If he had lived, he wouldn’t have to worry about snowdrifts today, since climate change seems to have taken care of that. I think you remember him in a way he’d enjoy, as I did, too. Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for the beautiful, evocative, elegant, and slant invitation to think about my own father - his birthday would have been this month, his yahrtzeit is next month.
gorgeous, you poet you!
Thanks so much, Tina. That means a lot. Happy New Year!
If he had lived, he wouldn’t have to worry about snowdrifts today, since climate change seems to have taken care of that. I think you remember him in a way he’d enjoy, as I did, too. Happy New Year to you!
Happy New Year, Carole!
Love this.
Happiest of New Years to you.
Thank you, Ann, and a very happy 2025 to you and yours.
so sweet, true... but not too sentimental. perfect.
Best way to start 2025. With an XP poem and a last line to savor. Happy New Years dear poet of poets! ❤️
Happy Birthday to your dear father, X.P. It's beautiful how you are still warmed and sheltered by the memory of his vigor and no nonsense Love.
Thank you, Ann. Happy New Year to you!
And to you!
That was fun. A tinge of melancholy for the losses, but a nice invocation of life.
Thank you, Glenn. Sending you warm wishes for 2025.
I love this, XP! Thank you!
Thank you, Cathy. Happy New Year!
So lovely! I can hear those bagpipes.
Thank you, Mary. Wishing you and Paul and the rest of your family health and healing and all good things for 2025. Sending lots of love.
So well crafted.
Thank you, Kim. A very happy and healthy 2025 to you!
And to you!
Loved the richness of the details in this, so much said and shown. Especially that almost-last, digging out the snow…
Thank you. Happy New Year!
And to you!
Can see this and feel it
To bicker and feast...
Yes!
Ah, lovely, but not too sentimental! Happy New Year, X.P.!
Thank you for the beautiful, evocative, elegant, and slant invitation to think about my own father - his birthday would have been this month, his yahrtzeit is next month.
So beautiful.
Thank you, Margaret Ann. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you!