By Dan Irvin
I’ve thinking about the poem ’T was the Night before Christmas attributed to a Clement Clark Moore. Fortunately it wasn’t ‘T was Three Days Before because certainly around here all the creatures are stirring.
It looks like several stores are opened 24 hours. Even the mouse is stirring.
The children nestled snug in their beds are dreaming about that new Xbox game – or is it Play Station? –called “Sugarplums.”
You know the St. Nick of the poem is certainly lucky that the narrator wasn’t the owner of a firearm, what with the clatter on the lawn and the home invasion and all. I suppose gun enthusiasts would tell you the best way to prevent a tragedy in such a situation would be for Santa to conceal carry, but I don’t know.
All right I’m tired of that.
My wife remarked a couple of weeks ago that there seem to be a lot fewer light displays around Bloomington/Normal this year. I brought up this fact at my Rotary club meeting Thursday morning and a friend remarked that she thought there are more light shows this year. Hmm; I guess, as we used to say, that’s why they have horse races, or to translate for you, that’s why they have daily fantasy sports betting.
We always used to look forward, with mixed feelings in all honesty, to the annual New Year’s “recap of the previous year” letters we’d receive in the mail. I don’t think people do that much anymore; too bad. It was a like a whole year’s worth of Facebook in one letter.
Well, my family’s holiday gift to yours is that they will continue to put up with me 365 days a year and you only get stuck with two minutes every two weeks.
Have a wonderful holiday. Be safe, make peace, and may the creator of all things bless you, whether you believe in some sort of Great Spirit, or not.
Dan Irvin is Vice-President of the Bloomington Public Library Foundation Board, and a member of the Heartland Community College Foundation Board.
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