I've characteristically tried to do too much in too little time. What got done, got done and what didn't, didn't. We had a lovely Christmas Eve. Having wrapped until I can wrap no more, and having watched the Vatican Mass, I will sleep for a while and rise early to wrap a bit more and to cook. We'll have sausage rolls for breakfast, which will be late as my boys are too big to rise early for Christmas (thank goodness).
I work to practice being respectful and aware (h/t Dambala) rather than reckless and oblivious. I've decided that not being oblivious requires constant vigilance and is, at best, imperfectly achieved, as much a goal as a practice.
This will be a modest Christmas, excepting the food, and my focus will be a generosity of spirit (even - no, especially - with those family members who try my last nerve) and gratitude, because the last months of 2007 have been turbulent and marked by change, loss and illness all around me. I pray that the change is along the path on which I belong (respectful, aware and fighting reckless oblivion every moment), that the loss provides an opportunity for growth and that the illness is borne with grace.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Peace, love and great happiness to you all.
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