I wish everyone the best during this season of love and renewal. For me, Christmas has always been a time to confirm life by expressing my love to those around me. And although my surroundings change each Christmas, within me, there is an essential Christmas that I express with love, now, to you. Dylan Thomas said it best in the opening paragraphs of A Child's Christmas in Whales: "One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street."
As I diligently work to get through the editing phase of my latest book, I take a deep breath and give a life affirming shout, "Thank you, my friends, and Merry Christmas!"
Artwork: Alessandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity
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