THE THREAD | sketches for an unfinished Christmas letter . . .
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. . . either this will make some sense . . . or if the fates allow we can talk about it later . . . . . . but what I want to tell you about is the way Judy Garland sang the original version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” . . . and how she ended the second verse by singing “until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow” . . . which doesn’t that actually sound like what we’re all doing right now? . . . as if the textbooks fifty years from now will refer to this as The Great Muddling Through? . . . but anyway . . . when it came time a few years later for Frank Sinatra to cover the song, he found that particular lyric to be too depressing and dark for his holiday spirits . . . so he sang instead, “Hang a shiny star upon the highest bough” . . . and yes, Frank, let’s talk about shiny stars instead . . .
THE THREAD | sketches for an unfinished Christmas letter . . .
THE THREAD | sketches for an unfinished…
THE THREAD | sketches for an unfinished Christmas letter . . .
. . . either this will make some sense . . . or if the fates allow we can talk about it later . . . . . . but what I want to tell you about is the way Judy Garland sang the original version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” . . . and how she ended the second verse by singing “until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow” . . . which doesn’t that actually sound like what we’re all doing right now? . . . as if the textbooks fifty years from now will refer to this as The Great Muddling Through? . . . but anyway . . . when it came time a few years later for Frank Sinatra to cover the song, he found that particular lyric to be too depressing and dark for his holiday spirits . . . so he sang instead, “Hang a shiny star upon the highest bough” . . . and yes, Frank, let’s talk about shiny stars instead . . .