My daughter and I just put up our holiday lights this past weekend. We usually put them up closer to the start of November because like you say, the lights bring us a little hope in these drab times.
True, it only takes a little color and glow to cheer us up a bit. Jeff usually puts ours up during Thanksgiving weekend, but both of us have been sick for the past month. We did get a beautiful early present though. Our granddaughter was born yesterday and we got to ride herd on her big brother for a day. There is reason to fight off the gloom with new life emerging. And the world is really no crazier than it was when my daughter was born. People were telling me it was a horrible time to bring a child into the world. And so it goes ... the beat goes on. Let's keep fighting that gloom, Jason. If we don't, who will?
So true! I remember a high school teacher who told us he and his wife decided they didn't want to bring children into a world such as the one we were then living in. Of course, now many people look back at that time (the mid-1990s) as the good days! While I know having children is not the right choice for everyone, to me, children are hope. I'm so inspired by the things my kids and their peers are doing to change the mess of a world my generation and those older have left for them.
Truly sweet.
Thank you, Joe.
My daughter and I just put up our holiday lights this past weekend. We usually put them up closer to the start of November because like you say, the lights bring us a little hope in these drab times.
True, it only takes a little color and glow to cheer us up a bit. Jeff usually puts ours up during Thanksgiving weekend, but both of us have been sick for the past month. We did get a beautiful early present though. Our granddaughter was born yesterday and we got to ride herd on her big brother for a day. There is reason to fight off the gloom with new life emerging. And the world is really no crazier than it was when my daughter was born. People were telling me it was a horrible time to bring a child into the world. And so it goes ... the beat goes on. Let's keep fighting that gloom, Jason. If we don't, who will?
So true! I remember a high school teacher who told us he and his wife decided they didn't want to bring children into a world such as the one we were then living in. Of course, now many people look back at that time (the mid-1990s) as the good days! While I know having children is not the right choice for everyone, to me, children are hope. I'm so inspired by the things my kids and their peers are doing to change the mess of a world my generation and those older have left for them.