Howdy! Winter wondering...

Halves that cleave…to or from the light we do not know
November 2024

Did you know that Walt Whitman was known to greet people, “Howdy!”? I kind of dig that.

Just wanted to wish you a happy winter turning and with its holidays and into the lovely, dark and deep silence of this season.

Jeff O.

PS - I’m wondering recently for the first time that the big metaphor in “The Nightmare Before Christmas” could be the anxiety, the nightmare, that I feel at times this time of year of having to get everything right—finding (or not) the right gift or the right thing to wear to the right party to go to and act the right way and talk about the right things and to be right and then Jack Skellington sings, once the nightmare of trying to get Christmas right catches up with him, “I hope there’s still time to set things right.” Is the title of the film literal maybe, "The Nightmare Before Christmas"? And that we're too often looking too closely at the "what" and miss the "why" and, for me, the wonder of winter when I stop and listen.