Alex and I finished putting up our holiday lights. We live in an upper flat and the people downstairs don't put up lights so ours look pretty lonely. But they also look very beautiful as they light up the dark night.
Today I was home from work nursing a cold and soar throat. I feeling sick. I hate the achy tired feeling I have. But a couple of cups of good hot tea and a Christmas movie on the TV and I'm starting to feel better.
This morning a colleague called me to tell me that another colleague of ours had passed away over the weekend. He was someone I saw at the occasional meeting or two each month but still, the suddenness of his passing reminds me that we cannot take any single moment of our life for granted.
Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it's been one full year already. It went by so quickly. I think back and hope that I haven't taken a single moment for granted. And I vow to make each moment of the next year mean even more.
I get contemplative in the winter. The dark, quiet makes me think. Makes me wonder. And makes me long for change. I know that's winter's grand design. Without the dark quiet nights we would never appreciate the long, sun filled days of summer or the warm breezes of spring. Contrast in everything is good and right and needed.
I'm looking forward to the holidays this year with something akin to a child's wonder. I can feel it coming, the inner adrenaline already starting to take hold. I know they'll be good days...no matter what they hold for me.
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