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Photograph by Donna Marie
Bergeniao 11/11/2003
A Thought for Today
Don’t forget whose birthday we celebrate
tomorrow.
CHRISTMAS EVE, 2003
We are still in the days of Hanukkah, tonight is Christmas Eve, and the
day after tomorrow is Boxing Day and the beginning of Kwanzaa. If these
festive times are not enough to celebrate, how about celebrating life
itself.
MEDITATIONS ON WINTER
In winter we return home again to whatever. Cold comfort. Warmth of
friends. Strangeness. Death. We hibernate like bears. Seek private places
to stay private in. Ward off cold. Christmas for the Children. Loneliness
for others.
There is a purity to winter. A calmness. The young are left alone because
their elders dwell on loss and limits. This time excuses for reassessing
involve the new year. Maybe the purity of winter has more to with snow
than stuff of stronger substance.
Finally mid-February brings the old and young together and a valentine is
more than just a blood-red heart.
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I have known some winter’s to allot a share of joy, not just in the
carnival or on the skating pond, but even in Decembers silence.
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Without the cold for reference we would not recognize the comfort of
warmth.
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It seems to me the others parts contributing to calendars have too little
quiet. Though winter can admittedly contain too much.
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Do not be too quick to question everything. There are wild roses that have
bloomed far into December seemingly without a reason.
-from Rod McKuen’s Book of Days, 1981
Don’t forget to say and save a prayer and to send a greeting to our
servicemen and women keeping the peace around the world.
RM 12/24/03 12:09 AM PST.
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