White Christmas

Waking up to a blanket of snow on Christmas morning is the picture card of a perfect Christmas morning. The silent night white flakes swirling in the sky adds to the comfortable feeling of a warm fireplace during final present preparations.

This morning the turkey is already filling the air with aromas; teenagers are still in bed; Nellie (the lab) is curled up by the fireplace; the expresso tastes even better in the quiet of the house.

I have diligently videotaped every Christmas morning and even let it run too long through the present openings. Some day maybe I will have the energy to edit these down to a year-by-year Christmas anthology with music in the background.

But even these tapes are rarely reviewed - the past seems boring; the presents trivial and not even remembered. Somehow the reality of the past viewed with precision of the video tape never matches the feeling of the reflection in memory or the excitement of the present.

Just another reminder of living in the present and making the present as joyous as possible.
Merry Christmas to all!