Friday, January 3, 2025

December Sweetness

 


Christmas Eve was not one of my better efforts

it seemed not to matter

the beauty is 

the Lord and the day

candles and colors

music and people.

 

My family was there

the grands seemed not to know me

when they came for children’s time

I guess the black robe white stole threw them.

 

We posed for a photo afterwards.

 

Then Katherine took me to a house on the beach

for birthday and Christmas gift

Wrightsville Beach 

where I think we once took her and brother

when they were children

it was cold wind was blowing

except one perfect day we spent

in a garden in Wilmington

then in the city itself.


Live oaks and Spanish moss (above and below) at Airlie Gardens


One day we took a birding trip in a boat
saw exotic birds and dolphins
one day we went to tea, below.


 
I still was not feeling completely recovered

from recent illness

the food was too rich

couldn't drink wine

it was wonderful all the same.

 

If you had it to do all over

knowing now what you didn’t know then

would you do it? my daughter asked.


At the time I did not really have a choice

or felt I did not I replied

the loss of my health was unintended consequence

due to ill-handled stress

other things in me changed too

some good some not so good

at least I got to see God at work

in some pretty awesome ways.

 


Still do.


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