My December 2025 Card for You All

I have to close down my machine shop. It’s a long drive. I’m never there.

The other day, I brought home a 15-foot truck’s worth of items. Machines, electronics, the trappings of a waning, maybe ending business.

I sat there sorting through all the effects. Underneath the development boards, components, and tools, I found a holiday card. Inside was a check. It was a present from my sister thirty-some-odd years ago. The card read, “I don’t have much, but I wanted you to have this.” I didn’t cash it back then for obvious reasons.

Digging further into the pile, I found a few little handmade gifts from my nieces from when they were young. A few other cards with messages steeped in the times they were written.

As I sorted, I threw away the electronics, components, and business accoutrements and kept the cards and gifts.

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There was a last time Santa brought a gift, or a last time our kid selves got something. Then we piled our lives right over it, forgetting what it even was.

Take a moment this year and remember some of those old times. Break out the saved cards and find those lost presents.

Merry December and Happy New Year!
Cabe

p.s. In my cartoon, I used a pic of my actual electronic junk. It’s a lot. It’s too much. I have to purge. 😊