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Saturday December 25, 2021 subscribe |
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although we like to
mock it in song, not so deep
down i have a soft spot for christmas as secular celebration of the season, a festival of light and reconnection amid short dark days of northwest winter where the sun, if we see it all, sinks below the horizon well before 5. here, we are connoisseurs of cloud and though we didn't get the anticipated white christmas, receding layers of cumulonimbus festooned the sky with grey garlands--such gay bunting!--and we even caught a peek of post-sunset pink, a cause for celebration, as we ambled down to adria and craig's where the air was redolent with holiday spirit, cinnamon scent of ovenwarmed sticks and a picture perfect tree that made me feel small in the best possible way.
from there we caught a
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