There are two things that surfaced as I read this 2024 close-out piece:
1. As a kid my father received a letter from some old friends of his at the end of every year. I didn't remember meeting them, but I loved to open the envelope, read the letter — split up by each month. Sometimes there were heartbreaking moments, like the time the "husband" broke his leg on a ski trip. Over the years the letter would include little images sprinkled across the page — I think this had to have been pre-emojis.
2. Did you catch the bad baby on Substack? I have been chuckling — the caption reads: Bad baby — In which Daniel Lavery enumerates the heinous crimes and misdemeanors of a nine-month-old. The tone is very King James-y 😂
There are two things that surfaced as I read this 2024 close-out piece:
1. As a kid my father received a letter from some old friends of his at the end of every year. I didn't remember meeting them, but I loved to open the envelope, read the letter — split up by each month. Sometimes there were heartbreaking moments, like the time the "husband" broke his leg on a ski trip. Over the years the letter would include little images sprinkled across the page — I think this had to have been pre-emojis.
2. Did you catch the bad baby on Substack? I have been chuckling — the caption reads: Bad baby — In which Daniel Lavery enumerates the heinous crimes and misdemeanors of a nine-month-old. The tone is very King James-y 😂
https://read.substack.com/p/the-weekender-miso-grief-and-the?open=false#%C2%A7bad-baby
I had missed that. Amazing.