Hello friends and…Merry Christmas!!! I am now sitting here on the couch in Tampa home and honestly don’t have long to write as me, Caisson, Laura and Maryanne are about to embark upon our third Pandemic game of the holidays and hopefully we can actually win this time because annoyingly enough we have not quite conquered it yet – and oh it must be conquered! – but before we do begin the game thought I’d write for a few minutes and chronicle the day a bit as it’s been a typical and perfectly lovely Christmas Day thus far…begun with nice hot coffee and reading time(also on aforesaid couch) and then we proceeded into the living room and opened many gifts of which I received far too many nice things(including many wonderful shirts and comfy pajamas from Mom and Dad…and a Beatles record from Maryanne…and Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ album from Laura and Caisson…and a Kvothe Kingkiller shirt from Laura and Caisson…and a few yummy looking books…and a box of (unopened and sealed!) baseball cards from 1989 from Dad…and some exciting new(old) movies from Mom and Dad(‘Talk of the Town’ with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman and ‘Random Harvest’ also with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson – and yes I may be slightly too excited by these old classics that I’ve never seen!)…and I got other things but I shall not name anything else but just must say how kind and wonderful my dear family is to me…and of course after opening gifts we enjoyed Mom’s cinnamon rolls(which were delicious and amazing!!) with nice crunchy bacon…and then we played our new invented game of Diamonds for a while in which sadly me and Laura were not able to win…and then finally I read one of my new books from Maryanne(‘Black Prism’ by Brent Weeks) here on the couch for a bit and following that me and Dad and Maryanne went for a little walk and enjoyed being outside on this Christmas day. Now is this previous sentence far too long and awkward? Well of course, but it’s fun to be silly and awkward now and again. Being with the family here is wonderful and I can never stop thanking God for placing me in this family – I am blessed far beyond all I can even comprehend. My heart is full and I cannot express in words what music is in my soul.

Merry Christmas, one and all – love and peace and joy abounding.