in more layers than is absolutely necessary because all I three of the morning newscasts I watched this morning as I was getting ready to leave warned of the bitterly cold temperatures and suggested dressing in layers. Oh well, perhaps I will need these layers in Minnesota!
Departure
Well! THAT was fun!
It is a good thing that I was watching the news last night and
was prepared for this morning. The weathercasts and traffic forecasts for this
morning as well as the updates on two of the local channels, which I checked before
I left, all called for it being a difficult time this morning.
19 December 2012
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Gun Rights
I was talking to a conservative friend of mine this weekend.
This is a real right-wing "A Corporation Is A Person" Kool-Aid
drinking republican. We were talking about last week's tragic events at the
mall, at the school, at the mall again. There were three different incidents of
gun violence and he was just sure that – as a bleeding-heart liberal – I would
want to immediately ban all guns.
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