Tuesday, December 24, 2002

Many folks hate the holidays. For them, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's drag by at a glacial pace. Others, like myself, never feel so alive and full of wonder as during this time, and the joyous days fly by like hours for us. In short order, we find ourselves deposited in early January, with only resolutions and slowly lengthening days on which to focus our attention.

So it is that we find ourselves here at Christmas Eve, the shopping done, the carols sung, and the stockings hung. It feels like I just took out my holiday CDs yesterday, bought and wrapped my presents last night. I've barely had time to sample the eggnog, and now it's time to leave it out for Santa.

That's the nature of Christmas, as much as the joy and peace it embodies, and as such I embrace it. As ever, I'll savor this evening, the night of great anticipation and stillness. Tomorrow we'll have the celebration, throwing ourselves into it with gusto. Tonight, we enjoy the promising silence.

The House of Cheer will be taking a few days off for the holiday, with an anticipated return sometime this weekend. Not even as long as many of the unscheduled breaks around here this year, but long enough to make note of.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

Posted @ 9:04 AM

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