Out with the old

It's December 31, 2015.  Life in Vernon carries on as I guess it does in most families with three generations living together and trying not to dwell on the small stuff.  I'd become used to planning my life in advance because when you live alone that's what you do if you don't want to be by yourself all the time.  I continue to do that in the part of my life that I have some control over, but for the rest I find that the best times come when I least expect them, when I sit back and see how the others shake things out.  Christmas Day was a good example of one thing leading happily to another as if it had been choreographed when the real reason why it worked so well was that it hadn't been.

 The one constant here is the glorious sun and snow at Sovereign and Silver Star.  Cross country skiing this morning, amidst the tall spires of dark Montane Spruce that appear to pierce the luminous blue sky, unbent by their burdens of snow, was as uplifting an experience as my Protestant spirit could bear.  

I was thinking of going back up to Silver Star this evening to watch the torchlight parade and fireworks as I did last New Year's Eve with Mo and John, but I couldn't muster much enthusiasm among the other members of the family.  It's cold and dark, so we are going to eat Korean food that May and Jay have made and then settle down on the Christmas couch and watch the new James Bond movie, 'Spectre.'  That is, Jay, May and I will do that.  Min Hee is out with her boyfriend, and Jin Hee has just declared that now that she is a teenager, she has to stay by herself and text her friends, her many friends.  She is pleased to be popular and quite prepared to do all the networking that that entails.

More Peace, some Joy and Good Health to all in 2016.

Miriam skiing amid the Montane Spruce at Sovereign Nordic Centre this morning.