Dec 22 2009
Home for the Holidays
Behold the Child is no longer on tour. We finished our 22nd performance on Sunday night, Carolyn and I wrapped up company finances Monday morning, and I drove the four and a half hours back to my family home on Monday afternoon. I stepped onto our front porch to see half the family playing the dreidel game in the living room while the rest of the family drank tea from a 24-hour carafe in the kitchen and ate Christmas cookies.
It’s nice to be home. (That 24-hour carafe is a brilliant invention.) I’ve got many student papers to finish before Christmas Eve, e-mail to catch up on, family to hang out with, and possibly even a movie or two to see. And then of course, Christmas.
Christmas means a lot to me. My latest Boundless article, “I Remember Christmas,” went up last week and I didn’t get a chance to blog the link.
This year I am celebrating differently . . . but I remember Christmas as a child. No matter how my observances may change over the years, no matter how busy the season grows, the shadow of those Christmases is still at my elbow, hushed and fragrant.
Thanks for reading :). Merry Christmas, one and all!
