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GATI HOLIDAY GREETINGS 2025

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The Gati family sends greetings your way  and hopes you’re having a very good day. I write a poem yearly to remember, not report;  I do have some fun; it’s like a word sport. My mission is to write all lines in rhyme  and recall what happened over time. So many things both good and bad,  made me feel both happy and sad. For all of it, I’ve tried to make sense,  of how it affected me — these events. I know it’s long, perhaps an imposition,  but I leave it to you; it’s your decision. The pictures, they’re there for you to see too.  They’re there to help to show who is who. If nothing else, our wishes we send  as we bring 2025 to an end. JANUARY TRUMP came to office like the stereotypic bull, With a list so long — a shit-bucket full “to clean the swamp” and let us all know he was the sheriff and ready to go  with pen in hand and authority from on high Executive Orders, in a blink of an eye. His goal is to disrupt our democracy. He doesn’t really...
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GATI GREETINGS 2024/2025

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                                  GATI GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU                                         and a HO HO HO  from SAN FRANCISCO This is to say “Good-bye” to the year and to make 2024 very clear. I write this poem sometimes when mad. I write it sometimes when feeling sad. I write it as a word game, too. It’s like a journal — all that we do. I write it from beginning to December. It helps my memory just to remember. It makes me think.  It makes me stop. Like bubbles in a bath when they quickly pop, there’s beauty in unexpected times.  I’ll share with you this year in rhymes.   OLYMPICS 19 days of relief we had from politics, the 33rd Olympiad. Women’s gymnastics Simone Biles, Sun Lee We were glued to o...
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