NewMexiKen is in the San Francisco area for Christmas. Christmas Eve afternoon we went to Union Square in The City to see the lights, the beautiful white pine Christmas tree, the puppies and kittens in Macy’s window, and all the people. It was wonderful, people of every type celebrating — whether they were celebrating Christmas or some other holiday seemed of no consequence. That they were together sharing the sites seemed all that was important.
Later, a thousand miles away in Taos, New Mexico, John Farr describes an entirely different, but equally pleasing holiday scene:
I just stepped outside, around midnight. It was about 20 degrees and breezy, no snow. The Milky Way stretched from horizon to horizon (!). A hand-rung church bell was tolling in the distance. There were coyotes howling loudly very close by.
We had posole and tortillas for dinner. Later today we’ll go out to the Pueblo for the deer dance. Not half bad at all…
Wherever you are, whomever you’re with, Merry Christmas to you.