"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 ...
... I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept."
(Dylan Thomas)
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It snowed a little bit last night, as promised, before I went to bed. We've had no snow to speak of until now. When I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning, there was only a dusting of snow. Just now I looked out again in the darkness and see that it is snowing steadily.
December is full of celebrations from numerous traditions and days that are meaningful to me because of what happened in my life on those days. It is a joy to celebrate all of the days in December, including those of Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan when it occurs in December.
And then a New Year begins in January.
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Always sending love to blog friends near and far.
