I’ve never much liked this holiday. Love solstice, and usually make it a day to be out at both dusk and the next day’s dawn. I like the idea of the solar year and the fact that light comes and goes with movement. But Christmas has mostly been about presents and when I was a young single mother it was usually a panic. I always loved Christmas Eve because that meant the stores were closed and it was over.

Now that I don’t celebrate at all I am free to enjoy it. Today was spent mostly copying files and loading in Windows 7, and then reinstalling all my programs, but I did go out for a couple of short walks and I took time to get a gingerbread latte and sit outside at the coffee shop. That was rather nice since today is rainy and warm. And my night walk was very quiet with everyone’s Christmas lights turned on. Pretty.

Here is a picture of one contented cat. He didn’t mind at all how many hours we sat in front of the computer installing stuff. Now that it is mostly done, I feel just the same.