{"id":1181,"date":"2012-12-13T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2012-12-23T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:03:41","slug":"rileys-year-end-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2012\/12\/13\/rileys-year-end-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley’s Year End Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dogs start barking because our mailman is tossing a package up on the front porch.\u00a0 Had I not heard the dogs barking I would never have known\u2026UPS rings the bell and runs but our mailman does the close enough to the porch toss.<\/p>\n

There it is, Christmas in a box from Amazon.\u00a0 Done.\u00a0 So if my package landed on my porch then there must be mail in my box.\u00a0 Saddle up the girls and off we go for the evening walk and mail pickup.\u00a0 There\u2019s all the usual stuff and many many Christmas cards.\u00a0 Somehow I always forget about the cards. I\u2019ve long ago stopped sending them so it\u2019s such a pleasant surprise to see them piled in the mail box.<\/p>\n

There are all those wonderful greetings and good wishes and then there are the ones with the year in review letters.\u00a0 Then there is the one in particular from my dear friends Jan and David Riley.\u00a0 David\u2019s been trying to pass the job along for years but there are no takers.\u00a0 Partly because he keeps such a fabulous calendar through the year, I know because I provide it to him. But mostly because he is a wordsmith, a wonderful writer who can bring you through the year in all its joys and woes and come out the other side with gratitude and love.\u00a0 He wants very much to be a curmudgeon but no one\u2019s buying that either.\u00a0 Well maybe Jan is.<\/p>\n

When I see the typed page drop out of the card I immediately put it aside for savoring with my morning coffee.\u00a0 I am lucky enough to see David and Jan regularly throughout the year, our lunches at Davies and dinners at one another\u2019s homes always bring us to tears of laughter and enriches our friendship even more if that is possible.\u00a0\u00a0 But still, sitting down with David\u2019s year end letter brings me back through the year with them and I enjoy every word, I can see every nuance, and yes I know like I know that this will indeed be grist for his \u201cordinary legacy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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