happy christmas!

 

this poem by zimbabwean poet john eppel is a one of my favorites.  & a good illustration of the ways the holidays are both magical & married to gritty realities.  so but i wish for you & your family a very happy christmas.  the world turns toward a new year, again.  2023 will soon be behind us.  but really whatever numerical value we give to the year, it could be year 1 or we could call it year 4000, we live in a continuous present that we must make of it our own.  i don't know what comes next but it will be strange, magical, horrible, lethal & life-giving.  it will be imposed upon us as we make it up too.  i wish you peace love & happiness.  as nick lowe asked of us, what's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?  

& as the great jon 'bowzer' bauman of the early rock&roll revival group sha na na said, grease for peace!