It's Christmas Eve 2009 around mid-day and I just sat at the kitchen table with Christmas music playing in the background courtesy of Josh Grobin. As I ate my lunch I also read a catalog I had received in the mail yesterday from 'The Vermont Country Store' a business founded in 1956 and still being run by the family that founded it. The catlog took me back to a more comfortable and carefree time of my childhood when products were mostly "Made in the USA" and were built to last. This made me think as I face the beginning of my 60th year on this earth how the more I age the more I yearn for the past. My two sons on the other hand long for the future. One always heads to a comfortable place for the holidays. From the past, that comfortable place has always been with family. My youngest son will be spending this Christmas with friends in New England where he lives. We will be with my oldest son tonight at his home along with my grandkids and tomorrow he will join us at my in-laws home.
Perhaps next year we can all be together. No matter what the world brings us we will always have our friends and family no matter where they are and for that we are all blessed. Merry Christmas to you all!
Perhaps next year we can all be together. No matter what the world brings us we will always have our friends and family no matter where they are and for that we are all blessed. Merry Christmas to you all!
