Holiday Ramblings

I'd like to apologize to my loyal readers for failing to come out with any entries during the holidays. I would like to blame the undersea earthquake for making it difficult to connect to Blogger, or the hectic holiday season itself, but the truth is, I had every opportunity to do so, and didn't. One of the many hidden joys of the season lies in the fact that celebrating the holidays is tiring. What would our holiday season be like without our frantic efforts to do some last minute shopping? Or our equally frenzied, desperate efforts to stretch our holiday gift giving budget as far as it can go? Or our pathetic efforts to juggle our schedule so we can meet our social obligations, at least to the people who truly matter?

In my case at least, this telling tiredness that threatened to suck the cheer out of the holiday season helped me to realize you really don't have to go through all that trouble to experience the true joys of the season: sometimes, all you have to do is waste time with some loved ones.

Happy Holidays! Waste some time on people that you love.