“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but
oneself.”
Virginia Woolf
Yesterday was
the Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year. We are visiting friends in
Taos, New Mexico and took a walk in the twilight as the year’s first snow here
fell around us. Most other days of the year we hardly stop to enjoy things like
that: but the snow twinkling in the glow of the streetlights was just plain
magical. This is the time of year – from
now until the end – when there’s no need to hurry, or sparkle, or to be anybody
but ourselves. Other times we’re busy working and being professional, but
during these next few days let’s remember to slow down and enjoy family and
friends. Hanukah just ended, Christmas
and Kwanzaa are a few days away, and the New Year is just around the corner: be
thankful, be happy, and be yourself.
Enjoy!
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941):
English writer and pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative
device
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