Merry Christmas, EvC

Bob Dylan recites Longfellow's classic Christmas Carol from his despair over the Civil War; and then a version of it sung a cappella

Sure I can do cookies. Also hot chocolate. No egg nog though, but you can bring that. Not very Christmassy around here this year, one of the years when I'm alone and don't do Christmas. So if you want to visit, bring your own tree and lights. I also gave my guitar to my brother because I wasn't playing it but if you bring one I can strum us some carols.

That sounds like the right kind of family Christmas. If I lived in Canada that's what my Christmas could look like too. That's where I have 23 first cousins, though I think a few have died by now that I never met, and all their children who are second cousins to each other, most of whom also have children. None of my parents' generation is still living but a few of them made it into their late eighties and two made it to 90. Must be something in the Canadian water? Air? Prairie? Rockies?

Indeed you are an ancestor. Reminds me that one of my cousins, the one my age who was really into horses (and still is) and put me on one on every summer trip to Canada as a kid, is also now a great grandmother, of so many I couldn't count them all myself, and she might even be on the way to great great grandmotherhood.