Ted the Penguin

Eli’s Coming

So I just got my first ‘real’ christmas card.  From some friends of mine that got married last year.

I never thought I would be one of those people who gets 20-30 holiday cards and puts them on the mantle with ribbon.  My parents are those people.  Growing up, I would look forward to getting and opening the holiday cards, placing them on the ribbon and watching the row(s) grow as christmas approached.  Eventually we’d take them down around mid-January, but it was still a treat to get/read them.

Most were short and simple.  A few contained pictures and/or letters that went into great detail about the past year in whoever had sent it.  These were probably my favorite.  We would get several from people who had moved across country years before and we never saw… but we would also get letters from people who we saw quite often.  It was great to read about their lives; got to put in perspective what we noticed and what we didn’t. 

Today is the anniversary of the Worcester Cold Storage warehouse fire back in 1999. Six firefighters died in what some called “the perfect fire.”

Learn, remember and then don’t forget.