We are going to mountains for a White Christmas and will be back somewhere around January 4th.

(As various people, ranging from friends to the White House, wish me a Happy Holidays, I have become more aware that I usually wish them a Merry Christmas. I don’t believe in the Christmas Story but I did grow up with this time of year being Christmas and Merry Christmas just seems more natural. The important thing is that the Solstice is over and the Light is coming back; that is a Universal Story no matter what it is called.)

So Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and Happy New Year and may we all be blessed by our favorite Story.

For a little comfort in the still long darkness, here is Ken Burns on the Intergalactic Civil War.