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Happy Holidays! To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven…. As I start my holiday letter, it is affected by the sudden passing of Daryl’s Dad today. While I do not want to write a sad holiday letter, I am affected by his passing and then all the other passings of family members at this very time of year. It is hard to be in the "Christmas spirit" when there is so much loss…. But the loss is ours, while our loved ones, I believe are now free to be happy, healthy and enclosed in the greatest most unconditional love there is. I personally do believe there is a reason for everything under the sun, a purpose we perhaps can’t see from our limited physical body’s point of view. Each person who passed from my life at this time of year, I have to believe it was their time, their choice to go. Each person was "finished", as we who are left continue on to do the best we can, and learn from all the things that come along in our lives, good and bad. So perhaps it is "time" to be in the Christmas Spirit, open to that force of life and love and take comfort there. I have started out a new phase of my life now, living on my own in my little house in the beautiful city of San Diego ~ clean ocean air wafts through my area more often than not, and I am grateful. Little Nickie cat is so much more cuddly on these cold winter nights, getting as close to my chest, and up under my chin as he can, and puffing a very funny little purr that seems more like the "little engine that could" sound… thrummp thrump thrump, and blinking his great big green eyes up at me. I am so glad we made it through his "childhood crazies" of tearing about the house, bringing down the drapes, tightrope walking on the double drapery rods, getting into every nook and cranny he could find. It was all because he is so very smart, and now that he is about 2 1/2 he is calming down, so we can enjoy each other fully. He seems to know my words and certainly my body language…. If I get up to change a tape or DVD disk, he gets up, waits, and then settles back on my lap. But if I am done for the night and must go upstairs, he gets down on the floor and tries to hang on to my leg so I will not leave. (with my health issues I can’t let him sleep with me or have the run of the house– who knows, he might go UP the chimney or something!) I could not have started my new life on my own without this little tabby boy! So he had to be the feature of my holiday card this year! *smile* Thank you every so much to the Helen Woodward Animal Shelter of San Diego for my boy!! So I end this letter as I start a new life and wish you all the gifts of a smile, a sunset, a happy moment in time, because those are the treasures that come in between the rough times and we must gather them like precious jewels to take out and look at when we need them. I hope your holidays have a smile, a precious moment, some unique and wondrous thing for you to collect and put in your treasures of life! I pray 2008 will be the best ever for all of us and the world! Love, Lyne
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