{"id":163,"date":"2007-12-25T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-12-25T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T05:38:51","slug":"time-slows-becomes-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Time Slows, Becomes Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25\u00a0 93%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 NNW bar 30.05 steady\u00a0 windchill25\u00a0 Yuletide<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Full Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Go now, Christ&#8217;s Mass has ended.\u00a0 This day devoted, on the one hand, to the infant who would become a world changer, and, on the other, to a joyful orgy of celebration, much like the Roman Saturnalia, comes to an end in 45 minutes.\u00a0 It came and went without the usual hullabaloo here and that seemed to keep the whole season leading up to today calmer, less stressful, especially for Kate.\u00a0 A good thing.<\/p>\n<p>I have felt few tugs of nostalgia for a tree, presents, even\u00a0the gathering of family which I now associate with birthdays and trips to Colorado and Thanksgiving more than with Christmas.\u00a0 This all helps me refocus on the Yuletide and, now, on the Useless Days at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Time continues to go slow, snow comes down, as it has all day; and, the long dark has 3 more days yet to run before the sun once again stays a bit longer, headed toward spring and the glories of summer.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and Anne and I ate dinner at Sofitel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/kate-and-anne-and-me600.jpg\" title=\"kate-and-anne-and-me600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/kate-and-anne-and-me600.jpg\" alt=\"kate-and-anne-and-me600.jpg\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasant way to spend a holiday meal.\u00a0 It also meant Anne had to drive only half as far as when she comes to our house.\u00a0\u00a0 The top Kate wore came from Singapore via my sister Mary.\u00a0 Mary&#8217;s hard at work right now putting together the literature review on her doctoral dissertation.\u00a0 Not big fun, but necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25\u00a0 93%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 NNW bar 30.05 steady\u00a0 windchill25\u00a0 Yuletide \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Full Cold Moon Go now, Christ&#8217;s Mass has ended.\u00a0 This day devoted, on the one hand, to the infant who would become a world changer, and, on the other, to a joyful orgy of celebration, much like the Roman Saturnalia, comes to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time Slows, Becomes Sacred<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[201,55,111,168],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","tag-anne","tag-christmas","tag-kate","tag-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}