New to my personal collection, and just in time for Christmas
A collection of Lewis family Christmas cards from the 60s & 70s
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my cousin (born in 1993) asked me and my sister (2005, 2006) "what's new with the millenials" to try and make small talk
a long, long conversation about the differences between generations ensured, with many, many ignorant comments from the two boomers present, many explanation and arguments from the two millenials and two gen-zies quietly listening (and screaming and crying inside our head and eventually adding something just to get interrupted).
Chapters 11 and 12 of Tis the Damn Season will be up Saturday morning! Please enjoy a brief interlude from all of the heavy feelings while Steve contemplate his new hobby.
Steve’s fine, is the important thing. He can’t listen to the radio anymore, but he’s got plenty of tapes. He can’t talk to his best friend-slash-love of his life anymore, but he can—no, there’s no good way to twist this one. He misses Eddie so much it’s a permanent physical ache in his sternum, just above the scars. But Steve is coping. He is. School is good and his teams are good, and so what if all his kids aside from Erica left for college? It’s fine. He’s fine. Great, really.
Doing so well, in fact, that he took up baking back in July, just to see if he had a hand for it. Turns out he has a knack, one that he lacks when cooking, but there’s something about the methodical care of baking that speaks to him. It also requires a fair amount of concentration and single-mindedness, which helps him not to dwell on—well, just dwell.
They’ll make gingerbread houses tonight, when everyone—he resolutely brushes by the voice in his head that reminds him not everyone—arrives, the cookie pieces and frosting and gumdrops and peppermint already waiting, but he wants to try his hand at caramel. Think it’ll be good for filigree decoration and molding into appropriately Christmas-y shapes (he’s not totally sure what those are, but he’ll figure it out when the time comes). Caramel is hard to get right, so Steve’s heard, but he’s not worried. It’s all about timing and patience and he has those in spades.
In honor of the holidays, I thought I would share some Smurfy seasons greetings with my fellow artists, in the form of a little holiday piece with the Stayne Siblings (Nick & Annie).