2014.12.24 _ 26

Being alone
each day for hours
inside or outside of a crowd.
I sometimes remember
the few i willingly approach. edited 18:10, 24 Dec 2014

I, too, am grateful for solitude -- and the capacity to feel inspired and fulfilled by simple pastimes of my own choosing.

---- from Robert Frost's "Birches":

"Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone."


At this time of year ESPECIALLY, I am grateful for distance from anyone's expectations but my own -- ;-) edited 17:17, 24 Dec 2014

I've come back to read Qt's poem a few times. That will be my 'thankful for' today. edited 21:21, 24 Dec 2014

Grateful for a rainy Christmas's eve, interesting conversation about France with our downstairs neighbor we invited up for a drink. He was going to cook up tonite his famous carrots cake for his huge family gathering of 60 people tomorrow. We are having a delicious Christmas's eve dinner of Koulibiac for two, getting ready for tomorrow family's reunion with my mother-in-law, her children and grand-children. Her first great-grand-child is only one week old, he won't be there but we might see him on Face Time!

Streets and stores and restaurants getting deserted and closed this Christmas Eve. Simultaneous sense of deserted space of loneliness, and yet at the same time little islands of warmth & people & family gathered. Dark and light, cold and warm. Cool yet close embrace all.

8 years and one month on SL and grateful to have met all of you who have brought me so much

On this day...the slowing down as holiday approached.