The count-down towards an event...whether Solstice, or Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or the next new year beginning...this is a month of preparations for that chosen event.
Gift giving is a wonderful way to remember those we love. It can also become the root of hectic shopping. I hope we can all forget that for a moment, sigh and maybe consider how to do it more consciously. Just have in mind the person you are giving it to...imaging their face as they open that present from you. It is the season.
A friend's decorations for Christmas.
And speaking of holiday lights...here's one of my favorite displays in Black Mountain NC. (There will be more coming this month!)
On E. Cotton Ave...don't miss the bears!
Today's quote:
Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.
David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
That’s a gingerbread house? Well, of course it was the winner.
ReplyDeleteI know, where's the gingerbread, and candy canes?
DeleteHappy December, the month of celebrations!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great returning of light!
DeleteThat second image is dreamy.
ReplyDeleteYes.
DeleteHappy December, love the festive decorations! Take care, enjoy your day!
ReplyDeletePretty decorations. Bright lights are great in the winter.
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