Words Matter – Holiday ideas, thoughts…laughs and screams!

Don’t recall where I got these two quotes but they definitely reflect Holiday 2020!
  “ ‘I’m just going to scream into an empty envelope and mail that this year,’ says Angela Southern, a commercial artist in Austin, Texas. She might be kidding, but mailing a primal scream to reflect the year actually doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea.”
“This year’s holiday cards will likely feature all the best and worst that 2020 had to offer: masks, social distancing, sourdough loaves, massive jigsaw puzzles. Jeff Asher, a New Orleans-based consultant, says he’s thought about making a ‘Where We Have Been This Year’ themed holiday card that shows the members of his family ‘posing in different parts of our backyard.’ That’s definitely a 2020 holiday card worthy of the mantle.”

The Pandemic in Six-Words – the Holidays

Here is a 6 word take on this year’s holiday time:
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This stinking year is nearly over.
Holiday crossing the country — real mail.
Red or white, and occasionally rosé.
Zoom Christmas beats ICU New Year.
Deserted crowded Manhattan, my own island.
Can’t sit on Santa’s lap today.
Social distancing, no Santa down chimney.
Is Santa on Zoom really real?
Santa behind plexiglass, child wonders why.
Santa’s sleigh garaged, reindeer social distancing.
Hanukkah lights in window, Grandma cheers.
Yeh! No Nutcracker performance this year.
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And here’s mine:
Nativity set up, all wear masks!

The Pandemic in Six-Words – Thanksgiving

“The world has never felt smaller.” Larry Smith is the creator of Six Word Memoirs. Since 2006, he’s been challenging people to describe their lives in six words, a form he calls the sixword memoir — a personal twist on the legendary six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
He’s found that some of the most memorable six-word stories arise in the extremes — during our toughest and most joyous moments. Over the months of the pandemic, he asked adults and children around the country to use the form to make sense of this moment in history: one person, one story, and six words at a time.
Since we’ve just celebrated Thanksgiving day, today’s posting will present some of the “Thankful for” stories:
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No better excuse to avoid in-laws.
I’m just thankful for indoor plumbing.
I am bored, but not dead.
Ambulance took him. He came home.
Dr. Fauci and all truth-speakers.
Vaccine is coming, Trump is going.
Democracy triumphed. Now pass the stuffing.
Pandemic baby after years of trying.
My toddler and my weed guy.
Solitary Thanksgiving meant no turkey. LOBSTER.
Home ec: rationing butter, bourbon, sanity.
Numbers rise, but sun does too.
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And my contribution:
My postage stamp friends on Zoom