Badges, molecules, and a smiling fat man...
Bryce Main
Multi-genre author, mostly Crime fiction. Scottish. Been writing longer than I’ve been wearing big boy’s trousers.
Today, in the Coffee Shop, everyone’s wearing a large tin badge. Little Italy is handing them out at the counter, with every coffee she serves.?
It’s her way of wishing everyone a Merry Christmas…and at the same time making sure they wish everyone else a Merry Christmas, too.?
And all the badges carry the same message.?
As I look around the room, I can see them pinned to jackets, coats, t-shirts, bags, jumpers…in fact any kind of material they can form a close relationship with.?
All the regulars are here. And a few irregulars.?
Ones who have found love and are celebrating it by enjoying the best damned non-alcoholic drink on the planet.?
Ones who are here remembering the love they used to have by sitting in the company of those who still have theirs.?
And ones who never stop trying to find the kind of love that those around them seem to have found.?
In the background, carried on festive sound molecules, courtesy of the box on the wall (as instructed by Little Italy), is the unmistakable voice of Francis Albert Sinatra. Old Blue Eyes himself.?
Not the old Old Blue Eyes. The young Old Blue Eyes.?
And somewhere, in a time and space between the things we know are real and the things we wish were real, there’s a smiling fat man in a red suit. Getting ready to go to work.?
Just because you can’t see Santa, doesn’t mean he’s not there.?
Whoever you are, wherever you are, whoever you’re with, have yourself a merry little Christmas.?
Or a merry big one...
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2 年Hey Bryce, wishing you a very merely Christmas and a blessed one too. I hope the little fat man got you all the goodies you requested. And so too for you family and friends. It's still Christmas Eve here and I'm getting ready to cross the street and have a toast with the local lads.