Each Christmas I write a newsy letter and email it off for worse or better to friends and family, colleagues and such who may or may not care that much. Then, this year a neighbour chanced to say that she throws her Christmas cards away and how newsletters bore her half to hell and she can't wait to bin them as well. She's even thought how fun it would be to write a fictional, dramatic fantasy and send it off to see who was gulled by the crazy lies she'd gone and told. I try to shake her voice from my head but earnest news turns gibberish instead. I find myself thinking of the world - how this "fake news" business unfurled and how it turns out it is more fun to make stuff up than be the boring one.
The Newsletter
Published
Out of the Cave 
I admire people who write Christmas cards and annual newsletters 😊
I stopped doing cards nearly 30 years ago 😱
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They’re a big effort. I only email my newsletter. It’s less exciting to receive but my justification is it saves paper. 🙂
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It is a big effort. Most often, if I’m ever inclined to do one, I’d stop halfway through as we’ve nothing interesting to say 🤣🤣
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😆😆. We actually received one from a relative in the USA today. He actually wrote “Can’t do anything fun at the moment so life is pretty boring”. His honesty was both revealing and refreshing.
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Well, yes he has a point 🤣
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I would feel privileged to get a newsletter knowing that someone had gone to quite a lot of trouble to stay in touch. The downside is that I’ve got out of the habit of clearing my mailbox. Still it would be a pleasant surprise to discover a letter that is actually worth reading. 🙂
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Totally. 🙂
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