I love this picture. It was shared by a high school friend from many years ago. We were boarding students together at a Canadian school in Kobe, Japan. (Complicated and perhaps a subject for another time.) To me it is a wonderful expression of the Christmas that lives within. For no matter what these two may look like to the world, in their hearts this man is still the strong and stalwart person of their youth, and she is the willowy, soaring young woman of their early years. And here they are, flying above the walker and their aging bodies, to place the star where it will shine from the tree as well as from their hearts.
Christmas 2022