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I feel like the "old" year is over now

Dec 26, 2007
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I feel like the old year (2007) is over now--but I do not feel like the "new year" has yet actually begun. Do we need to wait a whole week for that?

The end has come, but not the "takeoff." It is kind of luck being stuck, changing planes at O'Hare (or in Atlanta. A pause in one's journey. Time to kill, necessarily, for a while.

Christmas is such a big deal, such a major undertaking! I don't mean as a religious experience--it wasn't that for me, at all (although my wife did go to mass). It should be that, of course, but that aspect seems to get crowded out somehow. The "Christ Mass" part. The birth of, hopefully, our Savior. Instead, "Christmas spirit" has come to mean caroling, cookies, food, presents, hopefully happy gatherings.

But rather I mean the shopping, the planning, the cooking, the organizing. The cards to write, the cards to read. People to think about, some for the first time in a year.

The gifts (to give and to get). The music. Santas everywhere! Special annual movies on tv. (I have a fireplace log video running right now, but we did watch Elf last evening).

All that has come to an end.

Plus there is the concern about whether or not customers are buying enough to keep stores (and their owners and investors) afloat. Apparently dress sales were down a bit, as was purchasing overall. And travel and weather and crowd control difficulties are all worried over, too.

Considering the "natural calendar," the longest night is of course already past. It is hard to notice, but days are getting longer. Just a tiny touch more sun in every one.