Bernie lookalikes were everywhere. Riding the NYC subway and sitting on snowy park benches. Everyone loved Bernie, the Brooklyn-born Vermont senator with the thick, gruff New York accent who vied with other candidates for the Democratic nomination for president.
The not-so-large box came in the mail last week addressed to my youngest daughter. Although she's married and has her own place, we still get Susan's mail. Despite being over several times she kept forgetting to take, or open the box. She had forgotten what she ordered.
And she ordered two of them. Pictured above is the one she gave to me, Bernie on a Bench, accurately depicted in yarn how he looked at the Inauguration, right down to the face mask which is made of paper and rings his ears.
The famous brown, white trimmed mittens are there, as well as the brown shoes and green hoodie The bare, bald head is depicted using white yarn and the glasses are a plastic frame.
Everything about the Bernie figure is knitted. The bald skull made from white yarn additionally resembles the anatomy of the brain, the gyri. This is not lost on my speech pathologist daughter since one of her favorite areas of study is the brain.
I don't know where on the Internet my daughter got the figure, and she didn't remember herself when she finally opened the box yesterday at our house.
What's the appeal of Bernie in winter clothing? He's everyone's granddad bundled up at the frozen pond watching the grandkids try and ice skate. He's a metaphor for life.
If it's not you who got elected, just try and stay warm.
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