Dear MOA in the weeks before Christmas,
I hate you. I mean, I love your pretty sparkly decorations and silly Christmas muzak, but I hate your parking lot and people that walkwalkwalk and then STOP in the middle of the aisle/hall/etc., as I just about barrel myself and new purchases into you.
Love,
An admittedly Scroogey-shopper
Again from Doniree, this time on a more positive note:
Dear SW Mpls/Linden Hills/Wherever I Now Live,
I’m ’bout to make you my bitch. :) In a good way. I’m thrilled to startravagingexploring your nooks and crannies. Does that sound dirty? Good. This is going to be fun.
Love,
Your newest resident, horny for your wines and coffees and pastries and overpriced goodies of all sorts.
And then you go for a run to the lake and the paths are snowy and just a bit slippery and it sort of feels like you’re running on a beach. But yeah, the wind is blowing and the water is still open and if you let your mind space out you can sorta convince yourself that the cars slowly driving past almost sound like waves crashing on the shore. And look at that guy sitting on a bench reading a magazine like it’s late summer. Warm jacket and hat and fingerless gloves and a thermos of coffee by his side. Damn straight. And the walkers with their little hiking pole things? Or the ones with the long down puffy trench coats? And everyone is smiling. Because winter is here. And hell yes we’re outside.
From me:
Dear Twin Cities Cycling Posters,
I loved all eight of you so much I could not decide amongst you, and so I bought all of you. I divvied you up, two to a season. I’ve now enjoyed four of you on the walls of my home and come winter solstice I’ll enjoy two more of you.
You so artfully capture one of the things I love the most about living in the Twin Cities, and are pleasing to my eye to boot!
You are still on sale for the holidays and I hope others will order you to enjoy for themselves by emailing mspbikeposters@gmail.com.
I hope people buy you.
~E
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OMG…Doniree’s letter to Linden Hills cracked me right up.
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