In Celebration of Christmas

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and with that one, is what we are doing."
- Annie Dillard

We are starting Christmas early this year.
A walk through the Garden of Lights
right after the first snowfall
was just the beginning.

Sipping chocolate has been sipped,
snowballs have been thrown,
and Christmas concerts attended.

It is only the 17th of December.
I must remember to pace myself.

(My mom took this photographs of my dad and I.
People say we walk the same.
I can see it now, a little.)