Christmas Cards

[poliphilo]

Last year we didn't send out any Christmas cards. This year we're sending out a very few. I've just been writing them. I believe today is the last day one can get away with using second class stamps.

There's no real pattern to the way Ailz and I observe Christmas. Sometimes we bother, sometimes we don't.  It's as the mood takes us. Last year we put up a Christmas tree but didn't send cards. This year we're sending cards but haven't put up a tree. 

The people I'm sending cards to are an odd bunch- an ex girlfriend, an ex-boss, a woman whose friendship I sort of inherited from my first wife and with whom I used to share an interest in radical theology. Most of the people I love have dropped from sight:  these few, random fellow pilgrims remain.

Ailz lost a childhood friend yesterday. He died suddenly in his sleep. He always said he wouldn't make 50- and he didn't-  by 5 months.  I wonder how he knew?

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[mamarose.livejournal.com]

I cannot count the number of times she would say something like "it's not like I am going to make it to 50". It was an off handed things. She and my dad split up about a year before she got sick, so even if I felt okay asking her about how she knew, I wasn't in touch with her anymore. I didn't find out until she died.

Oddly enough, my step father's first wife (mother of my step siblings) and my step mother were in the same chronic illness support group. After my stepmother died, my step father's ex called me to tell me. What a strange turn of events...