Christmas Cast

Really, you could make everybody into a part of speech. Who needs psychology when personality types are already written into the mechanics of grammar? I propose you could diagram your family tree like a sentence to life. Take, for example, the cast of Christmas, I’m not talking about the Nativity set, I’m talking about the people you’re with during the holidays, the proper nouns, and the improper ones too. First you’ve got the active verbs, they may be small, but they wake you up VERY early in the morning and remain VERY active all day. The passive verbs, on the other hand, can sleep in any comfortable chair, despite what’s going on around them. You may have a subjunctive set of relations, the could/should/would set who take a caseworker to sort out. There’s kin who use a modifer, and stay well modified all day. There’s the inbetweeners, who can join any two ideas together with a big enough “but.” And the interjectors! You can’t overlook the interjectors! (Beware, however, of those who speak in parenthetical phrases.) You may have an aunt or an uncle as annoying as a split infinitive. I take an aspirin to gently dull a split infinitive. There are those who parade merely as pronouns and some are empty as adverbs. If you’re like me, you have cousins as prevalent as prepositions, and they are anything/anywhere you can do or be to a house. These people are part and participle of every family no matter what holiday you celebrate, from Chanukah to Humbug.

Happy holidays to all, and to all a good write!