Dear friends, family, Romans, and countrypersons,
What a year it has been, eh? Or what a decade - or month (hour?)? I don't have a good sense of time...
Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Keks, and I was born on 11 December 2018, so I've just recently turned 14 years old. I am the smallest Grand-Dog of Donald and Hope Seeger (P.O. Box 304, Clinton, WI, 53525), and I currently reside in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - near the lake (which is awesome if you haven't been!!).
As most of you know, this year - 2020 - especially since mid-March has been unlike any in all of our lifetimes. Hasn't it been great!!?? Humans at home ALL THE TIME!!! They never leave, never have to put you in the kennel, are around to take you for walks all day long!
Anyway, it's been quite the wild ride has 2020. As I mentioned, I live in Milwaukee with my humans, Joel and Brooke. Since coming to live with them in February 2019, I've also spent a good deal of time visiting Don and Hope - who I get a real kick out of.
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the next morning...
I've been told - numerous times today already - that after making the request last evening that Keks draft the annual Seeger Christmas letter that Hope herself has started a draft of a letter, so we'll have a letter full of greetings and introductions* (beginnings are the best!) with the following uber-intro...
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God"
"The Gospel according to Saint John (1:1)"
"My line comes down from Queen Ada, the sister of Malcolm IV, descended from King Duff, the first king of Scotland."
from Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash
"The terror that would not end for another 28 years, if it ever did, began so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain."
- Stephen King, It
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope..."
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
The beginnings are always the moments with all of the promise, indeed, all of the hope. As we enter in to the start of a brand new year, 2021, which we may all remember best as the first year after 2020!, I thought we might do something a bit different, and offer you a sampling of beginnings of Seeger Christmas letters (we all know the beginnings of letters are the best part anyway!). So without further ado:
(submitted by Joel Seeger)
* If you would like to submit an introduction to be considered for the annual Seeger Christmas letter you can submit it to the comments below by 5:00pm CST on Saturday, December 19th, 2020.
