Merry Christmas

Ladies and Gentlemen!

What a year this 2020 has been, but I am always grateful for the Christmas Holiday. As a child, I never understood some parents asking children for socks as a Christmas gift until I became an adult. Well, maybe I can’t claim adulthood, but at least the age one usually reaches adulthood. Overnight my socks became a much bigger deal to me since my feet are so often cold, all. the. time. Even in the dead of summer, don’t ask me how, they don’t play by the rules. So this year I am thankful for receiving multiple rounds of those plush, mid-calf socks.

Santa was listening. To everyone else out there, I hope today was a great one.

β€œHe who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

― Roy L. Smith

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Fall – My Favorite

I am sure there are plenty of us that agree, but I LOVE the fall colors. The time of fall will always hold a special place in my heart. Partly because it is the deep breath before winter roots us in our dens for 9 months. The color chorus that bleeds into life, it’s almost not of this earth – an alien presence. I am helpless to it’s call and fall helplessly in line, a stillness – a beautiful contentedness, creeps into my soul.

The bright green of summer transforms into orange, gold and red epiphanies. We must all stop and stare before they, too, fall asleep.