Dear Mateys,

Tonight is Christmas, the season of giving and of perpetual hope. I wanted to do some Christmas artwork but a recent trip on the Caribbean followed by my sickness which I'm doing better now and my sister's boyfriend who was watching our pets during our cruise crowding up my entire desk, I was unable to do any. Oh well, there's always next year.

But I hope everyone is doing well, because for the past week I've been down with a cold as mentioned earlier but I believe I've recovered now, although I still have a cough. I do hope that in God's good will I'll be able to do what I wasn't able to do this year and that for those who have fallen ill this season, the good Lord will put his healing hands on them, and they too will be well again as he has done for me.

Jacob Ferryboat,