Okay, so I'm up early again, having breakfast, and listening to Christmas music on my iPod. I don't want to let go of Christmas.
I do NOT like change when it comes to leaving the winter solstice, the darkness, and Christmas behind. We speed towards it, hurry through it surrounded by noise and people and rushing about. Then in January, when there is time to savor it, it's gone. Sundown is actually coming later. The creepy dread of early early nightfall is abating. Thankfully people on the street across the way still have their Christmas lights up, so every night and early every morning, I can look out the window and see the cheery lights.
But we are already slingshotting out from the sun, out from the heart of Christmas. We are already on our way to more light. Noooo! I will hold onto Christmas as long as I can. I can leave the holiday decorations up until the day before Candlemas/Imbolc; but they all have to be down before February 2d or there will be bad luck.
So since I live in an area where we are always HOPING for The Big Snow, we are waiting for *real* winter to begin. But the holy darkness where everything stands still for three days is past. But...I want to be back there. I will cast my mind back there in the dark hours of night and pretend I am still there.
This may be part of getting older, not wanting the time to go so fast; but I've always been this way about Christmas to some degree. I always have to be dragged into Springtime. Even though I know the Turning of the Wheel is necessary, I do not have to LIKE change.
thoughtful