The Brinkers, the Coopers and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
We start by scouting the farm and cutting down a Christmas tree…
…in the pouring rain…
…before celebrating how good a tree it is…
…baling it up…
…tying it to the roof…
…and eating gingerbread cookies.
Back at the cousins', we root for the Skins and against the Steelers.
As we all eat mac and chili in the kitchen, the fireplace gets going…
…in time for the living-room caroling to begin…
…with the younger generation turning out to be musical…
…but everyone in the family singing…
…taking solos as necessary…
…and of course doing this…
…taking part in decades of family tradition…
…before falling asleep…
…and having to head home…
…down the driveway, still humming and whistling Christmas.
December 18th, 2010 at 2:26 PM
[...] One thing prompting me to post today was realizing this week that a few NPR colleagues also grew up in the area. The second prompt was friend Steve e-mailing about being in the school store recently. He'd married into an Eye Street family and was buying Christmas presents for a relation. He asked I'd gone to NU to keep wearing the Gonzaga purple. (The school store is something.) I couldn't totally disagree. A third was e-mailing with old classmates about catching a movie over New Year's. A fourth was seeing my alum uncle at the tree-cutting. [...]