greetings, fellow bundles!

Greetings, fellow Bundles!   

Yes, you, you Bundle of Fun! And you, you big Bundle of Energy!  And even you, you worrying Bundle of Contradictions!  We are all Bundles now — as you know if you’ve renewed your membership on the Civic Association of Hollin Hills website lately.  

First off — please DO renew your membership — it pays to keep up the parks and much else that we hold dear!  But steel yourself for the new CAHH membership system, which comes with a page and a half of instructions (!) and also does away with that boring, outdated old notion of “family.”  Under the new system, if you sign your spouse and kids up, they are now officially known as a “bundle”, and you are the “bundle coordinator”!  

Welcome, and congratulations on your new oddly non-human status!

Anyway this is not, from what I can make out, some bureaucratic silliness from the Board — it just comes with the new Wild Apricot software they’re using.  But it does raise important ontological issues which we, as a bundle — sorry, a community — must face together if we are to survive. 

In the first place: if I’m now officially a bundle, the question is  — a bundle of what?   I was apparently a Bundle of Joy once, but that was 70 years ago.  And like everyone, I can be a Bundle of Nerves on occasion.  Consult the dictionary, and you’ll learn the extremely useful fact that a group of archdeacons is known as a “bundle”,  but I’m confident that I’m not a Bundle of Archdeacons. 

Perhaps there is no answer, and we can only reflect on the wise words of the poet Walt Whitman — who said “I am large, I contain multitudes” — and revel in the profound, unknowable mystery of our own bundlehood.

So anyway, fellow Bundles — if your Bundle Coordinator bundles you out the door for the CAHH Membership Meeting on Tuesday night, a reminder that you can skip the online membership software, and actually renew your membership right there in person.  

Just remember to bring … a bundle of cash.