QOM and Musings for Dec 2001
My warmest and best wishes to you all during the holiday season. I grew up knowing this time of year as the season for giving and family rituals. One ritual I never tire of is decorating my tree. One of my most favorite memories as a little unit is going gleefully out of my mind when I would see my family's fully decorated 18 foot Christmas tree. It was as if my little eyes and brain were totally overwhelmed, I simply couldn't take all that visual magic in at once. And along with the ritual of the trees was a practice of remembering those who have less.