Everything – the heat, itch, ache, repetitiveness, and myriad disappointments I’d experienced playing Santa Claus for a day dropped like a fat man down a broad chimney the moment I became Santa.
One warmish weekend two days before Christmas, that moment was a gift far better than anything I’d find under a tree.
Saturday morning, on time and looking forward to the experience of playing Santa Claus for west-end Toronto tykes, I took a running leap over a gutter lake of slush and entered a soon-to-be-opening photography shop and studio …
Bio:
Anthony Jenkins is an artist and writer living 4,800 kilometres south of the North Pole, near Brockville, Ontario (see www.jenkinsdraws.com).
[IMAGE CREDIT: “Artwork by the author”]