Winter Pages Redux

This time of year. It's just plain nuts. It gets you thinking though.

Visits with old friends (old and not any wiser) who generously take us on elaborate rum tours. Long rum tours that end in the wee hours. And we don silly jackets we happen to find.

Or new friends. No enthusiasm for Christmas can match a 6 year-old's. They make us appreciate the simple joys in life. Like camera phones!

Or making treats that are heavenly. How many calories do we consume during this season? There's so much food, food, food. I have become a blimp.



Or taking time to see the simple beauty of nature, intelligently designed or otherwise.

Or the person who, at the end of the day and despite all of our flaws, really loves us.