Wow—-this story will have happened as you were composing it (and the dead of the year is a natural time to remember lost loved ones—possibly part of the reason that ghost stories are a Christmas tradition in a number of cultures.)
(And new life continues to be born: during our last Christmas light-viewing drive together through Dayton before I moved, my best friend took me through the grounds of two local hospitals, reflecting that the festive illumination was at once bidding souls farewell and welcoming them in. My youngest grandniece turned two on precisely that day (and be assured that I got her two presents; getting shortchanged because of a happenstance of the calendar is a sore point for a lot of children of December.)
I hope the holiday season finds you supplied with warmth, good food, comfort, safety, congenial company (or congenial solitude, if that’s your preference) and freedom from pain.
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Date: 2023-12-27 03:12 am (UTC)(And new life continues to be born: during our last Christmas light-viewing drive together through Dayton before I moved, my best friend took me through the grounds of two local hospitals, reflecting that the festive illumination was at once bidding souls farewell and welcoming them in. My youngest grandniece turned two on precisely that day (and be assured that I got her two presents; getting shortchanged because of a happenstance of the calendar is a sore point for a lot of children of December.)
I hope the holiday season finds you supplied with warmth, good food, comfort, safety, congenial company (or congenial solitude, if that’s your preference) and freedom from pain.