I think I pulled a hamstring yesterday with all the dancing on EWF Day.
It’s over though…. The Summer of ‘22. We just banged out another chapter, another season and another stack of memories.
Time to move on and get ready for Charlie Brown season. We get to stay up for the Great Pumpkin. We get to see Charlie Brown panic on Thanksgiving and again when he is in charge of the doomed Christmas show.
Just like last years Charlie Brown season. Everything works out!
After putting together a failed Thanksgiving dinner, which I thought turned out amazing…. everyone piles into the back of the station wagon and heads to Grammas house.
Let’s think about Gramma’s reaction when the kids show up and she meets the Lesbian couple and the black kid. Charles Schultz was way ahead of his time.
And then Christmas time?
Linus belts out the Bible to explain the meaning of Christmas! Solid move…..
Charlie Brown Season….. we look for the promise of hope with the arrival of a Pumpkin Ghost. We gather friends and prepare a meal with what we can throw together in a pinch and we take a scrawny little Christmas tree nailed to a couple boards and find beauty in all that it offers.
Three 24 minute long cartoons nail the holiday season. We are all nerdy bald headed kids. Our self esteem is tested everyday. Stress shows up in many different ways, but we trudge through and finish what we started.
The first ten minutes Charlie Brown faces an ordeal and in the next fourteen minutes it’s solved. What he worried about at the beginning of the show he laughs about during the closing credits.
Today the closing credits for Summer of 2022 are scrolling across the screen. The issues facing us in June are an instant memory and a conquered foe.
Bring it on Lucy… this is the year we kick that football.
