Finding Christmas Magic It’s the day before Christmas Eve. The Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look like Christmas lights to me. They look old and hazy and out-of-place and oddly out of time. I feel as though I have suddenly been thrust into the middle of March and people have forgotten to take down… Read More »
We Are The Keepers of Christmas It’s a wintry mix kind of day. The sky is obscured with an unending blanket of gray that will never brighten and yield to an increasingly earlier sunset only to be swallowed up by the long winter darkness. It’s always windy this time of year, which makes winter’s dead cold… Read More »
The Christmas Tree: The Real Story After doing some research, it’s obvious to me that, to this point, no one knew how this whole Christmas tree thing got started. It’s not like someone picked up a pen and kept notes. But I did some digging, and I can now tell you the real story of Christmas trees.… Read More »
Less Than Three Weeks Until Christmas Last night, late, when the house was quiet and the only sound was the winter wind whipping the lifeless trees, I watched the flame of a single candle flicker and thought about what Christmas meant to me. I looked out the window and saw a winter scene painted by an unseen… Read More »
The Great Equalizer As winter approaches I watch the dying things… the colorless flower beds, the brittle skeletons of trees that add a melancholy touch to the browning landscape, and listen to the silence once filled by the buzzing of summer’s tiny life, As winter approaches, I see death all around me and I’m reminded that death… Read More »
Autumn Rain It’s not supposed to be this way—the rain I mean. The sullen, gray skies belong to winter, not now, not here, not in the middle of Autumn. The autumn rain is cold and steady. The day is morose and dark. Not a sad day but a melancholy mood could set in if I were not… Read More »