Christmas Time is Here

And so the miracle of life continues.  Although the fog of mid December hangs heavy and low, all the while white lights trim homes as if in symbolic gesture lit for the sake of recollections of childhood, when we didn't know whether we might soon see the red coat squeeze down our chimneys or sneak through an unlocked doorway to set on the floor magical gifts.  It is the spirit of Christmas that moves through us and on through our generations. Our children are what we admire and through that they speak and understand the world.  What is Christmas but admiration turned to a tree, a gift, a song, a hug, a good long look in the eye with a hand held tight over their arm so that they know they too someday will look the same way onto the glowing face of their own.