I’m just back from my son’s kindergarten winter concert
and fairly bursting with seasonal spirit. There was
something magical about the combination of culturally ambiguous music and all those beautiful shining
faces with orange construction paper cones on their noses. (The cones apparently
represented carrots, as I was later informed that the reason I had to root
through the laundry looking for Ethan’s white shirt at the crack of dawn was
that everyone in the choir was supposed to be a snowman. I did not let on
that I had actually assumed they were all portraying albino penguins.) Of course I proudly
documented the entire event on video for posterity and may, if things get really
slow, consider talking my web slinger, Rotten Dan, into finding a way to
stream the whole concert for you through this web page. (My camera work makes NYPD
Blue seem like still life and should be viewed only after ingesting a
liberal quantity of Dramamine... On an up note, however, the unfortunate
tendency of youngish Flynn males towards the occasional index finger foray into
nostril
excavation was neatly thwarted by the elastic band that circled my son's
head and held his pumpkin-colored beak tightly in place. Thus,
for the first time in Flynn video history, all my breathtaking
zoom-in for close-up shots are entirely suitable for family viewing!)*
With Christmas coming, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all the
kindness and support you’ve given me over the past year. May this time touch
and heal each of us and may it’s proclamation of peace
on earth and good will toward men find a way to take root in our hearts and in
our world.
Merry Christmas and may God bless you!
John
* Writer's embellishment- to be removed when writer's wife visits web page.