We All Exist

Back in my study this afternoon, the sun is out and the wind is blowing away the clouds and the rain. Hopefully this will bring back the cooler weather we usually associate with a Southern winter. I broke out a new candle to burn and restocked my wife’s pill caddie. Now if I can only get her to remember to take her pills we’ll have it made. I have the curtains pulled back with the windows partially raised, so I can hear the wind and the children playing on the playground. I assume the kids will be out of school till after the New Year.
 
I don’t look forward to our first New Year here at the apartments. Because if it’s anything like the Forth of July or other public celebrations this past year. I’m sure I’ll hear the noise of feet pounding across the ceiling along with late night fights, as we have with previous holiday celebrations. But you take the good with the bad as long as there aren’t any bullet holes in the walls. While that may not seem like I’m being much of an optimist. I’d rather be surprised by the quiet, then the other way around.
 
So many may not approve of my outlook on the holidays. But I just assume err on the side of caution. And with that, I bid you a Happy New Year, which as I get older, really doesn’t mean that much. I’m more of a seasonal kind of person, looking forward to the cold, then the renewal, then the red hot, and then sleep again. For just as each pecan tree communes with the other outside my window. So too should we all with a sense of union in this united, yet divided world in which we all exist.   
 
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