Andy’s Week 1 Advent calendar contains simple black-pen doodles. He includes prayer intercessions, meditations on words, and things he’s thinking about, I guess….

I noticed the “Guy ties” entry on Friday. We attended a Christmas outreach party at church that night. Winter  is one of the few times in the year when Andy tries to wear a bow tie. After several botched attempts and several viewings of a YouTube video (a good one), he tied a decent bow. Not once in his several failed efforts, however, did I hear him get exasperated. Maybe he was praying…