The Christmas Card From Buddy

My Peeps, The Bystroms,

I'm sorry the Carolina thing fell thru. It may, if you can imagine, have been more than my time table could bear! I've tried slipping the caffeine, loosening the shorts AND STILL NO bambino. Now we're having sex in the back-seat and "hoping" she doesn't get knocked up.

I love you guys. I'm not the best friend in the world, but keep loving me, too. Jesus said so.

Feliz Navidad,

Buddy & Karen

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Oh my lands, if he wasn't high on dope when he wrote this...I don't know what was going on. Buddy is a friend from way back, when the bystroms were stationed in Florida. The reference he made to the Carolinas, was from a year ago when we spoke of meeting up whilst in the area, that's where he and his girlfriend are living now. I do think, that this may be the most amazing Christmas card we've ever received. Just because it said more than Merry Christmas in some scrolling font, with the name of the sender signed below. It actually showed a piece of life to us. I don't know, it made me laugh and feel sad, Buddy was one of the most on fire Christians we knew in Florida. Praying for Niah and I as babies, and loving on us like a brother. It's sad when people you love relapse, for lack of motivation to run forward into changes unknown. But when those relationships remain intact, due to a firm foundation in love...despite the depression in living situations, and even amidst a drunken moment, it's a thing I consider so beautiful...that it causes me to create run on sentences, and it makes me want to go out and buy a candy cane.
After all it's Christmas people...the kind of christmas we celebrate is one that handles a beautifully messy birth inside a fetid animal house, it's one full of dirty snow on the curbside, and one that makes you cranky all day because you had to leave your warm blankets this the morning.

Merry Christmas...get dirty with greed, then feel thankful, be guilty for only spending $10 on your mom, feel lonely, resent your family...remember that it's more than the facade, then be still for a few minutes in bed, peace-joy-love.