Dear Santa, I know it’s been three weeks since Christmas, but can I have a belated present?
May I please have a crystal ball to tell me if the world is going to erupt in nuclear war or unlivable changes due to (take your pick) migration crises, climate change, economic meltdown, global war. I’d like to know now if I should bother with this whole “getting on the property ladder” malarky and all that, or if I should just pack in all my big projects and just spend the next decade having fun and helping the homeless.
Just don’t want to waste my time, you know?
Also, if I knew I wasn’t going to live to be old, I would totally get subwoofers installed on my headphones, as hearing loss would no longer be a concern, and I’d gorge on all the awful things that are bad for your body but oh, so lovely.
Love
Zoe
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January 19, 2018 at 11:20 pm
Santa C
Dear Zoe:
I would love to give you good advice about the future, but what does a fat old white guy who has lived at the North Pole for 150 or so years know?
Well, not much but I can tell you from peeking on children and their parents for a long time that the world is controlled by big people – very big people. Did you know just six people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the world’s population?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/14/power-billionaires-bernie-sanders-poverty-life-expectancy-climate-change
So are these people really suicidal and willing to conduct a nuclear war? History is not very encouraging on this question, but you have to have some faith, no matter how blind you may think it is, that rationality and humanity will prevail.
So conduct your life like you will live to be 100. Cultivate friends and love your family. Plant a garden and never be afraid to tell your local councillor, Member of Parliament or other government official that you expect them to use their power (which you gave them BTW) to be humane and decent to the least among us. Don’t delude yourself that personal acts of charity, no matter how wonderful they feel, are any substitute for this.
Take good care of your heart, for in the end it will let you down, but in the mean time enjoy your life, and keep sharing your wonderful insights with your writing.
Oh yes, cultivate the wicked sense of humour you got from your grandfather that I and all my little elves always stopped work to listen to on CBC Radio so long ago.
Your friend,
Santa –
Rubber boot acres,
North Pole
February 6, 2018 at 11:26 am
zoecormier
Lovely comment. Ok I’ll bite – who’s the real Santa? And thanks for the kind words about Don – he was indeed a legend, and my hero.
February 11, 2018 at 5:38 pm
Santa (erstwhile)
Thank you for the kind word Zoe, but I would prefer to be coy about who I am.
I will say I like to think of myself as like Don’s alter ego, but with a prairie accent and a CCF sensibility.
All the best,
the erstwhile Santa in rubber boots