Tinsel Garland at the Post Office

This year a commemorative stamp honors holiday knits. That this is a reflexive experience appeals to me - as we unpeel several one by one for several envelopes we necessarily reflect on the wool or wool knit sweater we have on. And the holiday spirit enlarges at each cross walk as we meditate about the check-for-your-gloves-or-mittens while you wait sign. And the Jacquard machine has been noted as an early mode of the computer.