Christmas Eve 2023

Slipping and Sliding In One Place

Christmas Eve

Sand in my toes and salt in my wounds

Nothing stings like a wasp in your shirt

Oysters and eggs before noon

Must be Christmas Must Be Christmas

Time slows and it’s the season to practice

Patience

Holidays past rappel down the cliffs of my cerebellum

One beach or another

Everchanging cast depending on the geography

Physical and emotional lines on the map

Lines on my face

Wishful thinking will get you nowhere

Be here

Right here

Now

Hope you can find the same

A Merry Christmas

A Happy New Year

Patience

As I always told my kids

Is a virtue