Holy Night

This year we used one of my drawings of this wonderful tree. I drew it during a community meeting of our Spiritual Community. The tree represents the balance of new growth and knowledge that comes from down deep. "New Thought, Ancient Wisdom"

It has been many years since Santa has visited our house.  With our daughter Heather and her two children now living with us we bought our first actual tree in years, strung popcorn, wrote letters to Santa and had long philosophical conversations about the reality of Santa and that Santa had a clear understanding that he needed to leave gifts at both his parents’ homes. 

The one thing I really do love to do is put out Christmas lights.  This year I was hoping to have a large flowering Cherry tree wrapped in lights.  From my bedroom window I can see the tree, during the day filled with birds, and thanks to Chuck and the amazing men in his life, I have the tree filled with light each night.  We have no intention of taking the lights down, having lights in that tree are part of my bottomless bucket list, the one that will not be able to be filled for 30 years or so.  And I am so thankful for every one of those nights.

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