JOHN LENNON ... share your favorite videos & pics! (and memories where you were Dec 8 1980)

[patrice]

38. Living, with 2 kids <10 y.o., in the garage of the house that my husband & I & a general

contractor had just built, with sweat-equity. We had sold our house in town and had to move into the new house, before it's windows were installed (by us), so we put everything in the garage and camped on the living room floor, as we did the work of making the new house weather tight and I painted its interior while my husband went to his regular job.

I heard the news of what had happened to John Lennon on public radio. Probably permanently marked by the death of Robert Kennedy in 1968, I can't say that I was shocked that anyone so fine as John Lennon could have been the object of someone like Chapman, but I was surprised by the news anyway, surprised that somebody had just walked up out of the clear blue and killed him for no reason whatsoever. His death really colored the whole holiday season that year with sadness.

I'm trying to remember when John Lennon's funny little Christmas tale had come out in small holiday hard-back editions, whether it was that year, or sometime in the '70s, but I always liked that funny little story and was reminded by the 1980 holidays of John's gentle, quirky, very funny sense of humor expressed in the Christmas wishes that he wrote into that odd little holiday tale.