How can we be just five days from Christmas?

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This has been some year. If anyone had told me in March that I’d still be staying at home in December I’d have either thought they were joking or thought they were crazy.

When our trip to Santa Fe with Jane LaFazio and the Madeline Island School of the Arts was postponed from March 2020 until March 2021 I thought that we’d be fine. Ha!

Always, I am reminded of that wonderful Yiddish saying, “Man (and woman) plans, God laughs.”

And so here we are, still staying at home, worrying and praying for the over 3,000 Americans who are dying every day.That’s 9/11 every single day. And over 300,000 Americans dead and over 1.6 million dead world wide, according to The New York Times.

And some people in America can’t see past their own noses to put on a mask. How selfish!

In some ways this is the perfect Christmas to remember John Lennon’s Happy Christmas (War is Over) song.

Happy Christmas everyone!

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